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Audience Strata

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In infrastructure software sales and marketing, Lustratus categorises the primary end user target audience as one or more of the following three categories:

  • IT Technical – Represents the overtly technical disciplines within the IT organisation that have no management, strategic  or commercial responsibilities
  • IT Business – Represents the higher management levels of the IT organisation that have strategic and/or financial responsibilities
  • Business – Represents the line of business functions outside of the IT organisation

Whilst there are many subtle distinctions between these these layers a general description of the types of positions and the role of they play in enterprise software sales for infrastructure software is shown in the diagram below:

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    May 12, 2011 (12:01)
    The Goodall Technology Reading Ease Index - How Complex is Your Marketing Copy? Hmm. I really do like the name Sarah but what about my ego? If I were to call the index 'GoodRead...
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    The Goodall Technology Reading Ease Index - How Complex is Your Marketing Copy? I suggest calling it the GoodRead Index. Maybe it's over-reaching a bit, but you'll just have to ...
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    Truth Denied? The Software Appliance Revisited. Allow me to disagrre. At a customer, we have used Datapower for years to process XML (BTW, it is ...
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    New Report From Lustratus Research: A Competitive Review of SOA Appliances Pete,Thanks for your comments, and those of your colleague. I think Danny has answered the 'mar...
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    New Report From Lustratus Research: A Competitive Review of SOA Appliances Hi,I'd very much like to develop a point made in the report where it is asserted that software ...
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    New Report From Lustratus Research: A Competitive Review of SOA Appliances Thanks for your comment Blake. This is a marketing-focused blog that looks at different vendors' ...
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    New Report From Lustratus Research: A Competitive Review of SOA Appliances Hello There - It seems that this is a very provocative report, especially with respect to the sta...
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    The Decision Making Unit for Cloud Computing Very interesting point of discussion. I would be very interested to hear your results.