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…
New Clients and Innovative Product Releases Fuel Growth AUSTIN, TX – April 29, 2015 – Scalable Software, Inc., a leading provider of IT asset management solutions for enterprises, today announced record growth for their fiscal 2015 ending in March, achieving 240 percent growth in monthly recurring revenue under contract and adding strategic customers in key…
If you’re looking to address looming SQL Server costs, get accurate data on the productive use of each instance. The first thing to consider is the fact that Microsoft doesn’t care about where SQL Server is installed. The following quote is lifted directly from the most recent Microsoft document on licensing server technologies (1): “Use terms for each…
The Perfect Storm: Reductions in funding per student, despite much greater demands on K-12 IT Asset Management, means further challenges for school district IT. K-12 IT and Finance teams are struggling with the impact of reductions in funding per student, while still needing to provide for more and better reporting, security, and student enablement. To…
In order for IT procurement and IT asset management to provide more value to their organizations, their best practices must bridge more than a few gaps. IT procurement teams are often separated from IT asset management by more than responsibility, since procurement is typically found in the finance department, whereas IT asset management is a…
