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Gartner MarketScope for the IT Asset Management Repository 2011
Gartner have released a new Market Scope for ITAM repositories. As with the Gartner 2010 MarketScope, I found the industry snapshot more useful than the vendor analysis. Patricia Adams states the...
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Reseller Gone Bad: £123K Fraudulent Filcher Found
Nisa-Today's Member Support Centre in Scunthorpe, UK The reseller market has felt a few shockwaves recently after Bytes Software and Nettitude were jointly linked to a fraudulent conspiracy worth...
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License Analyzer: Entry Level Licence Management
Microsoft has used its Worldwide Partner Conference in Toronto earlier this month to herald License Dashboard Software Asset Management (SAM) solutions. The firm has recently announced the launch of...
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500th Article: ITAM Cities of the World
394 ITAM, SAM and Licensing Specialists in New York - want to connect? This is the 500th article published on the ITAM Review. To mark this milestone I thought I would take a look at the home cities of...
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SAP: “We will clarify and simplify our licensing models”
SAP UK MD Tim Noble: “standardise our terms, software rights and conditions globally” SAP this week holds the US leg of its TechEd 2012 developer and user conference and exhibition in Las Vegas. The...
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Gartner Summit Review: The Emperor’s New Clothes
The Emperor's New Clothes is a short tale by Hans Christian Anderson about two weavers who promise an Emperor a new suit of clothes that is invisible to those unfit for their positions, stupid or...
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Which services do SAM partners offer?
Last month ITAM Review readers kindly spared a few minutes to complete a survey in conjunction with Stephen Mann from Forrester Research. Thank you to everyone who took the time to participate. Not...
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Australian SAM Partner SOS certified by KPMG
Australian IT software asset management accolades don’t come along every week by and large, so good news this week comes from Filipa Preston who is CEO and founder of Software Optimisation Services, a...
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MPs claim zero tax payments by Oracle, Dell, CSC, Xerox, Symantec
Enterprise Software Mega-Vendors Dodging Tax? Some of the biggest names in the UK technology industry have been operating under rather perplexing tax arrangements recently. It appears that Oracle,...
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ISACA issues new BYOD audit programmes
ISACA has this month released news of more than 40 customisable IT audit/assurance programmes, which have been developed to help IT auditors who are facing increasing challenges brought about by...
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Should the BSA change their tune?
Time to change the record? The BSA and other trade bodies such as FAST and SIIA have traditionally used a ‘Stick’ approach to raise license compliance up the corporate agenda. The CEO going to jail and...
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Inmeta Crayon acquires FAST Limited
Jens Rugseth, CEO of Inmeta Crayon Norwegian licensing reseller and SAM specialist Inmeta Crayon has acquired FAST Limited. InMeta Crayon, with headquarters in Oslo, has presence in Northern Europe,...
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Campaign for Clear Licensing Launched
The ‘Barium Manifesto’ back in December stated the need to ‘Shake things up’ in the software licensing industry and create an industry regulator. We’ve been busy building since then. I’m pleased to...
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Gartner MarketScope for the IT Asset Management Repository 2013
Gartner analyst Patricia Adams published a new ‘MarketScope’ for IT Asset Management Repositories last month. View a reprint here. In case my link sets off the Gartner intellectual property fire alarm...
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ICO Fines NHS Surrey Over “Truly Shocking & Disturbing” Data Destruction
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has issued NHS Surrey with a monetary penalty of £200,000 after more than 3,000 patient records were found on a second hand computer bought through an online...
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BSA appoints new President and Chief Executive
Last week, the BSA, the trade group representing software vendors, announced the appointment of Victoria Espinel as its new President and Chief Executive. Under recently departed predecessor Robert...
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Owners of software reseller SHI acquire ITAM tool eTelligent
Thai Lee, CEO of SHI, with Michael Dell in 2012 ITAM service and SaaS tool provider eTelligent has been acquired by StrataScale, sister company to SHI International Corp. Both StrataScale and SHI are...
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Oracle to meet Campaign for Clear Licensing
The Campaign for Clear Licensing held a Oracle Licensing round table at the Home Office today. The Campaign for Clear Licensing held an Oracle roundtable at the Home Office today. The objective was to...
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Snow Software acquire SAP specialist to boost datacentre SAM
Independent assessment of Snow License Manager V6 We were commissioned to review Snow Software’s License Manager in March this year. You can download a copy of the review here. Our review identified...
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Microsoft to withdraw a number of qualifications and exams
Microsoft has announced that it is to withdraw a number of Microsoft qualifications and exams being by the end of July 2014. What qualifications are being withdrawn? The MCITP qualification is being...
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