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As the enterprise tech world rushes to integrate AI, ManageEngine is taking a different approach – one rooted in visibility, control and unified platforms. Rajesh Ganesan, CEO of ManageEngine, discusses how the company’ s long-standing belief is that transformation doesn’ t come from trend-chasing, but from building the proper foundation.
How ManageEngine is building enterprise tech AI for control and not chaos
Rajesh Ganesan, CEO of ManageEngine
Artificial Intelligence hasn’ t just arrived; it’ s exploded across boardrooms. In a year dominated by AI noise, where every software vendor claims to be‘ powered by generative intelligence’, enterprise IT leaders are increasingly forced to ask more complex questions: What’ s changing? What’ s truly enterprise-ready? And who’ s building for resilience, not just relevance?
With the race and frenzy to plug AI, IT leaders today find it both a catalyst and a conundrum. Organisations are caught between the pressure to adopt new technologies at speed and the responsibility to maintain uptime and keep operations running smoothly.
However, for organisations like ManageEngine – which for 23 years have seen the ebb and flow of disruption – the way forward was to pivot entirely or double down.
“ ManageEngine has always been calculative, which means we are not conservative, but pragmatic in our approach to adoption,” said Rajesh Ganesan, CEO, ManageEngine.“ We have a structured roadmap, including short-term pilots and long-term integrations, which have given us time to reorient and build. This is the third time we’ re reinventing ourselves in two decades and the momentum is encouraging.”
The power of unified platforms
The organisation’ s longstanding focus on platform unification versus isolated point solutions becomes increasingly critical for CIOs managing fragmented stacks.
“ The market is fragmented, yes but we evolved naturally,” Ganesan said.“ In the early days, we
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