IT is experiencing a massive change with the growth of subscription services which can be easily purchased by anyone with a credit card. This creates major challenges for the management of these services including: How do you know what services people are using? How do you know what is redundant or incorrectly sized? Are we…
A whole industry has been built on IT transformation with companies taking aging IT estates and migrating onto hardware which is easier to maintain and run or moving from one suite of software to another. Now with cloud migration and digital transformation this industry has been supercharged. It sounds simple, but companies which do this…
So, it’s the day of your new website rollout, you’ve got great content and everybody who has reviewed it is hyped. This is the game changer that you’ve been looking for. Then somebody asks the question “How do we know if it’s successful?” Everyone looks at each other realizing that there’s no way of knowing…
Two major sporting events took place last weekend – Super Bowl LIII (Patriots vs. Rams) and the 6 Nations Rugby (specifically Ireland vs. England). Several thoughts came to mind when watching them, but for me as a CEO, the most important was that if you have the right strategy, complete focus to deliver, and the…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
