Analyst Profile
Michele Cantara
Michele Cantara
Research VP
Billerica, MA USA
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Years of Experience
9 years at Gartner
28 years IT industry
Areas of Coverage
Application Development & Integration
Software Markets

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Roles and Responsibilities
Michele Cantara is a vice president in Gartner Research. Her primary research area is business process management as a management discipline as well as an emerging set of technologies. Her current research agenda centers on the competitive positioning of business process management suite software vendors and external service providers that provide consulting or software-as-a-service capabilities using business process management.
Previous Experience
In previous roles at Gartner, Ms. Cantara was lead analyst covering middleware markets and the consulting and systems integration markets. She focused on trends in the service-oriented architecture and Web services markets. Ms. Cantara was a marketing manager for Compaq Professional Services, responsible for marketing Microsoft technology services, CRM solutions and business-process-model-driven integration tools. Ms. Cantara was also a software product manager at Digital Equipment and has developed and marketed service-led solutions for the manufacturing and financial services industries.
Professional Background
Compaq Professional Services, Senior Marketing Manager, 2 years
Digital Equipment Corporation, Senior Product Manager, 10 years
Data Resources, Inc. (Now Global Insight), Product Marketing Consultant, 4 years
Education
B.A., Psycholinguistics, Clark University
M.B.A., Simmons Graduate School of Management




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Search Analytics Trends: BPM Maintains Its Appeal Despite the Recession 13-Nov-2009 Teresa Jones, Fabrizio Biscotti, Michele Cantara
Gartner's Evaluation of IBM's BPM Strategy and BPMS Product 03-Nov-2009 Janelle B. Hill, Michele Cantara
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
Gartner Evaluates Microsoft's BPM Strategy and Partner BPMS Products 14-Sep-2009 Janelle B. Hill, Michele Cantara
How Does Business Process Management Consulting Relate to Business Operations Improvement Consulting? 08-Sep-2009 Michele Cantara