SAM Conference in London promises to satisfy your SAM appetite with a comprehensive roster of presentations covering everything from audits and application rationalization to SAP. Save room for dessert and network with international industry experts from The ITAM Review, Fisher IT Asset Consulting, The Business Software Centre, Origina, SureDatum and Aspera. You’ll Read more…
Application rationalization is the radical reshuffling of an application portfolio as part of an application strategy, a plan that implements changes to applications to achieve a business outcome. Many organizations try to achieve this by reducing the overall number of applications but many fail to deliver the expected benefits of reduced Read more…
Do you know that in the IT industry, there is NO benchmarking, NO common metrics used and NO best practices amount the usage of software license? Organisations would often find it very costly to engage with consultants to set up usage measurement and with little benefit of understanding the software Read more…
The Aspera 2016 Software Asset Management (SAM) market study is based on a survey completed by 436 SAM professionals worldwide across all industries. The survey assessed: – How long organizations had a SAM practice in place – How they managed software – The scope of their SAM project – Their SAM Read more…
People talk about lean processes and efficiency with regard to IT but in reality there is confusion about what actually means. There tends to be a focus on effectiveness or ‘get the job done’ for most IT professionals- their prime concern is keeping everything running. If systems go down everyone Read more…
Over £1.7 billion is wasted every year in the UK on unused software and associated services. This is primarily due to organisations paying for software that they are not using. 70% of IT professionals involved in renewal negotiations with software vendors do not have visibility of software usage, and therefore Read more…
Our CEO Phil Hames is invited as one of the key speakers in IAITAM 2016 Fall ACE. He is talking about Business Intelligence for Software Licensing. As a preferred customer you will save 40% on a two-day pass to the conference! This must-attend conference and exhibition is exclusively devoted to enhancing Read more…
The judges for the 2016 Technology Innovator Awards have selected Rentsoft Meter™ from The Business Software Centre as the Best Software Licensing Intelligence Solution. The 2016 Technology Innovator Awards only reward the very best from across the industry and highlight the individuals behind these ongoing and world-changing developments. The judging Read more…
Today there are millions of people working in jobs developing, marketing and using computer software. However, few people realise the whole software industry can be traced back to a female US Navy reservist who learnt computer programming in World War II. US Navy Reservist Grace M. Hopper was part of Read more…
Have you had any plan for this New Year Resolution? Will we start with your software licensing to turn it a dream? Over £1.7 billion is wasted every year in the UK on unused software and associated services. And this is primarily due to organisations paying for things they are Read more…