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MarsLander Simulation Training

Posted on May 28, 2019 by

By Dick Stark About a week ago, RightStar hosted a MarsLander session attended by customers and prospects.  Based upon ITIL 4, this role base simulation is highly realistic and leverages game dynamics to provide a vision of successful ITIL 4/DevOps … Continue reading →

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Report from the Atlassian Government Symposium

Posted on May 6, 2019 by

By Dick Stark Last Wednesday, RightStar exhibited at the Atlassian Government Symposium, held at the Westin City Center in Washington, DC. This is one of a series of worldwide stops to promote Atlassian products, services and customer networking. Atlassian had … Continue reading →

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New ScanStar is On a Roll

Posted on March 11, 2019 by

By Dick Stark Last week we received an order from a state agency for Jira Core, Jira Service Desk, Confluence, Insight, implementation services and ScanStar. It was the culmination of a sales process that included a RightStar advisory assessment to … Continue reading →

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ITIL 4: Ready to Launch

Posted on February 19, 2019 by

By Dick Stark Last week I set in on a webinar presented by ITpreneurs and AXELOS that described the ITIL 4 upcoming launch, and its new courseware and curriculum. AXELOS is the organization responsible for developing and enhancing the ITIL … Continue reading →

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What is the Future of On-Premise Software?

Posted on February 7, 2019 by

By Dick Stark On January 15, Netflix quietly announced a price increase by an average of 13 to 18 percent. With 58 million US subscribers, that works out to an additional $1.4B yearly revenue increase. How elastic is this type … Continue reading →

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Is Agile ITIL an Oxymoron?

Posted on November 21, 2018 by

By Dick Stark Last month, BMCer, Cheng Dong Zhao wrote a blog article,“Will ITIL Die or be reborn in the DevOps Era?” The world is becoming more and more Agile, and BMC is finally starting to focus on DevOps, or … Continue reading →

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Does an ITIL Process Assessment Matter?

Posted on November 16, 2018 by

By Dick Stark This week, RightStar finished up an ITIL process Assessment for a RightStar customer. To win this business, we beat two formidable ITSM consultancies in the ITIL space. Of course, this customer, like a lot of our customers, … Continue reading →

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