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Oliver Buchannon
Martin Thompson

Vendor lock-in: A beginners guide

Feb 24, 2026

This guide gives you a framework to identify lock-in early, classify it, and manage it before it manages your budget for you.

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8 Dimensions of Trustworthy ITAM Data

Jan 28, 2026

Accurate ITAM data strengthens careers and helps expand teams.

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FinOps prices the rooms, ITAM manages the hotel

Jan 20, 2026

It also raises a question I have been asked a few times already, “If FinOps is now modelling data centre costs, how does that sit with ITAM?”

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AI innovation vendor briefings: call for participants

Jan 14, 2026

In December 2025 I published an AI Innovation Watch List. That article was a starting point. The obvious next step is to stop guessing from the outside and get hands-on with what’s actually being built.

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Flexera acquires ProsperOps, from dashboards to execution

Jan 7, 2026

This strengthens Flexera’s position in cloud cost optimisation and FinOps. It also reinforces a trend we’ve been tracking for a while: ITAM and FinOps are converging, and the tooling market is now responding to that reality.

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The ITAM Review, rebooted: independent analysis for a changing industry

Dec 16, 2025

Now the landscape is shifting again. As the ITAM Forum transitions into the Linux Foundation, ITAM Review is becoming a separate entity once more.

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AI Innovation Watch List - Emerging AI tools transforming ITAM, SAM, licensing and FinOps workloads

Dec 9, 2025

The AI innovation watchlist below is a snapshot of tools and platforms that are applying AI to ITAM workloads (and surrounding disciplines SAM, Licensing, FinOps, IT Procurement). It’s a list of vendors I’ll be watching closely as AI permeates the market.

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Workshop Results: Hybrid IT - Why ITAM Needs a New Operating Model

Dec 3, 2025

Hybrid IT, a mix of on-prem, public cloud, SaaS and now AI workloads, has become the default for large enterprises, not a temporary phase on the way to “all cloud”. Live polling at the ITAM Review Wisdom Unplugged event in Newbury last month showed that most teams are wrestling with fragmented data, licensing chaos and unclear ownership across suppliers that span on-prem, cloud and SaaS.

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Building ITAM Foundations: A Quick Guide to Inventory and Discovery

Nov 26, 2025

Within the ITAM world, the terms “discovery” and “inventory” often get bundled together, almost as if they’re the same thing

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Eight steps towards AI Governance

Nov 12, 2025

Are you behind the 8 ball of AI risk?

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Crawl, Walk, Run applied to ITAM Best Practice

Nov 4, 2025

I've borrowed the methodology and applied it to the 12 competency areas of the Practical ITAM framework

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AI Governance through an ITAM Lens: Treat AI as a Status Change, Not a New Asset

Oct 28, 2025

Managing AI in the enterprise is a team sport. In this article, I want to explore specifically what ITAM brings to the table as we enter the AI era.

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The Cost Ripple from the AWS Outage

Oct 21, 2025

Another exciting week in San Francisco's vibrant tech ecosystem!

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