Always looking to make the working lives of her clients that little bit easier, Libby Phillipps is dedicated to helping IT, Finance, Procurement and SAM professionals deliver savings to their organization with License Dashboard. She is also crazy about her pooch Kes and have a love hate relationship with aerobics and running
When it comes to successfully answering a vendor audit, it’s what you know that is important. You may believe you have a grasp of the licenses your organization purchased, and those beliefs may even turn out to be correct, but in an audit you will need to prove that...
Throughout the month of May, License Dashboard’s friendly mascot, Sam, has taken control of the LD social media channels to post interesting facts about our products and company that our customers, partners and followers may not have come across. In case you missed...
According to results published in BSA’s survey, Seizing Opportunity Through License Compliance, unlicensed software usage in the UK has dropped from 27% in 2009, to 22% in 2015. The growth in uptake of software asset management strategies in the UK, as well as the...
As everything seems to gravitate toward IT being delivered in the internet ‘universe’, Enterprises are more and more going to be posed with the difficulty of managing application licenses in the cloud. Succinctly, cloud delivery models that bring with them the most...
The Ideal Imagine it: An up-to-date Effective License Position (ELP) for every single one of the multitude of products in use within your organization, and the controls in place to deliver cost-avoidances and cost-savings. Sounds ideal but is it achievable?...
Inventory data management, aka discovery data management, is Software Asset Management’s foundation – only when you have discovered all your assets can you efficiently monitor and manage them. Producing inventory data can seem like a straightforward, one-tool process,...
It’s been all over industry news this week but in case you missed it, the court date has been set for the ongoing conflict between Oracle and Google. In 2012 the companies went to trial over Google’s use of Java in Android, with the jury finding that Google had...
Implementing, Updating and Organizing a Software Asset Management Procedure Software Asset Management enables organizations to gain maximum value from their IT investments. Software, hardware and licenses are all carefully tracked with an integration of people,...
Organizations head into contracts with software vendors for various reasons. For many, it’s because it often appears to be a better commercial option to go into a subscription payment agreement rather than a pay as you go. Similarly, when an organization is unsure of...
The upward trend of increasing software audits is in full swing, and as predicted , we are at an all-time-high with a 68% chance of receiving notice of a software audit in the next 12 months. The last year has seen the growth of SAM within organizations as departments...
License Dashboard, provider of software license management as a service (LMaaS), has announced the recruitment of three internal licensing specialists, expanding its Software Asset Management (SAM) Service team and focusing on big vendors; IBM, SAP and Oracle. The...
License Dashboard, providers of software license management as a service (LMaaS), have today released License Manager 10 (LM10), an upgraded platform providing companies with a full view of their IT estate to ensure software licensing compliance. License Dashboard...
Reconciling your software entitlement. Reconciling licenses has been a focus point within the industry for the last few years and its importance is rapidly growing, but what does reconciling your licenses actually entail and what can you expect from the outcome?...
SAM tools vendors often highlight as features their product’s ability to perform key complex licence management tasks, offering the buyer that crucial tick
As part of this month’s SAMPanel, we asked Libby Phillipps of License Dashboard shared her thoughts on the Perpetual License plan Oracle is potentially introducing.
IT Asset Management is a niche, which really makes SAM a sub-niche. It seems now that more organizations are becoming aware of the implications of a software audit
Software Asset Management (SAM) data is the underpinning information for many businesses. Looking at this data and applying it to different departments
As part of this month’s SAMPanel debate, we are very heappy to welcome back to the discussion Libby Phillipps, Marketing and Events Co-ordinator with License Dashboard, who we asked, ‘What will be the impact of Cloud migration on SAM?’
As part of this month’s SAMPanel debate, we are very happy to welcome a new contributor in Libby Phillipps, Marketing and Events Co-ordinator with License Dashboard, who we asked, “Looking ahead, what are your predictions for the SAM market?”
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