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You Win: CleanSlate is Now an IBM Platinum Partner

Platinum Partner status means CleanSlate will be able to offer platinum-level advantages to our current and future clients, while continuing to provide the expertise and dedication to quality that got us here in the first place.
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Where are you in your IBM Cloud Journey?

IBM Cloud allows IT organizations to standardize upon software-defined infrastructure that is simpler to acquire, deploy, manage and scale out as business needs grow, without sacrificing reliability and security.
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What is ILMT—and why do I need it?

The IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) is a system created by IBM to help businesses measure and monitor software usage. While that might not sound important, it’s a critical tool for just about any company using IBM software in a complex environment.
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Welcome to Top Gun

Two of our account executives, Ben Thomas and Brandon Montgomery, recently attended Software and Solutions Top Gun ...
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Using IBM Detect to Protect Your Business

As part of IBM’s BigFix suite of products, Detect is a critical component of keeping your business safe from potentially devastating cyber attacks. It provides endpoint detection and response solutions for threat analysis, and has capabilities far beyond your typical endpoint detection and response tool.
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Understanding Dynamic Scan Groups

Software scans—like those performed with ILMT—are familiar to just about anybody working in Software Asset Management (SAM). They keep you compliant, help ensure there won’t be any surprises during a software audit, and are critical for giving you important details about your software inventory.
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Software asset management roadmap

State agency that provides technology services to other state agencies. They are responsible for IT strategic direction, IT policy and delivering centralized IT products and services within the state.
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So, How Do I Optimize My Tech Spend?

The IBM License Metric Tool is a free and invaluable software asset management solution that helps you track, measure, monitor, and manage your IBM software estate. With ILMT, you can maintain an up-to-date inventory of your IBM software assets, gather information about your hardware, and ensure the license compliance of your organization.
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Q&A with Associate Engineer, Alec Davidson

Alec loves the amount of resources he is provided with from hardware, software, training, and beyond is available to him is he needs it. He appreciates that CleanSlate recognizes that good tools are important for good work.
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PSI – Migration and Modernization

CleanSlate had the opportunity to work with PSI, a partner in the online education industry, who wanted to migrate their systems to the cloud and modernize them in the process.
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Over-deployed? Self-reporting Keeps You Compliant.

There’s nothing wrong with self-managing your software assets. But if you do, it’s important that your company knows what to do if you discover an over-deployment of licensed products. When that happens—and it happens to the best of us—here’s what you should do next.
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OFS – Security Healthcheck

The client, headquartered in Huntingburg, Indiana, is a company that specializes in the manufacturing of furniture for the workplace, healthcare, education, hospitality, and governmental industries.
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Mulesoft implementation for a financial advisory company

This company is composed of a community of financial advisors aligned to provide objective, comprehensive wealth support for their clients. They provide financial advice to help clients build better lifestyles, achieve their dreams and create long-term stewards of wealth.
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Mulesoft implementation

This company is an independent investment management firm dedicated to delivering an investment experience that helps people get more out of life.
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Making sense of the Software Asset Management (SAM) puzzle

Corporations implement SAM strategies to help control and lower cost—but more important, they do it to maintain compliance. Sometimes SAM seems like an impossible puzzle, especially when you’re crunched for time and resources. As a software consulting firm, CleanSlate leverages our years of experience and depth of knowledge to help our clients do just that.
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Key Considerations for Security in SaaS Products

A key feature of any solution is security – particularly when you have a software platform that encompasses thousands of clients, teams of developers, constantly evolving features, and wide exposure across the globe.
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Just How Easy is it to be Hacked?

Earlier this year, David Gilbertson published an excellent article on Hacker Noon with the eye-catching title “I’m harvesting credit card numbers and passwords from your site. Here’s how.” While the article is noted as a fictional endeavor, the approach that is detailed is certainly something that could have a negative impact on corporations around the world.
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It’s Time to Get Your IT Together

IBM Cloud Pak for Integration is a comprehensive, hybrid integration platform that leverages AI - powered automation across the integration lifecycle to unlock business data silos and assets, connect cloud, and on-prem apps, and protect in-flight data integrity with enterprise messaging
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IoT Easy as Pi

The Internet of Thing (IoT) is rapidly becoming more popular as services, such as home automation and health ...
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ILMT upgrade: The Good, the bad, and the ugly.

