FAST asks SAM community to shop customers for cash

Hannah Breeze
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Independent software asset management firms criticise move

Independent software asset management (SAM) firms have poured cold water on a new FAST campaign urging SAM practitioners to report customers for non-compliance, branding it "counter-productive". ...

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