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August 21, 2026

FinOps for AI: A Playbook for Managing Your AI Spend

AI adoption has outpaced almost every other line item in the technology budget, and for a lot of organizations, spend on AI models is now growing faster than anyone can track it. Unlike traditional cloud costs, which most finance and engineering teams have spent a decade learning to manage, AI spend...

August 18, 2026

How to Reduce AI API Costs: Prompt Caching, Batch Discounts, and Real-Time Monitoring

TL;DR: The fastest way to cut AI spend is not switching models — it is using the discounts vendors already publish and catching runaway usage before the invoice lands. As of August 2026, cached input tokens cost as little as 10% of the standard rate (a 90% discount), batch processing runs at half...

July 27, 2026

The Belarc SAM Difference: Why Integrated Discovery Changes Software Asset Management

TL;DR: Most SAM tools only manage the entitlement side of software asset management and depend on operations or security tools — like SCCM, Intune, BigFix, or Tanium — for discovery data those tools were never designed to provide. That is why most SAM projects finish late and over budget. Belarc...

July 27, 2026AI

FinOps for AI: Creating a Playbook for Managing AI Spend

TL;DR: AI spend is exploding, and most of it comes from API calls made by agents and applications — not from per-user chat subscriptions. A FinOps for AI practice measures results per dollar spent across models, apps, and agents, then routes each workload to the cheapest model that meets the quality...

July 22, 2026

Belarc vs. ITSM Discovery Tools

Belarc vs. ITSM Discovery Tools (ServiceNow, SCCM, Intune): Usage Data Is the SAM Difference ITSM tools tell you what's installed. Belarc tells you what's actually used — and that one difference is the foundation of software cost optimization. The short answer: ITSM platforms like ServiceNow, and...

April 23, 2026AIITAMPower BI

AI-Powered ITAM: Why Automated, Accurate, Complete Data is the Foundation for Success

Everyone in the ITAM industry is talking about AI. Vendors are promising automated license optimization, predictive hardware refresh, real-time compliance dashboards — all driven by machine intelligence. Some of it is genuine. A lot of it is marketing. But whether the AI is real or overhyped, one...

October 5, 2023Press Release

BelPower - App for Microsoft Power BI

We are very pleased to let you know about BelPower, our app for Microsoft Power BI. This allows you to use Power BI to view your BelManage data, create new customized reports, and share these Power BI reports with others in your organization. For details...

September 24, 2019Press Release

Belarc awarded US Department of Defense Blanket Purchase Agreement for ITAM software and services

Belarc is pleased to announce that the US DoD ESI has awarded Belarc a Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) for IT Asset Management (ITAM) products and services. This BPA is available for use by all Department of Defense organizations. Quoting from the announcement...

October 14, 2018Press Release

Belarc Releases New Product - BelMonitor Client Components

Belarc is very pleased to announce the release of BelMonitor Client Components version 8.2.45 for BelManage, which adds many new capabilities. We've added reporting of Adobe Acrobat DC version 2017 and the latest versions of Adobe Dreamweaver, Character Animator,

October 14, 2018Press Release

NIST Special Publication (SP) 1800-5, "IT Asset Management" published

Belarc is very pleased to have participated in NIST's example solution for IT Asset Management (ITAM), demonstrating how ITAM is a critical component of any effective cybersecurity process. From NIST: "Financial institutions deploy a wide array of information..."

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