Most organizations are shifting to Office 365 subscriptions from their traditional licensing models. With attractive offers and additional functionality this seems a logical and cost-effective decision but without effective management subscriptions can be a costly way of purchasing software. To avoid the pitfalls a new method of software asset management Read more…
A customer admitted that, for simplicity, every new user got the same ‘gold disk’ selection of applications on their laptops. In the case of job specific software, these were added on an ad-hoc basis. When usage metering was done on the software supplied on all the devices, it was found Read more…
Organisations today often have geographically distributed office locations, some of which have restricted network access due to security or plain logistics. Work councils and data protection rules can also hinder the collection of data in large enterprises. Seasoned ITAM professionals see the 100% inventory as an impossible task however new Read more…
Every day we are bombarded by emails about conferences, advisors, training courses and other offers to help business managers comply with GDPR. In general they are well meaning and mostly offer sound advice however if your own IT asset inventories are incorrect then you have a problem. No amount of Read more…
As Doris Day famously sang “Que sera sera, the future’s not ours to see”, we can never be certain about what changes will affect our lives in the coming years. However, as business professionals one of our key duties is to anticipate and adapt to technology changes that will bring Read more…
There is a great deal of interest and enthusiasm for Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) at present. Pundits proclaim a new dawn of faster and more accurate learning and problem solving as we get machines to do the “thinking” for us. What will be the implications of A.I. for software asset management Read more…
IT and Software asset management can benefit greatly from the availability of data about the assets installed in an enterprise. However, few of any organizations are taking advantage of this resource. It is estimated that the amount of stored data is currently doubling every two years. The availability of cloud Read more…
Software spending is projected to grow 9.4 percent in 2018 to total $387 billion. Many organisations can cut spending on software significantly by implementing software usage metering. IDC predicted that close to 50% of organisations will have the processes and tools in place to meter usage of their major on- Read more…
Software spending is projected to grow 9.4 percent in 2018 to total $387 billion. Many organisations can cut spending on software by as much as 30 percent by implementing three software license optimisation best practices, according to research from Gartner, Inc. One of three best practises suggested by Gartner can Read more…
This white paper introduces to GDPR and the implications for ITAM Managers. It covers the importance of GDPR, how Brexit affects to the UK companies, the impacts of GDPR on ITAM/ SAM Managers and a checklist for ITAM/ SAM Mangers contributing to GDPR. To learn more, download the white paper.