Brien M. Posey is a freelance technical writer who has contributed to dozens of books and is a six-time Microsoft MVP award winner. Although server virtualization has eased the job of network ...

Federal agencies have made great strides in the past seven months shoring up their software license management. That’s the headline of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee’s seventh IT ...

Jim Ryan is the chief operating officer at Flexera. The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee recently held a hearing titled “Government Accountability Office’s Duplication Report at Five ...

Adam Stone writes on technology trends from Annapolis, Md., with a focus on government IT, military and first-responder technologies. In the city of Dallas, Interim CIO Brian Gardner needs to manage ...

The more things change, the more they stay the same. Keeping track of software licenses and contracts that permit their use is not a new problem for IT managers. Software asset management (SAM) has ...

If it doesn’t exist already, we might soon see a certification created for enterprise software license management. This certification would combine technical knowledge of software usage with financial ...

Federal IT officials are starting to consider another side effect of the demand for near-universal telework: the need for better inventorying of their software licenses, especially now that agencies ...

Value stream management involves people in the organization to examine workflows and other processes to ensure they are deriving the maximum value from their efforts while eliminating waste — of ...

The issue of compliance is forever on the minds of IT executives, and even more so in the last 10 years, due to increased audit activities by software vendors, complex licensing rules and the ...

Brien M. Posey is a freelance technical writer who has contributed to dozens of books and is a six-time Microsoft MVP award winner. Although server virtualization has eased the job of network ...