Analyst Profile
W. Roy Schulte
W. Roy Schulte
VP Distinguished Analyst
Stamford, CT USA
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Years of Experience
24 years at Gartner
37 years IT industry
Areas of Coverage
Application Development & Integration

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Roles and Responsibilities
W. Roy Schulte works on real-time analytics, event processing and message-oriented middleware (MOM). He is co-author of the McGraw-Hill book, Event Processing: Designing IT Systems for Agile Companies. Mr. Schulte was lead author of the 1996 report that introduced the term SOA to the industry, and initiated research into message brokers, event-driven architecture (EDA), business activity monitoring (BAM) and the zero-latency enterprise. He covers related issues including high-performance messaging grids, continuous-intelligence systems, complex-event processing (CEP), real-time decision management and dashboards for situation awareness.
Previous Experience
Before joining Gartner, Mr. Schulte was a product manager at Digital Equipment and managed competitive analysis at Data General. He previously served as system programmer, database administrator, application programmer and financial analyst at CIGNA Insurance, Evans Products, Lahey Clinic and MIT.
Professional Background
Digital Equipment Corp., Product Manager, 2 years
Data General Corp., Manager of Competitive Analysis, Manager of Market Development, 8 years
Lahey Clinic, Software System Programmer, DBA, Application Developer, 3 years
Industry Awards/Accolades
Co-authored the 1996 Gartner report that introduced the term "service-oriented architecture" (SOA) to the industry.
Originated research into the field of message brokers.
Coined the term "business activity monitoring" (BAM).
Wrote the first analyst reports on the enterprise service bus (ESB).
Education
B.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
M.S., MIT Sloan School of Management




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Platform as a Service: Definition, Taxonomy and Vendor Landscape, 2013 13-Jun-2013 Yefim V. Natis, Joao Tapadinhas, W. Roy Schulte, Massimo Pezzini, Michele Cantara, Joseph Feiman, Donald Feinberg, Jim Murphy, Thomas E. Murphy, Paolo Malinverno, Gordon Van Huizen, Andrew White, Bill O'Kane, Nick Heudecker, Eric Thoo, Jess Thompson, Gene Phifer, Ian Finley
Cool Vendors in Analytics, 2013 02-May-2013 Gareth Herschel, Joe Bugajski, Christopher Iervolino, Thomas Otter, Khushbu Pratap, Carol Rozwell, Rita L. Sallam, W. Roy Schulte
Cool Vendors in In-Memory Computing, 2013 23-Apr-2013 Massimo Pezzini, Roxane Edjlali, Donald Feinberg, Christopher Iervolino, W. Roy Schulte
Cool Vendors in IT/OT Alignment and Integration, 2013 23-Apr-2013 Kristian Steenstrup, Geoff Johnson, Earl Perkins, Massimo Pezzini, W. Roy Schulte
Cool Vendors in Energy and Utilities, 2013 22-Apr-2013 Zarko Sumic, Randy Rhodes, Chet Geschickter, W. Roy Schulte, Kristian Steenstrup