Note: All course certificates now expire after two years. For questions, contact Services@IBSMA.com.
Practitioners Certificate in Software License Agreements
This course is designed to be an introduction to software license agreements for a broad audience and provide a solid foundation, even for individuals with no legal or contract management expertise.
Practitioners Certificate in Oracle License Management
This course will empower you to make informed decisions on licensing and managing your Oracle software. The content covers not only the fundamentals of Oracle software licensing, technical support polices and software asset management, but also the essentials of server architecture, licensing and compliance concepts.
Practitioners Certificate in IBM License Management
The goal of this course is to provide a practical approach for setting up an IBM license compliance process and creating reliable compliance reports. These reports can provide critical leverage during licensing negotiations, annual renewals and scheduled license audits.
Practitioners Certificate in SAP License Management
This course will empower you to make informed decisions on licensing and managing your SAP software. The content covers not only the fundamentals of SAP software licensing, technical support polices and software asset management, but also the essentials of server architecture, licensing and compliance concepts.
Assessing Software Asset Management Processes & Creating a SAM Scorecard
Benchmark your software asset management (SAM) program and create a scorecard, plus prove your SAM competence by earning the Practitioners Certificate in Assessing Software Asset Management Processes (PCSAM). Assessing SAM processes according to ISO/IEC 19770-1 is for moderate to experienced software asset management professionals and others who want to learn practical approaches to assessing and implementing SAM programs and practices according to the international standard.
We're busy working on an expanded schedule of webinars and online conferences starting in September. Check back soon for more webinars and online events from IBSMA.
On-demand Webinars
Oracle SAM in the Pandemic Age: Know Your Organization, Cut Waste and Embrace CollaborationWatch the on-demand recording.
It's who—and what—you know. Join your software and IT asset management peers at the IBSMA's Oracle License Management Summit—completely online, for the first time ever. Attendance is limited to end users only.
Elevate your strategy and career options. Learn from the experts—and your industry peers—the best practices that make a difference. These interactive sessions are the can't-miss events of the year for Oracle software asset management pros worldwide. Immerse yourself in emerging approaches, thought-provoking presentations and meaningful interactions with your SAM and compliance management peers. Plus, it's all online! No travel is required.
Cutting-edge content and stimulating presenters. You'll experience four 30-minute focused presentations, followed by interactive time for questions and answers. This end-user-only summit lets you gain the skills you need to chart your course, stay relevant, grow your influence and manage Oracle licensing risk.
In this future-looking session with SAM guru Victoria Barber (Snow Software), we examine our changing relationship with technology and consider how placing people, rather than technology, at the heart of IT, is key to remaining relevant and valued over the coming years.
As we are all suddenly thrust into becoming technology aware digital natives, and we balance work-from-home and the office in the pandemic age, these influences will be felt as expectations grow for new technologies and new uses of existing technologies.
Our relationship with digital technology is changing. How can we enable our business leaders, and ourselves, to grasp the opportunities this change offers to transform business practices and drive value from our technology investments?
When it comes to cloud providers—Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google and private cloud—the options can seem endless and undifferentiated.
In this timely webinar, industry expert Marcia Watkins prepares you to discern which cloud provider offers the most value for your business model and the strongest alignment with the talents of your team. She also equips you with the know-how to negotiate the best possible outcome for your organization. You'll learn where to find the savings opportunities and how to manage the cloud environment to optimize your success for the long term. You'll even come away with governance practices and tips for ongoing cost control and monitoring.
Software advisory professional Marcia Watkins has achieved exemplary results for large and complex organizations in the realms of vendor management and portfolio optimization. Marcia is a regular presenter at IBSMA Summits and we look forward to hearing her insights. Bring your questions and we'll address them in this interactive webinar.
Software is too expensive to waste and too risky to be left unmanaged, says Simon Bolton, SAM expert and director with KPMG in London. In this cost-optimizers webinar, Simon and his team will share best practices for taking control of your software assets and achieving hard savings for your efforts.
