The ITAM Executive: A Podcast for IT Asset Management Professionals

Hosts: Kris Johnson , Anglepoint Chief Product Officer Speaker: Ron Brill , Chair of ISO ITAM Standards WG21, ITAM Forum Vice-Chair, Anglepoint President & Chairman In this episode of the ITAM Executive, Anglepoint CPO Kris Johnson is joined by Ron Brill, President and Chairman of Anglepoint and convener of WG21 for ISO/IEC, to discuss the anticipated 2024 update to ISO 19770-1, shedding light...

Hosts: Chris Nielson and Ryan Krueger , Anglepoint Directors of Client Success This episode of The ITAM Executive was created from Anglepoint’s Software Asset Management (SAM) 101 lighting course . In this episode, Chris Nielson and Ryan Krueger, both Directors at Anglepoint, cover the foundational elements of software entitlement, software consumption, software license management, and give an ove...

Hosts: Chris Nielson and Ryan Krueger , Anglepoint Directors of Client Success This episode of the ITAM Executive was created from Anglepoint's Software Asset Management (SAM) 101 lightning course . In this episode, Chris Nielson and Ryan Krueger, both Directors at Anglepoint, give a concise, yet detailed overview of software asset management (SAM). Software asset management is more than just mana...

Host: Kris Johnson , Anglepoint Chief Product Officer Speaker: Ron Brill , Anglepoint President & Chairman In this episode of the ITAM Executive, Kris Johnson and Ron Brill discuss environmental sustainability and green IT initiatives – with a specific focus on the role that IT asset management (ITAM) can and should have in those initiatives. There are many reasons why sustainability and green...

Host: Scott Hair , Anglepoint VP Lead Solution Architect Speaker: Kris Johnson , Anglepoint Chief Product Officer In this episode of the ITAM Executive, Kris Johnson, Anglepoint CPO, and Scott Hair, Lead Solution Architect, discuss the 2023 Gartner® Critical Capabilties Report for SAM Managed Services report . One of the main topics of conversation in this episode is about what’s new to this year’...

Host: Kris Johnson , Anglepoint Chief Product Officer Speaker: Ken Staude , ITAM Technology Services This episode of the ITAM Executive revolves around the challenges and best practices of onboarding publishers in a software asset management tool. Kris and Ken especially emphasize the importance of data quality, configuration, and interpretation in order to manage software licenses effectively. On...

Host: Kris Johnson , Anglepoint Chief Product Officer Speakers: Rob Martin , FinOps Foundation FinOps Principal; Ron Brill , Anglepoint President & Chairman This episode of the ITAM Executive was recorded live at the ITAM & FinOps: How to Win Big event. Rob Martin, FinOps Principal at the FinOps Foundation joined Anglepoint’s Kris Johnson and Ron Brill for a discussion about what they lear...

Host: Steve Hastings , Anglepoint Global Sales Leader Speaker: Kris Johnson , Anglepoint Chief Product Officer The 2023 Gartner® Magic QuadrantTM for SAM Managed Services is now available! Access a complimentary copy of the Magic Quadrant report here . In this episode of the ITAM Executive, Kris Johnson, Anglepoint CPO, and Steve Hastings, Global Head of Sales, discuss this year's Magic Quadrant r...

Host: Kris Johnson , Anglepoint Chief Product Officer Speakers: Jeremy Vince , Executive Director of Organizational Excellence & Talent Strategy; Miles Christensen , Senior Analyst This episode of the ITAM Executive focuses on talent strategy, particularly addressing the talent crunch or shortage of talent in the ITAM (IT Asset Management) industry. The conversation between Kris, Jeremy, and M...

Host: Kris Johnson , Anglepoint Chief Product Officer Speakers: Riley Jenkins , FOCUS Project Contributor; Jason Kelly , Anglepoint FinOps Practice Lead For this episode of the ITAM Executive, we’re joined by Riley Jenkins, a contributor to the FinOps Foundation FOCUS project, and Jason Kelly, Director of Anglepoint’s FinOps practice. FinOps Open Cost and Usage Specification (FOCUS) is a technical...

Speaker: Ron Brill, Anglepoint President & Chairman Sustainability is a huge trend in IT right now, and it's not going to go away. In this episode, Ron Brill, Anglepoint President & Chairman, gives a brief overview of the role that ITAM can and should eventually have in sustainability. Historically, hardware has been the most discussed area of sustainability within ITAM. And certainly, the...

Speaker: Ron Brill, President & Chairman Technology Business Management, or TBM, is a methodology designed to implement IT financial management (ITFM). The main goal of TBM is to run IT like a business, allowing important conversations to happen between IT, finance, and other business units. In this episode, Ron Brill, President & Chairman of Anglepoint, gives an overview of TBM and ITAM,...

