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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.
Identifying How zManager And zBX Fit Into Your Systems Architecture
IBM's recent launch of the zEnterprise system has generated a wide range of questions from infrastructure and operations (I&O) clients with large mainframe deployments. In particular, there are two...
Embrace IT Process Automation Technology As Your Foundation To Industrial IT
The tasks of the IT infrastructure and operations (I&O) professional have become increasingly complex and susceptible to human error. This is a direct consequence of the sheer volume and diversity of...
The First Of Many IT Ops-Focused SaaS Offerings
It's been almost two years since we last produced this report, and during that time the vendor landscape has changed considerably; however, one constant remains true: Backup is a struggle for both...
A Look At The Players And The Criteria You Should Use To Differentiate Them
Infrastructure and operations executives have shown a tremendous interest in the cloud to provision email and collaboration services to their employees. Why? Cloud-based email and collaboration can...

Phase In Key UC Applications To Accelerate Business Benefits
Unified communications (UC) continues to expand, according to Forrester's 2010 survey of telecom decision-makers in North America and Europe. UC is the enabling platform for the integration of...
Look To BSM Point Tools To Improve I&O's Change Management And Incident Management Processes
The original business service management (BSM) concept is founded on the capability to map business services to infrastructure components. This gives end users visibility into IT as well as bridges...
This template is intended to provide a starting point for deciding which sections to include in an RFP for telecom expense management (TEM) support tools and implementation services. I&O...
Protecting The Corporate PCs Is As Important As Protecting Servers
What's your reaction to this scenario? Your CEO leaves his laptop, full of mission-critical (but encrypted) data, in a cab. One frantic phone call later and we learn that a far-sighted employee had...
Cloud Platforms: Foundational Systems Could Strengthen Your Preferred Service Providers
A growing number of public infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) clouds are coming to market that share the same underlying capabilities, technologies, and interfaces. Rather than build their clouds...

Oracle's Actions Punish Customers And Drive Migration To Linux
Vendor acquisitions and strategy shifts continue to disrupt the world of enterprise IT. Few, however, have been as disruptive and one-sided in their impact as the recent decision by Oracle to...

Support Empowered Workers Better By Managing Your Enterprise Mobility Strategy Efficiently And Securely
To implement your enterprise mobile strategy, IT infrastructure and operations (I&O) professionals must invest in a mobile device management (MDM) solution. This essential technology allows I&O...

Identity Crisis No More: The Backup Market Shifts From Virtual Tape To Treating Disk As Disk In Open Systems Environments
The use of disk in backup environments has been accelerating for several years. We've now reached a point where most infrastructure and operations (I&O) professionals are using disk in some way,...
Upgrade Continuity And Recovery With Replication
Tape is not dead, and in fact, a large number of companies still rely heavily on tape for disaster recovery (DR). Tape is affordable and removable, but as the requirement to recover IT services after...
Single-Source Your Storage Vendor And Explore NFS As The Storage Protocol To Support Growing Virtual Server Environments
Virtual server technology is a unifying technology in IT infrastructure around the world. As maturity increases, more critical production applications are being deployed virtually, raising the stakes...

How To Sift Through The Cloud Washing And Uncover True Value
While cloud computing is still in the early adopter phase, you're under executive pressure to develop a cloud strategy. And it's up to you to sort through the cloud washing and not only understand...

The Data Center Networking Solutions Mimic I&O's Virtualization Maturity
Over the past year, infrastructure and operations (I&O) professionals have focused their enterprise networking efforts on readying network infrastructure to support virtualization, consolidation,...
The TEM solutions landscape consists of large numbers of vendors with a varying degree of functionality, leaving infrastructure and operations professionals with a dizzying array of choices when...
I&O Execs Can Move From Tactical To Strategic TEM Deployments To Increase Efficiency And Avoid Costs
It's time for I&O execs to explore telecom expense management (TEM). At its onset, TEM offered a very tactical value proposition. It was all about auditing the organization's wire-line invoices to...
x86 Servers Are A Viable Landing Place For Selected RISC/Unix Workloads
While x86 servers have been an alternative for low-end Unix workloads in recent years, two key factors, scalability and reliability, kept them from being considered for the largest critical...
Unified Storage Architectures Enable Private Cloud Environments
The storage industry is undergoing a transition. Infrastructure and operations (I&O) execs know that storage is a core component of enabling private cloud environments. But to achieve cloud...
2010 Storage Acquisitions Yield Three Lessons Learned For I&O To Apply To 2011 Storage Strategies
Acquisitions have long been a part of the storage vendor landscape. But 2010 and the first part of 2011 saw an explosion of huge deals from almost every storage vendor. There are few independent...

A Pragmatic Approach To Service Quality
In today's challenging economic times, business productivity takes precedence over many other considerations. To achieve a quality of service that's in line with this goal, IT infrastructure and...

Develop Your Priorities Before Making An IVR Vendor Selection
Infrastructure decision-makers who plan to upgrade their interactive voice response (IVR) system should consider changes in customers' expectations, technology improvements, and cost models before...
AWS Leads A Rapidly Growing Field
For many I&O professionals, developing a cloud strategy is a top priority for 2011 and 2012. After strategically selecting certain workloads fit for public IaaS, it's now time for selecting your...
Utility IT Professionals Must Deploy Smart Grid IT To Enable A Smarter Grid
The smart grid market is ramping up quickly. This market will reach tens of billions of dollars in the next three years. The top three areas of investment are generation and distribution, customer...
