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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.
Office 365 Has Much But Not All Of What Firms Need From A Collaboration Platform
On June 28, 2011, Microsoft launched Office 365 in 40 countries after a massive public beta involving 200,000 organizations from every region. This product encompasses Office Professional Plus and...
Communications, Training, And Collaboration Dominate Usage Scenarios
A growing number of content and collaboration professionals are interested in using webcasting and YouTube-like video portals internally for corporate communications and training. Why? They recognize...
IT departments tasked with managing their firm's video estate face rising levels of complexity with the emergence of high-end telepresence solutions. Business stakeholders are demanding support for...
These data charts look at Microsoft and the productivity market.
Performance Management: The Social Business And Collaboration Playbook
The benefits of improved information sharing and collaboration from deploying enterprise social computing are hard to quantify. With the exception of email and audioconferencing, collaboration...
Polycom, Cisco, And LifeSize Lead, Followed By Resurgents Radvision And Teliris And Aggressive Entrants Huawei And Vidyo
In Forrester's 39-criteria evaluation of videoconferencing solution vendors, we identified the seven most significant providers in the category — Cisco, Huawei, LifeSize, Polycom, Radvision,...

Upgrading Microsoft Office can prove daunting, especially for firms still on Microsoft Office 2003 or previous versions. Although Windows 7 upgrades and hardware refreshes will accelerate the...
Tools To Manage And Deliver Video Are Growing; Videoconferencing Makes A Comeback
Enterprises increasingly use video in a wide range of use cases, changing how they collaborate, issue communications, train their employees, and even talk to customers. But the transformational...
Highly Integrated With A Risk Of Lock-In
Microsoft looks to strike three very familiar chords with the release of Office 2013: mobile, social, and cloud. Each has become table stakes for enterprise software, and in order for Microsoft to...

How US Information Workers Adopt And Use Technology
This report is a graphical analysis of Forrester's Q2 2011 US Workforce Technology And Engagement Online Survey of 4,985 US information workers. Armed with this baseline data from every US industry,...
We've been hearing for years that "this is the year videoconferencing takes off." So how far have we come in resolving the issues that have held back videoconferencing, such as interoperability and...
Lessons Learned From Client Reference Interviews
Deploying a video publishing platform can be as simple as a credit card transaction if you're just looking for a software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution with turnkey functionality. However, many...
Strategic Plan: The Social Business And Collaboration Playbook
Social business and collaboration programs can redefine work by changing the way employees connect with each other and the information they need to do their jobs. However, programs fall flat when...

Kaltura, Qumu, And Polycom Lead The Video Publishing Platform Pack
Enterprises looking to deliver video communications to employees continue to use solutions for webcasting and YouTube-like video portals. In Forrester's 23-criteria evaluation of enterprise video...

Strategic Planning Forrsights For CIOs
CIOs are responsible for the technology tools and services that make employees productive and successful at work. Too often, the CIO organization must make decisions about devices, software licenses,...
The advent of new service delivery models and the rise of multisourcing have complicated an already difficult task for clients — monitoring vendor performance and ensuring that contractual...
Change Management: The Social Business And Collaboration Playbook
It's often said, "You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink." Nowhere in the world of enterprise IT is this adage more fitting than in social business and collaboration. For two...

Google Apps Business Is Growing; Mobile, Social, And APIs Move To The Fore
Forrester spent a day with Google Apps Vice President Dave Girouard and members of his team to hear the latest on Google Apps for Business and Google Apps for Government. With the US General Services...
Kaltura Joins Leaders Brightcove And Ooyala In A Maturing Market
Video is integral to many consumer-facing websites, not just from traditional media providers but from brands, companies, and organizations without a history of content creation. In Forrester's...
Adoption Is Low But Market Impact Is High As Buyers Consider Alternatives
At home and at work, people overwhelmingly use Microsoft Office. Yet content and collaboration (C&C) pros continue to ask Forrester questions about office alternatives. So we recently surveyed 150 IT...