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Tim serves Sales Enablement Professionals in developing SMB go-to-market channels via the application of best practices, business plans, metrics, tools, resources, relationships, and competitive intelligence. His research focuses on the impact of cloud computing and digital marketing on demand chain business models. Tim is a leading expert on business applications software (enterprise resource planning, business intelligence, marketing automation, and social project/collaboration management) and networking and hardware technologies.
Prior to joining Forrester, Tim served in executive management and mentoring roles in the vendor, user, industry analyst, and venture capital aspects of the IT industry. He has been a featured speaker at many industry conferences involving business intelligence, data warehousing, performance management, and enterprise applications and has been published in Austin-American Statesman, BI Review, DM Review, and Intelligent Enterprise. Tim is a member of the Corporate Portfolio Management Association.
Tim attended Iowa State University, majoring in computer science and math and business administration.
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...
SMBs Exhibit A Broad Adoption Profile, But Growth Is Being Stunted By The Credit Crunch
For most software categories, tech marketers once considered the small to medium-size business (SMB) market to be "software non grata." Their assumption was that most SMBs supported their operations...

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...
Lessons For Winning Developer Support From The Smartphone/Tablet Battlefield
Every significant technology leap forward, such as the emergence of viable smartphone and tablet platforms, catalyzes competitive turbulence among tech companies seeking developer attention. But the...

Channel Partners Expect A Share Of The Cloud
To identify channel partners' plans, readiness, barriers, and needs as cloud technologies emerge, Forrester Research joined with Outsource Channel Executives (OCE) to survey distributors, value-added...
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...
The Very Small Business Profile: Growing, Young, And Mobile
The very small business (VSB) market is growing in importance for an increasing number of tech vendors, in large part due to the fact that it is the fastest-growing company-size segment in terms of...
Using data from Forrester's Enterprise And SMB Hardware Survey, North America And Europe, Q2 2009, we look at European enterprises and SMBs in regards to data center plans.
Using data from Forrester's Enterprise And SMB Hardware Survey, North America And Europe, Q2 2009, we look at PC purchasing plans for North American SMBs.
Using data from Forrester's Enterprise And SMB Hardware Survey, North America And Europe, Q2 2009, we look at European enterprises and SMBs in regards to server virtualization.
Using data from Forrester's Enterprise And SMB Hardware Survey, North America And Europe, Q2 2009, we look at hardware spending plans and priorities for North American SMBs.
Business Data Services North America And Europe
This report provides sample highlights of an extensive data set collected across North American and European enterprises and small and medium-size businesses (SMBs) via our Enterprise And SMB...
Where Small And Medium-Size Businesses Are Investing
Small and medium-size businesses' (SMBs') software priorities, investment levels, vendor relationships, buying processes, and use of IT differ significantly from large enterprises'. Technology...