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Bryan serves Infrastructure & Operations Professionals and leads a research team that helps Forrester's business technology clients in China as well as the telecom and networking sector for Asia Pacific region. Bryan offers strategic advice and guidance to clients in the areas of mega trends, overall IT spending patterns, cloud adoption, enterprise mobility solutions, data center transformation, and application adoption in Greater China region. He also helps regional clients for their networking and enterprise communication services strategies in Asia Pacific.
Bryan is a highly sought-after contributor to the media's coverage of the tech industry and regularly speaks at industry events in China and Asia.
Bryan came to Forrester through its acquisition of Springboard Research, where he has established its China operation. Before joining Springboard, Bryan was the regional managing director for In-Stat's operations in Asia, where he was responsible for all research and consulting business. Prior to In-Stat, Bryan was a program manager for Frost & Sullivan, focusing on networking and telecom services research for the Asia Pacific region.
Bryan graduated with a bachelor's degree in computing from the National University of Singapore.
A Total Economic Impact™ Analysis Uncovers Continuing Value Through New Data Applications
Business process (BP) professionals implement data warehousing (DW) appliances to deliver more powerful analytics more rapidly, inexpensively, and pervasively. Unfortunately, some BP pros push back...
To justify a technology investment, buyers traditionally estimate the expected impact or return on investment (ROI) within their own organization's four walls, typically to IT itself and end users in...


Business Case: The Governance, Risk, And Compliance Playbook
As the governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) platform market matures, product vendors struggle to point to credible return on investment figures, and potential buyers similarly struggle when asked...
Underlying any investment is the ever-present question of "What am I going to get for my money?" To answer this question, Forrester developed the Total Economic Impact™ (TEI) methodology. TEI...
Business Impact: The Identity And Access Management Playbook
Security and risk (S&R) executives responsible for identity and access management (IAM) must manage access to sensitive applications and data because of security and compliance requirements -- and...
This is a workbook to help you analyze the TEI of building versus leasing a data center.
A Tool To Help You Uncover The Economic Value Of Your Community
Two of the most common questions we receive from B2B marketers are "How do I know if it's worth having a community?" and "How can I prove to my executives that my community is worth their...

Customer reference programs are crucial to AR programs that target client advocate analysts — those who guide users and buyers. Yet AR managers report difficulty in connecting analysts to...
This model is designed to function as a decision tool for planning enterprise storage refresh strategy. Given a set of assumptions, a firm can use this tool to model and compare two scenarios for...
Business process professionals responsible for packaged applications often have difficulty in getting their arms around the total costs of ownership of their business solutions. SaaS simplifies the...
Business Case: The Business Intelligence Playbook
As the demand for pervasive and comprehensive business intelligence (BI) applications increases, so do the complexity and cost of large enterprise BI implementations. Organizations must demonstrate...
A Total Economic Impact™ Analysis Uncovers Quick Payback And Continuing Value
Business process (BP) professionals implement data warehousing (DW) appliances to deliver more powerful analytics more rapidly, inexpensively, and pervasively. Unfortunately, some IT executives push...
Business Case: The Contact Centers For Customer Service Playbook
Customer service is a cornerstone of a company's customer experience strategy. Delivering good customer service has quantifiable benefits measured in decreased operational costs, increased repurchase...

A Total Economic Impact™ Analysis Uncovers Long-Term Value In Cloud Apps
Cloud applications continue to gain momentum in enterprise applications as buyers are attracted to fast deployment speeds, low upfront costs, and ongoing flexibility to scale up or down as needs...
Risk, as it pertains to technology development and operations, comes in many guises and requires different mitigation strategies. Unfortunately, many organizations apply a set of imprecise,...
A Total Economic Impact™ Analysis Uncovers Real Transformational Benefits
Companies waste millions of dollars each year on ineffective and inefficient business processes. Many companies attack this waste with process improvement exercises using approaches such as Six...
Business Case: The CRM Playbook
Customer relationship management (CRM) initiatives must not only be technically sound but must answer the question, "What will we get for our money?" Application development and delivery (AD&D) pros...

A Total Economic Impact™ Analysis Uncovers That For Most Companies Leasing A Data Center Is More Economical Than Building One
Data centers are running low on space, power, and cooling. When it comes time to provision new data center capacity, IT infrastructure and operations (I&O) professionals are faced with the critical...