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Our latest thinking on challenges facing the software asset management industry.
Riding the Efficiency Wave of Floating License Management
In the context of floating licenses, what is an average? This is the question that kept our guest, Paul Smith, up at night. His discovery: to measure an average, you need to know your denominator. And the only way to understand that, you must ask the end users. In the...
Go Big Bang with Your ITAM Strategy
Building an ITAM program from the ground up is a daunting task for any organization. That’s the exact situation our guest, Evan Vafidis, found himself in just five years ago. Evan is the Head of License Management at Uniper, which has thousands of employees and...
Why You Shouldn’t Manage SaaS Without SAM
Many organizations struggle with managing their SaaS environments effectively. Working with many clients, we’ve discovered that to succeed and excel, SaaS should be managed like software assets. In this podcast, we pull from a recent webinar “Why you Shouldn’t Manage...
How To Wrap Your Brain & Strategy Around SaaS Sprawl
The technologies utilized in business are an ever-moving target when pursuing competitive advantage. As technology evolves, so does the way it’s managed. With the shift from on-prem to the cloud, software sprawl or decentralization within organizations is more rampant...
The Strategic Importance of Software Asset Management (SAM)
This episode of The ITAM Executive podcast is an excerpt from a webinar hosted by Anglepoint and Converge. View the complete webinar here. As noted by Gartner, SAM is a discipline that supports strategic business development. Here are the 4 main strategic benefits of...
Software Asset Management: People, Process, & Technology
Management is all about People, Process, & Technology. People Defined as the personnel (dedicated or not) and associated roles involved IT & Software Asset Management (ITAM/SAM). Process Defined as the activities and workflows developed to implement policy and...
How Not to Select a SAM Tool
Choosing the right SAM technology can be a challenge. How do you differentiate among the multitude of technology providers and ensure that what you choose matches up with your own unique use case? In this episode, Kris Johnson, Executive Vice President, and Steve...
The Magic of Messaging: Knowing Who/What You’re Working With
At only 26-years young, Brandon Smeets early career successes may seem like something he magically pulled out of a hat, and in a way, he did. As a side interest, Brandon has been performing magic across Europe since the age of 15, which has taught him how to captivate...
Vereinfachen und optimieren Sie mit dem IBM Authorized SAM Partner Program (IASP)
Da die Branche weiterhin in die Cloud vordringt, ändert sich die Art und Weise, wie Softwareanbieter Audits durchführen. IBM ist bestrebt, es seinen Kunden zu erleichtern, die Vorschriften einzuhalten, indem sie sich für die Teilnahme an ihrem kürzlich eingeführten...
Java the Hunt: Oracle’s Rollout of Java Audits has Officially Begun
The open-source nature of Java has made it ubiquitous throughout the software industry. Since Oracle’s acquisition of the tech roughly 10 years ago, most of Java’s features remained free. Near the end of 2018, however, that began to change as Oracle began charging for...