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Andras serves Security & Risk Professionals. He is a leading expert on identity management, access management, user account provisioning, entitlement management, federation, privileged identity management, and role design and management. Andras covers cloud security and enterprise fraud management, which have many synergies with identity and access management when an organization needs to protect against risk and wants to manage fraud appropriately. He helps clients develop enterprise strategies for creating business value through identity management, cloud security, and fraud management.
His research focuses on strategy, cost-benefit analysis, architecture, performance and scalability of identity and access management and provisioning solutions, enterprise fraud management solutions, and role-based access control (RBAC), as well as maintenance and distributed intranet and Internet identity systems. He maintains an interest in evaluating the skill sets and core competencies of professional service providers in these spaces.
Prior to joining Forrester, Andras was a security architect with CA Technical Services through the Netegrity acquisition. Andras designed the architecture and led the implementation of Fortune 500 companies' identity and access management and provisioning solutions. Previously, Andras managed business process re-engineering projects.
Andras holds an M.B.A. degree from Technical University of Budapest and Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK, and an M.Sc. in computer science and electrical engineering from Technical University of Budapest.
Assessment: The Channel Partner Loyalty Playbook
To systematically determine how well your partner program is performing today, and set a baseline for what to improve moving forward, measuring all the significant activity you put into building...

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Road Map: The Channel Partner Loyalty Playbook
In this report, we present a compendious road map to guide you through the steps to build a partner loyalty program or to revamp an existing one. Follow this road map — and the companion...


Service Provider Market Dynamics Will Muddy The Channel Ecosystem
An inflection point has surfaced in the managed service provider (MSP) market. Tech vendors must awaken to the revolution that is swiftly taking shape in the ecosystem as cloud computing adoption...

Over the last two months, I’ve had the opportunity to interview a plethora of managed service providers (MSPs) and MSP platform vendors across the US, Europe, and Asia. The experience has...
Despite Vendor Efforts To Marketing-Enable Their Partners, Partners Still View Channels As Implementers, Not Influencers
Is your channel marketing enablement program first-rate? Sorry to break it to you, but we have reason to believe it's not. Tech vendors are investing more than ever today to empower their channel as...

Assessment: The Channel Partner Loyalty Playbook
Forrester's Channel Partner Loyalty Capabilities Assessment is a tool that illustrates and scores the seven critical program elements that contribute to channel partner loyalty.

Indian Partners Outpace Chinese
China and India are two of the largest emerging markets with strong economic growth. China represents the third largest single country tech market by market size; India ranks 11th. Homogenous...

Organization: The Channel Partner Loyalty Playbook
This report maps out the range of stakeholders within your organization whom you will work with, and work for, in executing the channel partner loyalty playbook. It is designed to help you plan and...

A Critical Mass Of Channel Partners Are Embracing Cloud
Forrester recently surveyed channel partner company executives on their business model plans with respect to cloud computing. What we learned: After much gnashing of teeth (over marginalized...

MSPs Are Reaching A New Level Of Maturity
The IT channel has radically transformed over the past several years, and managed service providers (MSPs) have emerged triumphant. MSP market growth now outpaces the rest of the IT industry, but...

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B2B partner marketers are tasked with improving the marketing prowess of their partner communities, but progress has been slow to date. With the rise of social media and avant-garde digital marketing...

Which Channels Are Customers Sourcing From?
In 2010, Forrester published a report on channel sweet spots to address how small and medium-size businesses (SMBs) source their software needs. Two years later, we're revisiting this topic to...
