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“Cloud Computing”, ”Software-as-a-Service”, “Managed Services”, “Out-tasking”, “Industry Inversion”

These are just some of the innovative ideas that THINKstrategies’ founder and Managing Director, Jeff Kaplan, has pioneered as a research analyst, corporate executive, strategic consultant, featured columnist and industry speaker.

THINKstrategies was founded in 2001 as the only independent strategic consulting firm dedicated to helping enterprise IT/business decision-makers, IT solution providers and technology investors achieve their corporate objectives by leveraging the business benefits and new market opportunities created by Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Managed Services and other innovative technology service solutions.

Kaplan has nearly 30 years of experience and recognized expertise in IT/network management, SaaS, cloud computing, managed services, telecommunications and outsourcing trends. He has been named among the POWER25 Insightful Bloggers on Cloud according to Evolven.

He helped to launch IDC’s Communications Industry Research (CIR) program in 1983; Dataquest’s Worldwide Services Research program in 1990; and Meta Group’s Benchmarking program in 1995. He then went on to have successful ‘real-world’ experiences at International Network Services (INS) which was acquired by Lucent Technologies, and InterOPS Management Solutions.

In 2006, Kaplan founded the SaaS Showplace and Managed Services Showplace online directories and best practice resource centers which have now been merged into a new Cloud Computing Showplace, the largest vendor-independent listing of solutions and insights in the rapidly growing ‘on-demand’ services marketplace with over 1900 companies divided into over 90 application, industry, technology and service categories.