Software Usage Monitoring
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Top 5 tips for managing and reducing your Office 365 subscription costs
Posted by Dean Bates on August 9th, 2016Need to optimize your Office 365 provision and migration? Here are our top 5 tips for managing and reducing your Office 365 subscription costs for Software Asset Managers. 1. Office 365 role based provisioning As all software asset managers know, Microsoft love SKUs, and Office 365 is no exception. It’s unlikely that one SKU, or … Continue reading Top 5 tips for managing and reducing your Office 365 subscription costs
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The breadth of opportunity for RoI in IT Asset Management
Posted by CB on October 11th, 2010IT 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 … Continue reading The breadth of opportunity for RoI in IT Asset Management
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Why go with an agent-based ITAM solution?
Posted by CB on August 13th, 2010IT 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 … Continue reading Why go with an agent-based ITAM solution?
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The drive for software licensing flexibility
Posted by CB on February 25th, 2010‘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 … Continue reading The drive for software licensing flexibility
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Usage-based licensing survey
Posted by CB on January 6th, 2010In 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. … Continue reading Usage-based licensing survey
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IT Asset Management now mainstream says Gartner
Posted by CB on August 6th, 2009One 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 … Continue reading IT Asset Management now mainstream says Gartner
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Software Asset Optimization – right for today
Posted by CB on June 8th, 2009For 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 … Continue reading Software Asset Optimization – right for today
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New Report on RoI expectations from IT Asset Management
Posted by CB on June 3rd, 2009I 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
Posted by CB on June 1st, 2009It’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 … Continue reading Microsoft Audit: A Complete Response
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Counting installs is not enough for software license audit
Posted by CB on May 25th, 2009I 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 … Continue reading Counting installs is not enough for software license audit
