Rich Savage
Senior Team Manager, Open Source, Carahsoft
Rich Savage is a Senior Team Manager on the Open Source team at Carahsoft who brings over five years of experience to aid government agencies in identifying the right open source solution for their mission. His growing sales team works with an expanding portfolio of vendors, including Red Hat, Acquia, Alfresco, CollabNet, ForgeRock, MongoDB and Pentaho. Rich specializes in federal, state, local and education territories and most recently, Canada.
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Open Source: The Matchmaker for Big Data and Analytics
July 7th, 2016
Some couples are simply perfect matches. They complement one another’s strengths and compensate for their faults. But perfect pairing doesn’t only exist in the dating world – in fact, they are often found in IT with open source serving as the connecting force. In the world of big data analytics, open source technologies, MongoDB and Pentaho, are a perfect match and the use cases are powerful.
- Tagged Big Data, MongoDB, Open Source, Pentaho
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Stop “Paperizing” and Start Digitizing
June 1st, 2016
At Alfresco’s Content.gov event, one of the most significant discussion topics was the modernization of government’s records management systems. The legacy, proprietary record management solutions that public sector organizations have used are expensive, complex, and designed to meet only the needs of records managers. In other words, the current systems are dated and problematic for users to access and sort through.
- Tagged Alfresco, Content Management, Digital Strategy
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The Past, Present, and Future of Cloud
May 18th, 2016
Cloud will continue to change rapidly over the coming years as more agencies adopt, realize cost savings, and meet agile development goals. To find success, agencies should automate and iterate processes in the cloud, especially with requests and provisioning.
- Tagged CollabNet, Open Source Cloud
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Agile: One Size Does Not Fit All
April 15th, 2016
Agility is a buzzword and growing trend in Public Sector IT. It signals a move away from traditional, waterfall development of massive IT systems to an iterative process for building smaller applications that bring together large legacy systems. But in this move to agile development, many IT professionals search for a checklist of how to move to an agile organization. The truth is, no such list exists. Agile is just that – agile.
