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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.
Three Steps To Get You On The Path To Running 24x7x365 Services
The extended enterprise of internal employees to external customers, partners, and suppliers expect services to be delivered to them 24x7x365 in a seamless fashion. But running an always-on,...
"What's the difference between a backup and an archive?" and "Do I need to have separate backups and archives?" are two common questions that Forrester receives from enterprise clients. Despite the...

Key Takeaways That Can Help You Strengthen Your Business Continuity And Disaster Recovery Plans
In late October 2012, Superstorm Sandy barreled through the Caribbean and the eastern US, affecting almost half of the states in the US. The storm left millions without access to basic...
Business Case: The Business Technology Resiliency Playbook
This report outlines Forrester's guidance for a business technology resiliency (BTR) business case. This is a critical step when securing funding because management is often reluctant to fund...

Performance Management: The Business Technology Resiliency Playbook
This report outlines Forrester's solution for developing effective objectives and metrics for business technology resiliency (BTR) programs. The current state of BTR metrics is unsatisfactory —...

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...
Although a business impact analysis (BIA) is a key part of putting together a disaster recovery plan, many companies neglect to conduct one. Forrester believes it's worthwhile to take a step back and...
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...
Landscape: The Business Technology Resiliency Playbook
This report defines and dissects the intersections and future directions of the solutions that make up the business technology (BT) resiliency landscape. It also identifies and catalogs the vendors...

Executive Overview: The Business Technology Resiliency Playbook
In today's world of 24x7x365 global operations and competition, downtime results not only in immediate lost revenue and productivity, but also in lasting damage to corporate reputation that erodes...

Metrics are the Achilles' heel of many infrastructure and operations (I&O) departments. Many firms don't know which metrics to use, or how to collect the data they need for the metrics, while others...

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...
This is a workbook to help you analyze the TEI of building versus leasing a data center.
Benchmark: The Business Technology Resiliency Playbook
This report outlines Forrester's solution for infrastructure and operations (I&O) leaders to benchmark the performance of their business continuity (BC) programs as part of their broader business...

Backup is not the sexiest process in infrastructure and operations; it's akin to getting your teeth cleaned: necessary, but often painful. Many enterprises struggle with exponential data growth,...

Organization: The Business Technology Resiliency Playbook
Who? What? Where? When? How? It's the question of "who?" that often stymies infrastructure and operations (I&O) professionals when it comes to business technology (BT) resiliency programs. Who is...

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,...
It's Time To Get Back In Shape With These 10 Tips For Improved Drills
If you woke up tomorrow and someone or something compelled you to run a marathon, how would you fare? It's highly doubtful that you would successfully run the 26.2 miles without months of training,...
Five Trends In Disaster Recovery Preparedness, 2007 Through 2010
Advancements in virtualization, hardware performance, and efficiency have given infrastructure and operations (I&O) leaders a wealth of options for delivering great services faster and more cheaply...
IBM, HP, SunGard, And ICM Lead, Verizon Close Behind
In Forrester's 64-criteria evaluation of disaster recovery services providers, we found that IBM, HP, SunGard, and ICM led the pack due to their best-in-class core disaster recovery services and...
Vision: The Business Technology Resiliency Playbook
This report outlines the vision of Forrester's solution for infrastructure and operations (I&O) executives planning their organization's business technology (BT) resiliency strategy — the...

Benchmarks: The IT Infrastructure Playbook
This report provides IT infrastructure and operations (I&O) professionals with strategic benchmarks to compare their IT infrastructure budgets, priorities, motivations, and technology adoption to...
The Balanced Scorecard is built around four dimensions that have been adjusted for use in information technology: the value perspective, the customer orientation perspective, the operational...
Spending, Testing, And Maintenance Of DR Plans Are Down, But Confidence Levels Are Up
How would you rate your ability to recover your data center in the event of a site failure or a disaster? The vast majority of your peers surveyed in a 2010 joint Forrester Research/Disaster Recovery...
Assessment: The Business Technology Resiliency Playbook
This report provides the maturity assessment of Forrester's solution for infrastructure and operations (I&O) executives looking to build their business technology (BT) resiliency strategy. We...
