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Suresh serves Customer Intelligence Professionals. His research agenda focuses on enterprise marketing technologies, database marketing strategies, customer analytics, and technologies that make customer insight operational. Suresh helps marketing clients navigate the ever-changing marketing technology landscape and develop data-driven marketing strategies.
In the past, Suresh has written about contact optimization, inbound marketing, marketing optimization, and the changing enterprise marketing software landscape.
Prior to joining Forrester in 2006, Suresh spent seven years as a consultant with SPSS. At SPSS, he focused on enabling marketing technologies at client companies. Suresh has successfully led the implementation of web analytics, data mining, real-time marketing, campaign optimization, and enterprise predictive applications in financial services, travel, and pharmaceutical verticals. Prior to SPSS, Suresh worked at NetGenesis, a leading web analytics provider, where he delivered web analytics and measurement services to clients.
Suresh has an M.B.A. from Greenwich College, The University of Hull in the UK, and an M.S. in computer information systems from Bentley College.
An Empowered Report: Empower Delivery Teams To Succeed Despite Constant Change
Application development and delivery organizations are at the heart of the shift to business technology. But while coupling app delivery more directly with the business brings the opportunity to...
DevOps is a movement for developers and operations professionals that encourages more collaboration and release automation. Why? To keep up with the faster application delivery pace of Agile. In...
Agile and Lean transformations depend to a great extent on cultivating a good sourcing ecosystem. The decisions you make around the partners and providers supporting your transformation and projects...

Since my earlier blog post on optimizing your software development sourcing strategy, we have published a report I co-authored with Mike Gilpin on this same topic: "Update Your Application...
Strategic Plan: The Agile And Lean Playbook
This report outlines Forrester's strategic plan of the solution for application development and delivery (AD&D) professionals working on Agile and Lean. This report is designed to help you plan a...
Business Impact: The Agile And Lean Playbook
This report outlines the business impact of Forrester's solution for application development and delivery (AD&D) executives looking to implement Agile and Lean. It is designed to help AD&D execs...
Hi all, My colleague and friend Mike Gualtieri wrote a really interesting blog the other day titled "Agile Software Is A Cop-Out; Here's What's Next." While I am not going to discuss the...
Performance Management: The Agile And Lean Playbook
Agile disrupts everything that we know about testing, including what practices to use, what skills are needed, how to set up the testing organization, and how to leverage testing tools. Testing is a...

Pragmatic Adoption Of SOA, Agile, Open Source, And Cultural Change Tactics Yielded Improved Business-IT Relationships And A More-Agile Organization
The Vatican Bank, or Istituto per le Opere di Religione (IOR), transformed its application development and delivery organization over a three-year period to become: 1) agile — to respond to...
Use this tool to assess your organization's readiness for, or maturity in, Agile testing.

Think of a medieval fortress: It was originally used for a small army, it has walls nine meters thick, and it’s surrounded by buildings hundreds of years old. Upon entering, you are confronted...
Build/Buy Capabilities: The Agile And Lean Playbook
Agile and Lean transformations depend to a great extent on cultivating a good sourcing ecosystem. The decisions you make around the partners and providers supporting your transformation and projects...
There is no doubt that Agile growth in the market is significant, and the growing daily number of inquiries I’ve been getting on Agile from end user organizations in 2012 gives me the...
Early this year, on January 15, I published our first research on testing for the Agile and Lean playbook. Connected to that research, my colleague Margo Visitacion and I also published...
In 2009, the technology industry entered a new cycle of technology innovation and growth, powering a multiyear period of technology investment predicted to last through 2016: the business technology...
This tool is a complement to the report "Transforming Application Delivery" and includes the typical assessment questions you should ask to identify areas that need the most improvement focus. The...
The past few years haven’t been kind to software developers. Having the equivalent of a US master’s in computer science and having spent the first 20+ years of my professional life...