Jesper is a seasoned Professional in Business development, strategy, sales and marketing planning and execution within the Information Technology sector. He has a technical background and his +25 years of experience is primarily in advizory, IT services and software. He was the founder of Identity Management consultancy, IT InterGroup and Software company FastPassCorp that was publicly introduced, via an IPO in 2007, on Nasdaq OMX Copenhagen Exchange.
Jesper ran Software Asset Management consultancy Secorigo before it was sold on to Deloitte in June 2017.
He was co-founder of ITAMOrg, the international membership organization within IT Asset Management that provides best pratices, training & certification, conferences etc. to help mature the industry.
In the ever-changing Information Technology (IT) landscape, managing IT assets, such as software and hardware, is critical to the success and effectiveness of any organisation. IT Asset Management (ITAM) professionals play a critical role in ensuring that an...
In the Heart of Strategy and Security As the digital landscape continues to evolve, the responsibilities of CIOs and CISOs expand well beyond managing technology stacks and securing infrastructures. In this transformative era, IT Asset Management (ITAM) emerges as a...
This document is an UNCLASSIFIED publication that has been issued under the authority of the Head of the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security This publication provides organizations with advice and guidance related to information technology (IT) asset management (ITAM)....
“You discover your cloud architecture is immature when you’re surprised by the bill.” That’s what John Roese, global chief technology officer of Dell Technologies, said in a recent Wall Street Journal article—“CIOs Still Waiting for Cloud Investments to Pay Off.” In...
Civil Litigants Meeting Certain Requirements May Bring Suit For Theft of Money or Property Under California Penal Code Section 496 Potentially Leading to the Award of Treble Damages and Attorneys' Fees Customers of Oracle who believe they have been victimized by...
Is the JAVA SE licensing change as simple as it sounds? When software vendors claim to be simplifying software licensing terms, experienced enterprise customers know to dig into the details to find how it may impact their costs. So, when Oracle in January revealed “a...
How to manage Cloud, Webapps, SaaS?! Cloud is driving digitalization, COVID has forced us up into the Cloud in a faster phase than expected. Cloud is now one of the biggest challenges right now. Similarities and differences between Onprem and BOX licensing All...
Oracle stands accused of "predatory" licensing tactics after making changes to the Oracle Java SE subscription model that could force businesses to pay tens of thousands of dollars more each month for running the same software. Industry experts have pointed out that...
Software supply chains are soft targets for attackers looking to capitalize on the lack of transparency, visibility and security of open-source libraries they use for embedding malicious code for wide distribution. Additionally, when companies don’t know where code...
You’ve heard a lot about Shadow IT risk, but what is it and what should you do about it? Shadow IT is the set of applications, services, and infrastructure that are developed and managed outside of defined engineering standards. Experts predict somewhere between...
In an organization the size of Microsoft, employees need a wide array of tools to accomplish their work. For many, third-party software is part of their toolbox, and that means we need to purchase, organize, and manage software licenses on a massive scale. Robust...
IBM is hoisting its UK software prices by nearly a quarter, in a move critics claims will drive customers into the arms of competitors. In an announcement earlier this week, Big Blue confirmed it will be adjusting prices in select currencies in January 2023 for all...
Software Asset Management (SAM) – or how to take control, quantify risk, identify, and optimise opportunities for Software Assets - is it relevant to Oracle Cloud Fusion SaaS? The answer is yes, more than ever. Perhaps the name ‘SAM’ isn’t quite such a good fit as it...
Programmer and lawyer Matthew Butterick has sued Microsoft, GitHub, and OpenAI, alleging that GitHub's Copilot violates the terms of open-source licenses and infringes the rights of programmers. GitHub Copilot, released in June 2022, is an AI-based programming aid...
Do you know what IT devices are in your business or on your network right now? If not, it’s not just cybercriminals that might be knocking on your door very soon, but the White House. Binding Operational Directive 23-01, or BOD 23-01, is a new directive from the U.S....
The White House released new guidance this week ordering federal agencies to create a full inventory of the software they use within 90 days. In a letter to all heads of executive departments and agencies, White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) director...
We sat down with David Mackenzie, ITAM/SAM industry veteran and Snow customer, to learn about his career progression, how ITAM has changed over the years and tips for software asset managers today. What does a software asset manager have in common with Star Wars?...
