Jason Covitz

Jason Covitz is the Director of Marketing Strategy for Schneider Electric’s IT Business, focusing on the Home and Business Networks application areas. He is responsible for the development and maintenance of both key customer personas and the customer journey from acquisition, acceleration, closure and retention. Over his past 13 years with American Power Conversion (APC) and Schneider Electric, Jason has held a variety of roles spanning, customer service, sales and marketing. Prior to his current role, Jason was an Retail Account Manager responsible both the management and expansion of major retail accounts and was the first National Account Manager for the then newly created Audio/Video division, where he focused on the growth of distribution channels and manufacturer's representatives. Jason holds an MA in English from Clark University in Worcester, MA USA .

Success with Edge Computing: MSPs Must Manage Customer Sites

As edge computing sites sprout across the IT landscape to handle IoT (Internet of Things) and AI (artificial intelligence) applications, organizations are facing performance and management challenges. Eventually companies will have hundreds and thousands of…
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Resilience at Edge Computing Sites Is Resilience for the Whole IT Environment

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Proper client onboarding is vital to the success of a managed services engagement. It requires careful planning, in-depth discussions to learn client needs and set proper expectations, and meticulous execution. Skip an important step when…
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How to Market Expertise and Innovation

Your new line of managed service offerings is rock solid. Your sales team can sell salt to the sea. But that is still not enough to increase the revenue, profit and market reach your company…
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If it isn’t working, unplug it, wait a few minutes and plug it back in. This set of simple instructions is so common in IT that it has become kind of a joke. Funny though…
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You can’t sell anything if clients don’t know you exist. That’s why there’s marketing. Many providers in the managed services world, tend to shortchange marketing because they mistakenly believe it’s enough to offer good technology….
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We all want to rank among our customers’ most trusted business partners. To get there, though, MSPs might have to travel a different path than they’ve been taking. The problem is that most MSPs fail…
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Clients’ needs are quickly changing. They’re looking to tap into the business enablers, efficiencies and revenue streams fueled by new data analytics, sensor, automation, cloud computing and other solutions. They need their MSP to guide…
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