SpotON – our blog around digital compliance in enterprises
SpotON – Digital Compliance
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17/05/2023
The importance of IT asset management in cost-saving programs
IT asset management is the efficient administration of IT assets over the entire lifecycle, such as software, hardware and cloud resources. The goals of IT asset management in addition to asset tracking to achieve transparency, are the cost-efficient use of IT resources and the reduction of IT risks (e.g. within license management or IT security).
The use of Microsoft 365 product suites is now widespread. Since the beginning of the year, Microsoft has been offering new online services on an almost monthly basis, for which additional licenses can be purchased in addition to the M365 plans - even to M365 E5. The question quickly arises whether Microsoft might not bundle these services into an M365 E7 in the future. This article summarizes recent developments and looks ahead to a possible E7 license.
ChatGPT: The software that can do everything? Functional scope as well as opportunities and risks for companies
The topic of artificial intelligence is currently on everyone's lips - but it is far from new. The "logic theorist" was programmed in 1956 as the first "AI software" by John McCarthy to verify mathematical proofs or to develop new mathematical proofs, which he also succeeded in doing.
With ChatGPT, a "disruptive" revolution in work is at the gates, accompanied by as many outcries and cries of doom as the Internet or Blockchain delivered in their turn. At the beginning it is important to know what the program does at all and what it can do in its current version 4.
"Entering the professional world as a management consultant?" is a move I would make again!
After 15 years in consulting in the area of software governance, risk and compliance, I was asked the question of what challenges (or perhaps even fears?) I had to overcome back then when I started my career. Thinking about it a bit, I can now say that these were mainly due to preconceptions such as long travel times, lots of overtime, and strong pressure to perform.
