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Attack vs Defence: How to Avoid Conceding an Oracle Audit Compliance Penalty
As a part of the SAM team in a large organisation, your role can feel like the last line of defence against mega-vendor software audits and multi-million-dollar compliance settlement fees. You may have a well-drilled team ... -
Software-enforced obsolescence undermines Microsoft’s sustainability credentials
This article is the first in a two-part series co-authored with Tamsir Fayer, VP & CMO of Softcorner. With the COP26 agreement in place, now is the time for everyone, including IT departments, to do their ... -
SAP HANA database: Managing spend & risk
This article was provided by Becki Riall, Senior SAP Licensing Consultant with JNC Consulting. SAP HANA is an in-memory database developed by SAP and was originally introduced in 2010. The adoption rate is growing due to ... -
Are legacy software vendors unfairly distorting the cloud?
A new report, commissioned by CISPE (Cloud Infrastructure Services Providers in Europe), sees Professor Frédéric Jenny looking into the “prevalence and impact” of alleged unfair licensing terms from software vendors – with particular relation to the ... -
Oracle audits: Amazon RDS and questionable sales tactics?
Oracle v Envisage Earlier this year (May 2021), Oracle started legal proceedings against Envisage Technologies LLC and the case centered around alleged under-licensing in their Amazon RDS environment. What is Amazon RDS? Amazon Relational Database Service ... -
Microsoft 365 Compliance Assessments
What are Microsoft assessments? According to Microsoft. “A template is a framework of controls for creating an assessment in Compliance Manager. Our comprehensive set of templates can help your organization comply with national, regional, and industry-specific ... -
Change Makers Series - Desiree Weiss, Excellence Award winning SAP Consultant
ITAM Review Podcast. Change Makers Series In this latest episode, we speak with Desiree Weiss who won the “Specialist or Consultant of the Year Award” at the 2020 ITAM Excellence Awards. Desiree is a consultant licensing specialist with ... -
Microsoft 365 SaaS prices increase by up to 25%
The day that many have been expecting/dreading is here – the first “proper” Microsoft 365 price increase has been announced. Microsoft’s logic is that, since the introduction of Office 365 in 2011, they have added 1,400 ... -
Microsoft Visual Studio licensing guide: Stop the development of risks
Visual Studio licensing Visual Studio subscriptions are licensed Per User with each licensed user able to use. “any number of copies of the software and any prior version on any [dedicated] device” And may use the ...