1. Are there any standards supporting Software Asset Management?
(Blog/IT Management)

  Yes. The disorder in this matter made the industry push for some normalization on this field. A group of experts have started development of the ISO/IEC 19770 series. Two first parts 19770-1 and  ...

2. The UK Software Management and Licensing Conference
(News/Latest)

... curve and reap the extended benefits •    Real world customer experience demonstrating how to get to grips with effectively managing your licenses •    Achieving the ISO SAM standard in stages •    IT ...

3. CMDB for knowledge management
(Blog/IT Management)

... and ISO standards. This provides an opportunity to look at the selected node in broader and deeper context The ITAM 360 subscription is most useful for the professionals responsible for ITAM, who start ...

4. ABC of ICT....THE critical success and fail factor!
(Articles/Articles)

... V2, CoBIT, MOF, ISO20000 and now ITIL V3. Despite all of these ‘Best practice frameworks’ there are some fundamental Worst practices that remain hidden or avoided. The top 10 list reveals what these are.  ...

5. IAITAM Delivers ITAM 360™ - First Interactive IT Asset Management Knowledge Base
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... Integration. ITAM 360 easily integrates and shows how models such as the Information Technology Infrastructure Library® (ITIL®) and standards such as the ISO/IEC for software asset management are helping ...

6. How Will the ISO/IEC 19770-2 Standard for Software Tagging Influence Your Organization's Decisions?
(Articles/Articles)

  On November 15, 2009, the ISO/IEC 19770-2 standard was finally published.  It is available to the public, and now it is time to make final decisions as to how the passage of this standard will influence ...

7. Webinar: Lower Costs with Certified Software Identification Tags
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  When: Friday, January 15, 10:00 AM Pacific (1:00 PM Eastern) TagVault.org, a program of IEEE-ISTO and the certification authority for ISO/IEC 19770-2 software identification tags, invites you to ...

8. Silent Gary advisor
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9. Software Compliance and Security Management - How To Work With Your Vendors
(News/Latest)

  January 15, 2010, 10 AM Pacific Presenter: Steve Klos, executive director of TagVault.org TagVault.org, a program of IEEE-ISTO and the registration authority for ISO/IEC 19770-2 software identification ...

10. To standardize or not to standardize?
(Blog/IT Management)

... the same license model. The ISO/IEC 19770-3 standard is going to provide the framework to express the license in an unambiguous way. Does it mean that the license names will be standardized? There is a ...

11. 19770-2 SWID tag standard – turning theory into practice
(Links/Links)

  ITAM Review has published interesting article titled: ISO/IEC 19770 Standard Update – Turning Theory Into Practice. According to the article, right now it is all about execution. End users are to ...

12. Congratulations to SWID Tag Development Team
(News/Latest)

  ITM Wisdombase community would like to offer their congratulations to SWID Tag Development Team members for the ISO/IEC 19770-2: Software identification tag standard creation. The  SWID Tag Development ...

13. Getting Control of IT with ITIL
(Podcasts/Podcasts)

  This is a podcast from 5/13/2009 about The challenge of getting control of IT with ITIL.   http://www.podfeed.net/episode/CS+Techcast+74+The+Challenge+of+Getting+Control+of+IT+with+ITIL/1810912# ...

14. ISO/IEC 19770-2 now available for purchase
(News/Latest)

  Starting from November 11th, just the while after ISO/IEC 19770-2 was approved as an ISO standard, it is available for purchase from ISO store.   You can purchase the standard at: http://www.iso.org/iso/iso_catalogue/catalogue_tc/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=53670 ...

15. Why do Software Asset Management and Software Identification matter so much?
(Links/Links)

... Software Identification? Who Owns Software Identification Within the Software Publisher? How Can ISO/IEC Standards Resolve These Problems? Steve Klos, the  convener of the ‘Other Working Group’ – developing ...

16. Why Do We Need Software Tags?
(Articles/Articles)

... start working on the Software Tag concept. The emerging ISO/IEC 19770-2 standard will define  the Software Tag; describe how to create it and how to use it. The team working on it intensified its efforts ...

17. The scope of SAM
(Blog/tester)

... it is broad enough. The SAM standard, ISO/IEC 19770-1, recognizes 27 elements where one can find terms like security management or software development. They do not sound like things closely related ...

18. ISO/IEC 19770-2 coming
(Blog/tester)

  The ISO/IEC 19770-2 standard reached the final phase of ISO/IEC approving process. There is a high chance it will be published even this year. The Software Identification Tags are thought ...

19. SAM plan
(Articles/Articles)

... organization. Enormous numbers of applications used in each organization forced SAM professionals to do something about it. ISO/IEC 19770-1 standard has been developed to keep software compliance in the ...

20. ISO/IEC 19770-3 OWG
(Blog/IT Management)

  The ISO/IEC 19770-3 development work went into the most interesting part. Most of information needed has been collected and now we are discussing the primary construction and content foundations.  ...