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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.
This document offers a brief overview of software-as-a-service (SaaS) in Asia for vendor strategists. Key conclusions regarding SaaS in 2009, along with predictions for SaaS in 2010, are offered.
This document provides a comprehensive background of public sector dynamics in the Philippines in order to enable vendor strategists to address market opportunities more successfully. Particular...
This document provides vendor strategists with an overview of the telecom service providers that offer data center services in Singapore focusing on AT&T, SingTel, Verizon, Tata Communications,...
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Understanding The Cloud Computing Opportunities In Africa
This documents provides vendor strategists with an analysis of facts and fiction of cloud computing and IT business partners. It highlights data on adoption, areas of implementation, and main...
These are the data tables for the report "Public Sector IT Opportunity: Philippines." The report provides a comprehensive background of public sector dynamics in the Philippines in order to enable...
This document provides a comprehensive background of the dynamics in the public sector market in Turkey. This analysis will allow vendor strategists to address market opportunities in Turkey more...

This document provides vendor strategists with an overview of the results from the survey on the India Datacenter market dynamics based on 102 interviews with Indian CIOs and top IT executives of...
These are the data tables for the report, "Public Sector IT Opportunity: India." The report provides a comprehensive background of public sector dynamics in India in order to enable vendor...
This document provides vendor strategists with an analysis of the key trends in the Asia Pacific IT market in 2010 and previews the top trends that will shape the local market in 2011. This document...
This document provides vendor strategists with an overview of the dynamics of the IT market in the UAE, the economic conditions prevailing in the country, and provides systematic analysis of the key...
This document provides an assessment of the impact of protests and revolutions on the IT market in the Middle East and Africa for vendor strategists. Specifically, the report includes an overview of...

This document provides vendor strategists with an overview of the results from the survey on the India Datacenter market dynamics based on 102 interviews with Indian CIOs and top IT executives of...
This report provides a comprehensive background of the healthcare dynamics in China in order to enable vendor strategists to address market opportunities more successfully. The report discusses the...
These are the data tables for the report "Public Sector Market Analysis: Pakistan." The report provides a comprehensive background of the dynamics in the public sector market in Pakistan. This...

Understanding The Cloud Computing Opportunities In Africa
After years of stagnant enterprise spending on information and communications technology (ICT), Africa is gearing up for a new period of growth. As political stability across the continent gradually...

With increasing urbanization, Asian cities will undergo rapid transformation, creating opportunities for vendors that align themselves with city-level objectives. City opportunities are growing...
These are the data tables for the report entitled UAE: IT Opportunity 2011. The report provides vendor strategists with an overview of the dynamics of the IT market in the UAE, the economic...
This document highlights the dynamics of the IT market in the African country of Kenya, discusses the economic conditions prevailing in the country, and provides a systematic analysis of key IT...

This document provides vendor strategists with an overview of the results from the survey on the India Datacenter market dynamics based on 102 interviews with Indian CIOs and top IT executives of...
"Google Apps," a suite of online productivity applications developed by Google, has remained a curiosity for the majority of business users in Asia Pacific (AP). While mainstream media frequently...
Email has emerged as one of the leading enterprise applications for cloud computing over the last 12-18 months. Both Microsoft and Google have become the dominant enterprise players with VMware...
Following the recent successful integration of its latest acquisitions, Oracle is ramping up its marketing messages around cloud enabling enterprise data centres via what it is positioning as an...
This document provides vendor strategists with a summary of SAP's future plans as presented at the Sapphire 2010 conference. Among the strategic elements presented, the key focus areas included...
Springboard Research notes continuing concerns around information security and data residency when evaluating potential cloud service providers/solutions. We are also witnessing a slow - but growing...
Springboard Research witnessed strong uptake of the development of mobile "micro-apps" within Asia Pacific (AP) enterprises during 2010. The majority of these applications were driven by internal...