Analyst Library
Analysts that have spoken at Dining Club events:
E-Retailing - Succeeding with E-Retail
Date: 4th September 2008
Analyst Speaker: Neil Saunders, Consulting Director, Verdict Research
Biography: Neil Saunders has worked at Verdict Research for eight years where he is currently Consulting Director. In this role he is responsible for all aspects of the consulting division and heads up most client projects, working with retail and consumer related companies to help develop, evolve and implement business strategies.
Company: Verdict Research www.verdict.co.uk
Coping with the Imminent Legacy Systems Crunch
Date: 14th August 2008
Analyst Speaker: Alan Rodger, Senior Research Analyst, Butler Group
Biography: Alan has worked in the IT industry for over 25 years, with many large user and technology organisations (including IBM, Sun, CSC, ICL, General Motors, Anglian Water, Severn Trent, HSBC, and Barclaycard) as an employee or in an independent consultant capacity, and has business applications experience within e-commerce, utilities, retail banking, and local government.
Since joining Butler Group in 2002, Alan’s main focus topics have been outsourcing and services, security, and infrastructure management. He has co-authored Butler Group Reports on Identity and Access Management, IT Governance, Enterprise Architectures, IT Performance Optimisation, Achieving IT Flexibility, Security Management, Application Lifecycle Management, Managed Services, Rich Web Applications, Sustainable IT Provision, Application Delivery, and IT Systems Management.
Company: Butler Group www.butlergroup.com
Virtualisation: Live or Let Die!
Date: Thursday 10th July 2008
Analyst Speaker: Tim Jennings, Research Director, Butler Group
Biography: Tim is one of Europe’s most experienced IT analysts with expertise gained in a broad spectrum of technology areas working with both vendors and end-users in his 20-year career in the IT industry. His roles have included software development in the public sector, consultancy work in the manufacturing and retail sectors, and he has also represented overseas software vendors in the U.K. market.
Company: Butler Group www.butlergroup.com
The Inconvenient Truth about Business Continuity
Date: Thursday 3rd July 2008
Analyst Speaker: Alan Rodger, Senior Research Analyst, Butler Group
Biography: Alan has worked in the IT industry for over 25 years, with many large user and technology organisations (including IBM, Sun, CSC, ICL, General Motors, Anglian Water, Severn Trent, HSBC, and Barclaycard) as an employee or in an independent consultant capacity, and has business applications experience within e-commerce, utilities, retail banking, and local government.
Since joining Butler Group in 2002, Alan’s main focus topics have been outsourcing and services, security, and infrastructure management. He has co-authored Butler Group Reports on Identity and Access Management, IT Governance, Enterprise Architectures, IT Performance Optimisation, Achieving IT Flexibility, Security Management, Application Lifecycle Management, Managed Services, Rich Web Applications, Sustainable IT Provision, Application Delivery, and IT Systems Management.
Company: Butler Group www.butlergroup.com
Could You Be Risking a Data Breach?
Date: 26th June 2008
Analyst Speaker: Guy Titterington, Principle Analyst, Ovum
Company: Ovum www.ovum.com
Unlock the Business Value in your Information
Date: 11th June 2008
Analyst Speaker: Vuk Trifkovic, Senior Analyst, Datamonitor
Biography: Vuk is an analyst in the Supply and Demand Analytics team which covers applications, services, security and telecommunication technologies. Vuk’s primary focus is on a series of market focus and competitor analysis reports with particular emphasis on enterprise applications, business process modelling and service oriented architecture. In addition, Vuk actively contributes to bespoke consulting projects conducted by the team.
Company: Datamonitor www.datamonitor.com
Master Data Automation and Consolidation with Virtualisation
Date: Thursday 1st May 2008
Analyst Speaker: David Mitchell is responsible for Ovum's global IT research activities. In this role he brings together research covering the IT issues affecting major enterprises, and the providers of technology and services to those organisations. The portfolio focuses on advising enterprises on pragmatic approaches to extracting tangible benefits from technology and services investments, together with research for the supply-side on the positioning of their offerings.
His research focuses on the major supply- and demand-side issues that are changing the IT value chain, and how the changing relationships between software, IT services and telecoms organisations affect the way that enterprises can deliver benefits from technology investments. He regularly advises clients on their commercial interaction with key suppliers, and the supply side on the development of new and innovative pricing models.
David has worked in the IT industry since the early 1990s, working across many segments of the industry from management consulting, system integration and outsourcing, to software companies. He has worked as an advisor and consultant to both vendors and enterprises, as well as working directly in major IT organisations. Prior to working for Ovum, David worked for Oracle, Coopers & Lybrand and Unisys. Before moving into the commercial sector, David was a lecturer at Edinburgh University. He researched geographic information systems, their adoption in business, and their eventual economic benefits.