Starting from some simple points that underpin his philosophy about working through this enormously complex SAM challenge, Simon will show you how meaningful savings can be achieved even when managing thousands of software vendors, tens of thousands of products, and near unlimited ways of deploying and combining hardware with software. You'll learn tips to control your software portfolio, reduce expense and liability, and clearly articulate the cost savings. In the second half of the presentation, IBM, Oracle and Microsoft licensing experts from KPMG will provide real-life cost-savings examples. We'll wind up the session with time for questions.
Steven Russman, IBSMA (moderator)
Simon Bolton, KPMG (presenter)
This event is a production of IBSMA.
Industry Leads the Way in Open Source Software Governance
Join Russ Eling, founder and CEO of OSS Engineering Consultants, in this informative webinar covering how the auto industry and General Motors set out to manage its Open Source Software (OSS). Russ pioneered GM’s global OSS initiative during his six-year tenure as the Open Source Compliance Officer. He will share typical elements a compliance and governance program should have and touch on best-practice approaches and lessons learned. The session continues with a look at OSS and ties to security, as well as compliance considerations when distributing products or services that include software. Russ brings know-how in business and technical expertise to this complex topic, breaking it down into digestible chunks covering the how and why of OSS compliance. This session is for pros at all experience levels.
Russ Eling is the founder and CEO of OSS Engineering Consultants (www.ossengineeringconsultants.com), a business dedicated to helping organizations of all sizes design, implement and manage Open Source Software (OSS) governance programs. Before starting the company in 2020, Russ spent more than 20 years in engineering and systems engineering roles at General Motors. Russ developed and implemented a successful OSS governance program and built the team responsible for reviewing software in every GM vehicle across the globe. Among the first of its kind, it is recognized as the most comprehensive OSS program in the automotive industry and Russ is regarded as an industry leader in the OSS compliance community.
This session will include a question and answer period, following the presentation. Bring your questions.
The ever-changing nature of IBM's licensing rules and processes, on-prem and in the cloud, make it very challenging to triumph over this complex program. Here, IBM-licensing expert Koen Dingjan, creator of Blue-LM, will highlight key current developments in IBM licensing that will help you stay one step ahead. This session covers topics such as the divestment of IBM software products to HCL, ILMT configuration requirements (e.g., how it counts PVUs when data is missing), extrapolation in licensing reports, IBM acquisitions of software companies, and key insights from recent client reviews.
This session will include a question and answer period, following the presentation. Bring your questions.
Steven Russman
Koen Dingjan
This event is a production of IBSMA.
Key Issues Software Asset Managers and Software Providers Should Consider Right Now
Practically overnight, the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent protective measures have required companies to pivot to remote-work models. Increased use, deployment, and reliance on software in the expanded work-from-home world creates new risk areas to consider for both software companies and their customers. In this webinar, IBSMA Director Steven Russman will moderate a discussion with Bryan Mechell and Ellen Levish, intellectual property and technology lawyers from Robins Kaplan LLP. Bryan and Ellen regularly represent emerging and established businesses involved in technology and license disputes and help them develop methods for auditing, managing and enforcing license compliance. Together, we will examine the key issues SAMs and software providers should consider now to proactively manage and protect their assets, as well as their company's ability to conduct business.
Jesse Stockall (presenter), Chief Architect for Cloud Management, Snow Software
Steven Russman (moderator), Director, IBSMA
Join Jesse Stockall, Snow Software's Chief Architect for Cloud Management, for an informative conversation on the changing role of IT in three areas: environmental factors, skillsets and tools requirements, and automation and governance functions.
In the not-so-distant past, everything lived in the datacenter and was managed by IT. Think servers, databases, workstations, and even phone systems. The Blackberry came along, but the phones were still managed centrally by IT and Blackberry enterprise server ran inside the firewall. Later, VMware and virtualization proved to be disruptive technologies, but they ran inside the corporate firewall. Welcome to 2020 and hybrid IT is the new normal. All modern organizations have some combination of public multi-cloud, on-prem virtualization, SaaS, colocation, edge, industrial IoT and bring your own device. Your company may not run all these elements, but it's highly likely that it will have a combination of most of them. In this trend-watchers webinar, Jesse Stockall takes a takes a fresh look at the changing role of IT and how you can prepare for what's to come.
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