Analyst Profile

Rita Sallam

Rita Sallam

Distinguished VP Analyst

14 years at Gartner,  34 years industry experience

Location:  MD USA  | Language(s):  English

Roles and Responsibilities

Rita Sallam is a Distinguished VP analyst and Gartner Fellow in the Data and Analytics team. Mrs. Sallam's focus includes tracking and predicting market trends, vendor assessment and selection, and identifying best practices for making analytics pervasive and strategic to the business. Of particular interest is how all aspects of data management and analytics are being disrupted by AI-enabled augmented analytics. She is also focused on building a methodology for selecting and valuing data and analytics portfolios including AI investments.

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

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