Year: 2020

SAM and Lean IT: Off the back of our Whitepaper “Using SAM to Create and Maintain your CMDB” I suspect the prospect of tagging every piece of software in a retrospective capacity might be making your head spin! (Don’t – tag as you go, and then look over your shoulder at what remains) At some… Continue reading SAM and Lean IT

We have a winner!  Many thanks to all those who took part in the SAM Charter All Stars Fantasy Football League. Austin Harvard nosed ahead in the final weeks of the league, and so nominated his chosen charity as: The Helpers Social Development Foundation, a charity seeking to give young kids in Nigeria a proper… Continue reading We have a Winner!

When I was thinking about SAM and The Best Use-Case to invest in, I recalled a question my girlfriend asked me:  “So Rory, what is it you do?”. (I’d only been going out with her for 7 years when she asked this!).  I could have taken exception to all the times she didn’t listen to… Continue reading SAM and the Best Use-Case to Invest in

It wasn’t too long ago that I was deriding someone for linking ITAM with Covid-19 as a desperate means of riding the wave of the current news cycle. How short-sighted of me…. Of course, what this pandemic does serve to highlight is companies’ preparedness in respect of business continuity management.  For those organisations that might… Continue reading ITAM & COVID-19

Managing your SAM Service Provider.  Full-on SAM can be a hard-core engagement and perhaps one that demands too much of your staff or your budget to do well.  The great temptation might be to “kick it over the fence” and delegate SAM to a third party, while the operational and fiscal considerations could prove tempting,… Continue reading Managing your SAM Service Provider