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Pocket CIO – The Guide to Successful IT Asset Management

You're reading from Pocket CIO – The Guide to Successful IT Asset Management Get to grips with the fundamentals of IT Asset Management, Software Asset Management, and Software License Compliance Audits with this guide

Product type Paperback

Published in Mar 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781783001002

Length 248 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Concepts

Business Management

Author (1):

Phara McLachlan

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Table of Contents (13) Chapters

Title Page

Dedication

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Contributors

Preface

1. ITAM – It's Not Just IT's Problem or Function

2. ITAM Strategy and Plan FREE CHAPTER

3. The New Risk Management

4. What is SAM?

5. Understanding and Surviving Software License Compliance Audits

6. ITAM Tools – What Should You Look For?

7. Increasing ITAM Program and Project Success Rates using Change Management

8. Now What?

Summary

This chapter has covered software asset management, some of the standards and frameworks that exist, and real-world results when SAM is implemented successfully. While I've outlined 4 critical and foundational steps for implementing a good SAM program, the last step is savings. Gartner, Forrester, and many other industry researchers have stated that organizations can realize a cost savings of 20 to 35% by implementing a SAM program in its first year.

Having an ongoing SAM program plays into a number of proactive and reactive scenarios, such as:

Vendor Audit Preparedness: Software vendors can and will audit their customers at any time. With a SAM program, running a product-level reconciliation report will provide a reliable compliance picture.
Contract Renewal: SAM helps to automate and manage any contracts up for renewal so that well-negotiated Terms & Conditions are not lost due to an oversight of not re-upping on time.
Business Change: SAM can help with any sudden (or maybe not...

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Authors (1)

Phara McLachlan

Phara McLachlan

Phara Estime McLachlan is a serial entrepreneur, founder and CEO of Nahteava, a leading management consulting firm specializing in ITAM and SAM, advisory services and innovation. Phara has over 20 years of strategy and operations, innovation and marketing, and technology and consulting experience in the Americas, Asia, and Europe. Phara works with Fortune 100, mid- to large-size company asset managers, universities, and public sector agencies to create holistic ITAM and SAM programs.

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