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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.
They Will Grow Twice As Fast As The Enterprise Application Market
Smart process apps are a new category of application software designed to support business activities that are people-intensive, highly variable, loosely structured, and subject to frequent change....

Sensors, Machine-To-Machine, Analytics, And Collaboration Help CIOs Solve Business Problems
It is no surprise that CIOs have shown keen interest in cloud computing, since its variations can help reduce IT's capital and operating costs and speed up delivery of projects. But many CIOs are...

As CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, expanded its international collaboration, its general services and IT teams needed to change the way they supported CERN scientists and...
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...
Saskatchewan's Social Services Ministry's Path To Modernization
Saskatchewan is the latest Canadian province to implement comprehensive modernization and automation of its social services case management technology. It took advantage of other organizations'...
These data charts contain the full results of Forrester's August 2012 Global SharePoint Usage Online Survey. The results indicate that weak mobile access and social computing features combined with...
Pragmatic Adoption Of SOA, Agile, Open Source, And Cultural Change Tactics Yielded Improved Business-IT Relationships And A More-Agile Organization
The Vatican Bank, or Istituto per le Opere di Religione (IOR), transformed its application development and delivery organization over a three-year period to become: 1) agile — to respond to...
These data charts present the results of Forrester's 2011 BPM Center Of Excellence Online Survey.
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...
Highly publicized and allegedly state-sponsored security attacks on Google and Adobe have awakened private sector security professionals to the real threat of cyberattack. Governments at all levels...
This document provides an overview of cloud computing in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for vendor strategists. There is a focus on cloud adoption trends and demand drivers, benefits and concerns,...

This document provides an overview of cloud computing in India for vendor strategists. There is a focus on cloud adoption trends and demand drivers, benefits and concerns, market awareness and user...
Tech vendor strategists are attracted by the "edu" opportunity — a large and fast-growing user base and increasing reliance upon technology by governments, educators, parents, and students. But...
The server virtualization market in India is still in its nascent stage with enterprises experimenting with virtual servers running non-critical applications. This document is designed to allow...
This document provides an overview of cloud computing in Australia and New Zealand for vendor strategists. There is a focus on cloud adoption trends and demand drivers, benefits and challenges,...
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...
But They Are Poorly Positioned For The Larger Value-Added Service Opportunity
Telcos face increasing pressure on traditional voice revenues and seek new revenues from services leveraging existing assets. Machine-to-machine (M2M) technologies, including radio frequency...

For Loyola Marymount University's (LMU's) Information Technology Services (ITS), underdeveloped process, limited communication and transparency, as well as outdated tools and a siloed organization,...
These are the data tables for the report "Nigeria Public Sector Market Analysis." The report provides a comprehensive background of the dynamics in the public sector market of the African country of...

This document provides an overview of cloud computing in Israel for vendor strategists. There is a focus on cloud adoption trends and demand drivers, benefits and challenges, market awareness and...

Faced with the need to improve information management and deliver better government services in an era of reduced budgets, the UK's Department for Education (DfE) created an Information Workplace...
These data charts are based on the Q2 2011 Global Forrester/IQPC Business Process Maturity Online Survey.
Executive buyers respond well to clear, personalized, easily scannable emails as a way to raise their interest in taking a meeting. The things that motivate executives to take a meeting fall into two...
Tools And Technology: The Security Architecture And Operations Playbook
Against today's mutating threat landscape and sophisticated cybercriminals, security and risk (S&R) professionals are outgunned and outmatched. The traditional strategy of waiting for an alert and...

Future Look: The Social Business And Collaboration Playbook
Free access to and sharing of ideas is the hallmark of the digital age. Today, your customers, partners, and employees can share information to form opinions that can affect your business and, on a...