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Seven Core Features to an Effective IT Asset Management Program

by Bruce Aboudara on September 2018

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, I would suggest the following for consideration. These first two are foundational because if you cannot trust your data then everything that follows … [Read more...]

How Will Higher Interest Rates Affect Corporate IT Spending

by John Jertson on September 2018

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 it was so cheap to do so. But what happens when it is more expensive to borrow money now than it was 2 years ago? Companies will either have to … [Read more...]

How Global Trade Tensions Could Disrupt Your IT Costs

by John Jertson on August 2018

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 things change and tariffs are enacted, what could be their impact? Tariff Impacts to IT Departments Laptop costs will rise. Most parts of … [Read more...]

Using Discovery Data for Change Management

by Russell Wood on August 2018

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 own spreadsheet as they don't trust the standard dataset? Lots of companies who are looking for an easier way to streamline their change management functions look at discovery data in … [Read more...]

My Five Favorite Data Points

by Will Degener on July 2018

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 of information (with examples) are: Who Used ("Will Degener") What Software ("MS Word") From Where ("His Laptop") For How Long ("32 Minutes") How Intensely … [Read more...]

IT Asset Discovery and Inventory 5 Reasons to Go Agentless

by Bruce Aboudara on June 2018

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 on. But there are downsides depending on the use case. There are of course always InfoSec concerns about introducing another agent. But they also require … [Read more...]

Turning Data into Decisions

by Bruce Aboudara on October 2017

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 assessing the value of the data. This creates uncertainty and even applying the scientific method is no basis for comfort. One such example is "p-hacking," in which … [Read more...]

Device Vulnerability – It Is More Than Just Ransomware

by Bruce Aboudara on July 2017

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 should not be considered protecting against a ransomware attack. That instead requires a layered security approach that can anticipate … [Read more...]

The Changing Nature of ITAM Solutions – Part 3

by Bruce Aboudara on June 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, reporting, cloud and license awareness that need to be considered. Integration or sharing is relatively straight forward. Does the platform … [Read more...]

The Changing Nature of ITAM Solutions – Part 2

by Bruce Aboudara on January 2016

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 intelligence to enable proactive control of IT expenditures. In this installment, we want to introduce three of the "must have" elements in these new ITAM solutions which … [Read more...]

Seven Core Features to an Effective IT Asset Management Program

How Will Higher Interest Rates Affect Corporate IT Spending

How Global Trade Tensions Could Disrupt Your IT Costs

Using Discovery Data for Change Management

My Five Favorite Data Points

IT Asset Discovery and Inventory 5 Reasons to Go Agentless

Turning Data into Decisions

Device Vulnerability – It Is More Than Just Ransomware

The Changing Nature of ITAM Solutions – Part 3

The Changing Nature of ITAM Solutions – Part 2

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