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Matthew is a vice president and practice leader serving CIOs and IT leadership teams for Forrester. With more than 18 years of professional experience in enterprise IT, interactive marketing, and technology markets, Matthew leads a team of analysts, researchers, advisors, and consultants focused on business technology strategy. He also advises clients in a wide variety of industries around the globe on IT's role in innovation, IT organization, strategic planning, and workplace technologies.
One of Matthew's primary research objectives is to help clients overcome the people, process, and technology challenges in IT investments. His most recent research looks at the needs, attitudes, and behaviors of a changing workforce to understand how technology affects employee engagement and overall workplace experience. He also focuses on how companies achieve business outcomes using mobile technologies, knowledge management practices, and tools such as enterprise portals, social technologies, expertise networks, collaboration tools, and related software.
Considered an authority on workplace technologies, Matthew's research has been cited in the Financial Times, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and numerous industry and trade publications. Matthew also frequently presents his research at major industry events and conferences.
Prior to joining Forrester, Matthew held a leadership position for more than five years in global management consulting firm McKinsey and Company's knowledge services operating group. In this role, Matthew led change management and global technology programs involving communities of practice, enterprise search, document management, enterprise portal, and expertise location services. Prior to McKinsey, Matthew cofounded and served as vice president of operations for an eCommerce startup based in Austin, Texas. Further professional experience includes six years of consulting and project management at interactive services firms — serving clients Canon USA, Dell, IBM, PCOrder, Trilogy, and Tivoli on commercial and public-sector applications.
Matthew graduated magna cum laude from the Babson College M.B.A. program with a focus on entrepreneurship and high-tech marketing strategy. Matthew has his B.A. in English and studio arts from Colgate University.
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Forrester analysts Stephen Powers, Ron Rogowski, and I collaborated on this research. Digital customer experience has become a key business differentiator, and application development and...
[Forrester Principal Analyst Phil Murphy and I collaborated on this research — and the consulting projects that prompted it.] Business technology demands that application development and...
As much fun as the juicy details of the Oracle-Google lawsuit are, the meaning of the suit for enterprise application development managers is, well, philosophical. Aside from sweating over the legal...
1. Are there other banks that use SharePoint as a development platform? 2. What types of applications do they develop on SharePoint? 3. Are any of them developing on SharePoint 2010? 4. What are the...
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For fast delivery of new business applications, conventional Java and .NET coding is usually no longer your best choice. Instead, a generation of new productivity platforms holds the potential to...
James Staten and I wrote this vision of the future of cloud computing. The full report is available to Forrester clients at this link. The research is part of Forrester’s playbook to advise...
Cloud computing will bring demand for elastic application platforms. Promises that cloud computing can save money and reduce time-to-market by automatically scaling applications (either up or down)...
Clay Richardson, Mike Gilpin, and I collaborated on this blog post. I don’t normally blog in response to news events, but I feel obligated to blog about Progress Software’s strategy...
Stephen Powers and I wrote this research together. The full report is available to Forrester clients at this link. The research is part of Forrester’s playbook to advise application...
The "smart money" seems to be betting against SAP. I hear all the time about the company's bleak prospects for the future. A client conversation last week reminded me of how strong SAP’s...
Grant me a "crabby old guy" rant on big data. I continually hear people in our industry using the term big data as a product-category name -- and confusing everyone about the business value of big...
How are companies such as MasterCard International and Visa providing APIs to their services? Also, what is your assessment of the API business landscape? What is the market sizing? Who is playing?...
Java’s future will be constrained by the bounds of Oracle's business model. Drama has been running high since Oracle began to shape up the Java technology it acquired along with Sun...
Cloud computing has reached an inflection point for enterprises — a comprehensive strategy for its use is now required. Until now, most companies had adopted cloud services in an ad hoc...
[Forrester Principal Analyst Alexander Peters, PhD. and I collaborated on this research.] You may have heard the term "business architect" in your travels; if you haven't, you soon will. A...
Rob Koplowitz and I collaborated on this research. The days of Microsoft SharePoint being only a locally installed software product are over. Microsoft's commitment to SharePoint in the...
Forrester’s James Staten and I collaborated on this research. True cloud services all use some mode of multitenancy — the ability for multiple customers (tenants) to share the same...
Forrester has long advocated adoption of a “business technology” approach to replace traditional IT. “BT” recognizes the fundamental role information technology plays in...
Jeffrey S. Hammond and I wrote this research together. The full report is available to Forrester clients at this link. One Microsoft platform era is ending, and another is beginning. The .NET era as...
Business rules platforms are a mature technology for automating decision and policy logic and for managing fast changes to that logic to keep up with business changes. Now customers are seeking more:...
With the seventh generation of its WebSphere software, IBM redefines the state of the art in Java platforms for the enterprise. The WebSphere 7 product family provides application development...
Java's future is on my mind lately. Oracle's new ownership of Java prompts a series of "what will Larry do" questions. But more to the point, the research Mike Gualtieri and I have been doing...
I prepared this research with Rob Koplowitz. The stage is set for a big upswing in custom application development on Microsoft SharePoint. First, SharePoint Server 2010 adoption is very strong, and...