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Capturing information about your software licenses (i.e. proof of ownership, quantity purchased, contract terms, etc.), and storing it in a way that makes it easy to locate and track, is an important process for any company. Those businesses that don’t properly organize software licenses put themselves at great risk [...]
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According to a recent post by R. “Ray” Wang at A Software Insider’s Point of View, vendor software audits have increased by 32 percent since the first quarter of 2008 (the latest recession undoubtedly drove a lot of this increase). Further, Gartner recently reported that 61% of its customers have been audited by software [...]
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As traditional, on-premise software licenses give way to SaaS licensing with a variety of subscription periods, billing/payment schemes, and upgrade options, IT managers everywhere are struggling to track these cloud licenses and ensure compliance throughout the organization. Some of the issues involved are similar to those surrounding traditional software delivery models, such as license reallocation [...]
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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 [...]
Continue Reading →One of the biggest challenges that we see organizations facing when it comes to trying to get their collective heads around software asset management is the age old issue of “garbage in, garbage out”. Data collected from many different sources simply does not go far enough in terms of analyzing and [...]
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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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As we’ve discussed in prior posts, software license compliance is not a one-time activity. Since the software landscape changes rapidly at all organizations, it is something that must be addressed on a continuous basis.
One of the questions we hear most often is “How do I keep my compliance standing up-to-date, as I purchase additional [...]
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Our reliance on technology is greater than ever before. Which means, for most companies (particularly large enterprises), countless software applications, from countless different vendors exist across the business. And while all these different solutions each contribute to company efficiency in their own way, managing all those vendors can create many, many headaches for those in [...]
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