Project Management

1 Microsoft Online Services – status quo Microsoft offers a variety of online services and new services are added by the minute. To stipulate cloud transition customers receive mega discounts on services, e.g. Office365 E3 / E5 plans, or online services are bundled with on premise use rights, e.g. Secure Productive Enterprise, to ease cloud transition. The way up to ...

Good asset discovery data is the foundation for every IT Asset Management program, for both hardware and software Asset Management. Tools do more than ever to track and monitor assets. Despite this, a lot of IT Asset management is accomplished in spreadsheets with manual steps needed to fill in missing information or to clean up a report before it gets ...

Sitting pretty with a new and possibly expensive SAM tool, but once implemented, for some reason it has stopped dead in its tracks. The compliance and cover looks bad, even though you know that is not the case in real life. To admit this is like saying you were given Jay Z’s yacht for free, but have no idea how ...

By Steffani Lomax, Siwel Consulting, Inc. ITAK V10 I4 Recently you were given the role of IT Asset Manager for your corporation – Congratulations!  However, while this sounds like a wonderful new opportunity, you are a little concerned because you’re not sure where to begin.  You have a general idea about the concept of IT Asset Management (ITAM); however you ...

By Takeshi Takeuchi & Jenny Schuchert, IAITAM ITAK V8 I5 IT Asset Management (ITAM) is a mainstream topic for organizations, with the importance of enhanced management of IT assets understood and an expectation of achieving maximized value.  With this level of success and awareness, why are ITAM projects still subject to being frozen or even cancelled?  In many cases, it ...

By Paul Wheaton, Five9 Technologies ITAK V4 I3 Project and Portfolio Management (PPM) provides a disciplined approach for managing an organization’s IT investments.  Its primary goal is to align an organization’s corporate strategic goals with its IT goals in order to: Optimize investment benefits Increase efficiency through proper management of its personnel Minimize operational cost and risk Provide a pre-defined ...