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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.
How A Manufacturer Defined Its UC Strategy With A Business And End User Focus
Companies with widely distributed international operations often struggle to create a road map for a best practice unified communications (UC) strategy. This report summarizes some of the major...
Forrester conducted 56 in-person and phone interviews with sourcing and vendor management executives to better understand how they are currently using supplier risk data from third-party sources. The...
Amid the ups and downs of the global economy, the interest in innovation among senior business leadership has only increased. Most CEOs recognize that in a business environment characterized by...
Software-As-A-Service Still Growing, Taking Over In More Areas Of Technology
As software-as-a-service (SaaS) becomes increasingly important to firms' application strategies, sourcing and vendor management (SVM) professionals are taking ownership of the research, purchasing,...
Recent Forrester data about the role of social technology in the enterprise confirms what many business professionals already suspect: more people are using social technologies, and these...
Mobility And Video Are Now Embedded, Social To Follow
Three major trends are changing the focus of telecom and mobility sourcing: 1) mobile bring-your-own-device (BYOD) policies; 2) video collaboration; and 3) the rise of social business. Although 2013...

Generation Y's Presence In The Workforce Is Changing Sourcing Strategy
The rising importance of a digital native workforce is one of the key reasons that organizations seek to create a dynamic workplace — a workplace in which employees can work independent of time...
It Empowers The Workforce, But Puts Pressure On Security And Risk
Clients often ask Forrester why they should pay for desktop video solutions when there are free consumer market solutions that could be available to everyone in the organization. This is a valid...
What Sourcing Professionals Need To Know About The Future Of SaaS
Software-as-a-service (SaaS) has finally come of age and is now a staple of the technology landscape at most organizations. As organizations build on the basics of their SaaS sourcing and vendor...

An Empowered Report: Sourcing Can Do More To Adapt To Changes In Business Technology
A major shift in the technology marketplace is moving technology purchasing power away from centralized IT departments and into the hands of individual employees. This shift, which is driven by rapid...
Trends And Tradeoffs Of Leading Microsoft Services Players
Microsoft technologies span a wide range of products and services, including enterprise applications such as Dynamics AX and Dynamics CRM; desktop and collaboration applications such as Office,...
Videoconferencing Players Are Ready To Deliver With Better Solutions
Although the videoconferencing market has existed for more than 20 years, several trends indicate that the market is at an inflection point. Across the marketplace, leading videoconferencing vendors...
A Hot Market, But Questions About ROI, Vendors, And Integration Remain
Forrester has identified pervasive video as one of the four "groundswell" technologies that IT leadership will use to empower their employees over the next decade. Since Forrester's insights on video...
Pay Close Attention To Vendor Offers Regarding Integration And Interoperability
We're seeing the growing interest of large European enterprises in IP video along with unified communications (UC). In conversations with Forrester, several European IT clients said that video...
An Empowered Report: Your Company's HEROes Need Your Help
Marketing and strategy professionals show an increased interest in videoconferencing as a collaboration tool. They are also interested in the vendor landscape and want to understand who the key...