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Mike serves Application Development & Delivery Professionals. He leads a team of analysts who cover a wide range of practices and technologies, including development and integration tools, application platforms, SOA, BPM, Web services, application suites, and practices and processes for managing development organizations and projects. In his 12 years with Forrester, Mike has covered several of the topics handled by this team and today contributes to Forrester's coverage of Lean software and SOA.
Mike came to Forrester through its acquisition of Giga Information Group. In his 22 years of hands-on experience with IT before joining Giga, Mike spent 10 years as an executive in the software development tools business. Mike led product management, product engineering, and later a product business unit at Intersolv, a leading global vendor of application development tools. There, he led the creation and launch of multiple application development and software modeling products; before that, he spent seven years at LBMS. Prior to LBMS, Mike spent 10 years in IT in various positions, including project manager, systems analyst, DBA, and programmer.
Mike has spoken at numerous industry conferences, and he has chaired Forrester's IT Forum (GigaWorld) five years running. He is quoted frequently in industry publications, such as Computerworld, eWEEK, InfoWorld, InformationWeek, and Internet Week, as well as in the Financial Times, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal.
Mike earned a B.A. in physics from Rice University, where he also began his work in programming in FORTAN and Algol, including a senior project to do mathematical modeling of complex physical systems using nonlinear partial differential equations.
Informatica, IBM, Composite Software, And Denodo Technologies Lead, With SAP, Microsoft, Oracle, Stone Bond, And Red Hat Close Behind
In Forrester's 53-criteria evaluation of data virtualization — also known as information-as-a-service (IaaS) — vendors, we found that Informatica, IBM, Composite Software, and Denodo...
In 2009, the technology industry entered a new cycle of technology innovation and growth, powering a multiyear period of technology investment predicted to last through 2016: the business technology...
Meeting ERP Integration Needs Inside And Outside The Enterprise
Integration challenges are often the foremost obstacle to getting the full value from packaged enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions. Strategies for overcoming this obstacle vary considerably...
Smart Computing Drives The New Era Of IT Growth
Since the 1950s, the US has seen three cycles of technology investment growth and refinement. In 2008, the US entered its fourth such cycle, which Forrester is labeling "Smart Computing." Smart...

IBM, Informatica, Composite Software, And Denodo Technologies Lead, With Microsoft And Red Hat Close Behind
In Forrester's 123-criteria evaluation of information-as-a-service (IaaS) — also known as data services — vendors, we found that IBM, Informatica, Composite Software, and Denodo...
Event-Driven Solution Lowers Costs While Promoting Happy Travelers
Processing lost bags costs airlines a lot of money: more than $1,200 per thousand passengers, not to mention the inconvenience to passengers. Thus, airlines are highly motivated to apply new...
Bloat kills. Whether it's excessive complexity in the application, its underlying platform or architecture, or the process used to deliver it, overloaded platform software and heavy processes impede...
Whether the economy slips into recession or not, many firms are starting to tighten their budgets. Although this means even more limited resources than usual, the business will continue to expect...
Forrester recently surveyed 1,017 decision-makers at North American and European enterprises on the adoption of service-oriented architecture (SOA) and related technologies including...
The growing enterprise adoption of business process management (BPM) and service-oriented architecture (SOA) is driving increased demand to support the long-running transactions (LRTs) common to the...