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Unless you’re living under a rock, you know tablets and smartphones are barging their way into enterprises of all sizes and types, whether supplied by IT departments or by employees themselves. And powerful (and inexpensive) as they’ve become in the last five years or so, they’ve begun to replace desktop and laptop computers in [...]
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In the wake of recent news about consolidated.db, a hidden file where iOS 4 notes the past whereabouts of iPhone and 3G iPad users (and much of that news is at least a little hysterical, according to some bloggers, though Al Franken makes some good points in his letter to [...]
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A recent study by research and consulting firm AMI shows that businesses that have added tablet computers to their mobile arsenals are more likely to use SaaS applications than those that are still sitting on the fence. Further, businesses
with a focus on mobilizing their workforces – using smartphones and laptop computers, in addition [...]
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One of the perks of SAManage’s cloud-based, multi-tenant IT asset management solution that’s not often discussed is the labor savings that comes from having assets preclassified for you. Here’s how it works: at SAManage, we store all of our customers’ inventory in a central multi-tenant database. Whenever a customer installs [...]
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Are your agency’s IT asset and service management processes compliant with standards and policies set by OMB, NIST, OGP, and other bodies? In this post, the fifth in our series on the FedITAM Framework, we’ll take a look at the questions you should be asking yourself to ensure that you’re on top of [...]
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From their introduction to the masses via VisiCalc and Lotus 123, spreadsheets have become ubiquitous in business. Back in the day, electronic spreadsheets were reason enough to sink hundreds of dollars into the Apple II or, a little later, thousands for a brand new IBM 5150 with optional monitor and a whopping 64K RAM. And [...]
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In the previous post in our six-part series on understanding the FedITAM Framework, we covered the questions that the GSA recommends answering as part of purchase management, one of which touched on contract terms and clauses. But because it’s such a complicated, error-prone, and potentially costly part of the overall Continue Reading →
The FedITAM Framework, the GSA’s (rhyming) strategy for ”ensuring that information, assets, people, and processes are adequately detected, protected and connected across the federal government” covers six IT asset management process areas:
Approving software and hardware Managing the buy Managing contract compliance Monitoring inventory usage Complying with policies and standards [...]
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As mentioned in a previous post, the FedITAM Framework is the GSA’s answer to the burden of cost-effective IT asset management in an increasingly complex and fragmented public sector IT environment. Over the next few weeks, we’ll take a closer look at each of the six process areas addressed by [...]
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IT asset management, particularly in the government sector, struggles under the weight of ever-increasing complexity on one hand and the constant (some might say crushing) pressure to cut costs at every turn on the other.
The answers to these challenges depend on the questions you ask. To help federal agencies [...]
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