Software Asset Management’ or ‘Software License Management’ – which one does your organization need? Are they both the same? Or why does your organization need both of them? Well, if you are someone related to the IT industry, you must have heard about software asset...
IT asset management (ITAM) and configuration management are critical for IT modernization initiatives. Although both strategies provide guidance for tracking IT assets, their objectives are quite different. ITAM is about managing IT assets from a cost, risk, and value...
As data and services move to the cloud and employees move to home offices, the “castle and moat” model is no longer effective. Here’s why the endpoint is the new battlefield. We’re living in a time of rapid IT transformation, from data technologies to workforce...
Security pros need to focus on cybersecurity asset management for devices, services and the vendors that can help. Use our checklist to find out how and where to start. A key challenge for CISOs and other security professionals is enabling effective cybersecurity...
In a previous Linux Foundation blog, David A. Wheeler, director of LF Supply Chain Security, discussed how capabilities built by Linux Foundation communities can be used to address the software supply chain security requirements set by the US Executive Order on...
The ISO ITAM Committee (Working Group 21) recently held its fall/interim meeting, with great attendance from around the world. During the 4-day meeting, we covered over 20 agenda topics, including open development projects, study group discussions, and others. Of...
In this modern age of technology, Software Asset Management tools are becoming a necessity in managing the growing complexity of a company’s software infrastructure and inventory. But what exactly is a SAM tool and what does it do? Will SAM tools help or hinder...
Over the last years, Oracle has been successful in transforming its own Oracle ERP on premise customers to its Oracle Fusion Cloud Service. In its journey to transform end-users to the cloud, Oracle is heavily competing (and rather successfully) to get SAP ERP...
Lawsuits are not an uncommon way for Oracle to defend its intellectual property rights. Some lawsuits might be more known than others, but the fact is that they are chosen very carefully by Oracle because the impact such a lawsuit might have on Oracle’s image and...
Microsoft said Thursday it will raise the prices of commercial subscriptions to its Microsoft 365 bundles of productivity apps such as Word and Excel, formerly known as Office 365. The price hikes will boost Microsoft’s total revenue and profit, given the Office line...
Software updates address the expanding role of the procurement pro, helping control costs, manage supplier risk, and enforce compliance spending, enterprise software vendor says. Enterprise software vendor Oracle Corp. has upgraded its suite of procurement tools to...
Microsoft has come up with a neat idea to tackle the increasing piracy on the internet. The company intends to use a blockchain-based bounty solution called Argus. Likewise, Argus is an Ethereum-based transparent program that allows volunteers to report piracy in...
Cloud solutions have very little barrier to entry, but their barrier to exit can be considerable. My first corporate web server, set up before the days of "the cloud" and AWS, cost my company nearly $10,000 and months of time. Not only did we have to order and pay for...
With minimal oversight from an IT team, SaaS has enabled team leaders to choose and purchase the technologies that their employees require (or in some cases, with no IT involvement at all). Clearly, that method is working—the growth of SaaS has been phenomenal, and...
Oracle's latest bid to attract customer workloads to its public cloud involves discounts on traditional software license maintenance and support fees. Oracle will offer customers discounts on their existing on-premise software license maintenance fees in exchange for...
There is no doubt that the cloud is one of the most significant platform shifts in the history of computing. Not only has cloud already impacted hundreds of billions of dollars of IT spend, it’s still in early innings and growing rapidly on a base of over $100B of...
Rightsizing for Azure cloud cost optimization can be one of the most effective ways to reduce the cost of your monthly Azure bill. However, it can be difficult and overwhelming for organizations to identify which resources are running, at what capacity, and by which...
Heading into 2021, companies are adopting more technologies, platforms and other assets into their IT environments than ever before. Utilizing this expanding array of resources helps them move faster, become more agile and focus more directly on customer-centric...
Following the SAM tools verification for Database and Options, Oracle has launched a similar campaign for its Fusion Middleware products. This article by Benjamin Vidal, Chapterlead ITAMOrg France, looks at the following questions: What does this Oracle verification...
Working for 20 years in SAM, I have come to the conclusion that the best efforts from everybody to reach high performance of IT infrastructure and fair licensing rules leads to incredible complexity in SAM, stress for SAM teams and over spend in licenses. Licensing...
