Free Online Summit: Oracle & Microsoft: Financial year-end analysis
- Thursday 28th July 2022
Join the ITAM Review as we discuss Oracle & Microsoft: Financial year-end analysis on Thursday 28th July at 14:00.
About this event
Oracle and Microsoft are critical vendors for almost all organisations – with one or both of them featuring heavily in terms of software infrastructure and software spend.
Join Rich Gibbons and AJ Witt from the ITAM Review as we discuss Oracle & Microsoft: Financial year-end analysis on Thursday 28th July at 14:00.
We will examine how both of these Tier 1 vendors have fared through their most recent financial year and what to expect from them in the next – including audits, product focus areas, cloud, licensing, and more. The aim of the session is to provide an overview of the last financial year and arm you with key information you can use to help you in upcoming conversations and dealings with Oracle and Microsoft.
Knowing where these vendors are coming from, and where they are heading, will help you as ITAM managers better understand any risks and successfully manage the relationship for another year.
ITAM Review analysts will look at the vendors financial results and what they might reveal about their roadmap, and how they may impact renewals and contracts moving forward.
The agenda will include:
- Microsoft FY22 review – including financial results analysis
- Microsoft – the year ahead
- Oracle FY22 review – including financial results analysis
- Oracle – the year ahead
- Partner sessions
- Q&A
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Who should attend
- SAM & ITAM professionals
- Procurement professionals
- Finance professionals
- Vendor management professionals
- CIO
Agenda
| TIME | ACTIVITY |
| 14:00 – 14:15 | Welcome Rich Gibbons, The ITAM Review |
| 14:15 – 15:00 | Microsoft & Oracle Update Rich Gibbons & AJ Witt, The ITAM Review |
| 15:00 – 15:30 | Designing the perfect cocktail; Executing a Total Microsoft Licensing Strategy across on-prem, SaaS & cloud Dan Whitehead, Certero |
| 15:30 – 16:00 | LicenseFortress Session Dean Bolton, LicenseFortress |
| 16:00 – 16:30 | The Enabler, how ITAM is foundational to making strategic business decisions Christina Klein, Lansweeper |
| 16:30 – 17:00 | Questions & Closing The ITAM Review |
Speakers
Rich Gibbons, ITAM Services Director, The ITAM Review
Rich has almost 15 years’ experience in the world of IT and software licensing, having been both a software sales manager for a VAR and a Microsoft licensing endorsed trainer.
A Northerner renowned for his shirts, Rich is a fan of most films, Hip-Hop, travel, football in general (and specifically MUFC), Marvel and reading as many books as possible. Finding ways to combine these with software licensing is always fun.
AJ Witt, ITAM Industry Analyst, The ITAM Review
AJ Witt is ITAM Industry Analyst at The ITAM Review. Previous to joining the ITAM Review team in April 2018, he was Software Asset Manager for Carnival UK, operators of the P&O & Cunard cruise lines. Coming from a background in IT Infrastructure technical operations IT Security & Compliance, AJ is well-placed to share his experience of how dynamic SAM teams can build mutually-beneficial stakeholder engagement.
Christina Klein, VP of Global Channel Partners, Lansweeper
Christina has worked in the tech sector for 25 years. As a relationship-oriented geek, Ms. Klein thrives on building authentic partnerships based on mutual value – creating a win-win-win for the Customer, the Partner & Lansweeper.
Session Title: The Enabler, how ITAM is foundational to making strategic business decisions
Description: Every company is a technology company. Whether you build it or buy it, your organization relies on technology to survive. In this session we will discuss how ITAM 2.0 is the necessary foundation for organizational growth and innovation.
Dan Whitefield, Customer Success Manager, Certero
With years of experience as a SAM Consultant, my ‘raison d’être’ has been to provide effective advice to businesses to help them navigate and avoid the many pitfalls that can occur with software licensing and to identify the license optimization opportunities.
Since joining Certero, I have transitioned across from being a SAM services consultant to the role of Customer Success Manager, working closely with existing customers and dedicated to helping them leverage more value, insight and understanding from their Certero unified platform technology and across a full enterprise scope – from desktop and remote users, to datacenter, mobile, SaaS and Cloud.
Session Title: Designing the perfect cocktail; Executing a Total Microsoft Licensing Strategy across on-prem, SaaS & cloud
Description: Protecting your spend with Microsoft now requires a total vendor licensing strategy that spans on-premises and remote assets, SaaS and Cloud. Therefore, it’s a bigger picture problem than traditional ITAM / SAM and it’s a bigger-picture problem than just Finops. In this presentation, Microsoft licensing expert Dan Whitefield explains how to remove the barriers and disconnect between the old and new worlds of asset management, in order to define, optimise and execute your total licensing strategy for Microsoft.
Dean Bolton, Co-Founder + Chief Architect, LicenseFortress
Dean Bolton launched his IT career in 2000 after completing his bachelor’s degree in computer science and engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He started working with Oracle databases early in his career at an internet systems and applications design firm. Since then, he has continued working as an Oracle developer, database administrator, architect, consultant, and evangelist. Today, Dean is the managing partner of VLSS LLC, a premier Oracle and VMware consulting firm. He serves as the lead enterprise architect with a focus on Oracle applications and database solutions. Dean is an Oracle 12c DBA Certified Master, Exadata Specialist, SQL Certified Expert, and VMware vExpert. Dean is a recognized Oracle licensing expert with presentations at VMworld, IOUG Collaborate, UKOUG, and OpenWorld.
Why you should attend
- Cost – This Webinar is FREE.
- Convenience -You can participate in the webinar from a location of your choosing. No travelling/ travel costs involved.
- Interaction – You have the opportunity to communicate and ask questions with the presenter and peers.
Testimonials and reviews
“Good info, great speakers! I’ll be sharing the recording with my colleagues on our infrastructure team. These sessions are always engaging. I started watching them sessions for the ITAM knowledge, ideas, growth, value; but I find that I am now also watching to get speaker and interacting with presenters tips from Rich! Amazing job, love it. Thanks for hosting these. Can’t wait for Wisdom!!”
“This was excellent ! I am going to go back and re-watch OnDemand. Love all segments presented.”
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