ITAM/SAM Fundamentals
This broader discipline manages technology assets throughout their lifecycle, including hardware and software.
What is IT Asset Management (ITAM)?
These records show whether and how often an application is actually used, helping distinguish installation from activity.
What is usage data or metering data?
A paid software subscription remains assigned to an employee who left six months ago. This action makes it available for reassignment or potential removal at renewal, subject to contract terms.
What is reclaiming the license?
Employees purchase or use technology outside approved IT processes. This is commonly called this.
What is shadow IT?
This is Selina's favorite holiday.
What is Halloween?
This is the documented right to use software, supported by purchases, agreements, and applicable terms.
What is a license entitlement?
Three inventory sources report the same laptop under slightly different names. This process prevents it from being counted three times.
What is deduplication?
A user has a premium subscription but only needs features included in a lower-cost plan. Moving them to the appropriate plan is called this.
What is right-sizing?
An invoice proves you purchased software, but this document establishes the applicable usage rights, restrictions, and obligations.
What is the license agreement or governing contract?
Providing sugary snacks and candy is Selina's JAM, what is the song that hosts this habit?
What is getting "Sticky with it"?
This assessment compares license entitlements with license requirements to identify shortages or surplus.
What is an Effective License Position (ELP)?
Your inventory shows 200 virtual machines but does not identify their physical hosts. This missing relationship is essential when assessing licensing based on the underlying host.
What is host-to-VM mapping?
Two departments buy separate tools that perform essentially the same function. Reducing this overlap is called this.
What is application rationalization?
A company acquires another business and assumes its software licenses automatically transfer. This contractual provision must be checked before relying on those entitlements.
What is the assignment or license transfer provision? Accept change-of-control provision, where applicable.
Officially launched in 2016, this Anglepoint platform followed its predecessor, WebPortal.
What is Elevate?
This process standardizes inconsistent software names, publishers, versions, and editions into recognized product records.
What is software normalization?
Your inventory identifies a database product but cannot distinguish Standard from Enterprise. This missing product attribute can significantly change its licensing requirements.
What is the edition?
You identify 100 unused annual subscriptions on a 3-year agreement, costing $30 per user per month. They are fully prepaid and cannot be reduced or refunded until renewal in four months. This is the annual savings available at renewal.
What is $36,000 in annual savings at renewal of the 3-year agreement?
An audit compares June deployments with September purchases. Before treating those purchases as coverage for June, you must establish this about the entitlements.
Whether the entitlements were effective and applicable to the usage during the audited period. A later purchase does not automatically establish earlier coverage.
Anglepoint expanded its UK footprint in 2022 by acquiring this SAM services provider.
What is FisherITS?
An organization owns 500 licenses and discovers 450 installations. Before declaring a 50-license surplus, explain why installation counts alone may not establish its license position. What else is needed?
Metrics, application use rights, contract terms and conditions. Users, devices, cores, editions, versions, and deployment conditions may affect consumption.
Two sources report different processor counts for the same server. Before calculating license requirements, this validation process compares the records and resolves the discrepancy using reliable evidence.
What is data reconciliation?
Tracking client data is important, things like, identified risk, accomplished cost avoidance, realized cost savings are saved here.
What is the Client ROI form in DOMO?
Anglepoint recommends creating this four-letter responsibility matrix so every department understands its role during a software audit.
What is a RACI? Responsible, Accountable, Consulted, Informed.
In this year, Anglepoint was first named a Leader in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for SAM Managed Services.
What is 2020?