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Mark A. Beyer

Mark A. Beyer

VP Distinguished Analyst

13 years at Gartner ,  28 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. He covers enterprise data integration and data management solutions for analytics. In addition, he covers the organizational structure for supporting both the architectural development and the ongoing coordination of the information infrastructure with use cases (such as enterprise data integration, supporting data science efforts, business intelligence and advanced analytics). With a combined direct experience as a power-user, application developer and data architect, Mr. Beyer focuses on practical choice and pragmatic delivery for the enterprise and organizations.

Areas of Coverage

  • Application Development & Integration
  • Data Management & Integration

Mark A. Beyer's Recent Gartner Activity

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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 and 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. 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, logistics and distribution. Mr. Beyer 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, sales and inventory analysis.

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, Awared of Excellence, 1999
Gartner, Golden Quill in Research 2010
Gartner, Thought Leadership, multi-years
Prism Solutions, President's Club for Consulting Excellence, 1998

Education

B.A., Maryville College
Postgraduate studies in Applied Calculus

Languages


English
German
social/conversational