The Business Software Cenrtre (TBSC) was recently awarded the ‘Most Innovative Software Company of 2019’ with the ‘Best Software Usage Reporting Solution: Rentsoft Meter’ from the 2019 UK Enterprise Awards (SME News). The annual UK Enterprise Awards recognizes UK businesses that span across different industries which hold excellence in their Read more…
Westcoast Cloud and The Business Software Centre Delighted to Deliver More Options to Software Asset Management. Furthering the goal to help businesses remain efficient with their software, The Business Software Centre is thrilled to announce the Partnership with Westcoast Cloud, offering a robust set of solutions to propel cloud businesses. Read more…
January 14th 2020 is the date for the end of extended support for Microsoft Windows 7. Effectively this means that there will be no further releases of security updates for this operating system. For organizations still using Windows 7 there are three choices for going forward: Stay with Windows 7 Read more…
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…