Analyst Profile

Kimihiko Iijima

Research Director

20 years at Gartner , 38 years industry experience
Japan

Roles and Responsibilities

Kimihiko Iijima is a Research Director in Gartner Research. Mr. Iijima's research focus is currently on application architecture (e.g., service-oriented architecture, microservices, event-driven architecture) and application infrastructure technologies, such as application platform, cloud-enabled application platform, IoT and application integration suites, iPaaS, API management and IoT integration.

Areas of Coverage

Application Development & Integration

Kimihiko Iijima's Recent Gartner Activity

Latest Research

Magic Quadrant for Enterprise High-Productivity Application Platform as a Service
26-Apr-2018
Market Guide for IoT Integration
24-Oct-2017
Magic Quadrant for Enterprise High-Productivity Application Platform as a Service
27-Apr-2017

Background

Previous Experience

Prior to joining Gartner, Mr. Iijima built his career as a system engineer, project manager, IT infrastructure designer/architect and enterprise management technology standard designer at the corporate level and project level, in the heterogeneous distributed environment, including legacy environment.

Professional Background

ENICOM, Infrastructure Architect, Technology Standard Development, 9 years
Hitachi Zosen Systems (HZS), System Engineer, 9 years

Education

B.S., Mechanical Engineering, Doshisha University

Languages

English
Japanese

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