The ITAM Review has released the scores of its latest ITAM tools customer satisfaction survey. Sassafras was voted #1 of the seven ranked publishers, out of a field of 22 companies! It’s gratifying to receive the formal recognition provided by independent surveys such as The ITAM Review. The daily informal feedback we get directly from […]
A K2 administrator recently told me about some ways that he uses K2-KeyServer to manage the lifecycle and total cost of ownership (TCO) of his computers. His organization acquires computers in different ways. Sometimes they purchase computers for individual staff, other times they might lease computers for teams, projects, or computing labs. For every computer, […]
In 2013, Adobe introduced Creative Cloud licensing for volume purchase customers. There are multiple licensing plans available to both academic and business customers (see sidebar). It is very easy to spend more than you need to on subscription licenses, just like with any other software license. Let’s take a look at how to avoid spending […]
New customizable web based dashboards Sassafras Software, a pioneer in Software Asset Management (SAM) and IT Asset Management (ITAM), has released a major upgrade of its award-winning product, K2 – KeyAuditor & KeyServer. Version 7.2 adds support for user based license metrics, and it introduces an integrated web-based reporting dashboard that puts important data summarization […]
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 […]