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Eveline serves Infrastructure & Operations Professionals. Covering IT systems management, her current research focuses on the information technology infrastructure library (ITIL), the implementation of IT service management from a holistic or partial perspective, business service management (BSM), and many other aspects of IT operations.
Eveline delivers strategic guidance to Forrester's vendor and end user clients. She helps enterprises manage their networks and systems, define key projects that focus on IT service management, and bridge IT to the lines of business. Eveline has more than 20 years of experience working with IT organizations in the definition and development of the IT service delivery processes and the implementation of IT service management as a practice inside enterprise organizations.
Eveline came to Forrester from Hewlett-Packard. Most recently, she was the director of competitive intelligence and value delivery chain program manager in the HP OpenView organization. Prior to her work in HP Software, she worked as an IT consultant inside HP's IT organization.
A native of Germany, Eveline has a master's degree in computer information systems from Colorado State University.
The successful IT organization no longer just keeps the lights on — this organization enables the business with technology, and it partners with the business to achieve organizationwide go...
Service management and automation (SMA) is a closed-loop control system that enables the design, development, maintenance, and adoption of services that support business teams in their capabilit...
Companies with distributed operations often struggle with managing customer experience. This report summarizes some of the major lessons learned from Cornerstone OnDemand, a cloud-based talent m...
Business service management (BSM) is a way to bridge the user's view of applications and services to the IT operations' view of infrastructure; it maps business services to the components used t...
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 service desk market generated more than $1.3 billion in 2008 and is expected to grow at about 10%. This market segment has experienced very little innovation in the past few years. The goals...

Data center automation (DCA) solutions allow IT organizations to automate a variety of workflows that support configuration and change management processes across IT infrastructure. In Forrester...
In Forrester's 81-criteria evaluation of IT asset life-cycle management (ITALM) vendors, we found that CA and BMC Software came out on top because of their strong end-to-end offerings and their ...
Some IT organizations are confident that they can weather the storm of our current economic situation. Others believe they can maintain their current staffing level, and some are saying that the...
"You can't manage what you can't measure" is the stated adage, but when it comes to infrastructure and operations (I&O), what to measure is the first challenge. Many firms don't know which metri...