Sign the letter, make a difference Tired of the cost and effort required to fully identify software in your estate to the level required for good SAM? It’s time to make a stand against software publishers! ACTION REQUIRED PLEASE Please sign this open letter to software publishers (Publicly or anonymously) written by Pat Cicala. In a nutshell: Dear Mr. Publisher – it is time to step up to the... 

software publishers complaining about piracy - a charade? Last month the Business Software Alliance (BSA) published their ‘Eighth Annual Global Software Piracy Study’. The BSA reports that the commercial value of pirated software continues to rise and that piracy is growing fastest in ‘Emerging Economies’, those up and coming countries that are embracing technology with ever increasing pace. If... 

ITAM tool vendor MagniComp has created a utility for generating ISO/IEC 19770-2 conformant software tag files. ‘Software Tag Maker’ is a free web-based application and is specifically aimed at ISV’s (Software Publishers) and IT organizations that wish to create tags. ‘Software Tag Maker’ and further details can be found here. Some quick questions with Mike Cooper – President and CTO at... 

Following my recent article on the launch of SAM Advantage by the BSA – I received this anonymous contribution from an experienced SAM practitioner. In a nutshell – Software publishers have the most to gain from SAM education and create licensing complexity in the first place – so why do end users have to pay for it? In response – Peter Beruk, Senior Director, Compliance Marketing,... 

This article has been contributed by Sandi Conrad of Conrad & Associates. Sandi is the author of the “SAM Starter Kit” published by The ITAM Review. So, you’ve just received a call from your software publisher that went something like this: “Hi. I’m the software asset management rep from Microsoft, and I’d just like to chat with you for a few moments about your software asset... 

Steve Klos and I have been reviewing ITAM vendors use of software tags over the last couple of weeks. Three things have stood out for me during the review process: Martin Thompson Martin is an independent software industry analyst, SAM consultant and founder of The ITAM Review and The ITSM Review. Learn more about him here and connect with him on Twitter or LinkedIn. More Posts – Website...