Forrester Research : Analyst : John R. Rymer

CLIP THIS INQUIRY

Select a group :

Group Name

Create New Group Clip

CLIP THIS FLOOW

Select a group :

Group Name

Create New Group Clip

John R. Rymer

Vice President, Principal Analyst serving Application Development & Delivery PROFESSIONALS

Find John on:
Blog: Application Development & Delivery Blog

John serves Application Development & Delivery (AD&D) Professionals. He is a leading expert on enterprise middleware. Included in his coverage are the Java application servers from IBM, Red Hat JBoss, and Oracle, as well as Microsoft's .NET platform and SharePoint. John leads Forrester's AD&D coverage of cloud platforms, including Microsoft Windows Azure, Amazon Web Services, and salesforce.com's platform.

John is the lead analyst on Forrester's digital experience delivery playbook. He is an authority on the enterprise strategies of IBM, Microsoft, and Oracle and contributes to Forrester's coverage of business rules platforms and complex event processing.

Previous Work Experience

John came to Forrester through its acquisition of Giga Information Group and has a combined total of six years with the company. He has worked as an industry analyst for more than 15 years, starting in 1989. John's industry experience includes a stint as vice president of product marketing for IONA Technologies, where he gained first-hand experience in creating and executing market strategies.

Before joining IONA, John was principal consultant and founder of Upstream Consulting, a vendor strategy consulting group within Fleishman-Hillard International Communications.

John is a frequent speaker at Forrester conferences for IT professionals.

Education

John graduated from Ohio University with a B.S. in journalism.

Research Coverage:

Application Development, Application Development Processes & Tools, Application Infrastructure Technologies, Application Platforms & Programming Strategy, Application Server Platforms, Architecture & Technology Strategy, Business Rules, Cognizant Technology Solutions, Google, Oracle, Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), SAP

John R. Rymer's Research

For CIOs
Report: Q3 2012 Global Cloud Developer Online Survey Results
John R. Rymer, James StatenDecember 14, 2012
This PowerPoint deck presents the data gathered from Forrester’s Q3 2012 Global Cloud Developer Online Survey. The survey fielded 106 responses; 56% from North America; 25% from West...
- Downloads: 24
- Rating:
For Application Development & Delivery Professionals
Report: Drive Business Transformation With Digital Customer Experiences
John R. Rymer, Stephen PowersNovember 27, 2012
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 up t...
- Downloads: 950
- Rating:
For Application Development & Delivery Professionals
Report: Creating Your Transformation Strategy For Digital Experience Delivery
John R. RymerNovember 27, 2012
Digital customer experience is the next big opportunity for application development and delivery (AD&D;) professionals. Business leaders responsible for marketing, sales, and support need advice ...
- Downloads: 215
- Rating:
For CIOs
Report: Cloud Keys An Era Of New IT Responsiveness And Efficiency
John R. Rymer, James StatenNovember 19, 2012
The cloud landscape is shifting to cover a broader range of enterprise needs. Why? Cloud is curing the lack of responsiveness and economic flexibility that ails on-premises IT. Look for the popu...
- Downloads: 451
- Rating:
For Application Development & Delivery Professionals
Report: The Future Of Microsoft .NET: New Options, New Choices, New Risks
John R. Rymer, Jeffrey S. HammondAugust 24, 2012
One Microsoft platform era is ending and another is beginning. The .NET era as we've known it is winding down. .NET doesn't go away — it becomes Microsoft's preferred server environment fo...
- Downloads: 567
- Comments: 1
- Rating:

View all of John R. Rymer's Research

For Enterprise Architecture Professionals
Report: Lean: The New Business Technology Imperative
Clay Richardson, Connie Moore, John R. Rymer, Ted Schadler, Dave WestSeptember 29, 2009
Everyone wants to be lean these days, whether when stepping off a scale in the morning or reviewing the cost of running a successful business. But just how do you define "Lean" — especiall...
- Downloads: 4430
For Application Development & Delivery Professionals
Report: The Forrester Wave™: Business Rules Platforms, Q2 2008
Mike Gualtieri, John R. RymerApril 08, 2008
Forrester evaluated 13 platforms from 11 vendors using 175 criteria and found ILOG JRules, Fair Isaac Blaze Advisor, and Pegasystems PegaRULES to be resounding Leaders as general-purpose busines...
- Downloads: 2730
For Application Development & Delivery Professionals
Report: The Top Five Changes For Application Development In 2010
John R. Rymer, Jeffrey S. Hammond, Mike GualtieriJanuary 04, 2010
Niccolò Machiavelli said it best: "Never waste the opportunities created by a good crisis." Over the past year, the Great Recession has forced everyone in IT to think differently about wher...
- Downloads: 2382
For Application Development & Delivery Professionals
Report: Now Is The Time To Determine SharePoint's Place In Your Application Development Strategy
John R. Rymer, Rob KoplowitzJuly 16, 2008
As application development managers, you may see Microsoft SharePoint as a collaboration application. But as many shops are discovering, SharePoint is also a development platform that people bot...
- Downloads: 2730
For Application Development & Delivery Professionals
Report: Platform-As-A-Service Is Here: How To Sift Through The Options
John R. RymerApril 01, 2009
The term platform-as-a-service describes many different approaches to developing applications that run in Internet data centers, and each of these approaches is suited to a limited number of app...
- Downloads: 2117