About
Fifty notes on SaaS management and IT asset tracking, written from the practitioner's side.
Who this is for
IT managers who have been asked what the organisation uses. Finance teams looking at a software line that keeps growing. Security functions that need to know what holds sensitive data. Anyone who has been handed a renewal quote a week before the deadline.
Much of the published practice in this field assumes a dedicated asset management function. Most organisations do not have one, so several notes are written for two hours a month and a spreadsheet.
How the notes are written
The mechanism before the product. What discovery, reconciliation and seat reclamation actually involve, before any question of which platform.
Methods you can execute. Where a note says something is measurable, it says how, on your own data, in terms a small team can carry out.
Limits stated plainly. One note is entirely a list of questions the register cannot answer, with what to use instead.
The uncomfortable parts included. Access reviews as usually run produce no removals. Consolidation costs more than the licence saving admits. Endpoint telemetry is employee monitoring whatever it is called internally.
Editorial position
No vendor material, no sponsored content, no affiliate arrangements, no product rankings. Where platforms are discussed it is in terms of what to test on your own data and what to ask.
Nothing here describes how to monitor employees covertly. The note on endpoint telemetry says the position has to be settled and communicated before deployment, and that the other discovery sources are sufficient for most organisations.
Where legal obligations are described — data residency, retention, deductions for unreturned equipment, monitoring — it is in general terms. Rules differ substantially by jurisdiction and change. This is not legal advice and several notes say so.
About this domain
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