Resources

We offer a directory of in-depth White and Lite™ papers and Powerpoint presentations for you to retrieve and peruse at your convenience. Our papers are not thinly disguised advertisements, like so many you find in today's marketplace.  Our papers represent thought leadership and provide important insight into being successful in pursuing ITAM.  We encourage you to establish an account and download one or more of our papers today.

We also recommend quick reads of our Reference Architecture and ITAM Philosophy to better familiarize yourself with our ideas and offerings.

Webinar Recordings
(inconjunction with IAITAM ... with more coming through 2012)

• ESI's License Analyzer - Automating management of complex license entitlements.
  
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  The License Analyzer is a rules-based engine that can handle very complex licensing scenarios – automatically.
  
  We have created all of the rules necessary to automate Microsoft’s SQL Server licensing guides, out of the box, for the following SQL Server titles:
  

  • SQL Server 2005, all editions.
  • SQL Server 2008, all editions.
  • SQL Server 2008 R2, all editions.
  • SQL Server 2012, all editions.

  
  Although our Analyzer comes with the rules to support Microsoft’s SQL Server Licensing guides already developed and ready to go, the Analyzer is capable of managing practically any licensing scenario, no matter the complexity. For example it has been applied successfully in IBM environments.
  
  
• Reduce ITAM Risk by Using 'Catch Point' Screen Design.
  
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  A Catch Point is any place in the life cycle of an asset where important ITAM information can be "caught". Examples are: Purchasing, Receiving, Service Desk, IMAC, Decommissioning and Disposal.
  
  A Catch Point screen is a means to allow those that perform the various Catch Point activities to electronically capture the important ITAM data – efficiently, and as close to the activity as possible.
  
  Typically, non-ITAM resources are asked to capture the ITAM data, and often with no well-defined means, consequently resorting to using spreadsheets or paper. Alternatively, they are given a login to the ITAM repository tool, required to navigate several menu options, look up the asset(s) impacted, navigate some more, enter the changed data, and save their changes. The process can be error-prone and take too long to execute, this then increases the risk and consequences of poor accuracy.
  
  This session looks at how well designed Catch Point screens can negate most of the risk associated with using non-ITAM resources for ITAM data capture.
  
  
• Benefits of Creating an Internal Software Market.
  
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  IT organizations are awakening to the importance of finance in technology, but also how an effective IT organization is predicated on the combination of IT asset management (ITAM), Procurement and Finance.
  
  ITAM has needed to evolve from an ad-hoc "project" often run on the back of a help desk or configuration management database initiative to a full-scale management discipline and has more recently extended to incorporate or support IT financial management.
  
  This webinar session looks at how companies have achieved significant, often unexpected, financial benefits by creating an internal market for software based on harvesting and reuse, and applying accounting principles.
  
  
• Financial Discipline in an ITAM Organization.
  
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  This Webinar recognizes the increasing importance of finance discipline in an ITAM organization and looks at how to fund software compliance within an organization, why it is beneficial to set-up a software bank account with accrual accounts, when managing software licenses, and how to do it.
  
  
• The Managed Software List.
  
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  This Webinar examines the four challenges facing anyone who is pursuing software license compliance and ongoing software license management.
  
  It questions the common practice of attempting to show compliance on all software titles, as well as pursuing only compliance (instead of the true value-producing solution of license harvesting and re-use). The formation of the Managed Software List (MSL), the subset of currently deployed titles that together represent 80% of the risk/value is reviewed in detail.