Melbourne SAM User Group 13 February 2018 Please join us for our Melbourne SAM User Group Meeting on Tuesday 13 February 2018 Location Primaxis Level 9, […]
IBMs Enhancements to Passport Advantage Agreements Part 1 In the early evening of Friday the 27th of October 2017 IBM robotically distributed a change in the […]
Why Indefinite Use is Limited in Time and a compliance risk Did you believe that IBM licenses are perpetual? Isn’t any license which has no specific time […]
Software Licence Exposures for Cognos And Applix Customers Do you read the Terms & Conditions when you download software and maintenance from IBM and other software […]
Adopting Best Practice For IT Asset Disposals International Association of Information Technology Asset Management Inc. Creating a successful corporate IT Asset Management program has some unique […]
Large Organizations are notoriously slow in upgrading critical software such as Microsoft’s Windows Server. There is usually a financial motive in staying back level but in […]
SAM or more accurately, License Management, tooling is quite prevalent in larger IT organizations yet audits continue at a far greater pace – why? The truth […]
Even before the vendor decides to audit you – the customer – the building blocks for an adverse settlement are firmly laid down within the contract […]
The term “Vampire Audit” has unfortunately come into popular use in the ITAM community as software vendors become increasingly dependent on governance related revenues. Ever since […]
Software Asset Management is a complex profession, so much so that many organisations entrust the responsibility to other parties. In many cases these parties have some […]
So you have just purchased the vendors discovery tool or perhaps one of the leading software repository tools. Understandably you breath a sigh of relief because […]