Year: 2021

ITAM Accelerate & Licenseware – A New Hope: People might call it “The Force”, others might suggest a certain commercial gravity is in place.  Whatever the name, this half of ITAM Accelerate is proud to announce that we have signed the first of many agreements with Licenseware. Alex, Ciprian and Chris approached Kylie and I… Continue reading ITAM Accelerate & Licenseware: A New Hope

ISO19770-1: 2017 – An Introduction In June, Kylie Fowler and I completed the overhaul of the ITAM process kit to bring it into alignment with ISO 19770-1: 2017.  I figured this would be a sprint of about six weeks’ worth of work.  Two years later(!) and we finally got it over the line, to where… Continue reading ISO 19770-1: 2017 – Don’t tell me, show me……

I have to thank Ron Brill of Anglepoint for a recent presentation he gave on FinOps and SAM during the WG21 plenary.  He highlighted the roots of where FinOps had come from and where it stands today.  Essentially, FinOps is the multi-disciplinary approach to cloud cost management.  However, due to the sprawling reach of the… Continue reading FinOps – Where SAM Needs to go

A new Hardware Asset Maturity Assessment has arrived to help shape your business in a post-covid world. Covid has sent a cultural bow-wave through IT, highlighting that with sufficient swell, such lurches can impact IT and HR strategy.  Many companies are declaring how they are going to operate once we have declared that we are… Continue reading Out now: Hardware Asset Maturity Assessment

Introduction In the world of ServiceNow ™, SAM Pro is a major weapon in the fight for good IT management.   SAM Pro can act as a filter on what data and CI’s should reside within your CMDB, the pathways of communication between the two have to be forged through process engineering.  This is why we… Continue reading SAM Pro – Workflow Analyzer

ITAM Accelerate – Taking ITAM Coaching to the Next Level Some years ago, Kylie Fowler approached me with the great idea of creating a Hardware Asset Management Process kit that could augment the SAM kit already on offer.  So we combined our experiences and created 12 processes every organisation should give regard to in managing… Continue reading ITAM Accelerate – So what’s it all about?

By Rory Canavan I created the SAM Charter C-Suite Cheat-Sheet because of requests for help to justify SAM/ ITAM in a business case. In step withhttps://www.iso.org/standard/68531.html, I have looked to guide you to what best practice might look like. I’ve taken the top 3 CxO roles and devised compelling reasons why Senior Management should prioritise… Continue reading SAM Charter: C-Suite Cheat Sheet

Would you believe my childhood ambitions became a reality when a football club recently came knocking on my door?! Before I completely run away with myself, Bolton Wanderers Football Club were looking for sponsorship. I had one or two footballing moments in my youth, but sadly these were largely in keeping with the lighting of… Continue reading Bolton Wanderers Football Club

I had a strange flash-back about SAM & Entity Relationship Management and my uni days some time ago. It occurred was when I was attempting to deconstruct the nature of this discipline that I find myself in. I was a long way off a model student on my University of Plymouth Computing & Informatics course. … Continue reading SAM & Entity Relationship Management

Centrepoint – Rowing for Charity: Nobody say mid-life crisis!  As ever, a New Year rolls around and pledges of fitness pop up like a tray of Ferrero Rocher that just beg to be eaten before the in-laws visit and I can’t get the custard creams out fast enough to protect my nutty/ chocolate stash! When… Continue reading Centrepoint – Rowing for Charity