WEBINAR: Tips for Negotiating Great Cloud, SaaS and Licensing Deals

    FORT LAUDERDALE, FL, November 12, 2016 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Moving software to the cloud? Have a SaaS agreement you need to negotiate? Or, maybe licensing some software?

Enterprise technology transactions lawyer Mark Grossman, named by Best Lawyers as Technology Lawyer of the Year for 2016, is teaming up with business analytics expert and president of Lodestar Solutions Heather Cole to teach you what you need to know to negotiate the best cloud, SaaS, and licensing deals for your organization.

Join Mark Grossman and Heather Cole November 17th from 9:30 AM to 12:30 PM EST and discover how to:
• identify potential landmines in contracts,
• learn skills to negotiate the best contract, and
• get software industry insider techniques to save you money.
This webinar will be broadcast live from Fort Lauderdale using MIVNET Connect, the cloud-based, high-definition multipoint video collaboration solution powered by eZuce's Viewme software.

"MIVNET Connect's unique video collaboration client has the power to give each participant 'the best seat in the house.' Users will be able to customize displays by rearranging, magnifying and moving video tiles and screen shares. Or, participants can choose to join the webinar quickly, 'on the go,' right from a web browser using the Viewme WebRTC," said Grossman.

Click here to get your ticket now for 3 hours of insider secrets on negotiating software and SaaS contracts. Cost of the webinar is only $150. Use code "MIVNET25" for a $25 discount. If you're a lawyer, there are three CLE credits pending for New York and Florida. More details are available at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/key-tips-for-negotiating-better-cloud-saas-and-software-licensing-deals-tickets-28403496623.

If you're looking for a collaboration platform for your own virtual meeting, MIVNET's community of business professionals will set you up with the most affordable hybrid cloud-based video collaboration solution. MIVNET Connect helps clients conduct interviews, capture depositions, record testimony and receive and provide training remotely. To learn more about MIVNET's collaboration software and services, contact Mark Levy at [email protected]. Whether planning you next business meeting, board meeting, webinar or even town meeting, MIVNET Connect can save you time and money on virtual meeting solutions that are right for you.

MARK GROSSMAN
Mark's practice focuses on the negotiation of enterprise IT deals of every kind and the handling of many kinds of technology-related legal issues. Mark's clients have ranged from Fortune 100 companies to middle market companies in many diverse industries including car rental, oil and gas, automobile distribution and import, recording label, music distribution, supermarkets, medical billing, insurance, hospitals, and digital media. Mark represents and has been a board member for many technology companies, and is also an author, commentator and frequent speaker on technology, outsourcing, and the art of deal negotiation.

The Best Lawyers in America (www.bestlawyers.com) named Mark "Lawyer of the Year" for Technology Law in New York City for 2016. Each year, Best Lawyers names a single lawyer in each specialty in each community as a "Lawyer of the Year." Those honored have received particularly outstanding ratings in the surveys by their peers by earning a high level of respect for their abilities, professionalism, and integrity. Further, his peers also selected Mark to be on the 2015 New York Super Lawyers list. Super Lawyers are those who were in top 5% of the vote in a state.

Mark has appeared on "The Best Lawyers in America" list since 2003. Since Best Lawyers bases its choices on a confidential peer-review survey in which over 25,000 leading attorneys cast about two million votes on the legal abilities of other lawyers in their specialties, and because lawyers are not allowed to pay a listing fee, inclusion in Best Lawyers is considered a singular honor. Corporate Counsel magazine has called Best Lawyers "the most respected referral list of attorneys in practice."

Mark is AV-rated by Martindale-Hubbell, the highest level attainable, and has been a member of the New York City Bar's Computer Law Committee and Florida Bar's Computer Law Committee.

Mark began his writing career with PC World Magazine, focusing on technology law just as technology and the Internet exploded. Later, he renamed his column "TechLaw" and moved it to the Miami Herald where it ran for many years.
Mark has written articles for several journals published by the New York Bar. Mark also authored two editions of the book Technology Law - What Every Business (and Business-Minded Person) Needs to Know.

Since the mid-1990's, Mark has spoken to hundreds of groups domestically and internationally. He has also been a guest on many television and radio shows including CNBC's "Closing Bell," Bloomberg TV's "Bloomberg West," and ABC's "Nightline."

Mark has served on the Board of Directors of the South Florida Technology Alliance, the Advisory Board of BNA's Electronic Commerce & Law Newsletter, and the Board of Editors of "Internet Law and Strategy," a publication of Law Journal Newsletters.

Mark received his B.A. with high honors in 1979 from Stony Brook University and is a 1982 cum laude graduate of Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, D.C. He is a member of the New York and Florida Bars.

HEATHER COLE
Heather Cole is an expert in Business Analytics and a self-described "socialized nerd". She is the president of Lodestar Solutions, Inc., a certified woman-owned small business based in Tampa. She is a dynamic speaker that keeps her audience laughing and engaged. Her website, Heatherized.com, teaches soft skills to technical and analytically minded professionals.

Heather L. Cole coaches clients in defining their Business Analytics and Financial Performance Management roadmap, which empowers them to meet their strategic goals by leveraging internal resources.

She is educated in computer science, finance, and a licensed attorney, with over 25 years of software industry experience. Her passion is inspiring people and companies to advance their thinking and execution in business intelligence and analytics through workshops, webinars, and one-on-one strategic coaching. She was awarded the 2014 Enterprising Women of the Year by Enterprising Women Magazine. Ms. Cole is a four-time winner of the IBM Business Analytics Information Champion Award.

She is a board member of Financial Executives International's (FEI) Tampa chapter and volunteers for organization that promote women and minority business owners such as Central & North Florida Minority Supplier Development Council (CNFMSDC) and Go for the Greens, a business development conference for women entrepreneurs.

Lodestar's mission is to empower IT and analytical professionals. Lodestar's motto is "Business Analytics involves People, Process and Tools - in that order. We Empower the People."

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