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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.
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...
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...
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...

SDL Tridion, Interwoven, And FatWire Lead, While Microsoft Makes Inroads
Forrester evaluated 10 leading Web content management (WCM) vendors across approximately 115 criteria and found that SDL Tridion continues its leadership in enabling organizations to deliver...
SDL Tridion Leads While Microsoft And IBM Play Catchup
Forrester evaluated 11 leading Web content management (WCM) vendors across 190 external site content management and delivery criteria and found that European vendor SDL Tridion has established clear...
Managing The Production And Distribution Of Rich Media
Increasing interactive channel needs currently force many information and knowledge management (I&KM) professionals in marketing and IT to take a fresh look at digital asset management (DAM),...
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....
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...
Enterprises show renewed interest in digital asset management (DAM) due to increased creation and use of digital assets across multiple channels, coupled with maturing enterprise content management...
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...

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...
Answers To Frequently Asked Questions
As organizations embark on next-generation Web content management (WCM) initiatives, they want to avoid the mistakes made in earlier, more costly WCM projects. As a result, information and knowledge...
Before Investigating Vendors, Use A Checklist To Plan And Evaluate Your Needs
With Web content management (WCM) implementations becoming more complex, information and knowledge management (I&KM) professionals need to get a handle on multiple WCM issues and answer important...
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....
Information and knowledge management (I&KM) professionals have expressed abundant interest in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server — the technology that has a little something for everyone,...
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...
Understanding How To Apply ECM To Marketing's Business Objectives
Customer experience expectations rise each year as customers want faster responses to requests, more conversational interactions, and more relevant content. Marketers now find themselves under...
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...

How To Maximize Your WCM Investment During An Economic Slowdown
In the first recession of the customer-centric Web era, enterprises would be wise to avoid across-the-board IT budget cuts that cripple their ability to compete for and service fickle online...
Investment in Web content management (WCM) remains a high priority for enterprises, but information and knowledge management (I&KM) professionals sometimes struggle to justify the time and resources...
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...
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...
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...

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...
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,...