Analyst Profile
Nicholas Gall
Nicholas Gall
VP Distinguished Analyst
Billerica, MA USA
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Years of Experience
13 years at Gartner
34 years IT industry
Areas of Coverage
Open Source
Web Services
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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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 Schulte
EIA Separates the 'News' From the 'Noise' 20-Oct-2009 David Newman, Nicholas Gall
The Social Networking Tidal Wave; CIO Desk Reference Chapter 30 01-Oct-2009 Gene Alvarez, Anthony Bradley, Nikos Drakos, Nicholas Gall, Jeffrey Mann, Carol Rozwell
Enterprise Architecture Framework; CIO Desk Reference Chapter 9 01-Oct-2009 R. Scott Bittler, Betsy Burton, Nicholas Gall, Colleen M. Young