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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.
Facing Uncertainty And Change, The Managed Services Market Is Poised For Growth
All firms are interested in managed services to help manage and mitigate their risks associated with technology decisions — particularly in a down economic environment. Forrester sees some...
Economic Worries Drive Consideration, While Business Value Drives Satisfaction
Managed services vendors promise mitigation of economic and technology risk to business customers, and some IT professionals are buying those services. The market for many new and traditional managed...
In 2007, the vendor side of unified communications (UC) saw tremendous hype, while many buyers struggled with confusion, wondering exactly how to define UC and what UC meant for their businesses....
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...
Telcos Should Provide Wholesale Infrastructure For Cloud Services
Telcos can grow their revenue base beyond access and transport to offer a range of wholesale services that many cloud service providers (CSPs) may lack the ability or skills to build themselves....

Business Value And Delivery Models Key To Future Growth
2008 saw most firms finally understand what unified communications (UC) means. Now, the conversation has shifted to the specific value UC provides firms — particularly in a tight economic...
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...
Give Buyers Hard Financial Results
Forrester's recent network and telecom survey of buyers identified a troubling trend: Some early adopters of unified communications (UC) solutions are not deriving the benefits they expected for key...
How To Match What Users Want With What You Sell In A Confused Market
Unified communications (UC) allows businesses and their employees to communicate when, where, and how they want, while offering tremendous business value. Demand has heated up — more than half...
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...
Market Landscape: The Communications And Collaboration Infrastructure Playbook
I&O professionals choosing unified communications and collaboration (UC&C) solutions today face a daunting array of solution types, capabilities, and business models. This report outlines a...

Enterprises report on their adoption of unified communications solutions, their ability to make the business case for UC, and which budget resource their US purchases come from.
Business Impact: The Communications And Collaboration Infrastructure Playbook
This report outlines Forrester's solution for IT infrastructure and operations (I&O) professionals who are building out communications and collaboration infrastructure. This report is designed to...

Using data from BDS' Enterprise And SMB Networks And Telecommunications Survey, North America And Europe, Q1 2009 survey, Forrester Research looks at unified communications (UC) trends in North...
Mind All Four P's To Win
Technology marketers selling unified communications solutions to small and medium-size businesses (SMBs) have one tough job. Sure, these professionals already know to manage the four P's of marketing...
SMBs report on their adoption of unified communications solutions, the value of UC for their company, which budget resource their US purchases come from, and how interested they are in buying a UC as...
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...