David is a regular contributor to the international technology and business press across a wide range of topics, for both print and television media. He regularly presents at international conferences and workshops.
David has a BSc in Geography from St. Andrews University and an M.Phil. from Queen Mary College, London University.
Company: Ovum www.ovum.com
Unified Communications: drastically more powerful than simple unifying communications...
Date: 6th March 2008, London
Analyst Speaker: Aphrodite Brinsmead, Associate Analyst Customer Interaction Technologies, Datamonitor
Biography: Aphrodite is an Associate Analyst on the Customer Interaction Technologies team where she covers speech recognition and emerging video solutions in the devices market. Her work primarily focuses on analyzing trends, strategies and practices for voice and video user interface across enterprise, desktop, mobile and ubiquitous computing environments. Prior to analyzing the customer interaction technologies market, Aphrodite’s primary research focus has been on the enterprise mobility and voice / data convergence markets. She has authored reports identifying key market trends and competitor dynamics and created comprehensive market forecast models. She has also analysed data from Datamonitor’s Technology Trends service: a survey of 1000 IT decision makers about their IT budgets and investment plans in core enterprise technologies.
Company: Datamonitor www.datamonitor.com
Master Data Management: The Key to Accurate Information on Demand?
Analyst Speaker: Helena Schwenk, Senior Analyst
Biography: Her responsibilities include running the service Ovum Evaluates: Business Intelligence Platforms, and writing and speaking regularly about BI market activities. As part of her role she speaks at conferences across Europe, writes for trade and business publications, and provides personalised advice to Ovum clients on a range of topics including data warehousing architectures, BI tool selection, future BI market direction and marketing strategy. In addition, Helena has worked on a variety of consulting projects for major clients, including a critical assessment of a data warehousing, ETL, business intelligence and performance management RFT for a large Australian government organisation.
Company: Ovum www.ovum.com
Can 'Green IT' Save Costs,
or 'Just' the Planet?
Analyst Speaker: Ian Brown, Senior Analyst
Biography: Ian Brown is a senior analyst in Ovum's IT Services Practice. Ian's research focus is on IT infrastructure services and he is a contributor to Outsourcing@Ovum.
Ian joined Ovum in June 2007 after more than 20 years' experience in research and advisory services. Most recently, he spent nine years at Gartner as a research director in their Worldwide Server team. Prior to that, he worked for 11 years as an associate managing analyst at Datapro Research, which was part of the McGraw-Hill Corporation.
Ian has worked with some of the leading IT system vendors, including IBM, HP and Sun Microsystems. He has spoken at European conferences and seminars on the server market and hardware technologies, and on up-and-coming technologies such as virtualisation and multi-core processor technology. Ian also brings an understanding of enterprise-client needs, derived from his experience in working with end-user clients.
Company: Ovum www.ovum.com
Accelerating Decision Making with Business Activity Monitoring
Analyst Speaker: Neil Ward-Dutton, Research Director
Biography: Neil is an accomplished and experienced IT industry analyst and public speaker. He advises clients on technology and management issues relating to enterprise architecture, application development, business integration, process management and application platforms. Immediately prior to forming Macehiter Ward-Dutton, Neil was Ovum’s Director of Technology Practices - where he had direct responsibility for all Ovum's software and telecoms technology research, and led a global team of technology analysts. In his nine years at Ovum, Neil led and contributed to a diverse range of technology research programmes.
Neil has acted as an advisor to leading vendors, including IBM, Oracle, Microsoft, BEA, Hewlett-Packard, SAP, and Borland; and to large IT user organisations – particularly in financial services, government and telecommunications sectors.
Company: Macehiter Ward-Dutton www.mwdadvisors.com
Take Charge of Your Identity Management Challenges
Analyst Speaker: Rik Turner, Senior Analyst, Financial Services Technology Team
Biography: Research Focus Rik covers the technology used in retail banking, be it in the back office/core systems environment, through to the bank branch and on into the “branch-free” worlds of online and mobile banking. Research Experience Rik produces both full-scale reports (called Strategic Focus) and first-take opinion pieces to provide clients with data and insights to inform their own positioning vis-à-vis changes in the market, say when vendor A has bought vendor B, or bank X has launched a particular service or changed supplier for a given technology. He also undertakes ad hoc consulting projects related to technologies used in retail banking. Previous Work Experience Rik’s background is in journalism, where he has extensive experience. This varies from 16 years as a foreign correspondent for numerous US and UK business publications, including the Financial Times and The Economist, to managing editor of a daily news website. He has spent the last ten years as an IT journalist working for Datamonitor’s ComputerWire service, with a focus over the last three years on the networking sector. He also spent five years covering data storage.
Company: Datamonitor www.datamonitor.com