So you've bought and installed a SAM suite, but for some reason you still aren't licence-compliant! An equivalent scenario would be buying a gym membership and expecting that membership to get you to The Olympics – bright and shiny trainers do not an athlete make!
Understanding the fundamental relationship between the data that comprises your compliance reports is a vital ingredient in achieving the results that can demonstrate effective IT management.
The Bermuda Triangle of SAM looks to highlight a worst-case scenario (elements of which you might see in your organisation) rapidly followed by three core best-practice processes that seek to mitigate the poor practice that might have you producing woeful compliance reports.
Having addressed the relationship between the Request, Purchase and Deployment processes, we then seek to make sure that the data is truly in sync once it arrives in the SAM suite by reinforcing those relationships with what SAM Charter calls an ‘Orphan Data’ process.
As ever, this won't be a silver bullet to all matters SAM, but this guide will demonstrate what a little bit of discipline can do for your organisation in mitigating compliance risk.
Understanding the fundamental relationship between the data that comprises your compliance reports is a vital ingredient in achieving the results that can demonstrate effective IT management.
The Bermuda Triangle of SAM looks to highlight a worst-case scenario (elements of which you might see in your organisation) rapidly followed by three core best-practice processes that seek to mitigate the poor practice that might have you producing woeful compliance reports.
Having addressed the relationship between the Request, Purchase and Deployment processes, we then seek to make sure that the data is truly in sync once it arrives in the SAM suite by reinforcing those relationships with what SAM Charter calls an ‘Orphan Data’ process.
As ever, this won't be a silver bullet to all matters SAM, but this guide will demonstrate what a little bit of discipline can do for your organisation in mitigating compliance risk.
