In a recent study, it was found that surveyed organizations are expected to increase cloud spending by about 44% over next 2 years. This suggests that migration from traditional on-premise software to cloud and SaaS is becoming a big project for organizations and software asset managers going forward. Use these 4 tips to streamline the … Continue reading Top 4 Tips for a Smooth Cloud Migration
On Wednesday November 30th, Vector will be hosting a free 30-minute webinar outlining 5 steps to better managing cloud services and subscriptions. The webinar will demonstrate how IT managers can use various IT management processes in order to gain visibility of all cloud subscriptions and prevent shadow IT. Unauthorized cloud service signups are common within … Continue reading Free Webinar: 5 Steps to Managing Cloud Services & Subscriptions
If your organization is facing a case of shadow IT, you are not alone. About 83% of CIOs say that they have had unauthorized cloud provisioning in their firm. Shadow IT, which we explained here, can be difficult to manage when there are many employees within your organization looking for cloud solutions, often with a … Continue reading How to Manage & Prevent Shadow IT
Shadow IT is getting more attention with the steady rise of cloud services within organizations. You might be wondering what exactly shadow IT is, and how to best prevent it. For this Back to Basics post, we will cover the general concept of shadow IT, but stay tuned for an upcoming post that goes deeper … Continue reading Back to Basics: What is Shadow IT?
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As mentioned in this post, many IT managers use Microsoft SCCM to extract valuable data about their IT assets, but it’s not enough for use in IT & software asset management. In addition to freeing IT data, software normalization, complex licensing compliance, automated software delivery and an asset request portal, here are 5 more processes … Continue reading Part 2: 5 (more) Processes that Turbocharge your SCCM
Many IT managers use Microsoft SCCM to extract valuable data about their IT assets. However, SCCM does not include all the extra features that can transform this data so it can be used in IT & software asset management. Here are the first 5 (out of 10) processes that Vizor offers in order to enhance … Continue reading 5 Processes That Turbocharge Your SCCM
Federation Against Software Theft (FAST) has recently launched a new Damages Program with the intention of driving compliance for those organizations that still experience software misuse. Essentially, FAST has always worked towards educating businesses about proper and legal software use. However, they have still been receiving reports of intentional illegal software use in recent years … Continue reading Federation Against Software Theft & the Changing Landscape of Compliance
SCCM is a great tool for the operational IT tasks of software provision, such as packaging software deployments and executing remote installations. However, SCCM does not handle the entire software provisioning process from employee request, through multi-level approval and coordination of provisioning tasks across the organization. For many organizations, SCCM alone is not enough. Is … Continue reading Eliminate Software Deployment Pain in SCCM
Microsoft SCCM is used by many IT pros to manage their organization’s desktops and servers. To facilitate this, SCCM gathers large quantities of data on each asset connected to the network. Unfortunately, this data is often siloed in IT, meaning that the information stays in IT and does not get distributed to other departments. The data … Continue reading Free Your SCCM Data for IT Asset Management