Analyst Profile
Nicholas Gall
Nicholas Gall
VP Distinguished Analyst
Billerica, MA USA
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Years of Experience
14 years at Gartner
35 years IT industry
Areas of Coverage
Web Services
Open Source
Enterprise Architecture

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Roles and Responsibilities
Nick Gall is a vice president in Gartner Research. As a founding member of Gartner’s Enterprise Planning and Architecture Strategies, Mr. Gall advises clients on enterprise strategies for interoperability, innovation and execution. Mr. Gall is a leading authority on middleware, infrastructure planning, technical architecture, XML and Web services. He is also one of the IT industry’s leading authorities on enterprise integration strategy and technology as well as a key thought leader on emerging concepts such as service-oriented architecture (SOA).
Previous Experience
Prior to joining Gartner in 1996, Mr. Gall gained more than 19 years of experience in infrastructure and application design with companies such as Honeywell/Bull and BBN. His expertise spans diverse domains, including relational database design, object-oriented design, programming language design, artificial intelligence, natural language processing and Internet architecture. Mr. Gall has led scores of workshops for Fortune 500 IT organizations on topics such as adaptive infrastructure, service-oriented architecture and integration architecture. As a former intellectual property litigation attorney, he also has deep experience with the legal issues of IT.
Professional Background
META Group, Inc., Senior Vice President & Principal Analyst, 9 years
Testa, Hurwitz & Thibeault, Litigation Associate, 2 years
BBN Laboratories, Staff Scientist, 3 years
Education
B.A., Philosophy, Yale University
M.S., Computer Science, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
J.D., NYU Law School




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Understanding EA Approaches: Middle-Out 18-Dec-2009 Nicholas Gall
Best Practices for Dividing Developer and Architect Responsibilities to Achieve SOA-Based Agility 16-Dec-2009 Nicholas Gall, Anthony Bradley
Architecting for Participation: How Information-Sharing Environments Overcome Information Silos 15-Dec-2009 David Newman, Nicholas Gall
Predicts 2010: Major Changes in Store for Enterprise Architecture 19-Nov-2009 David Newman, Philip Allega, Betsy Burton, Nicholas Gall, Robert A. Handler, Bruce Robertson, Julie Short, Chris Wilson
Toolkit: Building a Business Case Justification for SOA Projects 30-Oct-2009 Anthony Bradley, Nicholas Gall, Daniel Sholler, W. Roy Schulte