Motivated Evangelist, Practical Fixer or Control Freak? What have you got in your ITAM toolkit? I receive quite a few ITAM related CVs across my desk in the average week, so I thought I would share what I consider to be the most redeeming qualities for ITAM professionals and how those qualities have changed as the market has evolved. We see Licence Management as a specialist subset of ITAM, but the... 

Matt Schvimmer, ServiceNow The cloud’s next imperative: ITSM service automation As a topic, discipline and a technology proposition, cloud-based service automation is the darling of the IT industry right now. From anti-virus suites (AVG for example) to Enterprise Resource Planning platforms (SAP for example), the impetus to push enterprise level automation into the service based model of IT delivery... 

The relationship between IT asset management, finance and procurement is the subject of the upcoming Gartner summit (10-11 October in London) and builds on recent research into the growing importance and inter-relation of these three topics.  So with this in mind here are some thoughts from the upcoming summit that will help inform your CFO. Where ITAM and Finance intersect Any CFO is initially going... 

394 ITAM, SAM and Licensing Specialists in New York - want to connect? This is the 500th article published on the ITAM Review. To mark this milestone I thought I would take a look at the home cities of subscribers to the email newsletter. I have researched the countries of visitors before (see ‘Reader Analytics’ from late 2011) but this is the first time in nearly four years that I’ve looked... 

How to Build Your ITAM Roadmap This article has been contributed by Mara Zeldin of Alsbridge. REGISTER FOR THE ITAM REVIEW NEWSLETTER TO DOWNLOAD THIS GUIDE AS A PDF. Introduction  If you are like most IT professionals today you are under constant pressure to reduce costs. After exhausting the standard cost removal tactics, many IT leaders are now focusing on ways to reduce their hardware and software... 

I recently stumbled across this unique way of ensuring hard drives are destroyed. You might call it ‘labour intensive’,  but at least you get to see the job done onsite and ensure no data leaks. Perhaps this is a new way for IT Asset Managers to get a good work out and burn a few calories? I imagine the crunch of metal is quite satisfying too! As the name suggests it is using ‘pure... 

Dr. Barbara (Barb) Rembiesa Dr. Barbara (Barb) Rembiesa is the founder and CEO of the International Association of IT Asset Managers, Inc, (IAITAM), a global organisation focused on bringing education and best practice standards to IT asset management. As a staunch ITAM advocate, Barb has influenced and authored ITAM frameworks and standards through IAITAM’s certification courses and Best Practice... 

ITAM Review readers kindly helped with a survey last year compiled by Victoria Barber from Gartner. The survey results were discussed at the EMEA Gartner IT Financial, Procurement & Asset Management in London last year and Victoria also produced a paper based on the results. I apologize for the horrible delay in sharing these results with you. I hope you still find them useful (The survey was conducted... 

Clive Longbottom, Quocirca Quocirca analyst and technology commentator extraordinaire Clive Longbottom has seen a few IT asset management scenarios come and go in his time. Appropriately then, the ITAM Review now gets to quiz Longbottom on his recent white paper entitled Don’t sweat assets, liberate them! (free to access without registration) with a view to finding out why so many firms are “just... 

The ITAM Review has learned of yet more disquiet in the public sector data arena recently with two London councils being severely rapped for breaches of the Data Protection Act, after the loss of two unencrypted laptops containing sensitive personal information. While information security is perhaps not the core remit of the IT Asset Manager, the corralling and control of data in its multifarious forms...