Jeff Kaplan
THINKstrategies
Managing Director
THINKstrategiesis a strategic consulting firm that helps IT enterprise decision-makers with their sourcing strategies, solution providers with their marketing strategies and venture firms with their investment strategies.
Kaplan, who can be reached at jkaplan@thinkstrategies.com,
is also the founder of the Managed Service Showplace (www.msp-showplace.com or www.thinkmsp.com) and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) Showplace (www.saas-showplace.com or www.thinksaas.com) free, online directories. THINKstrategies' online directories provide an easy-to-use listing of SaaS solutions by application and MSPs by service category, and extensive information and insight about industry best practices to help organizations fully leverage the growing array of SaaS solutions and managed services.
Prior to forming THINKstrategies, Jeff served as Vice President of Marketing and Business Development at InterOPS Management Solutions, an Internet Operations Management Services Provider. Before joining InterOPS, Jeff was Director of Strategic Marketing at International Network Services (INS) and subsequently Lucent Technologies, which acquired INS. Jeff also spent thirteen (13) years as a leading industry analyst at IDC, Dataquest and META Group.
Jeff is a frequent speaker at industry conferences and contributing columnist for Mass High Tech Journal, Financial Times of London, NetworkWorld, Business Communications Review, ComputerWorld, InfoWorld, InformationWeek, Managing Automation, the Web Hosting Industry Review and Services News on topics ranging from utility computing, managed services, outsourcing strategies, IT operations and service level management (SLM).
Jeff serves as the Site Guide for ITworld’s Utility Computing web portal at www.utilitycomputing.itworld.com and is the Outsourcing Expert for TechTarget’s SearchCIO at the http://searchcio.techtarget.com) and SearchSMB http://searchsmb.techtarget.com web portals, as well as the Offshore Outsourcing Best Practices (OOBP) Association.
Jeff is also a Senior Consultant with Cutter Consortium, a MSPAlliance research partner and member of the IT Services Marketing Association (ITSMA).
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