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Eric Dirst

  • President / COO / Chief Technology Advisor at DeKonsultere LLC
  • Has 10+ Years Of Experience
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About 4 years ago
If you can afford it, ServiceNow is by far the best platform for ITSM, in my opinion.  Plus you can expand it beyond ITSM into monitoring, devops, Ops Mgmt, Field Mgmt, and take advantage of AI features, etc.  It can be pricey, but you can negotiate. It's very flexible, and…
About 4 years ago
I have seen a couple standard use cases 1) Building small applications for specific department needs that usually are not addresses by any of the standard ERP, SFA, CRM or other enterprise tools utilized for broader processes across the organization. 2) Automating what used…
Over 4 years ago
Quickbase is very good. A number of my clients have built entire enterprise apps on this platform.  You can do all no-code but there is an option to also do script coding if you want to or need to. 
Almost 7 years ago
Thanks for trying the product, Luiz. They are on version 3.0 of the product now and they have accelerators to connect to Salesforce.com, Google Cloud, Dropbox, and many other cloud platforms. They also have a fully published REST-based API which makes it easy to integrate…
Almost 12 years ago
Here are my top 3 1. Get off the upgrade/patch flywheel - not spending as much time on provisioning hardware, patching, upgrading, regression testing hardware and software updates from vendors...can easily reduce your IT teams time by 30% or more per year, which is freed up…
Almost 12 years ago
Just an FYI...I found out this week that Microsoft with their OneDrive solution will be also encrypting files in storage and in transit, and if you have your email already in the cloud with Microsoft O365 you can get enormous amounts of data per user in each person's…
Almost 12 years ago
The biggest difference we saw when we looked at Box a few years ago was that Box encrypted stored files both in transit and at rest in storage. This is a deal breaker for most enterprises because most enterprise policies won't allow public storage (outside company data…
About 12 years ago
Great question Ariel...I do have guidelines, which could be turned into a matrix I believe! What my teams use today are guidelines for evaluating SLA's of cloud providers, guidelines for calculating TCO of cloud providers, and guidelines for cloud contract negotiations. I…
Almost 13 years ago
Projects
About 12 years ago
Customer Care Project
ChallengeAs one of North America’s largest degree-granting institutions for business, technology, healthcare and management education, we needed a comprehensive system to manage student inquiries and the University application through course registration process. As part of…
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Employers

DeKonsultere LLC
ThingLogix, Inc
Align Capital Partners
Brent Sopel Foundation
Carrington College California-Sacramento
IT Central Station
Adtalem Global Education
DVG
SIRVA
IQ4hire
Covansys
BSG
KPMG
Kendall County

Education

Northern Illinois University

Interesting Projects and Accomplishments
About 12 years ago