What Gen AI and agentic AI actually do in software asset management tools today, with examples from Flexera, ServiceNow and Zylo, plus the new job of governing AI software and spend.
What Gen AI and agentic AI actually do in CMDB tools today, with examples from ServiceNow, BMC, Freshservice, Atlassian and others, the use cases that are real, the evidence for benefits and the risks.
What Gen AI and agentic AI actually do in hardware asset management tools today, with vendor examples, the use cases that are real, the benefits we can verify and the risks to plan for.
What a hardware asset management and CMDB maturity assessment covers, who should take it, the benefits you can expect, and what you get at the end, with charts and worked scenarios.
How enterprise software license management works: common license models, worked examples, survey data on audits and cost, the license lifecycle and six practices that keep you compliant.
Why software asset management stalls in mid-size and large enterprises: seven recurring challenges, what the 2025 and 2026 audit data says, and a vendor-neutral 90-day plan to fix them.
Compare the top hardware asset management and CMDB discovery tools of 2026, including ServiceNow, Device42, and Lansweeper, with real pricing and pros/cons.
A vendor-neutral look at the top SAM tools for 2026: license compliance, audit defense, SaaS spend, pricing models, real pros and cons.
Generative AI, agentic AI, and task-specific agents are showing up in SAM tools in different ways. Here is where each one actually helps today, where reconciliation and true-up prep are becoming agent-assisted, and what to check before buying an AI-powered SAM platform.
Updated September 2026. When an ITAM program is visibly failing, audits keep costing more than they should, SaaS spend keeps drifting up, and nobody can produce a clean number for what the organization actually owns, the instinct is almost always to buy a new tool. A new discovery agent, a new SAM platform, a new…
