How to select your new cloud provider: A rigorous, effective and proven approach
| Date | Wednesday 27 Jan 2016 | ||||||||||
| Time | 18:00 for 18:30 | ||||||||||
| Location | Tavistock Suite, The Park Inn Hotel, 2 St Mary's Street, Bedford MK42 0AR | ||||||||||
| Speaker | Martin Tate, Independent IT Consultant | ||||||||||
| Abstract | You are warmly invited to attend a FREE evening talk at The Park Inn, Bedford (opposite Bedford College) on Wednesday 27 January 2016. "How to select your new cloud provider: A rigorous, effective and proven approach" is the topic of a talk by Martin Tate. Most organisations under-estimate the risks when selecting IT solutions such as cloud provision. They use conventional product procurement approaches, or the informal "I’ll know it when I see it". Martin Tate’s presentation explains why ordinary approaches pretty much guarantee the best candidate will withdraw or be de-listed. He illustrates his methodical approach using an actual cloud selection - his first was in 2002, before it was even termed cloud - the winner was provably a better fit, but less than one-tenth the cost of the runner up. | ||||||||||
| Profile |
More recently, the International Requirements Engineering Board (IREB) published his article ‘IT Requirements when Buying, not Making\: Effective specifications to select off-the-shelf software’ in the latest RE Magazine | ||||||||||
| Agenda |
There is free parking to the rear of The Park Inn Hotel. Note: Please give your vehicle registration at reception on arrival otherwise you may incur a penalty charge. Parking spaces are also available at a £1 charge on the Bedford College Campus. There are also free parking areas in the locality. Everybody is welcome -- please bring friends and colleagues. | ||||||||||
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A ‘poacher turned gamekeeper’, Martin formerly worked for an
IT provider and was trained to sell software. He has been an
independent consultant for over 20 years, specialising in
evaluating, selecting and procuring off-the-shelf solutions. He
has personally run or rescued 52 selection projects and
appraised over 1,000 candidate solutions. However, the most
important statistic is zero - never once has an IT selection gone
through his method and procured software that proved unfit for
purpose.
BCS awarded Martin Chartered Fellow status in 2007 for eminence in the field of IT
selections and in March published his book ‘Off-The-Shelf IT Solutions: A practitioner's
guide to selection and procurement’.