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Ellen is a senior analyst serving insurance eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals. Her research focuses on the eBusiness strategies, technologies, adoption trends, and best practices of property and casualty, life, group, and health insurers globally. Ellen works with insurance clients to understand how market forces are changing how consumers, groups, and distributors engage with insurance carriers and the role that technology plays in maximizing new opportunities.
Ellen most recently served the technology sales enablement role, writing research and providing advisory on how technology vendors sell and market their solution value to industry buyers, with a particular focus on the insurance, banking, and securities industries.
Ellen brings nearly 20 years of experience in delivering technical and professional services to clients in a variety of industries and markets. She joined Forrester from ThruPoint, a New York-based professional services firm, where she was a principal consultant focusing on IT service business strategy to Global 100 clients in securities, banking, and insurance; telecommunications; and media and entertainment. Before joining ThruPoint, Ellen was a director and principal analyst for Gartner, following the infrastructure services market, including consulting, support, and managed services. Prior to her Gartner experience, Ellen spent seven years in a variety of sales enablement and support roles at the former Cabletron Systems, including strategic bid and proposal management; inclusion on approved vendor lists for corporate and global accounts; and master sales and GSA contract management.
Ellen has presented on vertical industry and role-based marketing in a variety of Forrester and client events. She has been cited in a number of publications, including Forbes, Fast Company, The Wall Street Journal, Best's Review, Insurance & Technology, and American Banker.
Ellen received a B.S. in economics from Southern New Hampshire University.
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Communications-As-A-Service Generates High Interest And Will Soon Displace Premises-Based Alternatives
Communications-as-a-service (CaaS) shares many attributes with other as-a-service offerings in its pricing model and delivers voice, conferencing, contact center, IVR, and unified communications...
Earlier in my career, there were lots of discussions on topics relevant to not only software development teams (e.g. methodologies, processes, etc) but information relevant to developers such as use...

Mobile Banking's Time Has Finally Come
A Cold Breeze And Only One Hot Region Characterize The 2009 Market
Forrester surveyed 17 vendors of globally deployed banking platforms on their 2009 deals. The regional analysis shows that Asia Pacific has been the single highly active region. Most of the remaining...
Why Email Marketers Are Struggling To Break Through The Inbox
Overburdened marketers are largely failing to implement core delivery best practices such as message authentication schemes. With a forecasted $144 million dollars in email marketing spending in 2014...
Target Channel And Content Preferences To Drive Demand
US financial institutions seeking to deepen relationships through improved customer communications are deploying proactive email and SMS alerts. In tight economic times, this strategy offers a way to...
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The Ultra-Connected Customer Will Upturn Marketing
In 2013, the ultra-connected customer base will grow at a staggering pace, destabilizing marketing as you've come to know it. This report identifies the changes you'll see in your customers'...
Verizon Business' acquisition of Cybertrust in early 2007 gives the company a competitive offering in the security consulting market, although it is still somewhat unclear whether its focus will be...
On Tuesday November 8, after more than a year of pre-announcement disclosures that eventually left very little to the imagination, Intel finally announced the Itanium 9500, formerly known as Poulson....
New Rules To Improve The Bottom Line
Email marketer expectations and sophistication are increasing. Forrester's Q1 survey of 104 email marketers found that the number of email marketers using click-through data as a segmentation...
Today, with technology embedded in virtually every business process and market dynamics changing at a mind-boggling pace, the role of CIO is rapidly changing from a technology manager to a business...
The Customer Experience Index, 2008
Keeping customers happy directly affects the top and bottom lines. Because of this, Forrester asked nearly 5,000 consumers about their interactions with a variety of companies, gauging the...
Oracle is about to launch its Cloud Computing strategy with a worldwide roadshow. What does this mean for Oracle customers and partners? First of all, Oracle remains a technology platform...
I am in the processing of conducting primary research to create Forrester Business Intelligence Reference architecture. What do you think of the attached as a starting point? In addition to the usual...