At ITAMOrg, we often hear that IT Asset Management (ITAM) is complicated and there is so much work to be done. So, where do you start? ITAMOrg CEO, Jan Oeberg will give an answer and tips on bridging with ITSM. Well, when you are only focusing on ITAM, the full...
A year after establishing a handful of guiding sustainability targets, Microsoft this month published a progress report. The report touched on the company’s move to increase reuse at its data centers. Microsoft has plans to significantly expand its data center...
It’s no question that migrating to the cloud isn’t just a trend – it’s here to stay. Today, many businesses have either already begun the process of a cloud migration or are feeling the pressure to do so. With this transition, however, many are discovering unexpected...
As experts in enterprise license optimisation, we are all too familiar with the intricacies of license audits and the behaviours displayed by vendors. Audits are notoriously tricky and can be stressful for staff running scripts and liaising with the vendor whilst...
The recent SolarWinds incident has shed a light on an area of cybersecurity that is not frequently in focus. Better said, it is “again has shed a light”, if we remember the Heartbleed incident that happened back in 2014. Back then, my colleague Alexei Balaganski wrote...
The federal government’s Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation program is a risk-based, cost-effective approach to cybersecurity. CDM provides management and operational security strategies as well as physical security controls for a multilayer defense strategy for...
SAP licensing models are among the most complex of all tier one vendors. For organisations who have been long term SAP customers this complexity is added to as the number of contract documents accumulates over time. Add to that licence model changes and constant...
On the revised IBM Sub-capacity licensing overview website, IBM pre-announced that ILMT will soon become mandatory for Products based on a Virtual Processor Core (VPC) metric. This is particularly of interest for clients who have a Cloud Pak on a Non-containerized...
Microsoft 365 is an increasingly popular, future-proof solution that makes it easier for employees to work and collaborate regardless of their location. It uses familiar applications within a cloud solution that’s available anytime, anywhere to make the cloud...
Micro Focus software licence audits can be a serious concern to organisations who are not prepared to respond effectively. Micro Focus is a notorious vendor in SAM circles and considered a high risk by FisherITS. Like most software vendor audits, the financial penalty...
If there's one thing that's paramount, it's streamlining the process of acquiring software. Without an efficient procedure, the time it takes to process a user's request may delay the software's availability to that user or, even worse, encourage the use of shortcuts...
itSMF Finland webinar on IT Asset Management. Description (Finnish language) and registration via link>>
Every IT department faces recurring license management issues sooner or later, and this is even more true for organizations that use expensive scientific software (aka engineering software or engineering applications) that can result in significant budget overruns or,...
It will hardly come as a surprise, but Gartner’s IT Spending Forecast for3Q20 (released Oct. 20, 2020) shows a 5.4% decline in overall business technology spend in 2020. While the forecast for 2021 is an increase of around 4%, these numbers indicate that IT budgets...
Is the auditor always right? Every larger company working with software from Microsoft, Oracle, IBM etcetera will be subjected to an audit eventually. Once every three years or so is common practice. Even being exposed to multiple audits at the same time is not...
In this 30-minute webinar, Søren Riis-Vestergaard, Service Management consultant at BusinessNow, will talk you through the basics of IT Asset Management (also known as ITAM). He will tell you how you avoid overlooking a lack of software license compliance and why you...
The IT Asset Management (ITAM) industry is still failing, on many occasions, to provide consistent value and protection to businesses who are fighting to safeguard and optimise their IT investments. Those who have invested in services or technologies designed to...
Keeping on top of complex and ever changing IBM licensing is not easy. And getting it wrong or even just slightly wrong can have costly consequences. This presentation will be focusing on the most common IBM compliance risks that customers are facing and how get in...
Many SAP customers face over-paying on SAP Support and Maintenance as a result of being over-licensed. This can be the result of a number of different factors including over-buying at the beginning of the contract, over-buying throughout the ownership lifecycle,...
Strategic SAM is becoming critical for business intelligence Traditional SAM tools leave CIOs increasingly vulnerable to software over-spending and greater compliance risk > Advanced SAM programs can reduce up to 30% of wasted software spend in the first year of...
The latest Azure offering, Purview, is a “unified data governance” service to help organisations manage data across their ever expanding environments – including on-premises, IaaS multi-cloud (Azure, AWS etc.) and also SaaS services. According to Microsoft, Azure...
