When the GDPR comes into force in just over a year, all organisations that process the personally identifiable information of EU residents will be required to abide by a number of provisions or face significant penalties The Regulation mandates considerably tougher penalties than the Data Protection Acts: breached organisations can Read more…
You may know that several manufacturers have announced price rises in the UK due to the Pound falling. Here is the reference table: Are you prepared for the price rises? (Source: Softcat) So how can you ensure that any forthcoming changes to licensing commercials have a minimum impact on increasingly Read more…
As the IT landscape of any enterprise changes rapidly, discovering what software applications and what licenses are installed on your network is not an easy task. It is however a necessary step to perform in preparation for an OS migration or for an audit. Organizations today often have geographically distributed Read more…
To implement Application Rationalisation, one of the aspects to consider is the amount of time and resources such a project will require. Do you have the skills, never mind the time to do the work, and more importantly where do you start and how can you prioritise the workload. Our advice Read more…
SAM Conference in London promises to satisfy your SAM appetite with a comprehensive roster of presentations covering everything from audits and application rationalization to SAP. Save room for dessert and network with international industry experts from The ITAM Review, Fisher IT Asset Consulting, The Business Software Centre, Origina, SureDatum and Aspera. You’ll Read more…
Application rationalization is the radical reshuffling of an application portfolio as part of an application strategy, a plan that implements changes to applications to achieve a business outcome. Many organizations try to achieve this by reducing the overall number of applications but many fail to deliver the expected benefits of reduced Read more…
Do you know that in the IT industry, there is NO benchmarking, NO common metrics used and NO best practices amount the usage of software license? Organisations would often find it very costly to engage with consultants to set up usage measurement and with little benefit of understanding the software Read more…
The Aspera 2016 Software Asset Management (SAM) market study is based on a survey completed by 436 SAM professionals worldwide across all industries. The survey assessed: – How long organizations had a SAM practice in place – How they managed software – The scope of their SAM project – Their SAM Read more…
People talk about lean processes and efficiency with regard to IT but in reality there is confusion about what actually means. There tends to be a focus on effectiveness or ‘get the job done’ for most IT professionals- their prime concern is keeping everything running. If systems go down everyone Read more…
Over £1.7 billion is wasted every year in the UK on unused software and associated services. This is primarily due to organisations paying for software that they are not using. 70% of IT professionals involved in renewal negotiations with software vendors do not have visibility of software usage, and therefore Read more…