Category: IT Asset Management (ITAM)


ITAM Questions

IT Asset Management Has Changed But Has Yours?

While IT asset management (ITAM) practices have been around for decades, much has changed related to the management of IT assets. As we’re in the IT space, the available technologies for ITAM becoming “smarter,” thanks to artificial intelligence (AI), is probably the first thing that comes to mind. Maybe also that IT assets [...]

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ITIL 4 Asset Management

How to Use the New ITIL 4 Guidance to Get Your Asset Management Under Control

IT Asset Management (ITAM) is the practice that helps your organization manage, control, and protect its IT assets and the IT services [...]

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ITAM Challenges

Key ITAM Challenges and What to Do About Them

The “new normal” post COVID-19 crisis has placed renewed focus on IT assets and their management. This is from a number of [...]

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A-Z of ITAM

The A–Z of ITAM

IT Asset Management or ITAM is a set of practices that allows your organization to manage, control, and protect all IT assets across [...]

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Metric Success

Measuring ITAM Performance and Success – the Key Metrics

“I love a good session on ITAM metrics!” said no one ever. But here’s the thing – IT asset management (ITAM) is such a wide-ranging and [...]

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ITAM Basics: 5 Tips for Dealing with SAM Complexity Caused by Decentralized Organizations

IT asset management is a much-needed corporate capability – whether it be the effective management of hardware, software, or services. [...]

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ITSM and ITAM – 6 Ways They’re Stronger Together

IT asset management and IT service management are IT management siblings, yet they often don’t play together as much as they could. [...]

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ITAM101

ITAM Basics: 5 Tips for Getting Started with IT Asset Management

IT asset management is a necessary and important capability for any IT organization. It helps to manage costs, mitigate risks, and [...]

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8 Top Tips for Upping Your SAM Game and Software Compliance

Many IT organizations think it’s too difficult to take on software asset management (SAM), also called software license management [...]

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Inventory

7 Top Tips for Effective Inventory Management

In the IT service management (ITSM) world there’s often talk of the need for configuration management and configuration management [...]

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ITAM metrics

5 Top Tips for Better ITAM Metrics

IT asset management (ITAM) is a powerful IT management activity that saves your organization time and money and minimizes risk; but all [...]

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Effective software asset managers

The 7 Habits of Highly-Effective Software Asset Managers

Many companies still need to manage their software asset investments better – to reduce risks and financial “wastage.” It can be a huge [...]

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Software Asset Management

How to Write a Software Asset Management Process – Part 2

  In a previous blog we examined the meta-activities that should be undertaken to provide the best possible prospect of Software [...]

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So in case you hadn't worked it out yet, I'm Joe! Hello there. I'm a native New Yorker and I love everything connected to IT service management (ITSM). I'm a passionate blogger and Twitter addict, and I'm also the resident IT guy at SysAid Technologies.