Andrew BartelsVice President, Principal Analyst
Authentication, Authorization, & Audit, Financial Services, Government, High-Tech, IT Spending & Budgeting, Professional Services, Security & Risk, Smart Cards, Sourcing & Procurement, Tech Marketing Strategies, Tech Marketing Tools & Best Practices, Tech Sector Economics, eBusiness/eCommerce, eCommerce Platforms & Technologies
Andy serves Vendor Strategy professionals. He is a leading expert on IT spending, purchases, and budgeting trends; IT spending benchmarks; and tech sector economics. He also covers sourcing and procurement technologies (eSourcing, eProcurement, contract life-cycle management, accounts payable electronic invoice presentment and processing (AP-EIPP), automated spend analysis, supplier networks, and eMarkets) and B2B eCommerce trends. In addition, he covers IT budgets, priorities, and business impacts in the utilities, oil and gas, and professional services industries.
Andy has extensive experience in the technology market and in strategic planning, both as an analyst and a practitioner in the business world. Andy came to Forrester through its acquisition of Giga Information Group in 2003, where he had worked as a vice president and research leader since 1998. Prior to joining Giga, Andy held a variety of vice president positions at American Express in the chairman's office, technologies, strategic planning, and re-engineering. Before joining American Express, Andy worked as an economist, writer, and editor for various organizations, including Shearson Lehman Brothers; the US House of Representatives' Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs; and the Council on Wage and Price Stability in the Executive Office of the President.Andy has been a regular participant in Forrester's IT Forum conferences, delivering keynote addresses in 2006 and 2007 with colleagues on the future of software. He has also been a recurring presenter at Conference Board conferences on eProcurement and eSourcing. He has been quoted in leading business and technology publications, including BusinessWeek, The Economist, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal.
Andy earned a B.A. in philosophy from Haverford College and a Ph.D. in history from Johns Hopkins University.
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Tech Trends: 2009 European IT Market Outlook July 2009 Receive an alert when this document is published: email RSS
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Andy is a volunteer firefighter and a sunfish sailor.