Enterprise software spending is being squeezed, and as a result organizations are looking for better ways to align software costs to value. This is the conclusion of a new Flexera Software 2013-14 ...

The proliferation of enterprise software over the last twenty years has contributed more to accelerate efficiencies and cost savings within companies than nearly any other innovation. Indeed ...

A Trustwave-sponsored study reports that 28 percent of organizations are not realizing the full value of security-related software investments.

Although cybersecurity has been getting a lot of well-deserved attention lately, 90 percent of companies recently surveyed admit that their organizations have invested in a security technology that ...

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Eric Knorr: Times are tough. With Microsoft using licensing arrangements to boost profits, IT managers should fight back by checking whether they actually use all the software they pay for.

Shelfware is a common concern for many businesses, and it is often the result of little to no vendor consultation, too much emphasis on compliance before security and an unawareness of what the ...

If your shelfware is necessary to meet compliance measures, then there needs to be a discussion on why it has never been deployed. Finally, if all else fails, head to the cloud.

A lot of eyes are on corporate IT spending, but you know what they say about watched pots. For the past two years, consumers have kept the economy intact while corporate capital spending sank into the ...

No organization wants to spend money on resources that go unused, but even the best-run businesses can fall into this trap with shelfware, software that’s bought and paid for yet is rarely or ever in ...

For the most part, IT leaders understand that user experience (UX) can make the difference whether an application or service becomes core to the business, or if it becomes more shelfware. However ...

Most everyone in corporate life is familiar with shelfware. It's the unfortunate end product of much industrious effort by 'bioware' (employees, managers and consultants). What begins as a well ...