Benoit J. Lheureux Research VP Gilbert, AZ USA Years of Experience 7 years at Gartner 30 years IT industry Areas of Coverage Application Development & Integration View Latest Research Resources Create Analyst Alert Contact Gartner Roles and Responsibilities Benoit Lheureux is a research VP in Gartner Research and agenda manager for the Application Infrastructure group. He focuses on three areas: application integration, middleware and B2B e-commerce, with the emphasis on the latter. Mr. Lheureux publishes research on the evolution of B2B integration projects (from traditional supply chain to cloud computing and SaaS integration), B2B infrastructure (including all forms of B2B software and services), the evolution of EDI VANs and integration as a service, and the role and adoption of B2B standards, such as EDI, AS2 and Web services. Previous Experience Mr. Lheureux has 30 years of experience in the IT industry. Prior to joining Gartner, he was a senior architect for BeXcom, where he helped design collaborative applications for deployment in B2B scenarios. Before that, he worked at NCR, where, as senior consulting analyst, he helped Fortune 50 corporations architect their distributed computing solutions, as well as deploy and tune massively parallel database applications. Previously, he was an engineer and developed distributed database tools, gateways and lock managers. Professional Background NCR, Consulting Analyst, 19 years Education B.S., Computer Science, San Diego State University LATEST RESEARCH More by this author Title Publish Date Author(s) Magic Quadrant for Integration Service Providers 20-Nov-2009 Benoit J. Lheureux, Paolo Malinverno Predicts 2010: Business Process Management Will Expand Beyond Traditional Boundaries 19-Nov-2009 Janelle B. Hill, Benoit J. Lheureux, Elise Olding, Daryl C. Plummer, Bill Rosser, Jim Sinur Business Process Networks Offer Solutions for Collaborative Multienterprise Process Integration 21-Sep-2009 Benoit J. Lheureux Hype Cycle for ERP, 2009 15-Sep-2009 Denise Ganly, James Richardson, Tim Payne, Pat Phelan, Andrew White, Claudio Da Rold, Kimberly Collins, Gene Phifer, Deborah R Wilson, Benoit J. Lheureux, Jeff Woods, John Radcliffe, Rita L. Sallam, Kurt Schlegel, Carol Rozwell, Thomas Otter, James Holincheck, Christian Hestermann, Johan Jacobs, Jim Davies, Eric Knipp, Nigel Rayner, Yvonne Genovese, French Caldwell, Paul E. Proctor, Thomas J. Bittman, Janelle B. Hill, David Mitchell Smith, Whit Andrews, Michele Cantara Hype Cycle for E-Commerce, 2009 11-Sep-2009 Gene Alvarez, Adam Sarner, Norbert J. Scholz, William Clark, Yefim V. Natis, David Mitchell Smith, Gene Phifer, Benoit J. Lheureux, Paolo Malinverno, Johan Jacobs, Jeffrey Mann, Mike McGuire, Van L. Baker, Hung LeHong, Anne Lapkin, Bill Gassman, Whit Andrews, Michael J. King, Jim Davies, Pete Basiliere, Andrew Frank, John Radcliffe, Deborah R Wilson, Nikos Drakos, David Gootzit, Ted Chamberlin, Richard J. De Lotto, Lydia Leong, Michael Maoz, Michael Dunne, Andrew White, Stephen Forte, Allen Weiner, Rita E. Knox, Gareth Herschel