Acho que você não vai querer ficar de fora do evento IT Asset Management Bootcamp! Será ao vivo e gratuito entre os dias 18 e 20 de Janeiro das 19h às 21h. Quer saber o que você vai perder se não participar? Então clica no link e aproveita para confirmar sua...
The quality of data one gets out of a discovery process is extremely important for everything one does with that data. Bad data means bad decisions and acceptance for systems making use of the data. Examples we saw in the articles and videos on CMDB integration and...
A brief history of cloud software licensing Anyone working in IT will have noticed the limitless creativity of vendors when it comes to licence types and structures. Per user, per employee, per CPU, per GB, and so on. Most of these have their roots in traditional...
In this webinar, presented by ITAMOrg and Relicense, you will get insights into the trading of software licenses. The market for second hand software is in some regions normalised, in the sense that it compares to reselling of any other goods – like books. In other...
Microsoft knowledge partner Quexcel acquires all activities of Microsoft training partner Didactive as per January 1st 2021. Founder, owner and Microsoft endorsed trainer Jelle Kooi will remain involved as a consultant after the takeover. All current activities will...
By: Ron Brill, ITAM Standards Committee Chair at ISO The ISO ITAM Committee recently held its fall meeting in a virtual format. Our fall/interim meeting is one of two week-long conferences we hold every year in addition to our periodic video calls and other ongoing...
Private and public sector CIOs should explore these 10 techniques for IT cost optimization to navigate budget constraints in a volatile business environment. When a business executive asks her CIO to reduce operating costs, together they evaluate their IT spending and...
Manufacturing has come a long way since the industrial age -- and in today's market, digital transformation is accelerating as a way for manufacturers to reduce risk, optimize spend and control costs at production facilities. As a result, operational technology (OT)...
Azure cost optimization is essential to your ongoing efforts to reduce cloud costs, or evt. to avoid them to sky rock. And with a global health pandemic continuing to challenge us to find a new normal, cost optimization is at the forefront of many minds. We've talked...
State of ITAM in times of the COVID 19 pandemic - David, welcome and thank you for joining us for this interview where we will be talking about what really affecting almost all parts of our society today – the corona virus. The ITAM area is absolutely no different...
Roel Decneut, CMO at Lansweeper IT Governance and Cyber Security When organizations think about IT governance and security, they often focus on protecting internal assets and data from external threats. But what if the threat originates from within the organization?...
As Cloud adoption continues to grow, with migration to both public and private cloud infrastructure, enterprises need IT environments that enable them to drive product innovation. Part of the transformation is migrating legacy applications to Platform as a Service...
A software audit is typically considered to be an overwhelming and confusing experience, complete with a mountain of work you need to do in an unreasonably short amount of time. It provides you with stress and a sense of overwhelming helplessness that you’d just...
Strategic SAM is becoming critical for business intelligence - Traditional SAM tools leave CIOs increasingly vulnerable to software over-spending and greater compliance risk - Advanced SAM programs can reduce up to 30% of wasted software spend in the first year of...
Microsoft's 20-year-old Open License program for small and midsize organizations will be phased out in just over a year, leaving a crucial role open for Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) partners to fill. On Monday, Microsoft announced that it won't be possible for...
The old model of procuring IT is no longer relevant Traditionally, when organisations went about compiling their IT portfolios, the building blocks were made up of two things: the perceived IT infrastructure and the technological capabilities of both software and...
In this webinar Steve Lawless we will explain about the renewed IT Asset Management certification, the deep relation to ITIL 4® , and the absolute need to have ITAM professionals in your organization. To help you save millions!
Bring Your Own Licenses (BYOL) are an easy, flexible way to modernize your technology without a big upfront investment. Implementing Oracle license management can show you which licenses you have – and how to use them most advantageously. In this case, organizations...
The world of ITAM is in constant change. We see devices in all shapes and formats coming to our businesses, both within IT but also outside of the classic scope for IT. Software licensing models are evolving at high pace also and licensing control is moving backwards...
Feature Spinning up services on public clouds is dead easy, but what about staying in control of the bill? Organisations are "over budget for cloud spend by an average of 23 per cent, and expect cloud spend to increase by 47 per cent next year," according to a "State...
If you’re an SAP customer, you’re likely familiar with the vendor’s annual contractual requirement to submit an SAP Self-Declaration and Measurement Plan. While this requirement is an annoyance for many customers, it can actually be something far more positive. First,...
