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Calling all vendors

I met with a vendor this week to discuss one of their software solutions, and as part of the 2-hour meeting I was hoping to get further details on how their solution worked, how it scaled, what was required to deploy and manage it, how other customers were applying their technology, and most importantly how the solution would benefit the company I work for. We had explicitly asked the vendor ahead of time to prepare a presentation to address these topics, and what we received was far from that! If I had to describe the vendors presentation, I would have to describe it as buzzword bingo meets Alf (the guy presenting kinda looked like an alien, which is the reason I used the reference to Alf). If you are a solutions provider that deals with customers, I have a few helpful hints for you: ​1…