Trends and Best Practices for Implementing SaaS

Presenter: Jeff Kaplan, Founder of THINKStrategies

Learn from THINKStrategies about what market trends are causing increased adoption of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) by larger enterprises. How should enterprises evaluate SaaS vendors for scalability, security and integration?

Sales Performance Management: Business Best Practices Track

Jeff Kaplan 
Founder of THINKStrategies

THINKstrategies was founded by Kaplan — formerly a leading industry analyst at IDC, Dataquest, and META Group, and successful senior marketing executive at InterOPS Management Solutions and International Network Services (INS) — as the only independent strategic consulting firm dedicated to helping enterprise IT decision-makers and technology solution providers achieve their business objectives by leveraging the value of IT/telecom services, ranging from professional services to outsourcing and on-demand services, such as application, hosting and managed services.

Kaplan has over twenty years of experience and recognized expertise in IT management, managed services, utility computing and outsourcing trends. He is a frequent speaker at industry conferences and contributing columnist for BusinessWeek Online, Mass High Tech Journal, Financial Times of London, NetworkWorld, Business Communications Review, ComputerWorld, InfoWorld, InformationWeek, and Web Host Industry Review on topics including managed services, software-as-a-service (SaaS), utility computing, outsourcing strategies; network and systems operations, service level management (SLM); and IT ROI and TCO calculations.