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Peter serves eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals. He focuses on eCommerce technologies and solutions, including B2C and B2B eCommerce platforms, mobile commerce solutions, digital in-store technologies, and digital commerce. Peter has specific expertise helping eBusiness leaders understand the integration challenges between eCommerce and back-office technologies across channels and touchpoints. His interests focus on mobile and tablet commerce trends, digital in-store experiences, multichannel retail, social commerce, and digital media.
Peter has extensive experience working with an ecosystem of eCommerce technologies, including eCommerce platforms, mobile commerce solutions, content management, web analytics, search engine marketing (SEM), search engine optimization (SEO), digital asset management, payment systems, and social media, to name a few. Peter has more than 13 years of experience in eCommerce and web technologies. Most recently, Peter held both product management and product marketing positions at Elastic Path, a leading eCommerce platform vendor. He also worked as a senior business analyst at JP Morgan and Ford Motor Company, where he started his career in eCommerce developing a direct online channel for new vehicle sales in the UK. Peter's experience spans both business and technology, including business analysis, product management, product marketing, solution architecture, user experience, and online marketing.
Peter holds a BEng in manufacturing systems engineering from the University of Strathclyde in Scotland.
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Cloud computing continues to be hyped. By now, almost every ICT hardware, software, and services company has some form of cloud strategy — even if it’s just a cloud label on a traditional...
Looking past the current industry hype surrounding all things cloud, Forrester believes that cloud computing is a sustainable, long-term IT paradigm, and the successor to previous mainframe,...

Translating Utilities' Business Transformation Into IT Opportunities
Shifting Buying Preferences Lead To New Software Priorities
As the global information and communications technology market recovers from recession, the software market — the largest IT subsegment — is fueling the growth. More importantly, for the...
Translating Utilities' Business Transformation Into IT Opportunities
The utilities industry is going through a massive business transformation based on the digitization and the convergence of energy and information networks. Smart computing technology enables...
Understanding And Quantifying The Future Of Cloud Computing
Building a solid cloud computing strategy and business plan requires insights into the future market size and growth dynamics of this still complex market. In this report, Forrester provides a global...
Technology innovation and business disruption are changing the software market today. Cloud computing is blurring the line between applications and services, and smart solutions are combining...
Advanced Analytics And Cloud Drive Future Growth
2011 and beyond will be the era of business intelligence (BI) innovation and growth. No other software segment enjoys the same positive market dynamics of advancing technologies, business innovation,...
The lines are blurring between software and services — with the rise of cloud computing, that trend has accelerated faster than ever. But customers aren’t just looking at cloud business...
Two months ago, we announced our upcoming Forrester Forrsights Software Survey, Q4 2010. Now the data is back from more than 2,400 respondents in North America and Europe and provides us with deep...
Last week, I attended the ONS (Offshore North Sea) 2010 conference, one of the world’s largest energy conferences, with more than 49,000 participants, in Stavanger, Norway. The conference theme...
Forrsights For Business Technology
This document provides an analysis of key drivers and trends for software-as-a-service (SaaS) across Western Europe. By extracting and analyzing an extensive data set of three recent Forrester...

SaaS vendors must collect customer insights for innovation and compliance. As of the end of last year, about 30% of companies from our Forrsights Software Survey, Q4 2011, were using some...
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There Are Huge Opportunities For Vendor Strategists — If You Know The Landscape
Software-as-a-service (SaaS) today represents one of the most dynamic growth segments of the global tech sector. The markets across Asia Pacific excluding Japan (APEJ) in this context are exposing...
The information and communications technology (ICT) industry is facing the next big wave of verticalization. With business challenges becoming increasingly complex, ICT solutions to address and solve...
Unveiling The Software Strategies Of Top-Performing Companies
During November 2011 and December 2011, Forrester surveyed 2,438 software decision-makers across Canada, France, Germany, the UK, and the US to determine their spending priorities around software. To...
SAP Turns To Acquisitions For Cloud Innovations Just three months after SAP acquired SuccessFactors, a cloud leader for human capital management solutions, for $3.4 billion, it has now announced the...