The Free Asset Vision Community Edition has Launched!
The main features available in our FREE Asset Vision Community Edition include: Innovative, firewall friendly Hardware and Software Inventory Allows IT managers to automatically discover and inventory hardware, including PCs, servers, printers, and network devices, as well as the software, services and patches on individual machines – all without having to install agents. Normalization and Data Enrichment [...]
Survey 4 is Upon Us
Scalable is releasing Survey 4 this week. This release is by far the most significant in the company’s history. It has been almost a full year in the making and we’ve had it in “closed beta” now for 3 months. Survey 4 is significant for Scalable and its customers on a number of fronts. Chief [...]
Does SaaS Remove the Need for Software Asset Management (SAM)?
“Why do we need to manage software assets when we use SaaS? We have nothing to install?” This question, or some derivative, is heard with increasing frequency among Scalable Software’s prospects and customers. It’s a fair question, and reflects, at once, a fundamental understanding of SaaS and a misunderstanding about the real benefits of Software [...]
Migrating to Windows 7 from XP
This video shows a live migration, including the entire workstation personality, from Windows XP to Windows 7 with zero touch.
Survey Return on Investment Calculator
This Return on Investment (ROI) Calculator has been created using statistics on usage, harvested anonymously, from over 200 Scalable customer Software Asset Management engagements. It can be used to get quite precise details on how and where savings can typically be made when software inventory and software usage are metered accurately. As you might expect, [...]
Thoughts on OS/X 10.8 Mountain Lion
by: Mark Cresswell With a well-executed press-embargo for 14 days, Apple announced the upcoming release of OS/X 10.8 Mountain Lion last week. Mountain Lion inevitably signals more convergence between OS/X and iOS. But it also introduces some features that are remarkably innovative in areas that are much closer to home for us Software Asset Management [...]
Servers – The Second Class Citizens of SAM
A Google search on software audits will yield many articles that point to a dramatic rise in audit activity in recent years as software vendors look to cover the shortfall in conventional revenue. Many of the articles are published by or sponsored by organizations that offer tools that help with software asset management; a discipline [...]
The Truth about Metering: An IAITAM Recap
On June 2, IAITAM and Scalable Software held a Webinar titled “The Truth about Metering”. In this webinar Mark Cresswell, CEO of Scalable discussed a holistic approach to software usage metering. Mark covered the reasons for metering application use including driving down software license fees; ensuring software development and outsourcing arrangements are inline with expectations, [...]
Four Things That Will Eliminate the Difficulty During a Windows 7 Migration
Four Things That Will Eliminate the Difficulty During a Windows 7 Migration Here at Scalable Software I have helped quite a few companies Migrate to Windows 7 over the past few years. You may be wondering where the biggest problems are? Was it installing Windows 7? No, with today’s technology that’s pretty easy. Was it [...]
Quick Review: My New 4G Wireless Burns Rubber
For those that know me you know I am always on the move. No matter what city I am in or mode of transportation (Bus, Train, and Car) I somehow manage to hop around and my laptop is always with me for the ride. When you are out and about that much, it’s not [...]
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