Service-Oriented Architecture, High-Tech, Application Management, Application Development, SOA & Web Services, IT Infrastructure & Operations, Financial Services, Telecommunications Services
Charles serves Application Development & Program Management professionals. He is a leading analyst in complex software, including high-end transaction computing and software infrastructure, complex event processing, and other infrastructure related to event processing. In addition to this research, Charles covers middleware for application integration, and he is actively involved with issues of automated application discovery and software inventory management.
Charles joined Forrester in 2007. Before this he ran his own consulting business for 20+ years and was the editorial director of the SAA Spectrum and then the MIDDLEWARESPECTRA journal. He has 25 years of hands-on experience with IT, working with international companies in Europe, the Middle East, South Africa, California, and New York (where he focused on communications, telecommunications, and the financial sector). Charles has spoken at numerous industry conferences around the world, has written for numerous publications (including The Financial Times), and was the general chair in 2005 of the biannual High Performance Systems Workshop. He is the author of Making the Ends Meet, The 5 Axes of Business Application Integration, and, most recently, he edited Service Oriented Architecture (SOA): Analyses and Commentaries.
Charles has a B.A. and an M.A. from the University of Oxford.
Case Study: A European IT Services Company Applies Automated Application Discovery May 29, 2008 (Rating: 9) BookmarkPDF
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