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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.
From set-top boxes to cell phones, device makers are falling over themselves to offer music functionality. Digital music services have also evolved to "anytime, anywhere" access with rich discovery...
Strategies To Counter Disruptive Smartphone Competition
Smartphones' benefits mean they continue to trample on adjacent product categories as the mobile market collides with the consumer electronics market. The role of the smartphone in consumers' lives...

A Technographics® Data Essentials Document
Addressing Consumers' Need For Immediacy And Cost Savings
European consumers continue to make use of all of the touchpoints that eBusiness professionals offer when making purchases. Click and collect serves multichannel buyers' fundamental needs by allowing...
Retailers want to engage multichannel shoppers — that much they know. But who these shoppers are and how retailers go about courting them are entirely different stories. Below is a profile of...
Reading device unit sales and users (dedicated eReader, mobile phone, desktop PC, laptop/notebook PC, netbook/mini PC, tablet PC). eBook readers by device and eBook revenue. Includes historical data...
Benchmark: The CIO's Mobile Engagement Playbook
Are you ready to serve your mobile customers on the device of their choice? Have you anticipated what apps they need next? And for employees, which apps are most important on smartphones? How many...

B2B marketers across all industries are investing more into creating digital content to generate new business opportunities, nurture existing sales or marketing leads, and to encourage deeper...

An Empowered Report
Just a few years ago, mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs) were a dime a dozen. Big companies like Disney and ESPN tried — yet failed — to create a mobile experience differentiated...
Broad Reach Among Consumers Demands That Mobile Messaging Is In The Mix
Ten to 15 years ago, SMS offered the only pragmatic mobile data service: it had broad reach, standardization, and carrier interoperability. Today, companies have more choices including application...

B2B Marketers Need To Expand Their Online Advertising Horizons
Display marketing is part of most B2B interactive marketers' plans for 2011, but few are prepared to unlock its full potential. Rather than miss opportunities by simply porting over print media...
Sales Enablement Is The Bridge Between Go-To-Market Strategy And Tactical Execution
Tectonic forces are at work transforming business relationships away from their traditional dependency on products and services toward a focus on business outcomes and results. Inefficiencies noted...
The types of devices people use to connect to the Web are proliferating. Portable devices are rapidly getting more powerful, and as a result, the tradeoff between mobility and capability is...
The Payment Methods That Appeal Most And Least To Leisure Travel Bookers
Since 2007, US travelers' usage and interest in alternative payment methods (APMs) for online travel purchases has been slowly, but steadily, increasing. Fifteen percent of US online leisure travel...
We Apply Forrester's STEP Methodology To The eBusiness Solutions Evaluation Process For Financial Services Providers
eBusiness executives at financial services providers have many roles, and one of the more critical is choosing technology solutions that meet their firm's technology-agnostic business problems....
A Technographics® Data Essentials Document
2012 was undoubtedly a pivotal year for tablets. With double-digit growth in tablet uptake across Western Europe, about one in seven online Europeans now owns a tablet. And with further double-digit...
Assessment: The Retail eCommerce Playbook
As retail companies evaluate their eCommerce opportunities, establishing a level set of their current strengths and weaknesses is essential. In 2008, Forrester introduced its proprietary eBusiness...
Forrester conducted an online survey fielded in August and September 2012 of 13,518 European individuals ages 16 to 92. For results based on a randomly chosen sample of this size (N = 13,518), there...
Business-to-business (B2B) marketing and sales teams perform poorly when it comes to demand generation across the board, which results in continuous tension to support goals to create qualified...
Forrester Technographics Digital Consumer Community Report, February 2012
The economic recession has turned consumers into savvy bargain hunters. Now more than ever, they are on the lookout for the best deals and lowest prices they can find. Forrester conducted qualitative...