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Provider Member Evercycle is a device lifecycle management platform that helps organizations completely automate and orchestrate the deployment, recovery, repair, inventory and circular management of IT assets. Through a single cloud-based platform, Evercycle enables companies to track assets, coordinate logistics and manage service providers while maintaining complete chain-of-custody visibility, which can include immutable records via […]
Data sanitization is a lifecycle responsibility for ITAMs, requiring standards-driven, verifiable processes to reduce data risk and ensure compliance. By: Namrata Sengupta, BitRaser Data sanitization is no longer an end-of-life checkbox. It is a continuous responsibility across the entire IT asset lifecycle that every ITAM function must own. Data often outlives the assets that store it,
Self-inflicted audits can happen when you ask for help from your software vendor – but they can be avoided.
Unofficial audits can be disguised as an offer of help from your software vendor – sharer beware!
The contractual right to audit provision in your contracts is not the only way you can be audited by a vendor – the other ways are hard to spot.
Embedded systems and IoT devices are transforming industries worldwide, driving growth in AI integration, hardware, software, and data management.
Secureworks streamlined IT asset recovery with ReturnCenter for ServiceNow, cutting workload in half and boosting efficiency, security, and visibility.
Green IT Practices reduces e-waste, lowers energy use, extends device life, and promotes recycling, driving sustainability and circularity.
AI and automation reduce IT compliance risks, cut costs, and keep you audit-ready—so you stay in control of every software asset.
ITAD helps bridge the digital divide by repurposing retired tech, ensuring access to education, jobs, and essential services for those in need.
As businesses expand globally, ITAD must ensure compliance, security, and sustainability while preventing e-waste dumping and data breaches.
Determine what areas of your ITAM program are basic, reactive, proactive, service or value-add through a comprehensive program maturity assessment.
Entra Automated Provisioning streamlines user account management, enhancing security, efficiency, and license visibility through automation and seamle
Effective SAM tools require collaboration between IT support and SAM analysts to ensure reliable results and optimize licensing positions.
Merging ITAM and ITAD creates a unified approach that enhances data security while advancing sustainability goals for forward-thinking organizations.
Before AI one of the common solutions was to cut a hole in a piece of paper to reduce the chance of scanning the wrong bar code.
In the realm of Information Technology (IT), financial optimization is a constant challenge. However, many myths and realities need to be demystified.
Learn the most efficient, accountable ways to recover assets from remote workers during offboarding. Success is more complicated than you think.
As global concern for the environment escalates and regulators take measures to tackle e-waste, particularly through the enactment of EPR laws.
This article highlights the interdependence between Asset Management and Configuration Management in maintaining accurate IT asset data.
The SEC defines controls as specific policies, procedures, and activities designed to meet an objective. In ITAM, maintaining an accurate and reliable inventory of IT assets is crucial, though often challenging.
Consider the factors and benefits of removing device locks when retiring IT assets, such as financial gains and achieving environmental goals.
Within your ITAD program lies a wealth of untapped potential to benefit your entire organization. Learn how to win C-Suite support for your program.
Earlier this year, we finalized a vendor management framework that we believe is going to generate more value for HDR and our strategic partners!
A Software License Agreement is a contract between a vendor and a customer that outlines how software can and cannot be used. Below are some examples.
In the rapidly changing technological environment of today, artificial intelligence (AI) has emerged as a hot topic in many industries.
The Basel Amendment’s e-waste regulations will force IT asset managers to rethink disposal strategies, as stricter export rules and compliance hurdles
Different perspectives mainly focused on the optimization of cost, specifically optimization of cost tied to the actual usage of software and licenses
It can be as simple as starting conversations with plant, mills and satellite office staffs by asking “What keeps you up at night?”
This ITAK article covers the rapidly growing issue of electronic, biotech and medical equipment waste, impacting our landfills.
In just making sure that renewals go downstream and get processed on time, your ITAM program is missing some SAM opportunities.
