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As principal analyst at Forrester Research, Henry Dewing supports Infrastructure & Operations Professionals who plan, build, and run unified communications and collaboration (UC&C) workloads for enterprises. Henry also investigates the adoption of new technologies by information workers and the ways that I&O Professionals can accelerate and optimize technology adoption across their business.
His expertise spans the development and adoption of UC&C technologies, including the role of managed services, the telecom supplier landscape, and next-generation business models. Henry analyzes the demand and utilization of services such as Internet protocol telephony, unified communications, collaboration services, social software, and fixed-mobile convergence in the context of changes in overall industry structure and the ever-closing gap between IT and telecom.
Prior to joining Forrester, Henry held senior management roles at Compaq, Intel, and Nokia, working to establish development and channel partnerships to deliver converged communications solutions. Before that, Henry worked in A.T. Kearney's communications industry practice, where he undertook projects to align strategy and operations at firms throughout the telecommunications market. Henry began his telecommunications career at Bell Atlantic, holding positions of increasing responsibility in operations, engineering, business planning, and corporate finance.
Henry holds a B.S. in physics engineering and mathematics from Washington and Lee University and an M.B.A. from the University of Virginia.
Stalled Market Blossoms To $14.5 Billion In 2015 As Barriers Fall
Forrester forecasts that the market for unified communications within enterprises in North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific will reach $14.5 billion in 2015. Unified communications (UC) is an...
Businesses need better productivity tools to equip information workers to be successful. To date, firms have invested in a menagerie of tools — email, instant messaging (IM), voice over...
And Corresponding Realities That Further Adoption And Acceptance Of Unified Communications And Collaboration
Unified communications and collaboration (UC&C) has become a hot topic in technology circles, making it critical for technology vendors to know the market and deliver products that will be bought and...
Opportunities And Issues For Video And Networking Vendors
Video will become the new business norm for communication and collaboration over the next five to 10 years. Why? Technology maturity, end user demand, and competitive pressures drive further...
Video-As-A-Service Will Accelerate Video Into The Business Mainstream
Use of video for business communication is expanding at some companies and stagnant at others. The more that information workers use desktop (and handheld) video solutions, the more they expect video...
Innovative Uses Of Communications To Improve Business Efficiency
People are more successful when they are better connected to the processes and applications on which their businesses operate. Business leaders today are challenged to seamlessly connect increasingly...
The Business Digitization Voyage Evolves In Three Phases
Today, progressive firms are introducing video and other types of digital media like audio, podcasts, and digital pictures to improve business processes and collaboration. However, most firms are...
Improved Communications And Collaboration Drive Interest In Business Video
Forrester's recent Enterprise And SMB Networks And Telecommunications Survey, North America And Europe, Q1 2009 asking businesses about their video use found that all types of video solutions were of...
Yes, But It Won't Be Overnight
Virtual worlds have consistently struggled to demonstrate their relevance to business leaders. Problems with the stability of the technology, lack of compelling case studies, and failure to integrate...
Life-Size Conferencing With No Perceived Latency
Telepresence videoconferencing emulates in-person meetings with life-size images of remote participants. Specially constructed telepresence rooms provide the lighting, sound, acoustics, furniture,...
Cisco Systems recently forged ahead of the competition by making Cisco TelePresence, its lifelike, "you are there" videoconferencing technology, available through AT&T. Information and knowledge...
A Changing Workforce Demands New Solutions And Business Models
Technology vendors today are faced with a new market dynamic: Individuals inside companies, primarily information workers (iWorkers), are choosing, procuring, and often paying for technology products...
Decision To Acquire Tandberg Is About More Than Just Video
Cisco has made an approved offer to acquire Tandberg, promising to develop an integrated, unified, video-centric collaboration capability and foment the creation of a new market for unified...
New Business Imperatives And Technology Create Promising Market Opportunities
Legacy videoconference systems of all types have failed to live up to their promise because of technical complexity and user interface issues. However, an increasingly distributed workplace, growing...
Vision: The Communications And Collaboration Infrastructure Playbook
Increasing consumerization of IT and advances in both cloud technologies and deployment models tremendously affect the enterprise not simply on how we communicate but where, when, and on what kind of...
If You're Not Planning Your Meetings, You're Planning To Fail
With 37% of information workers spending an hour or more in meetings every day, it's crucial to make that time productive. Organizing the meeting and using the right collaboration tools is a great...
