Microsoft has released to corporate customers a preview of its next pay-once, perpetual license version of Office: the tongue-twistingly named Office LTSC Professional Plus 2021. Microsoft last week released to corporate customers a preview of the next pay-once, perpetual license version of its Office suite. The application bundle — by far the productivity standard in business — … Read more
A growing number of IT leaders are turning to MSPs to help address challenges posed by rapidly evolving IT services. Here’s how to ensure your MSP provides maximum value and minimal distress. The decision to shift some or all in-house IT operations to a managed service provider (MSP), particularly in an age of technology disruption, … Read more
As a sense of normality returns, we look at why IT asset management is the stealth tool for clearing a path towards greater digitization. Over the course of the past decade, IT asset management (ITAM) has been slowly increasing its influence. Apart from the people in finance, few senior business executives lose sleep over IT … Read more
Changes made over the last year or so to protect open source revenue streams are starting to impact public cloud managed service costs. Server-side types of licensing are starting to hurt some public cloud customers, according to a new study looking at the move away from open source licensing. More than half of the IT … Read more
This article will explore how organizations can deal with and leverage shadow IT, software that hasn’t been approved by IT. Shadow IT has become more common within companies in various industries, mainly through remotely based employees deviating from tools provided by the IT department and looking for more agile alternatives. But while making use of … Read more
From treating service-level agreements as a one-time exercise to failing to establish escape clauses, IT leaders should avoid these pitfalls when partnering with IT service and cloud partners to drive business value. Being diligent about service-level agreements (SLAs) has always been important for IT organizations working with IT service and cloud providers. But understanding how to negotiate, … Read more
Cost savings remains a huge area of focus for IT leaders, who have a ways to go before they master the complex task of building a great IT budget. Here’s some good news for CIOs: IT spending is expected to grow 6.2% in 2021, according to the researchers at Gartner, who predict worldwide IT spending will … Read more
This article will explore how organizations can choose the best possible enterprise resource management (ERP) partner for their operations. When it comes to choosing an ERP partner, it’s vital that the capabilities that it delivers complements the way that the company operates. With such platforms covering a range of areas, from finance to production, a … Read more
A surge of cloud-based collaboration and conferencing platforms in the remote workplace has left organizations struggling with security, compliance, cost and integration issues. Here’s advice from experts on making it work. One of the more prominent IT trends resulting from the pandemic and shift to a work-from-home model is a dramatic rise in the use … Read more
With little or no growth in IT budgets, IT chiefs will be tasked with cutting costs in 2021. Improving IT asset management can help to avoid job cuts. New research from Insight has found there is a lot of waste in IT departments. Unnecessary expenditure on hardware and software licenses has a direct impact on … Read more
