![]() ![]() At this point we'd already paid PMP so it wasn't in the budget but they were adamant. They then replied with an obscure section of their terms and conditions that states we have to give a 90 day notice of non-renewal and since we were beyond the 90 days we HAD to renew. However, then Ivanti emailed us about renewal, to which I replied that our management had chosen not to renew the product so thank you anyway. We purchased PMP and a few weeks later I extracted everything Ivanti from MEMCM and setup PMP and was really pleased with how it worked. I did the due diligence to get a quote for renewal and PMP new contract was significantly cheaper so it made it a no brainier for the directors to approve. Now again, I wasn't the one who purchased it and as a technical guy I didn't read all the contracts and terms, but we all assumed if we didn't pay them the licence would expire on the designated date. I was so convinced that I started the wheels in motion to switch once our contract with Invanti expired. ![]() About a month later I want to Ignite and he went to MMS where we both saw demos of PMP and thought "that's what we should have purchased". ![]() When he started trying to implement it he realized how clunky it was. So my manager and colleague just bought Ivanti. But I, the champion of the need for a third party patching product, was buried under multiple massive projects and didn't have time to do a proper evaluation of competing products. ![]() Then near end of year before last our manager found some money in the budget for a third party patching product. But we were told there wasn't budget for multiple years straight. So I found Ivanti a few years back and on the surface appeared to meet all of our needs. While it is anecdotal, I offer this story for us switching from Ivanti to PMP. ![]()
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