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Clay serves Enterprise Architecture Professionals and is a leading expert on business process management (BPM) software, services, and methodologies. Clay delivers strategic guidance to professionals seeking to improve collaborative and operational business processes. Clay specifically helps enterprises establish BPM strategies, governance standards, and BPM centers of excellence; identify Agile and Lean methodologies best suited for BPM projects; and establish vendors and technologies that help automate and optimize mission-critical business processes.
Clay comes to Forrester with many years of experience in business process improvement projects, BPM platforms and solutions selection, systems analysis and design, and project management for enterprise software implementations. Clay has led projects to successfully deploy BPM solutions for government and commercial organizations around the world and has specialized in helping create BPM centers of excellence.
Most recently, Clay served as BPM practice leader at Project Performance Corporation, a system integrator based in Washington, D.C., where he launched and managed the company's BPM practice. Prior to that, Clay directed a team of 30 consultants, trainers, and support engineers in delivery and support of BPM solutions, as the director of professional services at HandySoft Global Corporation, a pure-play BPM vendor.
Clay is active with several BPM industry associations, including the Workflow Management Coalition, where he served as founder and co-chair of the organization's public sector chapter.
Clay earned a B.S. in computer science from the University of South Carolina and a BPM professional certificate from Boston University.
SAP is a paying a substantial premium to acquire SuccessFactors, a leading SaaS performance and talent management vendor. The press release of December 3, 2011 states that the deal price of $40 per...
Business Case: The Business Applications Playbook
This report outlines the business case component of Forrester's solution for application development and delivery (AD&D) professionals working on business applications strategy. If you're debating...

Application vendor selection remains mired in a bureaucratic process that has lost relevance in today's quickly changing application market. In the world of cloud computing and software-as-a-service...

Vision: The Business Applications Playbook
This report outlines the vision aspect of Forrester's solution for application development and delivery (AD&D) professionals working on business applications strategy. It summarizes the key business...

Slow Adoption Of Newer Product Means Changes Likely In Oracle's Strategy
This report, originally written for CIOs, includes content relevant to application development and delivery (AD&D) professionals. With Oracle's strong footprint in the enterprise business apps...

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...
Microsoft Dynamics AX Leads Microsoft's App Innovation Agenda
The 2011 Convergence event demonstrated that Microsoft continues to advance its ERP products and offer additional deployment options — specifically, software-as-a-service (SaaS). The event...

This HRM assessment tool enables a self-evaluation of four key areas: strategic alignment between HR and the overall business, the current portfolio of HRM applications, the effectiveness and...
Tools And Technology: The Business Applications Playbook
This report, a component of Forrester's business applications playbook, provides a framework for selecting and acquiring business applications software and related services. Disruptive technologies...
Business owners of on-premises enterprise application packages face an ongoing dilemma: whether or not to invest in upgrades to the current release. While most business and IT execs put off upgrades...
Future Look: The Human Resource Management Playbook
This report outlines the future outlook for application development and delivery (AD&D) professionals working with human resources executives on their applications and business process optimization...

What are the latest industry trends related to the adoption of HR portals to provide employee decision support tools and self-service for career and benefits programs? Which are the top HR portal...
Workday Leads, Followed By Oracle PeopleSoft, Oracle EBS, And SAP
Forrester's 69-criteria evaluation of human resource management system (HRMS) vendors found that Workday, Oracle PeopleSoft, Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS), and SAP lead the pack; each has its own...
Human resource management (HRM) processes and applications remain vital for organizations to enhance talent retention and workforce productivity; yet, Forrester survey data indicates the level of IT...
Oracle Customers Face A Choice: Stay With Apps They Have And Miss Out On Innovation Or Make The Painful Switch To Fusion
Oracle faces a strategic dilemma, and how it responds to this dilemma will present the CIOs at its clients with some tough choices. Oracle Fusion Applications — Oracle's new generation of...

Now is the perfect time for business process professionals to revisit their current enterprise resource planning (ERP) application commitments and future ERP plans. As the global economy gradually...

These data charts detail the results of the August 2011 Global Employee Master Data Management Online Survey.
Oracle Corporation announced its purchase of Taleo for $1.9 billion on Feb. 9, 2012, signaling a major shift in its stance on software-as-a-service (SaaS) and talent management applications. The...
Strategic Plan: The Business Applications Playbook
This report outlines the strategic planning process for business applications managed by application development and delivery professionals. This report is designed to help you maintain a viable set...

Organizations Face Challenges With The Proliferation Of Employee Data
Although the notion of a global system of record for employee information is widely accepted, many organizations are unable to achieve this goal. The majority of organizations maintain complex and...
The three key activities of corporate financial management take place on a continuum of the past (reporting and compliance), present (analysis and measurement), and future (planning and forecasting)....
