Martin Thompson 
A practical framework for connecting training investment to measurable financial outcomes, for ITAM, SAM and Software Licensing professionals who know their team needs developing but ... Read more
Written by: Martin Thompson
Published on: March 7, 2026
Vendor Lock-In, What Every ITAM Professional Needs to Know. Your renewal is in three months. The supplier knows you cannot leave. That is vendor lock-in, ... Read more
Written by: Martin Thompson
Published on: February 23, 2026
Accurate ITAM data strengthens careers and helps expand teams. I’ve seen it with my own eyes, people drive up the accuracy of their ITAM data, ... Read more
Written by: Martin Thompson
Published on: January 28, 2026
Unit cost visibility versus ownership, risk and obligation The FinOps Foundation recently published a practical article on modelling data centre costs using the FOCUS standard. ... Read more
Written by: Martin Thompson
Published on: January 20, 2026
In December 2025 I published an AI Innovation Watch List , a snapshot of tools using AI to tackle ITAM, SAM, licensing and FinOps workloads, ... Read more
Written by: Martin Thompson
Published on: January 14, 2026
Flexera have acquired FinOps automation technology provider ProsperOps. This strengthens Flexera’s position in cloud cost optimisation and FinOps. It also reinforces a trend we’ve been ... Read more
Written by: Martin Thompson
Published on: January 7, 2026
In 2024, the ITAM Review was merged into the ITAM Forum. That made sense at the time: one team, one mission, one platform, and a ... Read more
Written by: Martin Thompson
Published on: December 16, 2025
How can AI and Automation help with ITAM related workloads? The AI innovation watchlist below is a snapshot of tools and platforms that are applying ... Read more
Written by: Martin Thompson
Published on: December 9, 2025
Hybrid IT, a mix of on-prem, public cloud, SaaS and now AI workloads, has become the default for large enterprises, not a temporary phase on ... Read more
Written by: Martin Thompson
Published on: December 3, 2025
This article provides a quick introduction to the concepts of inventory and discovery, two fundamentals that sit at the heart of effective IT Asset Management ... Read more
Written by: Martin Thompson
Published on: November 26, 2025
I delivered our “Managing AI as an Asset” training course the day before the Wisdom conference last week. Thank you to those who attended and ... Read more
Written by: Martin Thompson
Published on: November 12, 2025
Since the ITAM Forum has been working in strategic partnership with the FinOps Foundation, I’ve come to admire the Crawl, Walk, Run approach to best ... Read more
Written by: Martin Thompson
Published on: November 4, 2025
Managing AI in the enterprise is a team sport. In this article, I want to explore specifically what ITAM brings to the table as we ... Read more
Written by: Martin Thompson
Published on: October 28, 2025
On 20 October 2025, AWS had a major outage in its US-East-1 region, one of its biggest data centres. Yesterday’s outage showed just how many ... Read more
Written by: Martin Thompson
Published on: October 21, 2025
TLDR: ITAM Forum has the opportunity to join the Linux Foundation as a stand-alone, self-funded project. This article covers a) What’s happening b) Why I ... Read more
Written by: Martin Thompson
Published on: October 15, 2025
Below is a growing list of Software Asset Management (SAM) Managed Service Providers from around the world. The qualification criterion is deliberately simple: each company ... Read more
Written by: Martin Thompson
Published on: October 10, 2025
The ITAM Forum is currently running a survey to capture hot topics and pressing challenges facing the ITAM profession. The insights gathered will guide our ... Read more
Written by: Martin Thompson
Published on: September 17, 2025
What’s going on? UK retailer Tesco says it bought VMware perpetual licences in 2021 with support and upgrade rights running to 2026, plus an option ... Read more
Written by: Martin Thompson
Published on: September 15, 2025
New and interesting research from WanAware hits at the nub of the disconnect many IT Asset Managers might feel about the value they deliver. The ... Read more
Written by: Martin Thompson
Published on: August 13, 2025
The ITAM Forum’s 2025 global ITAM research report in partnership with Azul reveals some fascinating insights into the financial, operational, and compliance risks involved in ... Read more
Written by: Martin Thompson
Published on: July 16, 2025