Analyst Profile
Rita Sallam
VP, Analyst
10 years at Gartner
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29 years industry experience
MD USA
Roles and Responsibilities
Rita Sallam is a Research Vice President at Gartner in the Business Analytics and Data Science team. Her focus includes writing about and advising organizations on market trends, vendor assessment and selection, and best practices for making analytics pervasive and strategic to the business. Of particular interest is the evolution of modern analytics and BI, and data science and machine learning platforms to augmented analytics and valuing AI investments and portfolios.
Areas of Coverage
- Business Intelligence
Rita Sallam's Recent Gartner Activity
Latest Research
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Augmented Analytics: The Next Disruption in Analytics and BI
22 February 2018 -
The 2018 Analytics and BI Magic Quadrant Highlights
12 March 2018 -
How Augmented Analytics Is Transforming Data and Analytics
14 August 2018
On-Demand & Upcoming Webinars
Background
Previous Experience
Mrs. Sallam joined Gartner in 2008 with almost 20 years of experience in the enterprise software market. Before that, she spent 10 years with Oracle, delivering role-based competitive intelligence and strategic analysis on BI, data warehousing, data integration and master data management markets. Prior to that, she led business planning, investment fundraising and strategy development for two middleware startups and was a management/strategy consultant for Arthur D. Little.
Professional Background
Arthur D. Little, Management/Strategy Consultant, 4 years
Concept 5 Technologies, Director of Business Planning, 4 years
Oracle, Senior Director of Competitive Intelligence, 10 years
Education
B.S./B.A., International Business/French, American University
M.B.A., Finance, Northeastern University
Languages
English
