SAM Terms Translation: Inventory

Posted in Software Asset Management

Learning about SAM terminology can be challenging. I tend to process new terms from the perspective of my past 15 years of experience in the Windows systems management space. I think we all tend to operate in that fashion. For example, when I hear inventory I immediately think about the ConfigMgr client inventory process.

In the SAM world, inventory refers to a list or report of assets that the organization has in its stock. Here are some examples of inventories included in SAM :

  1. Software definitive master – this is the installation source software that you receive when you originally purchase the software license.
  2. Software builds and releases – in-house developed software or software that was purchased but packaged in house.
  3. Software License Agreements  – contract describing terms and conditions for rights to use a software product that is copyrighted intellectual property owned by the publisher.

I hope to help others in the community by occasionally posting SAM terms that have ambiguous meanings.  By the way, I’ll tend to avoid posting terms that are in the IBSMA Glossary of Terms.

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