Despite me asking in a post on LinkedIn for people not to nominate me for ITAM Professional of the Year, I got nominated – and to top it off, I then won! Next week, I’ll be putting a post on LinkedIn for people not to give me £10 Million, a yacht in the Caribbean and …
Organisations around the world start, deliver and pay for a number of projects throughout the financial year. Projects can range from “standardising our printers” to “re-laying the carpet in the CEOs office.” When it comes to IT, there is usually a cost associated with a project. This may be in services, hardware, software or implementation …
I recently heard that someone asked the question if they knew of where they could obtain a good guide on SAM processes. The response offered was to consider the SAM Charter Process Kit – to which they replied: “we have that, but it’s too general….” SAM Charter is happy to announce that we are bringing …
It is with deep regret that I have experienced too many organisations who place the negotiation of software contracts in the hands of pure procurement specialists. I have no doubt if a deal was required to drive down costs on energy or real estate then these good folks would put the providers to task and …
In a recent series of emails, I was presented with the notion that the SAM Process Maturity Assessment Platform we have at SAM Charter was very difficult to align to the features of a particular SAM suite (humph!). And this got me to thinking about SAM and the state of the marketplace in the general …
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Hello all, it appears that the marketing types have demanded their time at the corporate-creative keyboard once more, and come up with the phrase “Digital Transformation”. As yet, Webster’s or the OED haven’t yet got hold of this phrase to offer it a precise definition (and why would they bother?!). Let’s face it, digital transformation …
Before I start, I’d like to point out that the benefits of the Joiners, Movers and Leavers process are huge with the subscription and Cloud environments. For the purpose of this blog I’m going to focus on the few vendors that we have made real wins with through the JML process recently. If you have …
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The expertise and level of attention to detail required in producing an Effective Licence Position (ELP) for a software vendor is not to be under-estimated, and requires a flexibility of thinking and tenacity that would see you through a Master’s degree. But just who are we serving when we look to produce such reports? Clearly, …
But you try telling the Dutch Police this – the land of easy-going attitudes and impossibly-good footballers, saw its police force requesting a rebate from Microsoft after it bought nearly €3Million of Microsoft Home User Edition Licences in 2008, on which the courts have finally ruled. Precedence might have been on their side, as they …
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The recent court case concerning Diageo and their errant use of SAP software brings into sharp focus the matter of perspective that is needed when taking intangible purchases and turning them into electronic services. A £54M penalty is going to offer an eye-watering jab in the pockets of the IT Director, and I’ve no doubt …