Recording and Presentation of the September SAM Best Practices Webinar (Managing SAM Operations in ITAM/ FNMS) are available!

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The recording of the "Managing SAM Operations in project and run phases" September SAM Best Practice Webinar is available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbfk7fa019g

Here are are the main sections:

• 00:00 Kick Off & Agenda
• 05:03 Pointers for the last session ("Reporting in ITAM and FlexNet Manager") material 
• 06:58 News:
  • Updates to the SAM Best Practice Hub blog post.
  • Flexera One ITAM 2022R1.4,  Named User Consumption and Optimization report, coming 2022R2 on premise
  • ITAM Newsletter
• 16:48: Managing SAM Operations
  
  • 16:49 Current available documentations and training material
    • The documentations (UI, technical)
      • https://docs.flexera.com/,
      • https://docs.flexera.com/?product=FlexNet%20Manager%20Suite%20Cloud
    • The Learning Center
      • https://learn.flexera.com/
      • https://learn.flexera.com/series/spend-optimization-with-flexnet-manager-suite
    • The Practice guides (in Learning Center)
      • https://learn.flexera.com/series/flexera-practice-guides
    • Two nice FNMS Operations summary (128 pages) and FNMS Operations (1858 pages) collector guides for FNMS 9.2
    • A Customer Community post:
      • Short Practice Guide on Managing SAM Operations in FNMS / Flexera One ITAM
  • 26:14 Context:
    • 26:14 What is SAM?
    • 28:43 How does ITAM / Flexera address SAM: technical and functional architecture. Processes big picture. Roles & Responsibilities
  • 47:53 Project Phase (Prioritize Publisher, evaluate and remediate inventory, import purchases, create licenses)
  • 57:45 Run Phase (definition, manage new SAM events, keep data quality high through monitoring of KPIs the SAM Manager check list)
  • 1:02 The SAM Operations Hub
• 1:04:13 Wrap up

The PowerPoint used during the presentation is attached to this post.