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Interviews

Interview: Jenny Schuchert “Building the Business Case for ITAM”

February 4, 2010 IAITAM
Board Room

Failing to win senior executive buy-in is cited as one of the most common reasons for failure of an ITAM program.
I recently asked Jenny Schuchert of IAITAM what advice she could share for organisations looking to sell or maintain the importance of their ITAM business case.

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Open Source ITAM Software

December 2, 2009 Interviews
opensource

I recently corresponded with Marc Chisinevski about his open source ITAM Software project.
Q. What is your current role?
An important part of my role as security manager is to identify, evaluate, track and classify company assets. These assets can be physical ones such as servers but also business processes or information. Risk assessments for these [...]

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INTERVIEW: Larry Shoup, “The ITAM Career Glass Ceiling and How to Smash Through It”

November 5, 2009 IAITAM
Making ITAM Strategic

Larry Shoup is founder of Silvertree Solutions. I had the opportunity to meet Larry, an ITAM Industry veteran, at the IAITAM Conference in Las Vegas.
Larry describes the ITAM career glass ceiling that commonly exists and how ITAM professionals can smash through it.

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INTERVIEW: Barbara Rembiesa, IAITAM “Be The Superhero”

September 1, 2009 Articles
iaitam-superhero

It’s a busy time for the team at IAITAM as they put together the final preparations for their annual conference at the end of September.
I recently corresponded with Barbara Rembiesa, President and Founder of IAITAM, about the multitude of projects her team is working on to support the ITAM Industry and what we can look [...]

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Boxing Clever With Software Agreements

August 11, 2009 Interviews
boxing-clever

I recently corresponded with Thomas Hall, a legal practitioner who helps companies to implement IT initiatives and resolve disputes with IT Vendors.
Thomas works primarily for customers but also trains company personnel with his “contracts that work” philosophy.

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INTERVIEW: Bill Monk “Time to Make a Stand against Vendor Audits”

July 7, 2009 Interviews

I recently spoke with Bill Monk at LOCS about the current status quo in the software market. We discussed why it is the perfect time for companies to make a stand against compliance audits and licensing obscurity from vendors.

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INTERVIEW: Steve Klos “Revolutionising the Identification and Management of Software”

June 16, 2009 ISO/IEC 19770

Back in December last year Steve Klos provided me with a helicopter view of the international standard for SAM (ISO/IEC 19770) – the full article is here.
The second part of the standard, -2, is now nearing completion. I caught up with Steve recently and asked him how companies can get involved, what benefits they can [...]

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INTERVIEW: Peter King “The Role of Walk Around Audits in ITAM”

June 11, 2009 ITAM

Peter King is Director at CRC, who are a specialist ITAM VAR.
In a world of electronic audits and ubiquitous broadband you would have thought that a walk around audit of IT Assets was redundant.

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INTERVIEW: Former Vendor Auditor Provides Software Compliance Tips

June 9, 2009 Interviews

I recently corresponded with a former audit manager from a top tier software vendor.
He kindly shared his tips for dealing with compliance audits from a vendor perspective.

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INTERVIEW: Scott Braden; “Ten Things To Consider Before Signing Your Next Microsoft Agreement”

March 16, 2009 Interviews

I spoke with Scott Braden and asked for his advice on helping companies negotiate better deals with Microsoft.
Scott was formerly president of Microsoft Secrets, and is now SVP at Net (net) where he helps companies save money and optimize their IT Investments.
Scott raised the following ten points to consider before signing your next Microsoft Agreement;

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INTERVIEW: Bjorn Westerlund, “Building the Business Case for Software Asset Management”

February 27, 2009 ISO/IEC 19770

Bjorn Westerlund can be credited as one of the driving forces behind the development of the International Standard for Software Asset Management, ISO19770. Now semi-retired, he has kindly shared his views with The ITAM Review and, in particular, his recommendations for building a business case for SAM.

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