Analyst Profile

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

Latest Research

Design an Effective Information Governance Strategy
18-Oct-2017
Survey Analysis: New Data and New Analytics Are All Mythology Unless You Add Skills
18-Sep-2017
Toolkit: RFP Template for Data Integration Tools
05-Sep-2017

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

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3 October 2017
Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2018 The intelligent digital mesh is a foundation for future digital business and its ecosystems. To create competitive advantage, enterprise architecture and technology innovation leaders must evaluate these top trends to identify opportunities that their organizations can exploit.
29 September 2017
Maverick* Insights Drive Creative Destruction of Business as Usual: A Gartner Trend Insight Report Digitalization's pace and scale subverts conventional business thinking with constant "creative destruction." Faced with such turmoil, IT and business leaders must think and act in unconventional ways for their organizations to thrive. (Maverick research exposes unconventional thinking and advice.)

24 Oct 2017
Monetizing Public Cloud Opportunities in China, Russia and India EDT: 9:00 a.m. | PDT: 6:00 a.m. | GMT: 13:00 All IT markets are directly or indirectly disrupted by Cloud Services. Gartner predicts that through 2020 the Cloud shift will grow to $216 Billion. The magnitude of the cloud shift varies by market segment and geographic region. With this shift, incumbent infrastructure providers are exploring ways to defend their traditional business model. In this session, we'll provide Business Unit leaders at IT providers guidance on how they can benefit from the cloud shift in emerging markets.
25 Oct 2017
Drive Employee Adoption of New Supply Chain Technology EDT: 11:00 a.m. | PDT: 8:00 a.m. | GMT: 15:00 Supply chain technology is changing rapidly as supply chains grow more complex and digital. Supply chain leaders often overestimate their ability to implement change. What actually drives SC employees to adapt to change is different from what SC leaders perceive leads to adoption. However, change management activities are not given the level of priority needed to gain employees' true commitment. Get the insights you need to manage change and to engage your employees in SC technology transformations.