Analyst Profile
Michele Cantara
Michele Cantara
Research VP
Billerica, MA USA
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Years of Experience
10 years at Gartner
29 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 disciplines and technologies. Her current research agenda centers on the use of BPM in outsourcing, SaaS, and cloud computing, as well as the competencies and skills needed to make BPM efforts successful. Her research also focuses on the BPM consulting and SI capabilities of external service providers and software vendors.
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
M.B.A., Simmons Graduate School of Management
B.A., Psycholinguistics, Clark University




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Top Questions About Business Process Improvement 29-Jan-2010 Janelle B. Hill, Michele Cantara, Elise Olding, Bill Rosser, Jim Sinur
Cloud-Enabled Outsourcing: Use BPM to Ensure Process Agility in Alternative BPO Service Delivery Models 30-Dec-2009 Michele Cantara, Robert H. Brown
User Survey Analysis: BPM Users Plan to Increase Spending on BPM Projects in 2010 21-Dec-2009 Teresa Jones, Michele Cantara
Who's Who in Business Process Management Consulting and System Integration 14-Dec-2009 Michele Cantara
Predicts 2010: Application Platforms for Cloud Computing 30-Nov-2009 Yefim V. Natis, Eric Knipp, Michele Cantara, Massimo Pezzini, Bruce Robertson, Robert H. Brown, Gene Phifer