About Forrester
Forrester Research, Inc. is an independent research company that provides pragmatic and forward-thinking advice to global leaders in business and technology.

Julie serves eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals. Julie's 25 years of work experience is balanced between the engineering and management consulting work she did in the first half of her career and her work as an analyst for the past 12 years. The combination of technical and business expertise positions prepared her well to work with business leaders to identify new opportunities offered by mobile technology and to develop strategies to engage with consumers on mobile devices. She has worked with hundreds of clients across retail, travel, banking, insurance, CPG, healthcare, retail, and more to advise and guide the development of their mobile strategies.
Julie's research and analysis have been widely cited in publications including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, USA Today, BusinessWeek, RCR Wireless, and The Onion and on CBS, NBC, and PBS.
Prior to becoming an analyst, Julie worked at a contextual services mobile startup in San Francisco and prior to that at Booz Allen & Hamilton.
Julie holds a B.S.E.E. and a Master of Science in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She also holds an M.B.A. from the University of Michigan.

Although Many Buy An ESB First, More Buy SOA Management In The Long Run
Leverage These Business Models And Features For Media App Success
Product strategists launching media applications on tablets have an opportunity to launch new products on these devices and enter a new era of media consumption. The tablet is a unique device with...
Road Map: The CIO's Mobile Engagement Playbook
How do you build a road map for something as fast-moving and disruptive as mobile apps, devices, and projects? Certainly not by letting projects unfold at random as budgets and sponsors appear. To...

From Technology Foundations To Business Outcomes
Forrester sees six important trends unfolding in business technology (BT), where information technology will most directly and visibly affect business outcomes. Not having an initiative or effort...

When And How Interactive Marketers Should Build Apps For Marketing Purposes
Mobile apps hold exciting potential for interactive marketers to reach their audiences through mobile devices in ways the mobile Web can't. But today, mobile apps receive a mixed response from...

This document provides an early and accurate market size estimates for 2010 in India, including vendor rankings and activities, forecasts, and market trends for vendor strategists. The report is...
CIOs Must Plan Now For New Systems Of Engagement
By 2016, smartphones and tablets will put power in the pockets of a billion global consumers. Mobile is not simply another device for IT to support with a shrunken website or a screen-scraped SAP...

Manage Mobile Complexity Through A Corporate App Store
Today, many employees use their personally owned smartphones and tablets for work to access a variety of mobile applications. Some companies are also proactively deploying mobile applications to...

eBusiness Pros Should Evaluate The Use Of Mobile Augmented Reality To Simplify Services
Mobile augmented reality (AR) is on the verge of becoming a powerful tool that eBusiness professionals can use to engage consumers all the way through their purchase journey. The use of augmented...

Deliver Blazing-Fast Web, Mobile-Native, And Hybrid Applications
Over the past decade, infrastructure and operations (I&O) teams have focused large amounts of resources on making their customer-facing websites blazingly fast because website experience had a direct...
Software AG, Tibco Software, Oracle, And Progress Software Lead The Way
In Forrester's 109-criteria evaluation of both commercial and open source enterprise service bus (ESB) vendors, we found that Software AG, Tibco Software (Tibco), Oracle, and Progress Software are...