Is there such as thing as a license compliance procedure that is both optional and provides customers with financial benefits? Yes, there is! It is called Self-Certification and it is one of the emerging trends in the license compliance toolbox for vendors. Presented...
Software licensing is almost always complex and software asset managers need to ensure that they remain alert to changes in standard End User License Agreements (EULA), as well as bespoke terms that may have been agreed at the time the product was purchased....
2020 has so far been quite the cruel mistress and, although software companies have been relatively spared when compared to other industries, that hasn’t stopped Oracle from being dealt a heavy blow, as detailed in their Q4 report for 2020. Traditionally, May has been...
Oracle is not the only software company accused of using predatory audit tactics to drive sales of its software products. In 2013 an IBM employee named Paul A. Cimino filed a whistleblower suit under the False Claims Act alleging that IBM used an audit of its customer...
Vendors are quietly trying to protect themselves from losing support contracts, by using three distinct tactics. Oracle and SAP have been two formidable forces in the ERP market for a long time now, but things are changing fast, as competitors rise to meet (and...
Under the coronavirus-induced lockdowns, whole industries are shrinking, or coming to a halt. However, Cloud providers are seeing an unprecedented increase. Why is that? Cloud applications have the advantage of being accessible from anywhere in the world. All you need...
Back in April 2020, IBM very quietly announced some changes to its pricing structure. So quietly in fact, that almost no one seemed to notice, which is a surprise considering the significance of these changes. Here at Livingstone we have even reached out to a number...
You know how it is: the economy is in meltdown; half the company is working from home and the other half is furloughed. What is there to look forward to? Software audits, that's what. Yes, audits are among the advice global accountancy and consultancy PWC has...
Westports Holdings Bhd’s wholly-owned subsidiary Westports Malaysia Sdn Bhd has commenced legal proceedings against Oracle Corp Malaysia Sdn Bhd and Bank of America Malaysia Bhd (BoA) over the termination of two agreements. The group explained that it subscribed to...
Do you want to learn about IT Asset Management? Or are you going to be sitting the ITAM Foundation exam soon? How much do you really know about IT Asset Management? ITAM is a core competency within IT and closely linked to IT Service Management. IT Asset Management is...
The coronavirus presents a cloud cost puzzle: usage goes up, but costs need to come down. It's up to companies to work with providers to explore their cost-saving options. The coronavirus pandemic has bulldozed previously-established spending intentions — the message...
Speed Stability - Technology creates speed and SAM gives stability In aviation the term "speed stability" is used when talking about holding the centre of gravity in high speed passenger jet flight so as not to go out of control. Now that's a scary thought! In an...
New Report Shows Opportunities to Increase Productivity and Lax License Optimization Practices That Lead to Unnecessary Waste and Security Risks for Enterprise Office 365 Environments Milan, Italy – April 6, 2020 – According to a new research report, an average of 56%...
By: David MacKenzie, Now has never been a more crucial time in the IT industry. 2020 started off with some pops and bangs, the final approach of Brexit – a divorce from the EU and foreign policy, the US and Iran were in high tension, Harry and Meghan stepped back from...
PAST EVENT This Webinar will go over how to optimize software licensing with Microsoft Office365 and select the right program for your organization. This webinar is brought in cooperation with MetrixData 360 and Mike Austin. Mike Austin leads the delivery team at...
Every Oracle customer should pay close attention to the way that our friends in Redwood Shores have reorganized their support model to address a variety of forces that will reshape the enterprise software landscape in the next decade. There is a model that has been...
Starting in Summer 2020, commercial customers can use Office 365 ProPlus (device) to assign an Office 365 ProPlus license to a Windows 10 device instead of to a user. Education customers can do the same thing by using the Office 365 ProPlus for Education (device)...
The ITAMOrg BeNeLux chapter is host for this virtual event on ITAM with focus on the role of the IT Asset Manager, ITAM and ITIL 4 and business driven IT Asset Management. Check the full agenda on the itSMF Belgium website>>>
A German asset manager with approximately €359 billion under management is suing Oracle in US courts for allegedly inflating cloud revenues, saying the company resorted to “systematically coercing and bribing” its existing customers into cloud migrations. The 164-page...
“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” The Anna Karenina Principle, as it has become known from the first line of Leo Tolstoy’s seminal 19th-century novel, is as applicable to ITAM programs today as it is to families. Adapted...
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