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Simon is vice president and principal analyst on the CIO research team focused on mobility and workplace experience. His research focuses on the role of the CIO in driving mobile strategy for employees, customers, and partners; mobile technology planning and road map development; and defining the technology requirements in an ever-changing work environment.
Prior to his current role, Simon was responsible for the growth and development of the CIO Group, Forrester's Leadership Board of more than 400 CIOs worldwide. Prior to assuming this role, he was vice president and research director for the infrastructure and operations and security and risk research teams. For three years, Simon developed and hosted Forrester's IT Forum EMEA, was based in Paris, and worked extensively with European clients. Before that, Simon was a principal analyst on the infrastructure and operations team covering personal computing, mobility, and client virtualization. He joined Forrester in 2000 as an analyst covering enterprise application integration and web services.
Prior to joining Forrester, Simon spent 10 years in technical book acquisitions and publishing with Addison Wesley and McGraw-Hill.
Simon holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Rhode Island in English and political science.

Channel Partners Expect A Share Of The Cloud
SMBs' Plans For Servers, Storage, Virtualization, Form Factors, And Cloud Computing
Suppliers of infrastructure hardware to small and medium-size business (SMB) buyers are poised for better times, given plans by SMBs to upgrade their software and associated hardware infrastructures...
Service Provider Market Dynamics Will Muddy The Channel Ecosystem
An inflection point has surfaced in the managed service provider (MSP) market. Tech vendors must awaken to the revolution that is swiftly taking shape in the ecosystem as cloud computing adoption...

Tech Vendors Must Venture Beyond India's Largest Cities To Achieve Market-Leading Growth
Tech vendors targeting the Indian market currently direct most of their investments and resources to the country's largest metropolitan areas, usually referred to as tier one cities. However, with...

SMBs Are Adopting Networking Technology In A Vein Not Dissimilar To Enterprises
True to our "SMB phoenix" characterization, small to medium-size businesses (SMBs) are proving to be aggressive adopters of network and communications technologies and services. No longer can SMBs be...
Results, not products, differentiate vendors in the eyes of executives.Executives assign strategic supplier status to vendors that are willing and able to align in substantial, not superficial, ways....
These data charts present the results of Forrester's H2 2012 Asia Pacific Tech Distributor Business Confidence Index Tracker Survey.
Small And Medium-Size Businesses Are Defying Gravity
Small and medium-size businesses (SMBs), like their enterprise brethren, are shifting their technology focus from IT to business technology (BT). As their focus on business solutions — as...
How Tech Vendors Can Capitalize On The Changing Roles Of Distributors
Forrester believes that the number of tech distributors in Asia will drop by 15% to 20% over the next five years due to mergers, acquisitions, and other market consolidation. As a result, tech...

Local Input, Awareness, And Flexibility Drive Program Success
Tech companies once thought they could export channel models like they do products — that what worked in North America would work just fine globally. Today, the realities of diverse cultural...

Indian Partners Outpace Chinese
China and India are two of the largest emerging markets with strong economic growth. China represents the third largest single country tech market by market size; India ranks 11th. Homogenous...
