A Smart Path to Optimizing IT Costs

Paul Carroll sits down with Jim Duggan, vice president, client engagement, global service delivery, at Rimini Street, and Anne Plese, Rimini Street's senior director of product marketing. They discuss how to optimize IT costs.

In this webinar, ITL Editor-in-Chief Paul Carroll sits down with Jim Duggan, vice president, client engagement, global service delivery, at Rimini Street, and Anne Plese, Rimini Street's senior director of product marketing. They discuss how insurers can optimize their data centers and generate savings that can help fund innovation initiatives.

You will learn:

-- About case examples where companies generated millions of dollars in savings -- aggregating to $5 billion in total support savings for clients in Rimini Street's 15-year history.

--About how 30% to 40% of IT expenditure is "shadow" spending*, outside the IT budget -- not only boosting costs but creating opportunities for cyber criminals.

--About how security can be enhanced to the point of heading off "zero-day" vulnerabilities.

*https://www.jamf.com/blog/how-much-is-shadow-it-costing-you/

About the Speakers

Anne Plese

Marketing leader and technology evangelist with 20 years of experience in product marketing and management. Powerful blend of business, leadership, technical, and communication skills. Experienced in Private Cloud, Hybrid Cloud, IoT, IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, Networking, Open Source, and Big Data. Deep background in defining customer requirements and influencing buying criteria of enterprise, mid-market, and service provider segments.

Jim Duggan

James Duggan is a 23 year veteran of the enterprise software industry and a proven executive leader in delivering end-to-end solutions. He has a strong track record in project delivery management, program management and development, support, service delivery, implementation, and executing high-value projects.

Mr. Duggan is responsible for the successful delivery and execution of all service activities for large and complex clients within Rimini Street Global Service Delivery. He is a valued client partner and team leader with fine-tuned analytical and troubleshooting skills, and innovative design and conceptualization proficiency.

Prior to joining Rimini Street, Mr. Duggan led a large successful SAP to S/4 Hana migration for a leading global pharmaceutical company as Director of Program Management at Cognizant. Previously, he served 22 years at IBM including six years as an Associate Partner and Delivery Executive managing $120 million in annual revenue for IBM’s life sciences tower.

Mr. Duggan holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Social and Behavioral Sciences from Seton Hall University and a Masters Certificate in Project Management from The George Washington University School of Business.

Paul Carroll

Paul Carroll is the editor-in-chief of Insurance Thought Leadership.

He is also co-author of A Brief History of a Perfect Future: Inventing the Future We Can Proudly Leave Our Kids by 2050 and Billion Dollar Lessons: What You Can Learn From the Most Inexcusable Business Failures of the Last 25 Years and the author of a best-seller on IBM, published in 1993.

Carroll spent 17 years at the Wall Street Journal as an editor and reporter; he was nominated twice for the Pulitzer Prize. He later was a finalist for a National Magazine Award.