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In her role as an analyst, Roxana focuses on technology's impact on the market research industry. She tracks emerging and innovative research methodologies, such as social market research, mobile research, neuroscience, and prediction markets, and helps clients understand how to incorporate them into their research mix and combine them with traditional research methods. In addition, she leads all the data innovation efforts at Forrester, where she tests and seeks to understand which data sources, research methodologies, and frameworks are appropriate to help clients gain an intricate, 360-degree view of the consumer.
She is also an expert on Latin American consumer behavior and technology adoption and is responsible for managing Forrester's Latin American Technographics® research. She frequently advises clients on entering the Latin American market, understanding Latin American consumer segments, and increasing their visibility in this fast-changing region.
Roxana has spoken at numerous Forrester events and market-research-focused conferences, such as the Insights Innovation Exchange, Future of Consumer Intelligence, Market Research in a Mobile World and The Market Research Event. In addition, she has spoken at several conferences specializing in understanding the Latin American market, including ESOMAR's Latin American conference, Portada's Pan-Regional Advertising and Media Summit, and Ciab FEBRABAN. Her research has been cited in AdAge, the UK's Research, and was also highlighted in the book Latino Link: Building Brands Online with Hispanic Communities and Content.
Since she started at Forrester in 2006, Roxana has specialized in advising research and clients on sound survey design and data collection methodologies and on using advanced analytic tools on our Consumer Technographics data as well as on custom research surveys. Prior to her current role, Roxana was a senior survey manager and previously a data advisor with Consumer Technographics. In both roles, she used her expertise to deliver value to clients of all industries, from consumer electronics to advertising and media companies, through customized analysis and application of Consumer Technographics data.
Roxana received her B.S. in psychology from The Florida State University and an M.A. in psychology from The College of William and Mary.
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Embrace This New Role To Drive Business Technology Transformation
You may have heard the term "business architect" in your travels; if you haven't, you soon will. This emerging role will be vital in leading business transformation, including your own improvements...
A Companion Tool For The New Productivity Platforms
A wide range of vendors offer new productivity platforms, and they rely on several major strategies to speed development, deployment, and evolution of applications. Some of these platforms are best...

Future Look: The Cloud Computing Playbook
The cloud landscape is shifting to cover a broader range of enterprise needs. Why? Cloud is curing the lack of responsiveness and economic flexibility that ails on-premises IT. Look for the popular...

Forrester analysts Stephen Powers, Ron Rogowski, and I collaborated on this research. Digital customer experience has become a key business differentiator, and application development and...
Strategic Plan: The Digital Experience Delivery Playbook
Digital customer experience is the next big opportunity for application development and delivery (AD&D) professionals. Business leaders responsible for marketing, sales, and support need advice and...

Architectures To Balance Economies Of Scale And Security
True cloud services all use some mode of multitenancy — the ability for multiple customers (tenants) to share the same applications and/or compute resources. It is through multitenant...

Driving A SharePoint-Based Information Workplace Will Challenge C&C Pros
Microsoft SharePoint is poised for broader adoption as an Information Workplace platform. While most use it for content and collaboration (C&C) needs today, the platform's broad, integrated...

This PowerPoint deck presents the data gathered from Forrester’s Q3 2012 Global Cloud Developer Online Survey. The survey fielded 106 responses; 56% from North America; 25% from Western...

Rob Koplowitz and I collaborated on this research. Forrester clients can access the full report here. The research uses data from Forrester’s August 2012 Global SharePoint Usage Online Survey...
There's an old adage that says it takes Microsoft three times to get it right. Its commitment to SharePoint in the cloud is clearly evident in its investment in data centers, a costly retrofitting of...

Java Will Be Constrained By The Bounds Of Oracle's Business Model
Drama has been running high since Oracle began to shape up the Java technology it acquired along with Sun Microsystems. Oracle ended the impasse over a new core Java release, set out a road map for...
Business rules platforms are a mature technology for automating decision and policy logic and for managing fast changes to that logic to keep up with business changes. Now customers are seeking more:...
Clay Richardson, Mike Gilpin, and I collaborated on this blog post. I don’t normally blog in response to news events, but I feel obligated to blog about Progress Software’s strategy...
Jeffrey S. Hammond and I wrote this research together. The full report is available to Forrester clients at this link. One Microsoft platform era is ending, and another is beginning. The .NET era as...
Customer Struggles With Social, Cloud, And Mobile Signal A Transition
Microsoft SharePoint is the centerpiece of many enterprises' collaboration and content strategies, but it isn't clear to us that enterprises will continue to invest in SharePoint to provide a broader...

Cloud computing will bring demand for elastic application platforms. Promises that cloud computing can save money and reduce time-to-market by automatically scaling applications (either up or down)...
Continuous Improvement: The Business Applications Playbook
While big projects such as delivering new off-the-shelf or custom-built applications help your organization achieve excellent business outcomes, sustaining these outcomes requires that your...
Forrester’s James Staten and I collaborated on this research. True cloud services all use some mode of multitenancy — the ability for multiple customers (tenants) to share the same...
[Forrester Principal Analyst Alexander Peters, PhD. and I collaborated on this research.] You may have heard the term "business architect" in your travels; if you haven't, you soon will. A...
Executive Overview: The Digital Experience Delivery Playbook
Digital customer experience has become a key business differentiator, and application development and delivery (AD&D) leaders of front-office, web, mobile, and digital development must step up to...

The Emerging Windows Platform Expands On The .NET Framework
One Microsoft platform era is ending and another is beginning. The .NET era as we've known it is winding down. .NET doesn't go away — it becomes Microsoft's preferred server environment for a...

[Forrester Principal Analyst Phil Murphy and I collaborated on this research — and the consulting projects that prompted it.] Business technology demands that application development and...
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