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Tim serves Application Development & Delivery Professionals. He leads Forrester's research on intranets/employee portals and the emerging next-generation information workplace, as well as portal server technologies and globalization practices, including machine translation. Tim also covers web content management and Microsoft SharePoint as a content and collaboration platform.
Tim comes to Forrester with a powerful combination of experience in teaching, advising, and software marketing and strategy. Most recently, he was director of international marketing and strategy for FatWire, a leading WCM provider, where he managed all marketing, competitive intelligence, and vertical market programs outside of North America. Earlier, Tim was a professor at the University of Rochester and New York University.
Tim has a B.A. in political science from Oregon State University and a Ph.D. from the Humanities Center at Johns Hopkins University.
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Forrester clients ask us many questions about services procurement software tools such as dedicated vendor management systems (VMSes) for contingent labor and broader services procurement tools for...
