Analyst Profile
Mark Beyer
Distinguished VP Analyst
15 years at Gartner
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30 years industry experience
FL USA
Roles and Responsibilities
Mark A. Beyer is a Research Vice President and Distinguished Analyst in the ITL Data and Analytics group. Mr. Beyer covers broad data architecture solutions including data management and its intersection with use cases and data governance issues. His most recent areas of client issues and research include adapting best practices for data management to remove false distinctions between cloud, on-premises and hybrid fallacies. With a combined direct experience as a power user, application developer, implementation project manager and data architect, he focuses on practical choices when possible and pragmatic delivery when choices are limited. His more aggressive research includes Gartner Maverick contributions and data integration disruptions while keeping healthy skepticism involved where needed.
Mark Beyer's Recent Gartner Activity
Latest Research
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Magic Quadrant for Metadata Management Solutions
16-Oct-2019 -
Vendor Rating: Informatica
10-Sep-2019 -
Vendor Rating: Hitachi
08-Aug-2019
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Data and Analytics Trends for 2019 and Beyond: A Panel Discussion
18 December 2018 -
The Future of Data Management
16 September 2019
On-Demand & Upcoming Webinars
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Gartner Data & Analytics Summit
19 November 2019 - 20 November 2019
Upcoming Gartner Events
Background
Previous Experience
Prior to joining Gartner, Mr. Beyer led implementation practices and projects for data integration, business intelligence and data management architectures as a direct hire within organizations, an implementation consultant and vendor implementation/project lead. He has experience in leading and participating in teams as small as three-person units to serving as the solution architect. He also served as a project manager of a 12-month, multiphased effort that included 24 professional services consultants and nine internal (client) staff members for a data integration architecture, data warehouse (hub), ODS and spoke-marts. He was a business analyst and power user of data prior to engaging in a more formal IT career. His work included designing and developing surveys, managing survey efforts, conducting labor/resource studies, evaluating service delivery models, and sales and inventory analysis. His industry experience includes USDOE, USDoD, electric utility industry, automotive industry, P&C insurance, professional insurance, healthcare providers, health insurance, consumer packaged goods, grocery, wholesale, and logistics and distribution.
Professional Background
Ascential Software, Manager of Business Development/Consulting Manager, 5 years
BearingPoint, Consulting Project Manager, 1 year
Publix Supermarkets, Data Warehouse Senior Systems Analyst/Data Modeler, 1 year
Industry Awards/Accolades
Ardent Software, Award of Excellence, 1999
Gartner, Golden Quill in Research 2010
Gartner, Thought Leadership, multiyears
Prism Solutions, President's Club for Consulting Excellence, 1998
Education
B.A., Maryville College
Postgraduate Studies, Applied Calculus
Languages
English
German
German
social/conversational
