The IT world lives in a constant state of change, a battle of wills between the people running IT and their internal customers. The latest battleground is Shadow IT in which anybody with just a credit card can purchase a new service, completely bypassing the IT department, procurement and all the carefully set up processes…
This week, Scalable released its 101st iteration of Asset Vision®, less than 7 years since its 1st. To celebrate this monumental achievement, we have decided to dive into what makes Asset Vision different than the other tools in the market. The Asset Vision platform is a hosted PAAS and is targeted at ITAM, ITL and…
According to CNBC, AWS and Azure have been growing at double-digit rates for the past few years. In 2008, Gartner had cloud spending coming in at about 5.5% of IT budgets. Now in 2018, Gartner has cloud spending at 19% and growing to 28% of enterprise spending by 2020. A good example of this trend…
Buying and running any kind of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) capability is just like buying any other technology. Purchasers want to know what am I paying for, am I getting what I am paying for and where can I save money? Also, it is so easy to spin up virtualized machines, be it through…
The MoSCoW (‘must, should, could, won’t have’) analysis is a common approach to building RFPs to solicit proposals from IT Vendors. To use IT data and support efficient processes, an effective IT asset management program will be most effective if it provides most, if not all the following seven capabilities. In ascending order of importance,…
In case you missed it, Part 1 was about the Top 10 Activities to Getting Started in a SAM tool deployment. Several things can set back your Software Asset Management project. Hopefully, you’ve thought of them already, but just in case, I’ve detailed the most common and important issues I’ve encountered: Executive support. SAM projects…
Wait, before you shoot me down just let me explain. Software license management is now a major industry with many strong software companies competing around the same proposition. Everybody has heard the horror stories of audits and the major fines that have been levied against companies for either not having control over their licenses or…
Along with the certainties in life like death and taxes, companies will always be borrowing money. Over the past 9 years, the Fed has set interest rates at historic lows. Companies took advantage of these low interest rates to expand their business and make significant investments. Even hugely profitable companies like Apple borrowed money because…
With global trade tensions and uncertainty looming over the American political environment and its geopolitical views, let’s focus on how tariffs could affect an enterprise’s hardware and software costs. According to the New York Times, the White House has assured Apple and other American IT providers that no new tariffs will be created. However, if…
In an article published in CIO.com, 75% of enterprises are found to be out of compliance, with the biggest vendor normally being Microsoft. Every enterprise should be prepared if a software vendor audit were to occur. These are four majors steps an organization can take in performing a self-audit to prepare for a real audit:…
Change Management has always been one of the hardest processes to successfully implement within an IT estate. Implement it badly, and staff can see it as an unnecessary burden or even a blocker to being able to do their jobs. Confidence in data is normally low. How many times have you seen somebody with their…
Anyone who has witnessed an Asset Vision product demonstration delivered by me will have heard the phrase “My Five Favorite Data Points.” I can’t recall exactly when I first fostered this phrase, but the sentiment has been around from the moment I engaged with my first customer on behalf of Scalable Software. These preferred pieces…