Speaker: Ron Brill, President & Chairman Lately, there has been a lot of talk about IT asset management's role in cloud financial management, or FinOps, and for good reason. The two disciplines are closely related and when practiced together, provide extraordinary benefits to organizations. In this episode, taken from a recent Anglepoint webinar, Ron Brill gives a view of each of the stages of...

Host: Tylair Hudson, Anglepoint Recruiter Speaker: Renee Storc, Senior IT Asset Manager We created this episode with the goal of helping people join or build ITAM teams. Renee Storc, a Senior ITAM Manager who has built ITAM teams in different organizations, helps us answer the following questions: What skills are needed? How to stand out during the interview process? What is it like to work in ITA...

Host: Zarra Leonte , Anglepoint Senior Director Speakers: Amanda Jacob , Brunswick VP Office of the CIO; Lesley Spencer-Ford , Capita Head of IT Asset Management; Kimberly Ryan , Vanguard IT Director Service Management In this episode, we discuss the challenges that ITAM programs often face when it comes to being heard and taken seriously. And in honor of International Women’s Day, how many women...

Hosts: Kris Johnson, Anglepoint Chief Product Officer; Chris Hayes, Anglepoint Senior Lead Consultant Speakers: James Broomhead, DXC Technology ServiceNow Global Practise Manager; Tomi Rekonen, DXC Technology Head of Architecture In this episode, we discuss the crucial role of the CMDB for your SAM program, especially as it relates to implementing ServiceNow SAM Pro. Our guests from DXC Technology...

Host: Philippe de Raet, VP of Business Development at Anglepoint ( https://www.linkedin.com/in/pderaet/) Speaker: Blake DeShaw, Security Manager at Anglepoint As the world becomes more connected, digital security is paramount—not simply for maintaining positive customer relations but for global security and safety. This is one of, if not the most important parts of a robust ITAM & Security strateg...

Until his recent transition to Anglepiont, Ben Morgan had spent his career working for publishers—including Attachmate, Micro Focus, and Quest—as a senior member and leader of their License Compliance teams. Ben quickly gained a reputation for his firm negotiation skills and tactics. Now on the other side of the fence, he works closely with Anglepoint’s clients to help strengthen their defense aga...

Much has changed in the digital security landscape since the implementation of ISO 27001, 2013. The focus from literal paper security to cloud protocols couldn’t be more drastic. Luckily, the Anglepoint team has the complete pulse on the situation. In this ITAM Executive episode, Anglepoint’s Security Team leads—Avinash Kotikalapudi, Blake DeShaw, and Greg Free—discuss the implications of the upda...

In the context of floating licenses, what is an average? This is the question that kept our guest, Paul Smith, up at night. His discovery: to measure an average, you need to know your denominator. And the only way to understand that, you must ask the end users. In the end, finding the balance point between finance, procurement, and the end user is all about understanding the data and asking the ri...

Building an ITAM program from the ground up is a daunting task for any organization. That’s the exact situation our guest, Evan Vafidis, found himself in just five years ago. Evan is the Head of License Management at Uniper, which has thousands of employees and facilities dispersed across 40 countries. Unknowingly, Evan “volunteered” to establish an ITAM program at Uniper after being frustrated wi...

Many organizations struggle with managing their SaaS environments effectively. Anglepoint has worked with many clients and discovered that to succeed and excel, SaaS should be managed like software assets. In this podcast, we pull from a recent webinar “Why you Shouldn’t Manage SaaS Without SAM.” Sit back and listen in as several of our Anglepoint team members—Mari Petersen, Chris Hayes, and Ryan...

The technologies utilized in business are an ever-moving target when pursuing competitive advantage. As technology evolves, so does the way it’s managed. With the shift from on-prem to the cloud, software sprawl or decentralization within organizations is more rampant than ever. In this episode, long-time SaaS expert Lance Giles can empathize with teams and departments who are simply seeking solut...

This episode of The ITAM Executive podcast is an excerpt from a webinar hosted by Anglepoint and Converge. View the complete webinar here: https://www.anglepoint.com/blog/software-asset-management-strategic-benefits/ As noted by Gartner, SAM is a discipline that supports strategic business development. Here are the 4 main strategic benefits of SAM: Reduce Risk Data collected from SAM allows organi...

Learn more here -- www.anglepoint .com   Software Asset Management is all about People, Process, & Technology. People Defined as the personnel (dedicated or not) and associated roles involved IT & Software Asset Management (ITAM/SAM).   Process Defined as the activities and workflows developed to implement policy and facilitate ITAM/SAM strategy.   Technology Defined as the software, tools, or sys...