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I met with Patama Chantaruck back in 2017, former global Microsoft SAM lead, who was honest enough to admit that Microsoft had confused their customers and partners, using the word SAM to represent soft audits and compliance reviews. “…and it was clear she was well aware of how...
SAP’s s4 hana adoption forecast to only hit 69% based on current growth rates before the 2025 end of support deadline SAP’s Digital Access Adoption Programme (DAAP) is an attempt to kickstart conversations about indirect access licensing, according to SAP expert Sebastian...
Last month (June), we held Wisdom UK 2019 – the first conference under our new name “Wisdom” and, word to the wise, it was fantastic. I said in the recap of our recent USA conference that the bar had been set high – and this conference went right over it! The Brits...
Microsoft and Oracle make friends? Splinter and Shredder. Odysseus and Poseidon. Roy Keane and Patrick Vieira. There are some people you just wouldn’t expect to see on the same team. When it comes to the world of software, Microsoft and Oracle are definitely on that list. Two behemoths...
ITAM Global average salary shoots up 15% in two years Skills shortage worsened since 2017 Can ISO organisational certification deliver the credibility required for increased CXO exposure? Introduction Thanks to everyone that participated in our 2019 Salary and Skills Survey. I shared...
ServiceNow Knowledge 2019 20,000 attendees and 200 partners met in Las Vegas to gorge on all things ServiceNow for their annual “Knowledge 19” conference at the start of May. Due to the sheer volume of IT pros at the conference, I would speculate that “Knowledge” has become...
This article is a final call to participate in the 2019 ITAM Review Salary and Skills survey, and a short preview of some of the early results. To complete the survey please follow this link: START THE SURVEY I’ll be presenting the final results on the second day of Wisdom UK, our...
Image by Gino Crescoli from Pixabay April saw the release of Gartner’s 2nd Magic Quadrant for SAM tools. Magic Quadrants aim to highlight solutions to a particular requirement by ranking them on two dimensions – completeness of vision and ability to deliver. As ITAM grows in maturity...
Image by Jill Wellington from Pixabay Here in the UK Spring has undoubtedly arrived, a time for fresh growth and new beginnings. It seems this also applies to company acquisitions and announcements. This time last year Flexera & ServiceNow both announced acquisitions in the SaaS...
A Twitter thread by a Netflix engineer gives a great insight into some of the intricacies of cloud – in this case Amazon AWS – and how even those who know what they’re doing don’t always get it right! Background The engineer tells us that most deployments at Netflix use...