Analyst Profile

Thomas E. Murphy

Research Director

11 years at Gartner , 33 years industry experience
WA USA

Roles and Responsibilities

Thomas Murphy is focused on IT organizations that develop and deliver software in an efficient and effective fashion. He covers all phases of the life cycle from requirements through software quality and testing. He is particularly interested in collaborative and agile practices and how organizations must use these to adapt to the increasing pace of change demanded by business to utilize cloud, and mobile technologies. Mr. Murphy provides guidance to Sr. IT management as well as IT professionals and also works with software and service providers to develop product strategies and positioning guidance. In addition to working at Gartner (and previously Meta Group), Mr. Murphy has also held positions at Microsoft, ObjectShare, ParcPlace, Digitalk and Miller Freeman.

Areas of Coverage

Application Development & Integration

Thomas E. Murphy's Recent Gartner Activity

Latest Research

Cool Vendors in Project Portfolio Management, 2017
22-May-2017
Cool Vendors in DevOps, 2017
08-May-2017
Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Agile Planning Tools
27-Apr-2017

Background

Previous Experience

Mr. Murphy has more than 25 years of experience in IT, spending time as a developer, product manager, technical editor and industry analyst. Prior to rejoining Gartner, he worked at Microsoft in the Visual Studio Team System group. Previously, he was an analyst with Meta Group and Gartner. He has served on the board of directors for the OMG and led product strategies at ObjectShare. Early in his career, he served as a technical editor at Software Development and AI Expert magazines and built custom tools for scientific research and embedded systems. His development experience includes embedded systems, Smalltalk, Java, and model-based environments and agile techniques.

Professional Background

Gartner, Vice President, 5 years
Microsoft, Group Program Manager, 2 years
ObjectShare, Director of Marketing, 7 years

Education

Computer Engineering and Mathematics at the Ohio State University and University of Utah

Languages

English

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15 June 2017
IoT Technology Disruptions: A Gartner Trend Insight Report IoT's rapidly evolving technologies have ushered in innovative disruptions at a breakneck pace. This report highlights Gartner research that covers these IoT technical disruptions in five key areas: security, artificial intelligence, data and analytics, communications, and endpoint technology.
31 May 2017
Digital Trust — Redefining Trust for the Digital Era: A Gartner Trend Insight Report Trust underpins every interaction, but traditional trust models do not scale to the scope, spontaneity and agency required in digital business. Digital trust emerges to establish and manage trust in the myriad digital interactions and relationships between businesses, individuals and things.

29 Jun 2017
Will the Cloud Save Me Money? Or Am I About to Waste a Lot? EDT: 9:00 a.m. | PDT: 6:00 a.m. | GMT: 13:00 The cloud is often seen as a great way of saving money, but there is an emerging trend of organizations that cannot prove a ROI. We examine the common financial and operational misconceptions of moving applications to the cloud and where others have gone wrong.
29 Jun 2017
Gartner Vision: Intelligent Automation Services (RPA, Chatbots, AI) EDT: 1:00 p.m. | PDT: 10:00 a.m. | GMT: 17:00 There was a shift in the tectonic plates (core foundation) of business and IT services at the turn of this century with the offshore wave (labor arbitrage). We are now in the midst of the next big tectonic shift via automation arbitrage, a term Gartner is using to describe the recalibration of human labor to drive business outcomes. The disruption of artificial intelligence and related technologies (RPA, chatbots, machine learning, and cognitive) is here, and more is on the way. In this webinar, we present the Gartner vision on the impacts to business and IT services. This will likely be one of the most important conversations in the next decade - how automation will change the value proposition in all organizations.