K2’s entitlement-based approach to Software Asset Management can get companies to cost reduction very quickly. We regularly receive feedback from customers who experience great success at hardware and software cost reduction and cost containment. K2 helps them to efficiently deliver software and hardware assets and IT services to their user communities. There are many specific […]
We just registered as one of the sponsors for the LabMan 2014 conference, to be held June 2-4 this year on the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) campus. This is the 15th year that the conference has brought together computer lab managers from across the country and we are looking forward to being there. […]
Development of the ISO/IEC 19770-3 software license entitlement standard has recently reached a milestone achievement with the publication of Committee Draft 2, which has recently been distributed to national standards bodies for international review and balloting. And with that achievement, John Tomeny (the convener of the team responsible for the development of 19770-3) is extending […]
We just published a great new case study demonstrating a somewhat unexpected application of K2 for effective IT Resource Management. Our thanks go out to the IT staff at Evergreen State College who collaborated with us on this study. This study demonstrates how one organization used K2 reports to optimize the allocation of staff time […]
Sassafras would like to congratulate Barbara Sellers, IT Director and IT Asset Manager at USAA, and Heather Young, Microsoft Global Director of SAM Programs, as the newest members of the internationally respected IAITAM Fellowship program. The IAITAM Fellow designation is the highest level of personal professional recognition offered by IAITAM, and is awarded on a […]
The Software Alliance (a.k.a the “BSA”) has published an interesting paper on the importance of Software Asset Management (SAM) in Cloud Computing. In summary, Cloud computing does not exempt an organization from their need for SAM but rather, the cloud requires its own additional management policies and procedures. Fortunately, usage and entitlement optimization reporting for […]
According to the 2011 Global Software Piracy Study published by the Business Software Alliance (BSA), nearly one out of five software programs put into service in the United States is illegal. The subject of software piracy, and how software is pirated, was commonly misunderstood by many not so long ago. But vigorous efforts over the […]
We are pleased to announce the launch of our redesigned website. Perhaps you have already noticed it over the past month or so – we hope you like it. This is the 4th major redesign we’ve done. For your amusement, here is a screenshot of the earliest snapshot in the Wayback Machine, from 1997 – […]
Yesterday we released a new image (2013-10-28), and with this release, all components of K2 fully support the latest OS versions from Microsoft and Apple. Deploy KeyAccess 7.1.0.5 on Windows 8.1 and Server 2012 R2 in order to work around Microsoft’s OS version bug so that 8.1 is reported to KeyAccess instead of 8.0 (see […]
In today’s world of Software Asset Management, we have long been distracted by managing the Intellectual Property (IP) asset owned by the software publisher rather than managing and optimizing the software license entitlement asset owned by the customer. There is one simple habit practiced by the vast majority of software asset managers today that causes […]