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Connie is a member of Forrester's Business Technology Futures team, which serves CIOs and their business partners by predicting the long-term business impact of information technology. Her research focus is on smart computing and analytics.
Connie came to Forrester through its acquisition of Giga Information Group in 2003. She has more than 25 years of experience in the IT industry and has been an analyst for 19 years. Most of her research focuses on business process management and business optimization. Prior to joining Giga, Connie managed BIS Strategic Decisions' European IT consulting group, headquartered in the UK. Before then, Connie was vice president of product marketing at TDC (now part of BancTec), a manufacturer of high-end document capture systems. She was also a manager with Andersen Consulting (now Accenture), specializing in document management, document imaging, and end user computing. Earlier, Connie was with Wang Laboratories, where she managed Wang's technical support resources for the US Department of Defense and intelligence agencies. She began her career in IT and management at Mathematica Policy Research.
Connie was the co-champion of Forrester's 2009 Business Technology Forum, with its theme of "Lean: The New Business Technology Imperative." Connie also co-championed Forrester's 2007 Technology Leadership Forum, with the theme of "Design for People, Build for Change," and Forrester's 2008 Technology Leadership Forum, themed as "Embrace Technology Chaos, Deliver Business Results." Connie is a widely sought speaker. She has keynoted at many industry events, chaired 10 business process and workflow conferences in Europe and the US, and co-chaired Giga's "Leveraging Knowledge" conference. Connie also served as a director of AIIM International, the premier association for the content management industry, and is a member of the Association of Business Process Management Professionals.
Connie attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and holds a B.A. in political science and history from East Carolina University and an M.B.A. in information systems from George Washington University.
The Very Small Business Profile: Growing, Young, And Mobile
The very small business (VSB) market is growing in importance for an increasing number of tech vendors, in large part due to the fact that it is the fastest-growing company-size segment in terms of...
Hosters And Tech Vendors Are Drafting Amazon's Slipstream
The infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) cloud business, with its high margins, is a strong attractant to a slew of provider channels. But customers view different provider types differently in terms...
SMBs' strong adoption of cloud computing is well known. What is less well understood is how SMBs are adopting cloud for various technology categories relative to one another.


The Tug-Of-War Between Vendor SaaS And Channel Partner Hosting
A lot of tech vendors — and channel partners — are struggling to define channel partner roles in the cloud services demand chain. On-premise technology variants are starting to lose...
Channel Partners Expect A Share Of The Cloud
To identify channel partners' plans, readiness, barriers, and needs as cloud technologies emerge, Forrester Research joined with Outsource Channel Executives (OCE) to survey distributors, value-added...
SMBs' Plans For Servers, Storage, Virtualization, Form Factors, And Cloud Computing
Suppliers of infrastructure hardware to small and medium-size business (SMB) buyers are poised for better times, given plans by SMBs to upgrade their software and associated hardware infrastructures...
Lessons For Winning Developer Support From The Smartphone/Tablet Battlefield
Every significant technology leap forward, such as the emergence of viable smartphone and tablet platforms, catalyzes competitive turbulence among tech companies seeking developer attention. But the...

SMBs Exhibit A Broad Adoption Profile, But Growth Is Being Stunted By The Credit Crunch
For most software categories, tech marketers once considered the small to medium-size business (SMB) market to be "software non grata." Their assumption was that most SMBs supported their operations...

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...

Financing, Marketing, And Collaboration Top Their Wish Lists
Channel partners are afflicted with "cloud identity disorder" — the symptomatology of which is characterized by confusion and fear about their place in the cloud computing demand chain and...
SMBs Are Adopting Networking Technology In A Vein Not Dissimilar To Enterprises
True to our "SMB phoenix" characterization, small to medium-size businesses (SMBs) are proving to be aggressive adopters of network and communications technologies and services. No longer can SMBs be...
Vision: The Channel Partner Loyalty Playbook
The channel partner ecosystem is undergoing a massive upheaval, largely as a result of rapidly evolving cloud computing engagement and delivery models, and will go through several tectonic shifts...