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# News, insights, and industry analysis for ITAM professionals.



## Featured News

- ITAM News & Analysis

### Stop Shadow IT Before It Hurts Your Business

Shadow IT often spreads quietly and quickly becomes a serious risk. Just look at the UK-based supermarket chain Co-op. A little-known remote maintenance tool used by an external IT provider was compromised. The result? Nearly 800 ...

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- ITAM News & Analysis

### Microsoft Pricing Changes: EA Customers Face Price Increases

From 1st November 2025, Microsoft will remove all tiered pricing for Online Services under the Enterprise Agreement. This means all customers renewing or purchasing new Online Services after this date, will receive standard level A pricing ...

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- ### Eight steps towards AI governance

I delivered our “Managing AI as an Asset” training course the day before the Wisdom conference last week. Thank you to those who attended and provided feedback. It will be available on the LISA platform before ...

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- - ### Crawl, Walk, Run applied to ITAM Best Practice (Practical ITAM)

Since the ITAM Forum has been working in strategic partnership with the FinOps Foundation, I’ve come to admire the Crawl, ...
- ### Stop Shadow IT Before It Hurts Your Business

Shadow IT often spreads quietly and quickly becomes a serious risk. Just look at the UK-based supermarket chain Co-op. A ...
- ### AI Governance Through an ITAM Lens: Treat AI as a Status Change, Not a New Asset

Managing AI in the enterprise is a team sport. In this article, I want to explore specifically what ITAM brings ...
- ## Wisdom Unplugged UK 2025

The ITAM event for the UK and Northern Europe. 7 November 2025. Join us to learn how to get ITAM and FinOps working better together.

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This section combines news with our analysis of issues affecting the ITAM industry, including software publisher stories, ITAM/SAM tools developments and launches, and mergers & acquisitions. Below you will find all of our articles in chronological order, then filtered into four main categories: News & Analysis, Best Practice, Audits, and Software Publishers.

- ### Stop Shadow IT Before It Hurts Your Business

Shadow IT often spreads quietly and quickly becomes a serious risk. Just look at the UK-based supermarket chain Co-op. A little-known remote maintenance tool used by an external IT provider was compromised. The result? Nearly 800 ...

Read more
- - ### Why ITAM Forum Should Join the Linux Foundation: My Rationale and Your Questions Answered

TLDR. ITAM Forum has the opportunity to join the Linux Foundation as a stand-alone, self-funded project. This article covers a) ...
- ### Microsoft Pricing Changes: EA Customers Face Price Increases

From 1st November 2025, Microsoft will remove all tiered pricing for Online Services under the Enterprise Agreement. This means all ...
- ### Shaping the Future of ITAM – We Want Your Input

The ITAM Forum is currently running a survey to capture hot topics and pressing challenges facing the ITAM profession. The ...
- ## We don’t talk about ITAM (no, no, no)

Two key and linked themes emerged at the recent ITAM Forum Leadership Summit: that we need to think about what ITAM means for our stakeholders, and that we as a profession need to pay closer attention to how we “market” what we do.

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Forewarned is forearmed. Get the latest news and advice on the ever-present challenge of software publisher audits here. Who is auditing right now? How and when should you respond to an audit? Stick here to stay informed on the latest audit trends, patterns and behaviours.

- ### ITAMantics - April 2024

Welcome to the April 2024 edition of ITAMantics, our monthly news podcast where we discuss the biggest ITAM stories from the last month. George is joined this month by AJ Witt and Ryan Stefani. Stories tackled ...

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- - ### ITAM & AI, FinOps, Containers, ESG, security: The many ways in which ITAM has matured beyond its roots

ITAM, AI, FinOps, Containers, ESG, security… Back in January I wrote about my picks from the agenda for Wisdom NA ...
- ### Another Quest audit ends up in court

A Quest Software audit is in court (again). Here I am, back with another story of a software vendor treating ...
- ### As some VMware products come to an end some customers face 1200% price rises

As you may have seen, following the completion of the Broadcom acquisition, “VMware by Broadcom” are no longer offering perpetual ...
- ## Six questions to ask before agreeing to a software audit clause

Software is not “owned”. Customers buy the “right to use” software. This right to use has terms and conditions, typically laid out in the software agreement. The audit clause enables publishers to check you're adhering to the terms. Here are six questions to ask before you sign it.

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ITAM, SAM and software license management are continually-evolving disciplines. At the same time, the remit for ITAM continues to expand as the industry matures. What was cutting edge just a few years ago is ITAM bread-and-butter today. Keep you and your team up-to-date on the latest ITAM practices here.

- ### Eight steps towards AI governance

I delivered our “Managing AI as an Asset” training course the day before the Wisdom conference last week. Thank you to those who attended and provided feedback. It will be available on the LISA platform before ...

Read more
- - ### Crawl, Walk, Run applied to ITAM Best Practice (Practical ITAM)

Since the ITAM Forum has been working in strategic partnership with the FinOps Foundation, I’ve come to admire the Crawl, ...
- ### Stop Shadow IT Before It Hurts Your Business

Shadow IT often spreads quietly and quickly becomes a serious risk. Just look at the UK-based supermarket chain Co-op. A ...
- ### AI Governance Through an ITAM Lens: Treat AI as a Status Change, Not a New Asset

Managing AI in the enterprise is a team sport. In this article, I want to explore specifically what ITAM brings ...
- ## The IT Asset Manager’s Guide to Sustainable IT

This guide helps ITAM professionals make a meaningful contribution to sustainable IT.

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Licence management is the mainstay of many ITAM roles, so it is important to stay informed on the latest software publisher news. We aim to keep our readers informed on the latest developments at tier 1, 2 and 3 software publishers, combined with analysis of how it will affect ITAM professionals.

- ### Microsoft Pricing Changes: EA Customers Face Price Increases

From 1st November 2025, Microsoft will remove all tiered pricing for Online Services under the Enterprise Agreement. This means all customers renewing or purchasing new Online Services after this date, will receive standard level A pricing ...

Read more
- - ### Tesco Sues Broadcom and Computacenter for £100M

What’s going on? UK retailer Tesco says it bought VMware perpetual licences in 2021 with support and upgrade rights running ...
- ### Microsoft Q4: Cloud and AI Results Drive Record Revenue

On 30th July 2025, Microsoft released its much-anticipated FY25 Q4 earnings report. The results follow a surprisingly strong Q3, which ...
- ### Microsoft Visual Studio Licensing Guide: Reduce Risks

(This article was reviewed and updated on 3 July 2025) Visual Studio Licensing Visual Studio subscriptions are licensed Per User ...
- ## Six questions to ask before agreeing to a software audit clause

Software is not “owned” but instead customers buy the “right to use” software. This right to use has terms and conditions, typically laid out in the software agreement. The audit clause is their way of checking you are adhering to the terms. Here are six questions to ask before you sign it.

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