Don’t delay in preparing for and implementing ILMT, or the upgrade of your existing ILMT platform. Whether your company is just in the exploratory phase or is starting to plan for deployment, you are not alone.
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ILMT setup and configuration across a state government enterprise

The client currently leverages a large suite of IBM software solutions to provide the various platforms and applications required to support its internal and external applications. The IBM software solutions span across a large portion of the client’s infrastructure and are deployed across several servers within the enterprise.
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How to Get Started with Non-PVU Reporting

If your company uses IBM products, PVU reporting is something you’re probably familiar with. But it’s easy to forget that there are licensed products outside of PVU that require proper managing and reporting, too.
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Heading into the New Year with IT Asset Management

It is about that time of the year when companies are trying to finalize their future budget cycle and financial allocations. Companies allocate roughly 5%, and even upwards of 10% for some industries, of company revenue for IT budget.
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Have you heard of IBM Cloud Object Storage?

The IBM Cloud Object Storage (COS) System is a breakthrough cloud platform that helps solve petabyte and beyond storage challenges for companies worldwide. Enterprises that need to store large volumes of unstructured data must look beyond their current storage solutions and evaluate new approaches. 
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Four IBM software solutions we love

Managing hundreds or even thousands of computers across a network can get complicated quickly. You’ve got software distribution, patches, licensing issues, security threats—it’s easy to see how things can get overwhelming without the right systems management tools.
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Five signs it’s time to reevaluate your SAM strategy

Having the right software asset management (SAM) strategy in place for your business can save you time, money, and lots of headaches—especially if you run into an unexpected software audit. But many companies have an outdated SAM strategy—or no SAM strategy at all—which is a risk that can be easily avoided if you take the right steps.
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Enabling your remote workforce with Amazon WorkSpaces

The client is a global provider of workforce training programs and solutions to help people achieve success in their academic, personal, and work lives. The client has successfully delivered training in 160 countries with training content supporting over 50 languages.
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DFC Siemens Teamcenter Migration

Delta Faucet Company makes residential and commercial faucets and other products for kitchen and bathrooms that improve everyday experiences with water.
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Cloud First Web Apps in Azure

Creating cloud enabled applications has several distinct differences compared to traditional software solutions. ...
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Cloud Cost Optimization

North American provider of outsourced technology services including Call Center, Help Desk, Field Support and other related public and private sector services.
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CleanSlate Technology Group Appoints Robin Fleming to its Board of Directors

CleanSlate Technology Group, a full-service technology consultancy, announced today the appointment of Robin Fleming to its Board of Directors. Robin is a seasoned technology executive with over 35 years of experience in building and operating software technology products and platforms and serving customers.
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Azure Health Check

Founded in 2012, our client is a leading provider of enforcement, asset tracking and business process automation software to modern governments and operations. Municipalities, universities, operators, healthcare campuses, and transportation hubs can now leverage the combined technology solutions of their parent company since joining forces with the team in 2020.
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AWS DMS migration to Oracle RDS

A leading sports equipment and student achievement accessory company. Based in the southwest with a diverse portfolio of products including spirit awards, class rings, jewelry and yearbook products.
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Automate your patching workload with Red Hat Ansible

The Client is one of the largest U.S. manufacturers of residential and commercial consumer goods. It is a division of a larger corporation and manufactures three wellknown brands. The company invests in ways to manufacture innovative solutions that increase functionality, while also utilizing improved manufacturing processes to reduce their ecological footprint
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Are You IBM Audit Ready?

As IBM licensing experts, CleanSlate is here to help you at every step of your IBM License Metric Tool journey. With CleanSlate, you get the best of both worlds – expertise in navigating the complexities of IBM licensing coupled with deep experience in proper ILMT deployment and reporting.
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Are You Cloud Ready?

Migrating to the cloud isn’t just porting applications to a new, physical location. It is an evolution of thought and technology. Let’s take a look at what is involved in a Cloud Readiness Assessment.
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Accelerating Speed of Delivery with Cloud DevOps

Implementing a fully automated AWS infrastructure and introducing modern, streamlined CI/CD processes that provided Herff Jones increased productivity, improved development ramp-up time, and accelerated speed to delivery.
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A Sneak Peek of your SaaS Journey

You’ve analyzed the benefits of a SaaS model to your business. Your interest is piqued. What can you expect as you migrate from a traditional application mindset to SaaS?
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A RESTful Interface With a Wide-Open Contract

It wasn't until a couple years later that I started seeing RESTful APIs at client engagements. All of them seemed to follow the standard RESTful API design, making it easy to build client applications against the back-end API services built upon REST.
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4 Steps to Getting Started in the Cloud

With the cloud, it’s vital to consider HOW you set up the cloud resources needed to support your system. What happens if it isn’t set up correctly? 
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