The complexity of IT Asset Disposition (ITAD) extends beyond merely disposing of outdated or unused IT equipment.
Now that many organizations have shifted to hybrid or work-from-home models, their approach to IT asset management needs to shift as well.
Remote data erasure enables organizations to securely erase data from endpoint devices used by the remote workforce to mitigate data breach risks.
Sustainable ITAM is an approach to IT management that considers environmental, social, and governance impacts.
When we embrace the Kübler-Ross change model, we don’t just make peace with change; we learn to lead the dance.
Making sure you are using the same communication terminology across departments is a key element for a successful SAM Program
Accurate and timely purchase data is critical to ITAM success. Without purchase data, you can only manage what you can find
Sustainability is no longer a choice, it’s a necessity
Unveiling the Synergy: IT Financial Optimization through ITAM, FinOps, and the Technology To Business (T2B) Model
A call for stringent regulations to ensure transparency, protect consumers, and sustain the industry’s growth.
The modern pace of change, combined with the disruptiveness of new technologies and increasing digitalization, creates a perfect storm for many organizations.
Disruptiveness drives decentralization. SAM Programs needs to assess the organizations. Software Asset Intelligence is a way forward sometimes
With a decline in overseas markets, organizations are shifting ITAD strategies towards asset resale for environmental alignment and financial gains.
Circularity, Chain of Custody, Transparency, and Resale: Key trends for building a secure and sustainable ITAD program.
10 predictions for how SAM might look like in the year 2050
Even the most sophisticated organizations have struggled to accurately track and recover remote devices quickly, safely and efficiently at scale
The SEC’s cybersecurity whistleblower program means an organization’s IT asset disposition (ITAD) program is just two clicks away from being exposed.
Poor ITAD practices risk brand equity when corporate irresponsibility, even accidental errors, can quickly and irreversibly sour consumer perceptions.
IT Asset Management practice is getting more involved with Cybersecurity programs. This article explore why this need is increasing.
A company with 5,000 employees hired you to establish its Software Asset Management program. Where do you start and how do you make an impact?
Nothing throws off potential automation opportunities like having asset data & information collected and curated in different ways.
Get an inside look at industry leaders’ IT asset disposition activities to help identify key trends and areas of growth and development.
With respect to corporate environmental, social, & governance initiatives, IT has a vital role to play; particularly with asset disposal activities.
The ITAD industry is evolving to include a new list of criteria and expectations to meet these needs with value-added IT asset disposition, or vITAD.
Ivanti allows organizations to follow the IAITAM best practice approach with tools for ITAM, discovery, and procurement.
As SAM Professionals we have a responsibility to keep the discipline alive, relevant, and growing. Attracting talent is one of the major concerns.
Are you struggling with End-of-Support/Life forecasting?
C-suite leaders are under increasing pressure to run their teams and organizations efficiently, particularly in a post-pandemic environment.
Discover how repurposed IT assets are transforming education by bridging the digital divide, promoting inclusivity, and driving sustainability.
One year ago, Arrow Electronics announced it was abruptly exiting the IT asset disposition business. The news sent shockwaves through the echo chamber of our ITAD industry.
The recent announcement by Arrow Electronics to “wind-down (its) personal computer and mobility asset disposition business” comes as a shock to many in the industry, including myself. Arrow was recognized as a market leader that grew by acquiring some of the best independent ITAD processors in the industry. Arrow isn’t the only one that’s exited the business and left its clients hanging – others have gone bankrupt, closed facilities, or have had executives charged with criminal offenses.
Experience with clients across a wide variety of industries has taught us that effective corporate ITAD programs contain common characteristics.
Last January, Coca-Cola admitted to the theft of an unspecified number of laptops containing personal information on approximately 74,000 individuals, including social security numbers, driving license details, salaries, and ethnicity.
Organizations that focus on privacy take a serious look at all areas of potential vulnerability. One area of unappreciated vulnerability is the process of IT asset disposition (ITAD).
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