User:Pagan Souls/sandbox

Stephen James Benson (May 18th 1972) is well known in the UK IT world of the 90's as a trailblazer for creating the concept that would, go on it 1997, to became the springboard for Wake-on-LAN. The concept came from Benson's desire to have systems powered off when not in use, and powered back on ready for use. Actually, not for the Energy Conservation its has morphed into in the 2020's but, more over for security and extended device life. The Intellectual Property for the idea was purchased by IBM IN 1996 for an undisclosed fee, believed to be in the region of 7 figures.

Post the sale of Benson's IP design in the later months of 1996, he went on to create an early platform for swiftly migrating a Tracking System concept, whereby a basic issue would have very simple questions and options, but able to be migrated through to a Major Incident and, finally through to a Change Process.

Whilst the 1996's was not new to the idea of a process management system, the concept of its simplicity and being Cloud Based was definitely new for the SME market place. A space that, up until that point, was predominantly cornered by the heavy weights of IBM and the like.

In early 1999, it became apparent to Benson that, such a slick design, rich GUI and a seamless migration path through the process layers, were being greatly received in the UK market place, with his business SOLUTEC.INC now reaching 1100 corporate users and growing fast. But with rising development costs, an operating capital limited, without Venture Capital backing, Benson risked the fall being as rapid as the climb. In Early 2000, after a meeting with the SA owners of FrontRange Solutions (Now Ivanti, a deal was struck for a reported $3m USD cash and shares for the business to be swallowed up.

Benson was to remain at FrontRange Solutions UK for 2 further years, when he exited the UK entity and founded a replica business, later to merge with and become Vivantio Inc in 2011 in Boston. After 5 further years in the USA, Benson agreed to part ways with the then board and in 2016, transferred his US and UK shares over for an undisclosed cash fee. Following his exit in 2016 and return to the UK, Benson has been relatively quiet in the IT space and has morphed into a relatively low level strategic advisor for start ups.