ITAM News & Analysis, Podcasts
In this Podcast, I catch up with Rory Canavan of SAM Charter about his win in the Excellence Awards 2017, what’s new in the world ... Read more
Written by: Victoria Kealy
Published on: May 17, 2018
In this podcast, I am joined by Rory Canavan of SAM Charter to share his views and experiences on ISO/IEC 19770-1 Standard. Throughout the podcast, Rory ... Read more
Written by: Martin Thompson
Published on: February 9, 2017
In advance of the last module in our 12 Box Assessment Model Training Course – Verification: How to maintain audit ready status, I met with Rory ... Read more
Written by: Martin Thompson
Published on: December 7, 2016
In this Podcast, Martin Thompson is joined by Danny Begg, SAM Technical Specialist at HRG and Rory Canavan, Owner at SAM Charter to discuss the all things ... Read more
Written by: Martin Thompson
Published on: June 24, 2016
In preparation for module two of our 12 Box training program “How to harness ITAM and ITSM integration“, Rory Canavan provides a guide to assessing ... Read more
Written by: Rory Canavan
Published on: February 17, 2016
The ITAM Review held a joint SAM Skills workshop event with the BCS on 14th July (See our original event listing here). Thanks to everyone ... Read more
Written by: Martin Thompson
Published on: August 4, 2015
In this episode hosts Martin Thompson and David Foxen talk about where ITAM should sit within a business and what key stakeholders are required to make ITAM successful with ... Read more
Written by: Rebecca Beach
Published on: January 9, 2015
I had some fun deciding on whether to call this a software retirement process, or whether it should be what I settled on (above). However, ... Read more
Written by: Rory Canavan
Published on: October 28, 2014
September News Round Up It’s been a reasonably busy month in the world of ITAM for September, with the biggest news coming from Oracle. The ... Read more
Written by: David Foxen
Published on: October 2, 2014
The ITAM Review Podcast Episode 3 Hosted by Martin Thompson Guests: Mark Sales, Software Asset Manager at Vinci Construction Rory Canavan, Independent Consultant, SAM Charter ... Read more
Written by: Martin Thompson
Published on: July 18, 2014
We are not yet at that stage with inventory systems where they can tell us what classification or type of server a particular machine is. ... Read more
Written by: Rory Canavan
Published on: June 27, 2014
This is another area of Software Asset Management that often gets over-looked; namely the updating and maintaining of data concerning named user licenses. This could ... Read more
Written by: Rory Canavan
Published on: May 28, 2014
Donald Rumsfeld once made a speech concerning “known-knowns, known-unknowns and unknown unknowns” (what a star!) The scope verification process seeks to find out those known-unknowns. ... Read more
Written by: Rory Canavan
Published on: April 25, 2014
(On 6 June 2025, this article was reviewed for accuracy and updating.) Sometimes, within Software Asset Management, we become so focused on producing an audit ... Read more
Written by: Rory Canavan
Published on: March 26, 2014
Updated 25th April 2014 – The first version of the Code of Conduct is now live here: https://www.clearlicensing.org/audit-code-conduct/ This code of conduct from the Campaign ... Read more
Written by: Martin Thompson
Published on: February 16, 2014
I’m writing this blog following recent news of a dispute between Microsoft and second-hand licensing specialist Discount Licensing. In particular, I’m keen to publish an ... Read more
Written by: Martin Thompson
Published on: February 13, 2014
Following on from last month’s process of Maintaining a Supported Software Catalogue, we have another process that seemingly appears inconsequential but again, can add great ... Read more
Written by: Rory Canavan
Published on: January 14, 2014
As 2013 begins to draw to a close, I thought it would be nice to finish off the year with a final article that’s an ... Read more
Written by: Sophie Danby
Published on: December 23, 2013
A post started by Lori Levenson in the Software Asset Management group on LinkedIn, asked the question what are the top three processes needed for ... Read more
Written by: Rory Canavan
Published on: October 10, 2013
Introduction Peer Reviews – ITAM Review readers sharing their opinions on ITAM tools, technology and services. This review of ATEA Cloud SAM has been written ... Read more
Written by: Martin Thompson
Published on: September 14, 2013