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Pocket CIO – The Guide to Successful IT Asset Management

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Product type Book

Published in Mar 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781783001002

Pages 248 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Business Management

Author (1):

Phara McLachlan

Table of Contents (9) Chapters

Preface

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

2. ITAM Strategy and Plan

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?

Software, license, contracts, money pit

SAM is the business practice of managing and optimizing enterprise software within an organization. SAM provides the governance framework that covers the request, purchase, deployment, maintenance, use, harvesting, and disposal of software. Why should anyone including the CEO or CFO care about SAM? Three words: money, efficiency, security.

Software takes up 20-35% of the typical IT budget and enterprise software purchasing and upgrades are on the rise. With enterprise application software alone, Gartner research forecasts a worldwide growth to more than $201 billion in 2019. With organizations typically over- or under-license by approximately 30%, an effective SAM program could mean significant savings in the first year and a continual 10 to 15% reduction in the total cost of ownership (TCO) year-after-year. This could mean millions in savings in the first 5 years.

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Authors (1)

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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