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Pocket CIO – The Guide to Successful IT Asset Management

By : Phara McLachlan
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Pocket CIO – The Guide to Successful IT Asset Management

By: Phara McLachlan

Overview of this book

This book is a detailed IT Asset Management (ITAM) guidebook with real-world templates that can be converted into working ITAM documents. It is a step-by-step IT Asset Management manual for the newbies as well as the seasoned ITAM veterans, providing a unique insight into asset management. It discusses how risk management has changed over time and the possible solutions needed to address the new normal. This book is your perfect guide to create holistic IT Asset Management and Software Asset Management programs that close the risk gaps, increases productivity and results in cost efficiencies. It allows the IT Asset Managers, Software Asset Managers, and/or the full ITAM program team to take a deep dive by using the templates offered in the guidebook. You will be aware of the specific roles and responsibilities for every aspect of IT Asset Management, Software Asset Management, and Software License Compliance Audit Response. By the end of this book, you will be well aware of what IT and Software Asset Management is all about and the different steps, processes, and roles required to truly master it.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)
Title Page
Dedication
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface

The audit response plan – steps to take when the gotcha letter arrives


There are two things that enterprise leaders can be certain of today: taxes and unwanted software audit in the near future.

Software is intellectual property and vendors guard their rights to it seriously. Even if you haven't been audited before, or even if you've been audited last year, you must understand that software vendor audits are inevitable and now a part of doing business. So, what do you do when you get that first demand letter?

First, understand that this demand letter was unavoidable.

Unwanted, of course, but a software audit should no longer be unexpected. The number of software vendor audits has been increasing for the last 10 years now as a means of ensuring full compliance with licensing terms, and, of course, full payment for current software usage. Software is a revenue-generating activity for many (though not all) software companies. It is also a means to protect their intellectual property, and vendors...