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Christopher Dixon
Sr Principal Analyst
15 years at Gartner, 15 years' experience
Location: Stamford, CT USA | Language(s): English
Roles and Responsibilities
Christopher Dixon is a Senior Principal Analyst with Gartner Research. Mr. Dixon provides advice about software and cloud contract negotiations, software audits, and IT asset disposition (ITAD). He has a particular vendor emphasis on Google infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Apigee and Google Workspace, ServiceNow Software as a Service (SaaS), API Management platform licensing and pricing and Tableau analytics software. His coverage area includes negotiating strategies, pricing, terms and conditions, and software audit strategies that result in one-time and ongoing savings to organizations. He also covers ITAD strategy, vendors, data sanitization and environmental disposition.
Background
Previous Experience
Previously, Mr. Dixon provided peer-community-based research for the Gartner for Enterprise IT Leaders (EITL) product, specifically about infrastructure and operations and security and risk management domains.
Education
- B.A., cum laude, Economics, Wabash College
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- 16 October 2023 - 19 October 2023 IT Symposium/Xpo
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