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How-to Champion a Commercial Open Source IT Management Solution to Executive Management
What to expect while getting your management buy-in for relying on
commercially supported open source IT Management tools.
Guest Speakers:
- Audrey Rasmussen – Analyst, Ptak Noel and Associates
- Tara Spalding - V.P. Marketing, GroundWork Open Source
- Rich Trezza - Director Sales Engineering, GroundWork Open Source
Description:
Today’s new trends in IT Management is to replace proprietary solutions for open source solutions because of the proprietary software’s restricted extensibility, bloated functionality and lofty maintenance costs. Often times, these open source projects that are replacing the proprietary software are discovered by middle IT managers who are pleased with the results on a test environment. These managers have several important steps ahead of them to prove the open source strength and cost effectiveness to convince management to make the switch.
Join Audrey Rasmussen, analyst at Ptak, Noel and Associates share insight on what Senior IT managers are experiencing today in their software purchasing, including outside influencers such as budget shifts, service level expectations, and heterogeneous environment orchestration which proves vital insight for selling in a new project that’s open source based.
Along with Audrey’s experiences with senior IT executives, Rich Trezza and Tara Spalding from GroundWork Open Source will share insight on how middle managers have championed GroundWork Open Source, the leading commercial open source IT monitoring solution into large enterprises such as SAIC, Genworth Financial, and the University of Utah by displacing proprietary software like HP OpenView, IBM Tivoli, CA Unicenter and BMC Patrol.
Takeaways include a top 10 questions list on what to expect from your executive staff about this project.
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