In a couple of days I will be taking a cruise to Cozumel. Already, I am dreaming about the warm sun, cool breeze and relaxing rhythm of a boat at sea. Before all of the fun begins however, there are processes that have to occur in order for the ship to push off from the…
Scalable and Asset Vision® will again be at the Gartner IT Financial, Procurement & Asset Management Summit in Dallas September 18th thru the 21st. If you have registered, be sure to come by and see how Asset Vision can address SAM in the Cloud era at booth 111. If not, take advantage of a $325…
One of the first steps to take when building a SAM program is establishing how to gather and manage your licensing contracts. This can be quite a confusing and daunting task, so here are five tips to get it you up and running. From there on you should be able to create a “care and…
Scalable Software today announced recognition by Info-Tech Research Group as a “Champion” in their IT Asset Management Vendor Landscape released on June 7, 2016.
In this 3rd and final installment we consider the most challenging and perhaps most significant of the requirements for these next generation IT asset management (ITAM) solutions. While the first set of processes in a unified ITAM solution is to present Discovery, Inventory and Normalization as a single platform, there are key elements of integration,…
Historically, many SAM projects have failed to deliver value, in large part because the tooling does not stand-alone. Also there are very few, if any, touch points into the stakeholders of solving, administering and extracting the value from a SAM program. But the tool story is only one part of achieving SAM success. Everyone in…
Part 1 of our series, The Changing Nature of ITAM Solutions,introduced the idea that there is a new generation of ITAM tools that are coming of age. While these tools are specialized enough to be of real value in discrete use cases such as Software Asset Management, they are also broad enough to provide actionable…
There is a significant resurgence of interest in IT asset management tools. Just talk to your Gartner analyst and you will learn the volume of inquiries is dramatically increasing. With the rise of Shadow IT, the continual need to transform IT platforms, and the heightened exposure to unpredictable software license expenses caused by cloud and…
Historically, many Software Asset Management projects have failed to deliver value, in large part because they are reactionary in nature. That is, an audit has just been completed and the “we never want to go through that again” attitude develops. Or, notice of an audit has been received and vendor management is looking for data…
In Part 1, I talked about Shadow IT SaaS usage being an epidemic that is overwhelming to IT departments where 80% of budgets are still spent on maintaining the existing infrastructure. The idea of efficiency and control as a road to cost management is virtually impossible when so much is in the “shadows.” In addition,…
Scalable and Asset Vision®, the Hot SaaS SAM solution, will again be at the Gartner IT Financial, Procurement & Asset Management Summit in Dallas November 2nd thru the 4th. If you have registered, be sure to come by and collect your bottle of fiery Austin, Texas hot sauce and see how Asset Vision can address…
More organizations are adopting SaaS applications, and at first glance it seems Software Asset Management should be greatly simplified with SaaS. After all, many SaaS application agreements have some element of seat-based per-user pricing, which means it should be easy to identify users and easy to prevent subscription cost over runs. But our customers are…
