We’re thrilled to announce the new Chair and Vice Chair of the ITAM Forum Trustee Board – Ron Brill and Salomé Keet.
Ron has served as an ITAM Forum Trustee since the very beginning and until now, served as the Board’s Vice Chair. He follows Melody Ayeli who is stepping down at the end of her 3-year term. Positions on our Board become available every year.
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In the rapidly changing technological environment of today, AI has emerged as a hot topic in ITAM. The burning question on everyone’s mind is: Could AI be a game-changer for ITAM?
We recently hosted a “AI + ITAM” webinar where experts shared insights about AI’s potential and its challenges for ITAM. Hosted by the ITAM Review’s Rich Gibbons, we heard from:
What a year 2023 has been for the ITAM Forum! We grew in numbers and activities, and we achieved one of our key objectives: To create – and be a caretaker of – the world’s first ISO/IEC 19770-1 certification scheme.
You’ll find more details about this below along with a highlight of some of our other 2023 achievements.
First things first. We couldn’t have done any of this without you, the global ITAM community. Thank you!
We’re thrilled for the Dutch Police, which today, became the world’s first public sector organisation to gain ISO/IEC 19770-1 certification! It received its certificate today from Brand Compliance, the certification scheme auditor, after successfully meeting all requirements.
The Dutch Police’s Marc Goedhart, Audit Coordinator, and John Haenen, Software Asset Consultant, lead the project with support from Rosalie Kramer, IT-Sector Head.
By Martin Thompson, founder of the ITAM Forum
At the ITAM Forum, we talk a lot about the ISO ITAM family of standards (ISO 19770). These standards, of which there are seven, are created by the ITAM Standards Committee, which has more than 175 members from 25+ countries. One of these standards is 19770-1. It specifies the requirements for an ITAM management system within the context of an organisation.
Author: Hayley Salyar from Snow Software (an ITAM Forum Patron)
This blog first appeared here on the Snow Software website.
Managing costs and resources efficiently has become paramount for organisations seeking to maintain competitiveness. Financial Operations (FinOps) and IT Asset Management are two distinct but interconnected fields that play a vital role in optimising costs and resources. This blog discusses crucial use cases, demonstrating how FinOps and ITAM collaboration can lead to streamlined processes and enhanced cost management.
These use cases are from the framework the FinOps Foundation established on how ITAM intersects with FinOps capabilities.
By Bryan Blackburn, Product Marketing Manager – ServiceNow
The latest findings from ServiceNow’s annual IT asset management survey are out and reveal a significant turning point for ITAM. 450 IT leaders from across the world participated in this survey, which took place during July 2023. The ever-changing demands of business not only influence how organisations manage assets but also raise expectations for ITAM teams. These teams are now tasked with improving productivity, delivering visibility, and maximising the business value of technology assets.
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Author: Sergio Molina is Head of Cloud – FinOps at Santander UK and an ITAM Forum Ambassador (FinOps)
FinOps is a recent function and the natural response to addressing the challenge of understanding the true costs associated with Cloud Technology. Cloud FinOps really stands for Financial Management and DevOps. We define Cloud FinOps as a set of practices that combine financial management and technical expertise to optimize cloud spending and align investments with business goals.
Speed is the key distinction between operating and building products in cloud technology, as opposed to the server-based and on-premises computing paradigm. Speed encompasses availability, deployment, acceleration and product growth, which inherently results in rapid cost fluctuations. And the main reason why the speed is different, is that you are not buying infrastructure or ‘objects’ to place within your organization’s Data Centre. You are buying the time of the technology element, the capacity.
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