I’ll be presenting two tracks at the IT Financial Management Association’s IT Asset Management conference in Orlando, June 12-16.

Yep, I somehow signed myself up for TWO tracks:

Monday June 12:
IT Asset Management Disciplines and Techniques Seminar (4 hours)

Designing and Implementing Asset Management Policies and Procedures. Enterprise ITAM can yield enormous benefits - both direct financial benefits and indirect efficiency improvements throughout all areas of IT operations. But many organizations fail to realize the full gains because of challenges with user adoption of new policies and procedures that can actually be used to deliver real benefits. In this session you?ll review case studies of implementations, dissect the good, bad and ugly, and learn lessons for your own use.

So You Have a Discovery Tool…What Next? You’ve spent a good deal of time and money to install your electronic asset discovery tool. In this session you?ll discover how to get accurate data, analyze the information, reconcile with purchase records, and manage your day-to-day license compliance. This session addresses software asset management benchmarking issues.

Top Ways to Save Money in Software Contract Negotiations. In many organizations, software license costs are one of the largest budget line items year after year. Discover the top ways that any organization can reduce software licensing costs without giving up the products and functionality you need. This session addresses software contract negotiation issues.

Software Audits: What’s Your Risk, and Why Should You Act Now? With flat IT budgets and spending in North America, software vendors are increasingly turning to compliance audits as a revenue source. Learn why your risk of audit is increasing - even if you are 100% compliant. Find out why you should act now to manage the risk of software compliance audits, and what you should do when the auditors contact you. This session addresses software audit and compliance issues.

Wednesday, June 14:
How to Build and Manage Best Practices in Asset Acquisition and Procurement Inventory Control
This session reviews best practices we?ve seen and helped implement in managing assets from inception of the procurement cycle through acquisition, installation, management and retirement. If you’re looking for a quick, single-source review of the complete ?asset lifecycle best practices? this will be a good session for you.

Hope to see you there - and send any questions you might have!

Also, check out our new White Paper on “How to Develop an Asset Management Program”.

Thanks,
Scott

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