{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Operational ITAM Podcast","title":"Software Asset Management: Proving What You Own","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/f38c5c28\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1114,"description":"Installs are not entitlements. Building an Effective License Position, and why the gap between the two is where the money hides.\nCrossing over to the intangible side of the house. Where hardware asset management is about custody, software asset management is about evidence — and the evidence standard is considerably higher, because the party asking to see it has a financial interest in the answer.\nThis episode covers the discipline of reconciling what's deployed against what you're entitled to deploy: how publisher licensing metrics actually work, why an installation count is not a license position, and how to construct an Effective License Position that holds up when someone external is checking your arithmetic.\nThe homework matters more than usual on this one. The entitlement library you build here is the same document that determines how the next two episodes go for you.\nIN THIS EPISODE\n- Why software asset management is an evidence discipline, not an inventory discipline\n- Entitlements versus installations, and why counting deployments proves nothing\n- How publisher licensing metrics actually work — per-user, per-device, per-core, per-employee\n- Building an Effective License Position that survives external scrutiny\n- Oracle's per-employee Java licensing and what it changed\n- VMware under Broadcom: subscription-only, per-core, and the sixteen-core minimum\n- Where the money hides: unused licenses, wrong editions, and unclaimed downgrade rights\n- The entitlement library — your homework, and the foundation for audit defense\nCHAPTERS\nTRANSCRIPT\nSOURCES & FURTHER READING\nOracle Java SE Universal Subscription (per-employee licensing)\nhttps://www.oracle.com/java/java-se-subscription/\nBroadcom / VMware Cloud Foundation licensing\nhttps://www.broadcom.com/products/software/vmware-cloud-foundation\nZylo 2026 SaaS Management Index\nhttps://zylo.com/2026-saas-management-index\nFlexera 2026 State of ITAM Report...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/nFlbExxNnhzrwnSlx4jBvKVGVnnfmon8-1VE92EQptA/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS84NjA4/YzdhOWJhZjcyZjYw/ZTY3Y2E1OTM1NTc2/N2M2Yi5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}