Elizabeth Herrell Elizabeth Herrell
Vice President, Principal Analyst

Research Coverage

Networking, Contact Center Technologies & Processes, Outsourcing, SIP/SIMPLE Protocols, IT Services, Unified Communications, Call & Contact Center Outsourcing, Speech Technologies, Communications Infrastructure

Research Focus

Elizabeth serves IT Infrastructure & Operations professionals. She focuses her research on enterprise communications. This includes coverage in unified communications and supporting applications such as messaging, conferencing, presence, and IP telephony. Her coverage also includes contact center applications such as ACD, computer telephony integration (CTI), IVR, speech platforms and integrated services, workforce management, quality monitoring, performance management, and predictive dialing. She assists organizations in planning strategies for upgrading their communications to IP and unified communications. Additionally, she provides contact center assessments and conducts research on global contact center outsourcing.

Previous Work Experience

Elizabeth came to Forrester through its acquisition of Giga Information Group. She has several years of telecommunications experience in enterprise voice and call center products and solutions. Prior to joining Giga, she was senior manager for strategic planning and alliances for Siemens ICN. She was the primary analyst forecasting global market trends and the development of call center solutions strategy.
Elizabeth has also held marketing management positions with ROLM and IBM, where she was responsible for market planning, program management, and partnership initiatives. She has extensive experience in market analysis and assessment of major marketing trends for customer premise telecommunication products and services.
Elizabeth has been featured a number of times on TV and Radio Wall Street, as well as in frequent articles in The Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, and leading industry periodicals.

Education

Elizabeth earned a B.A. in economics from the College of Notre Dame and an M.B.A. from Pepperdine University.

Latest Research

Planned Research

Speech Analytics: Why Customer Intelligence Is Good Business September 2008
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Elizabeth enjoys hiking, tennis, swimming, scuba diving, traveling, and skiing.


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Recent Media Citations
Network World, "Cisco: It's All About The Hardware," June 2, 2008
Network World, "Nortel, Microsoft Chart Unified Communications Progress," February 11, 2008
Network World (Canada), "Time To Upgrade Your Voice, Says Analyst," January 10, 2008
BusinessWeek, "Microsoft's Office-Phone Foray," October 18, 2007
Computerworld, "Talking To Machines: Interactive Voice Response Gets Better, August 22, 2007

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