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Kate serves Application Development & Delivery Professionals. She is a leading expert on customer service strategies. Her research focuses on helping organizations establish and validate customer service strategies, prioritize and focus customer service projects, facilitate customer service vendor selection, and plan for project success.
Kate has extensive industry experience, with more than 10 years of leadership at customer service software companies, where she held senior product marketing and product management roles. She is also a published author on customer service trends and best practices.
Kate earned a Bachelor of Science from the University of Toronto and a Master of Science from the University of Pennsylvania.
OpenText is at it again — and another independent BPM provider is gone. This time it’s Global 360. But Global 360 was more than BPM; it had done a good — no, great — job...
Business Process Management And Dynamic Case Management Raise The Bar For ECI
Transforming business processes depends on access to information from an increasing number of systems, with a wider range of formats, and in greater volume. BP pros who seek to improve processes with...

Answering Hard Questions About Business, Process, And Technology Best Practices
Business process pros at health payers work at the intersection of business and technology, bringing process methodologies, business knowledge, and technology insights to business transformation...
Document processing services (DPS) encompass a diverse set of specialized services, such as capture, printing, and office fleet management for document-intensive business processes. Three distinct...
Oracle EBS And Sterling Commerce Lead, With SAP, Oracle Siebel, And Microsoft Close Behind
In Forrester's 112-criteria evaluation of order management hub (OMH) vendors, Oracle E-Business Suite and Sterling Commerce led the pack among the Leaders because of their ability to support both...

Electronic signatures are gaining momentum and becoming an increasingly popular topic of inquiries by Forrester clients. In retrospect, today's e-signature users will be seen as early adopters...

An Empowered Report
Too many enterprises communicate with customers using antiquated approaches. After all, smart devices, pervasive video, and social media have given new power to customers and citizens —...
No Waiting, Happy Customers, And Better Compliance
Electronic signatures are gaining momentum among businesses of all shapes and sizes due to accelerating consumer technology and the need to reduce both transaction costs and the time to close...
Lexmark International acquired Netherlands-based Pallas Athena and will combine the company with its recent acquisition of Perceptive Software, a fast-growing ECM provider. Together this is a very...
Landscape: The Business Process Management Playbook
Firms continue to invest massive amounts of money and time into improving their business processes. Why? Because of the imperative to optimize their business operations for their markets, even as...

You might think summer would be a good time to give acquisitions a break - to let things settle a bit. But the pace of key acquisitions continues and many deserve comment. Datacap, as we all...
Forrester recently conducted a deep dive into dynamic case management (DCM) usage by interviewing 50 companies implementing these solutions. Concurrently, we evaluated 10 DCM platforms for the...
Strategic Plan: The Content Management Playbook
Enterprise architects (EAs) need a solid content management strategy to document their firms' choices in a time of disruptive business and technical change. While it's possible to frame content...

Vision: The Content Management Playbook
Successful management of content throughout its life cycle has never been more challenging. Customers and employees, operating in a social, mobile world, expect easy mechanisms to create and consume...
Performance Management: The Business Process Management Playbook
Advancing technology for business process management (BPM) and analytics is allowing broader and deeper treatment of performance metrics. As a result, defining and using performance metrics is an...

Landscape: The Content Management Playbook
Information workers struggle under increasing volumes of varying types of content. Historically, enterprise architects have taken a product-specific approach to their enterprise content management...

The US government will start tracking hospital readmission rates. Why? Because we spend some $15B each year treating returning patients. Many of these would not need to return if they followed...
Engineering Document Management And Control For Owner Operators
Forrester has written extensively about the need for ECM vendors to provide line-of-business (LOB) applications to enterprise customers. The market, however, has paid less attention to the emergence...
Segment E-Signature Use Cases To Help In Your Selection
Electronic signatures are gaining momentum due to accelerating consumer technology and the need to reduce both transaction costs and the time to close business. But despite increasing customer...
Vendors Move Toward Mature Service Offerings
If you think capture and imaging is old technology, you're correct; it has been around for more than twenty years. But there are still a lot of paper-based processes out there, and Forrester clients...
Many business process and content and collaboration professionals, and the vendors that support them, think that dynamic case management (DCM) is a newfangled marketing term to describe an old,...

We are seeing firms migrating away from traditional IT-centric approaches. Why? They have to: Customers are now empowered — and companies are not. So you have to ask yourself a few...