BSA Teams Up With IiS On SAM
News Investors in Software, a not-for-profit organisation, announced on Tuesday that it is to join forces with the Business Software Alliance to help UK companies tackle the issues around software asset management.
[June 26, 2007, 17:36]
BSA Targets Small Businesses With SAM Site
News According to a survey of small businesses carried out on behalf of the BSA, only 16 percent of respondents said they used software asset management (SAM) tools, but 80 percent said they would be interested in using tools to keep track of software...
[December 12, 2003, 11:55]
UK Firms 'forget' To Pay £1bn For Software
News The www.justasksam.co.uk site contains guidelines on developing an asset management policy and links to asset management software developers. Mike Newton, a BSA spokesman, told ZDNet UK that companies generally do not mean to evade paying for...
[July 7, 2004, 15:30]
Microsoft Launches SME Licensing Crackdown
News This process normally falls under the heading of Software Asset Management (SAM) but, as Dhaliwal explained, the company has come up with another name. We are calling this Software Audit and Asset Management or SAAM," he said.
[January 29, 2007, 16:04]
Suppliers Ease Up On Licensing Crackdowns
News But a spokesman for blue chip IT user group the Corporate IT Forum, said a recent poll of its members found most companies were now well versed on SAM (software asset management) and did not need the help of organisations such as Fast.
[June 10, 2008, 9:04]
CS Group Acquires FAST
News Later it started offering commercial services to help customers remain compliant through the use of sophisticated, and often costly, software asset management (SAM) tools. Concorde Solutions is a specialist company in the field of inventory tools...
[May 9, 2007, 17:14]
An End To The Software Police?
News The International Standards Organisation (ISO) finally published its standard for software asset management (SAM) on Monday. It is the latter two areas that have focused CIOs and IT managers on software asset management.
[May 10, 2006, 12:45]
Dell Buys IT Asset-management Firm
News Dell said on Thursday that it was spending around $340m (£167m) to buy Asap Software, a software asset-management company, as part of an effort to simplify how customers can communicate with the company.
[August 2, 2007, 17:46]
SMEs 'blind' To Illegal Software Risks
News Strawson said that, while various efforts by Microsoft and others to get small businesses to use Software Asset Management (SAM) software had been successful, the BSA would continue to strive to raise awareness of the issues.
[April 20, 2007, 12:24]
Quarter Of Australia's Software Is Counterfeit
News The BSA wants everyone in the business environment to take responsibility for their software and have a software asset management (SAM) process, and runs campaigns to raise awareness of licensing requirements.
[February 19, 2008, 9:57]
FBI Helps China Crack Software-counterfeiting Ring
News We absolutely don't take [court] action — we will work in a software asset-management approach. However, she said that the Business Software Alliance (BSA), which represents the interests of several major software vendors including Microsoft, would...
[July 24, 2007, 14:04]
Group Offers Amnesty To US Software Pirates
News Most companies don't do enough in terms of IT asset management," she said. The Business Software Alliance, the main software trade group enforcing licence and copyright restrictions, is offering a limited amnesty programme this month to businesses...
[January 6, 2002, 6:31]
URU Joins Authentication Service Fray
News The service will use data such as the electricity meter number (MPAN or meter point asset number), a unique private number held by the electricity company and quoted on electricity bills. URU is an extension of very widely used software from GB...
[March 10, 2003, 12:10]
