Allan Siegert serves as Vice President of Sales for Navatar Group and is based out of the New York office. He is a veteran in Financial Services sales with more than two decades of experience in SaaS, financial market data, trading room systems, CRM and financial news. During ten years at Reuters (now Thomson Reuters), Siegert served as VP Southeast and Caribbean running a group that built a multi-million dollar revenue base. He has also served in sales leadership positions at SAVVIS and Thomson Financial. Siegert started his career as a journalist, earning a Bachelors of Journalism at the University Missouri-Columbia. He was VP Newspapers for UPI prior to specializing in the financial markets with Reuters. He also is Chairman of the Marketing Executive Networking Group (MENG) Sales Special Interest Group.SaaS, financial market data, trading room systems, CRM and financial news. During ten years at Reuters (now Thomson Reuters), Siegert served as VP Southeast and Caribbean running a group that built a multi-million dollar revenue base. He has also served in sales leadership positions at SAVVIS and Thomson Financial.
Siegert started his career as a journalist, earning a Bachelors of Journalism at the University Missouri-Columbia. He was VP Newspapers for UPI prior to specializing in the financial markets with Reuters. He also is Chairman of the Marketing Executive Networking Group (MENG) Sales Special Interest Group.
Navatar Group, a cloud service provider, is openly attacking the vestiges of
the on-premise software model. Navatar just announced that it will provide
all implementation and support services for financial firms interested in
salesforce.com, for free.
Navatar's announcement is promises to start a new trend among cloud product
providers - free services. This is bad news for legacy software vendors who
earn millions of dollars from implementation, maintenance and support fees.
Those days of charging all these fees, just to keep things running, may be
over soon.
However, this is great news for customers who are quickly becoming accustomed
to the Consumer Cloud, which is frankly setting the expectation that Cloud
services are immediately available without implementation effort. Can you
imagine downloading an app for your Blackberry or iPhone and being asked to
pay for... (more)
Allan Siegert serves as Vice President of Sales for Navatar Group and is based out of the New York office. He is a veteran in Financial Services sales with more than two decades of experience in SaaS, financial market data, trading room systems, CRM and financial news. During ten years at Reuters (now Thomson Reuters), Siegert served as VP Southeast and Caribbean running a group that built a multi-million dollar revenue base. He has also served in sales leadership positions at SAVVIS and Thomson Financial. Siegert started his career as a journalist, earning a Bachelors of Journalism at the University Missouri-Columbia. He was VP Newspapers for UPI prior to specializing in the financial markets with Reuters. He also is Chairman of the Marketing Executive Networking Group (MENG) Sales Special Interest Group.SaaS, financial market data, trading room systems, CRM and financial news. During ten years at Reuters (now Thomson Reuters), Siegert served as VP Southeast and Caribbean running a group that built a multi-million dollar revenue base. He has also served in sales leadership positions at SAVVIS and Thomson Financial. 
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