Stephen Powers

Vice President, Research Director serving Application Development & Delivery PROFESSIONALS

Stephen serves Application Development & Delivery Professionals. He is a leading expert on technologies to support online customer experiences, including web content management, digital asset management, and personalization. Stephen helps Forrester clients create customer experience management technology strategies to support contextual, multichannel experiences and realize production efficiencies.

Previous Work Experience

Stephen came to Forrester with many years of experience in IT management and application development. Most recently, Stephen served as vice president and general manager of a software startup in Cambridge, Mass., managing client engagements in the areas of customer resource management (CRM), asset management, and supply chain management. Prior to that, he spent eight years at ZDNET (later CNET), where he led IT groups responsible for enterprise content management, web content management, eCommerce, search applications, and data warehousing.


Education

Stephen earned a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Villanova University and an M.B.A. from Babson College.

Stephen Powers's Research

  • For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

    Report: The Forrester Wave™: Web Content Management For Digital Customer Experience, Q2 2013

    Web content management (WCM) software has evolved from a set of primarily technical tools for website management into broad products and suites that support the imaginations (and needs) of digit...

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    Report: Drive Business Transformation With Digital Customer Experiences

    Digital customer experience has become a key business differentiator, and application development and delivery (AD&D) leaders of front-office, web, mobile, and digital development must step ...

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  • For Customer Experience Professionals

    Report: Contextualization

    Firms want to deliver the right experience to the right user at the right time and on the right device — a tricky proposition in this age of device proliferation. The splinternet — a...

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  • For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

    Report: Unify The Digital Experience Across Touchpoints

    Today's rush to reach customers on their smartphones and tablets is just the beginning of an explosion of software-fueled digital touchpoints. Smartphones, tablets, eReaders, games, smart TV, go...

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  • For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

    Report: Four Questions Guide Web Mobile Content Management Plans

    As consumers access online content on more devices — computers, smartphones, tablets, TVs, eReaders, and even gaming consoles — managing and delivering digital content has grown expo...

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    Report: The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Content Management Suites, Q4 2009

    In Forrester's 70-criteria evaluation of eight enterprise content management (ECM) suite vendors, we found that IBM, Oracle, EMC, and Open Text lead due to breadth and depth of functionality and...

    • Downloads: 3629
  • For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

    Report: The Forrester Wave™: Web Content Management For Online Customer Experience, Q3 2011

    The web content management (WCM) market is in transition. Functionality to enable publishing to the Web — whether internally or externally — has become commoditized. Yet now, the WCM...

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  • For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

    Report: The Forrester Wave™: Web Content Management For External Sites, Q2 2009

    Forrester evaluated 10 leading Web content management (WCM) vendors across approximately 115 criteria and found that SDL Tridion continues its leadership in enabling organizations to deliver per...

    • Downloads: 3271
  • For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

    Report: The Forrester Wave™: Web Content Management For External Sites, Q3 2007

    Forrester evaluated 11 leading Web content management (WCM) vendors across 190 external site content management and delivery criteria and found that European vendor SDL Tridion has established c...

    • Downloads: 1630
  • For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

    Report: Market Overview: Digital Asset Management

    Increasing interactive channel needs currently force many information and knowledge management (I&KM) professionals in marketing and IT to take a fresh look at digital asset management (DAM), hi...

    • Downloads: 1579
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