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We are all very familiar with software agents. Many enterprise software tools have their own need for one that is generally unique to their application. These agents are useful as they tend to act on the environment and run without continuous supervision, while transmitting data or performing some function essential to the system it resides…

To a business, scoring goals is like driving revenue. More goals, more sales, and that means you should always be a winner, right? And everyone celebrates the ‘wins’ and the people responsible for them. But what about savings? Can’t they have a major impact on a company as well? Think about this. Profit is the…

A clever co-operation: Asset Vision® (Scalable) meets samQ (VOQUZ) Even though companies use a lot of different software, only a few have the resources and expertise to really handle all their software licenses efficiently and with confidence. Therefore, it’s reasonable to use a software asset management solution, which is specialized in the different types of…

Data is everywhere. Data is used to back up assumptions presented as facts. We look to data to create information that we base business, personal and community decisions on. Not only are the absolutes of the numbers important, but how they were obtained, how they are analyzed, and what assumptions are made are critical to…

Industry veteran joins Scalable Software to lead company’s next phase of growth AUSTIN, TX – October 4, 2017 – Scalable Software, a leading provider of IT hardware and software asset management solutions for enterprises, today announced that Chris Gomersall has joined the company as President and CEO. Chris most recently served as CEO of ClusterSeven,…

Trustworthy data is vital for IT Finance and Procurement to be able to manage and control costs. In order for IT Asset Managers to identify opportunities for rationalization and improved planning, an IT Asset baseline is critical – but one more granular than is generally available. Many organizations rely on out-of-date CMDBs and spreadsheets to…

IT security is a complex and very broad topic that requires multiple elements of an organization working well together. At the systems level you must consider business, information, data and solution architectures. Next there are all the process designs that overlay these systems. Therefore just being able to collect, patch and provide device vulnerability data…

SaaS Application Liabilities and Key Partnerships Fuel Growth AUSTIN, TX – June 12, 2017 – Scalable Software, Ltd., a leading provider of IT hardware and software asset management solutions for enterprises, today announced Asset Vision® has surpassed 800 organizations around the world. This growth has resulted in a more than doubling of monthly recurring revenue…

I never guess. It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts. — Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Author of Sherlock Holmes Stories Hard to argue with this logic, especially in such a data intensive industry as ours. The…

Implementing SAM tools is very different than end user productivity tools. SAM is a process that involves people, process and tools. It is enabling and automating roles and responsibilities from departments or teams in its roll out. And, many of these groups may not have historically been engaged with each other. This is critical both…

In the study of sound, especially sound localization, there is a term called the cone of confusion. Loosely stated, what this refers to is “the region of positons in space where all sounds produce the same time and level (intensity) differences.” In this situation, it is hard for the listener to pinpoint, or locate a…

There is no substitute for experience to becoming an expert in anything you do. Like most skills the road to Software Asset Management expertise can be paved with some solid fundamentals that will make the journey more productive. To quote a familiar metaphor, “How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time!” SAM…