Ken Vollmer Ken Vollmer
Principal Analyst

Research Coverage

Information & Knowledge Management, Integration Technologies, Business-To-Business eCommerce, Enterprise Application Integration, B2B Integration, EDI & B2B, eBusiness/eCommerce, Packaged Applications, Retail, Business Process Management

Research Focus

Ken serves Enterprise Architecture professionals. He covers trends, issues, and strategies related to all forms of integration, including business process management (BPM), enterprise application integration (EAI), B2B integration (B2Bi), and electronic data interchange (EDI).
Ken has assisted hundreds of clients in North America and Europe with their integration projects, drawing upon his knowledge of vendor offerings and emerging integration trends, including the latest developments related to Web services and SOA. He is a frequent speaker at technology conferences on a wide range of technology subjects.

Previous Work Experience

Ken came to Forrester through its acquisition of Giga Information Group and has 20 years of management-level experience in the IT industry. Prior to joining Giga, he was the director of information systems planning for a large retail company, where he was responsible for evaluating the latest technology developments for potential use. He has held a wide range of IT management positions at Carrier Corporation and MONY Financial Services, as well as various positions in the logistics arena at John Deere.

Education

Ken earned a B.S. in management information systems from the State University of New York and an M.S. in information resource management from the School of Information Science and Technology at Syracuse University.

Latest Research

Planned Research

IC-BPMS Wave August 2008
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B2B Service Provider Wave December 2008
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Recent Media Citations
The Australian, "BPM To Buck Slowing Spend Trend," April 8, 2008
Intelligent Enterprise, "The 'Secret Sauce' Of BPM Success," March 2008
ADTMag.com, "Enterprise Architects As Agents Of Innovation," February 11, 2008
Intelligent Enterprise, "Vitria Brings Interface to Process Management," February 1, 2008
SearchOracle.com, "The E-Business Suite User's Guide To Oracle OpenWorld 2007,"October 24, 2007
InfoWorld, "Microsoft Touts RFID, EDI In BizTalk Server Upgrade," September 10, 2007