ISO 19770

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[edit] ISO/IEC 19770-1 International Standard for Software asset management - Part 1: Processes

ISO/IEC 19770-1 is a framework of Software Asset Management (SAM) processes to enable an organization to prove that it is performing software asset management to a standard sufficient to satisfy corporate governance requirements and ensure effective support for IT service management overall. This part of ISO/IEC 19770-1 describes the life cycle processes for the management of software and related assets.[1][2]

[edit] ISO/IEC 19770-2 International Standard for Software asset management - Part 2: Software Tag

ISO/IEC 19770-2 provides a software asset management (SAM) data standard for software tags. Software tags provide authoritative identifying information for installed software ("software configuration items").[3][4]

This process starts with the software manufacturer/publisher who will use this standard to enable their software to be accurately identified, which will make the software significantly more manageable from a software asset management perspective. This standard provides much more than just software identification however, by allowing other members of the SAM Ecosystem to add their own attributes to the software identification process (including who distributed the software, who may have re-packaged the software, if the software is following an ITIL release process, etc).

A draft of this standard was initially developed by a committee of the International Business Software Managers Association (IBSMA). The last version of the draft standard created by the IBSMA committee went out for public review in May of 2007.

In October of 2007, members of ISO/IEC Working Group 21 (ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 7/WG 21) met in Montreal and created an "other working group" (OWG) to continue the development of the 19770-2 standard with the goal of finalizing the standard in time for the ISO Plenary meeting to be held in May of 2008 in Berlin. At this time, Steve Klos of Agnitio Advisors, was appointed as the convener of the other working group (OWG). In late December 2007, the OWG was allowed to restart work on the standard.

This standard is in draft form and is in a public review process from January 25th, 2008 until March 14th, 2008. During this period, a copy of the draft may be freely downloaded from a number of sites, including http://www.agnitioadvisors.com.

[edit] ISO/IEC 19770-3 International Standard for Software asset management - Part 3: Software use Entitlement

It is the intention of WG21 to convene a working group to develop part three of ISO/IEC 19770 for software use entitlement. The proposed ISO/IEC 19770-3 will provide a software asset management (SAM) data standard for software licensing entitlements. Entitlements tags will provide authoritative licensing information for software configuration items (installed software) specified in ISO/IEC 19770-2 paragraph 3.2.

[edit] References

  1. ^ ISO/IEC 19770-1 Information technology — Software asset management — Part 1: Processes
  2. ^ Web site from the working group that developed the 19770-1 standard
  3. ^ ISO/IEC WD 19770-2: Information technology — Software asset management — Part 2:Software Tag
  4. ^ Web site from the working group developing the 19770-2 standard