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The breadth of opportunity for RoI in IT Asset Management

Written by CB on Monday, October 11th, 2010 at 5:29 am and filed under IT Asset Management, Software Asset Management, Software Asset Optimization, Software License Compliance, Software Usage Monitoring.

IT Asset Management - multiple areas of RoI
The commonly cited and generalized reasons for making the effort with ITAM are reducing risk and reducing cost. Less often quoted, but equally valid, is an increase in user productivity. In a short white paper that you’re welcome to download (no registration required), we set out in more [...]

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Why go with an agent-based ITAM solution?

Written by CB on Friday, August 13th, 2010 at 9:59 am and filed under IT Asset Management, Software Asset Management, Software Asset Optimization, Software Usage Monitoring.

IT Asset Management: best success with an agent or without?
There was a period in the evolution of PC management products when agent software got something of a reputation for making work for the desktop system administrator. Whether it was agent conflicts, excessive memory footprints or CPU demands, or simply that it had to be incorporated [...]

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The drive for software licensing flexibility

Written by CB on Thursday, February 25th, 2010 at 11:17 am and filed under IT Asset Management, Software Asset Management, Software Asset Optimization, Software License Compliance, Software Usage Monitoring.

‘Software Development Times’ is not a journal I normally read, but I was fortunate to be alerted to this article which provides more useful contribution to the debate and increasing awareness of the pressures for licensing options from software vendors. The article contains some useful information from IDC’s Amy Konary  (follow her on Twitter at @mizkonary) about specific instances of the financial impact for organizations moving [...]

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Usage-based licensing survey

Written by CB on Wednesday, January 6th, 2010 at 5:18 pm and filed under IT Asset Management, Software Asset Management, Software Asset Optimization, Software Usage Monitoring.

In a new blog post , Randy Littleson, a Senior VP at Flexera (Accresso Software until renamed a few weeks ago) refers to survey findings around the growth of usage-based licensing. There are some interesting figures in here, such as the very low percentage of organizations that have robust application usage measurement tools in place. [...]

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IT Asset Management now mainstream says Gartner

Written by CB on Thursday, August 6th, 2009 at 9:37 am and filed under Asset Discovery, Governance and Compliance, IT Asset Management, Software Asset Optimization, Software License Compliance, Software Usage Monitoring.

One of the analysts who I have an alert set for has today issued a research note looking at the increasing acceptance of IT Asset Management in the corporate market.  This is great news for ITAM vendors like us, but it does leave me very puzzled as to why it has taken so long.  At [...]

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Software Asset Optimization - right for today

Written by CB on Monday, June 8th, 2009 at 11:19 am and filed under Governance and Compliance, IT Asset Management, Software Asset Optimization, Software License Compliance, Software Usage Monitoring.

For a long time, Vector has promoted the idea of Software Asset Optimization as a best practice  approach to managing software assets. Our view is that management of software assets is never properly ‘joined-up’ until equal weight is given to the four elements of  

Quantifying what your organization really needs. So often, this is largely overlooked because [...]

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New Report on RoI expectations from IT Asset Management

Written by CB on Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009 at 5:05 pm and filed under IT Asset Management, Software Asset Optimization, Software License Compliance, Software Usage Monitoring.

I just found this synopsis of a study by Computer Economics of the increasing maturity of IT Asset Management.  The main report is only free to subscribers of the site, but the synopsis on its own contains useful comments on the scope and economic justifications for adopting IT Asset Management.

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Microsoft Audit: A Complete Response

Written by CB on Monday, June 1st, 2009 at 10:01 am and filed under Governance and Compliance, Software Asset Optimization, Software License Compliance, Software Usage Monitoring.

It’s been encouraging to hear that our Software Compliance and Optimization solution recently enabled another customer to respond comprehensively to the demands of a Microsoft license audit. With over 2,000+ PCs highly dispersed across the US, it was necessary to provide evidence of reliable and recent identification of every deployment of Windows, Office and other [...]

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Counting installs is not enough for software license audit

Written by CB on Monday, May 25th, 2009 at 3:37 pm and filed under Business Process Management, Governance and Compliance, Software Asset Optimization, Software License Compliance, Software Usage Monitoring.

I heard last week about an organization that had been asked by a major software supplier to cooperate with an audit. Some time later, the organization produced a tally of the total copies installed of each of the supplier’s applications. Turns out, that’s never going to be enough. Unless maintenance is totally up to date [...]

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Microsoft Agreement Renewal Coming Up? Get Smart!

Written by CB on Tuesday, April 21st, 2009 at 2:52 pm and filed under Software Asset Optimization, Software License Compliance, Software Usage Monitoring.

Well known Microsoft watcher Mary-Jo Foley alerts us to a new report from Microsoft Directions with some very useful observations for any organization interested in reducing its annual spend on Microsoft renewals.
The negotation process to minimize that spend is going to be illuminated and strengthened for the end-user organization if they have clear information on [...]

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