Analysts
Every Constellation Research analyst brings significant industry experience honed from end user experiences. Unlike media publications looking to cash in on the "analyst" business for an IPO, or consulting firms masquerading as analysts w/ open research, or expert networks who offer loosely affiliated mercenaries for hire, our analysts start with research as the core.
Our job - deliver insight, industry experience, and coaching that's applicable to the board room, c-suite, and business executives interested in applying disruptive technologies to today's tough business problems.
Analysts and futurists are invited to joined Constellation as members based on their expertise and market making influence. Every analyst delivers research to address tough business problems and publishes to a firm-wide research agenda that's buy-side client driven.
Constellation Research Inc. is selectively adding members. Refer a qualified candidate to Constellation that joins and Constellation will reward you with a 6 month unlimited access pass to our Quark library.
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Constellation's Analysts
Alan is Vice President and Principal Analyst at Constellation Research, Inc. He is one of the lead analysts on Constellation's research theme, The Future of Work. Alan focuses on how enterprise collaboration software/social business software can help people Get Work Done.
Since 1993, he has been designing, marketing and helping customers deploy software solutions that enable people to connect with their peers and openly share information. Prior to joining Constellation, Alan spent 3 years as Director of Marketing at Socialtext and before that, 14 years in a variety of roles at IBM/Lotus.
2012 research agenda includes:
Dr. Alea Fairchild is a Vice President & Principal Analyst for Technology Infrastructure Strategy, Legacy Optimization, and EMEA policy. Fairchild provides strategy and counsel to key Constellation client types: Chief Information Officers, Chief Technology Officers, investment analysts, VCs, technology policy executives, and technology buyers.
Dr. Fairchild has eighteen years experience in global IT market analysis, and has worked for the major market research agencies as both an analyst and as a consultant. She has also been a consultant for the European Commission, as well as to major multinational IT companies throughout Europe.
Barry Wilderman is a strategic advisor to IT/business executives, software vendors and consulting firms in Enterprise Performance Management. Wilderman has over 30 years experience as an industry analyst, researcher and consultant. He is a highly regarded public speaker, and has spoken at numerous business events around the world, for vendors like SAP, PeopleSoft and Aspect Development. Barry’s research and advisory services are focused in the area of enterprise performance management (EPM):
Charles Brett is VP and Principal Analyst at Constellation Research, Inc.. His primary focus is on all aspect of mobility and the use of mobile technology in the enterprise. For 25+ years Charles Brett has focused on delivering common sense to the application of technologies, especially software ones, in organizations of all sizes around the world.
While concentrating at Constellation Research on mobility and its management in the enterprise (sometimes known as MDM or Mobile Device Management) he also addresses:
Global Analyst and Strategist for Unified and Social Business Communications
Dr. E. Brent Kelly is a Vice President and Principal Consultant at Constellation Research, Inc. where he has a laser focus on the business communications and collaboration market, emphasizing those emerging and disruptive products and services that are proven to accelerate an organization's business operations including unified communications, social business, video, cloud services, and mobility.
Global Communication Analyst and Strategist
Elizabeth Herrell is vice president and principal analyst at Constellation Research, Inc, focusing on unified and social communications, contact centers and customer experience. She is also the founder and president of Communication Initiatives, where she provides strategic and advisory consulting services.
Elizabeth is a well-recognized industry-leading analyst, with more than eleven years at Forrester Research as vice president and principal analyst. She has managed large consulting projects for business and government organizations and provides technical insight and guidance to business and government organizations on their communication issues.
Frank Scavo is VP and Principal Analyst at Constellation Research, Inc. focusing on IT strategy, IT management metrics, enterprise applications, and business process improvement. He is especially skilled at formulating and communicating IT strategy, developing the business case for new systems, and facilitating the selection of enterprise systems, such as ERP, CRM, and supply chain management. He is also an expert in benchmarking IT spending and staffing levels for end-user IT organizations.
Jeff Ashcroft is a Vice President & Principal Analyst at Constellation Research, Inc. focusing on Marketing, Social Networking, and Supply Chain Management. He continues in his role as Principal Facilitator of the SupplyChainNetwork and writes about many things both supply chain and social on his personal blog Social Supply Chain Management www.socialscm.com . He provides insight on how stakeholders can design, provide, source and implement supply chain systems with integrated social networks to finally gain access to the massive benefits of supply chain synergy consultants have been promising for more than 2 decades.
Neil Raden is a VP and Principal Analyst at Constellation Research, Inc. focusing on Big Data, Analytics, Decision Management and Business Intelligence. When it comes to the application of information for solving business problems, Neil Raden is an “industry influencer” – followed by technology providers, technology users, consultants, venture capitalists/private equity firms and even other industry analysts. His insight into the needs of organizations and capabilities of technology are derived from years of devising approaches and conceiving working systems. He is the founder of Hired Brains, a provider of consulting and implementation services in business intelligence and analytics to many Global 2000 companies.
Paul Papadimitriou is a VP and Principal Analyst at Constellation Research, specialized in Digital Intelligence.
He focuses on the next generation consumer experience. Connecting the dots of mobility, social technologies and consumer behavior, he translates the world of tomorrow for C-level executives and offers his expertise at public keynotes.
Paul travels around the world to better understand how technology impacts consumers —whether customers, employees or citizens—, how cultures impact technology and where businesses fit in this feedback loop. From his London, UK, base, he covers the EMEA and APAC markets, having previously lived in Tokyo, Manila and Geneva.
R "Ray" Wang is the Principal Analyst and CEO at Constellation Research, Inc. He's also the author of the popular enterprise software blog "A Software Insider’s Point of View". With viewership in the millions of page views a year, his blog provides insight into how disruptive technologies and new business models impact the enterprise. Prior to founding Constellation, he was a founding partner and research analyst for enterprise strategy at Altimeter Group and one of the top analysts at Forrester Research for enterprise strategy.
Venessa Miemis is a senior analyst with Constellation Research, Inc. Miemis is Constellation's resident futurist exploring the edges of communication, co-creation, and commerce in a network society. Miemis brings structure and understanding to how social technologies and networked culture are transforming business, commerce, and collaboration. She often synthesizes insights and analysis into video-based communications along with insightful blogs and reports. One of her well known projects is The Future Of Money project, which provided a visionary point of view for the banking industry and was presented to over 200 global heads of banks at the SIBOS Conference in October 2010.
Yvette Cameron is VP and Principal Analyst at Constellation Research, Inc. focusing on next generation HCM processes and technologies, and is founder of NextGen Insights, an independent consulting and marketing communications firm. A proven executive leader and visionary, she brings over 20 years of experience in designing, developing, communicating and managing global technology solutions. Her work enables companies to align business objectives and workforce initiatives, foster employee engagement, and create a transformational workplace.
Yvette is an active blogger and speaker in the HCM Processes and Technologies space, sharing her views and market research on leading practices and emerging technology approaches to enable businesses to better impact results through more effective people management.