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Cloud Management Compliance Data Discovery
Insights from SAMS Europe 2023: How ITAM can deliver competitive advantage
Quick recap of Software Asset Management Strategies (SAMS) Europe 2023 in Amsterdam, which took place from September 24-26, 2023. I'd like to share my key...
Automation Cloud Management FinOps
Gartner Report: Take control of cloud and software costs by uniting SAM and FinOps
Organizations that integrate SAM and FinOps can drive business value and effectively manage cloud costs. "By 2025, 50% of organizations will consolidate SAM...
Automation Cloud Management ISO Standards
How global challenges are changing the role of IT asset managers
IT teams are currently facing challenges: On the one hand, they face high levels of stress due to scarce resources, and on the other hand, there is often a...
Oracle Software Asset Management Software License Management
The new Oracle Java licensing: What you can do now
Oracle Java licensing has become noticeably more expensive and complex in 2023. This has mainly to do with the introduction of a new licensing metric, which...
SAP licenses: How companies reduce their costs with a certified tool
The SAP multiverse can be described as complex: with more than 3,000 SAP products, two dozen user license types and 100 engine metrics, customers can lose...
Microsoft SaaS Management Salesforce
SaaS Management: Win the overspend battle with a certified tool
USU’s SaaS Management software has been awarded The ITAM Review’s prestigious certification, whoop! It's good news in times where economic and trading outlook...
Cloud Cloud Management IT Visibility
How optimization of data centers can reduce carbon footprint
In the past 10 years, the capacity of the world's data centers has more than quadrupled. Servers can store and process more than 8 zettabytes globally as of...
IT Visibility: Are you happy with your CMDB data?
Modern IT estates are complex and multi-faceted; as is the transition process from on-prem to SaaS and other cloud services. This creates new (and compounds...
Oracle Software Asset Management Software License Management
Busted: 7 myths about Oracle SAM tools
Third-party Oracle licensing consultants tend to tell their clients that Oracle Software Asset Management (SAM) tools are weak, lacking capabilities and...
Software Asset Management Software License Management
ITAM Forum Leadership Summit in London: Highlights & challenges of the ITAM community
On May 17, in the heart of London, we attended the first ITAM Forum Leadership Summit in Leicester Square, led by founder and analyst Martin Thompson. The...
Docker Software Asset Management Software License Management
“3 – 2 – 1 – licensable” - A quick guide to Docker licensing
Have you heard? Using Docker Desktop for container management will now cost money!