Software audits still on the rise, says Gartner
The latest research from Gartner (Data Center Polling Illustrates IT Asset Management as an Enabler, 8 March 2010) states that software audits continued to increase in volume through 2009. Around 60 percent of respondents in Deceber 2009 stated that they had been subject to at least one software audit in the previous 12 months. The same question posed at the end of 2008 elicited a 38 percent positive response, showing the scale of the increase in audits.
Further, Gartner states that around 20 percent of all ITAM calls it takes are now concerned with software audits, compared with around 5 - 8 percent historically.
