How to keep software licence management under control: Microsoft, Oracle, SAP, and more

It is hard to run and set up IT systems without solutions from large players. Their offerings are now industry standards and make financial sense, with system compatibility and employee skills the main reasons for their success. While there are many advantages for using solutions from Microsoft, IBM and the like, they come with many strings attached. Hundreds of pages of clauses and terms make their licences hard to manage. Most notably in large organisations, managing licenses requires...

By | 8 July 2020 | CIO

A guide for contemporary IT teams to manage their IT inventory

IT management today is a convergence of employee productivity, uninterrupted business services, employee and customer communication platform, cyber defence and making businesses future ready. Over the last decade, the role of enterprise IT has changed from a business support function to ensuring your business is cyber safe and runs efficiently.  Hence it is not surprising that on average 4.1% of a company’s budget is allocated to IT. This represents an average of £9800 spend...

By | 20 September 2018 | CIO

The differences between SaaS and on-premise software asset management: A guide

Software asset management (SAM) plays an integral role in today’s businesses. It helps with cost optimisation, operational efficiency, and risk mitigation. Most companies implement SAM to deal with the complexity of on-premise asset management. As companies started to move towards software as a service (SaaS), IT managers hoped for easier software license compliance and simplified processes.

For a while, there were talks of SAM elimination. That didn't happen. Instead, SaaS...

By | 4 April 2018 | CIO