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Stephen serves Application Development & Delivery Professionals. He is a leading expert on technologies to support online customer experiences, including web content management, digital asset management, and personalization. Stephen helps Forrester clients create customer experience management technology strategies to support contextual, multichannel experiences and realize production efficiencies.
Stephen came to Forrester with many years of experience in IT management and application development. Most recently, Stephen served as vice president and general manager of a software startup in Cambridge, Mass., managing client engagements in the areas of customer resource management (CRM), asset management, and supply chain management. Prior to that, he spent eight years at ZDNET (later CNET), where he led IT groups responsible for enterprise content management, web content management, eCommerce, search applications, and data warehousing.
Stephen earned a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Villanova University and an M.B.A. from Babson College.
Adobe Offers A Leading Combination Of Strategy And Resources
Web content management (WCM) software has evolved from a set of primarily technical tools for website management into broad products and suites that support the imaginations (and needs) of digital...

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...

Delivering Relevant Experiences In The Multichannel World
Firms want to deliver the right experience to the right user at the right time and on the right device — a tricky proposition in this age of device proliferation. The splinternet — and...

Supporting Relevant Digital Experiences In The Multichannel World
Organizations have long "personalized" their websites for customer segments. Now they need to go further, first by delivering the right experience to the right user at the right time and on the right...

Vision: The Digital Experience Delivery Playbook
Today's rush to reach customers on their smartphones and tablets is just the beginning of an explosion of software-fueled digital touchpoints. Smartphones, tablets, eReaders, games, smart TV, goggles...

As consumers access online content on more devices — computers, smartphones, tablets, TVs, eReaders, and even gaming consoles — managing and delivering digital content has grown...

In a world with increasing numbers of rich media assets and a diverse set of distribution channels, content and collaboration (C&C) pros are taking a closer look at rich media management options....

C&C Pros Must Define The Role Of Content In The CXM Ecosystem
A new type of solution is emerging from a variety of content management, eCommerce, and marketing technology products. To manage cross-touchpoint customer experiences, vendors like Autonomy, Adobe,...
SDL And Adobe Lead The Way To Customer Experience Management (CXM)
The web content management (WCM) market is in transition. Functionality to enable publishing to the Web — whether internally or externally — has become commoditized. Yet now, the WCM...

What Does Digital Asset Management Mean?
In a world with increasing amounts of rich media assets and an increasing number of distribution channels, content and collaboration (C&C) pros are taking a closer look at rich media management...
Enterprises continue to struggle under increasing volumes of varying types of content. Historically, content and collaboration (C&C) professionals have taken a product-specific approach to their...
Findings From Forrester's Q1 2011 Web Content Management Survey
Forrester recently surveyed 260 content and collaboration (C&C) professionals with decision-making roles in web content management (WCM) about their WCM strategies for the coming year. Enterprises...
The web content management (WCM) market is currently experiencing a significant evolution as requirements for those platforms have grown beyond just managing web content. Instead, organizations need...

Traditional Digital Asset Management Software Morphs Into New Categories
With online channel demands increasing, many organizations are taking a fresh look at rich media management. Often, companies lack the technology and/or strategy to properly manage and distribute...
The staggering rate of mobile device adoption today gives content and collaboration (C&C) professionals a good reason to plan ahead for offering mobile access to enterprise content. Demand for the...
Demand For Web Self-Service And Standards Drive Market Transformation
In 2006 Forrester identified Adobe and IBM as the clear market leaders in e-forms. At the time, e-forms emerged as the critical component to replace paper, leading to the digital forms of today that...
The inability to find content, a lack of compliance, and poor customer experiences all add up to real costs. If you care about getting the right information to the right people at the right time and...
Enterprise content management (ECM) continues to attract interest from organizations trying to manage the explosion of unstructured content. Enterprises want three things from ECM: to help make...
Authoring, Metadata, And Rich Media Support Improve, But Some Persuasive Limitations Still Exist
In fall 2009, Microsoft revealed its SharePoint Server 2010 functional road map, which included Web content management (WCM) support. Traditionally, more organizations have used SharePoint for...
Findings From Forrester's January 2010 Global Web Content Management Online Survey
Forrester recently surveyed 225 information and knowledge management (I&KM) professionals with Web content management (WCM) decision-making or influencer roles about their WCM strategies for the...
Understand Your Options For Supporting Public-Facing Web Sites
Information and knowledge management (I&KM) professionals who support public-facing Web sites face a potpourri of product options from software vendors. Currently, persuasive content functions...
Findings From Forrester's October 2009 Global Enterprise Content Management Online Survey
Forrester recently surveyed 170 information and knowledge management (I&KM) professionals with decision-making roles in enterprise content management (ECM) about their plans for the coming year....
Traditional Players Continue To Lead, While Microsoft Makes Inroads
In Forrester's 70-criteria evaluation of eight enterprise content management (ECM) suite vendors, we found that IBM, Oracle, EMC, and Open Text lead due to breadth and depth of functionality and a...
Benchmark Your Content Management, Delivery, And Experience Capabilities
Few enterprises map out long-term strategies for the feature sets and application integration points that Web content management (WCM) offers. While organizations have mastered content management...
The Web content management (WCM) market remains fragmented, with a wide range of products that manage anything from simple static Web pages to complex sites designed to maximize customer engagement....