Analyst Profile

Joao Tapadinhas

Research VP

7 years at Gartner , 27 years industry experience
United Arab Emirates

Roles and Responsibilities

Joao Tapadinhas is a Research Director at Gartner, in the Business Analytics and Data Science team. He helps data and analytics leaders architect, implement and evolve their modern BI and analytics platforms, to empower business users and increase the impact from data. Of particular interest is the exploration of citizen data science to augment self-service analytics capabilities and simplify access to data science in organizations. He also covers cloud BI, big data discovery, mobile BI and business users' engagement with analytics.

Areas of Coverage

Business Intelligence

Joao Tapadinhas's Recent Gartner Activity

Latest Research

Critical Capabilities for Analytics and Business Intelligence Platforms
07-May-2018
Magic Quadrant for Analytics and Business Intelligence Platforms
26-Feb-2018
Build Your Digital Business Platform Around Data and Analytics
31-Jan-2018

On-Demand & Upcoming Webinars

The State of BI and Analytics
11 July 2018

Background

Previous Experience

Mr. Tapadinhas joined Gartner after two years at Portugal Telecom Information Systems, acting as consulting practice director for BI and analytics, enterprise content management and enterprise application integration. Prior to that, he led a team of BI and analytics for 11 years, at Portugal Telecom, evolving the company's analytics maturity from the widespread use of spreadsheets as BI standard, to a comprehensive implementation of self-service analytics capabilities and broad deployment of data science use cases. He was also head of IT for Dun & Bradstreet Portugal for four years, helping the business evolve from being a data supplier, to offering analytics as a service to customers.

Professional Background

Dun & Bradstreet, Head of IT, 4 years
Portugal Telecom Information Systems, Consulting Practice Director, 2 years
Portugal Telecom Mobile, Head of Business Intelligence and Analytics, 11 years

Education

Electrical and Computer Engineering, Technical University of Lisbon

Languages

English
Portuguese
Spanish

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30 May 2018
Creating a Sustainable Strategy for Sourcing at Midsize Enterprises CIOs of midsize enterprises lack dedicated sourcing, procurement and relationship management resources. To remedy this, they must implement a pragmatic sourcing strategy that aligns with business goals, achieves the desired outcome of decisions, and leads to an understanding of the marketplace.
24 May 2018
The Resilience Premium of Digital Business: A Gartner Trend Insight Report Committing to resilience will equip your digital business with the mindset, resources and planning to recover from inevitable disruptions. Security and risk management leaders must deliver by building a culture of systemic resilience through viewing resilience as a premium and not as a cost.

21 Jun 2018
Data and Analytics Key Roles, Responsibilities, and Organization EDT: 9:00 a.m. | PDT: 6:00 a.m. | BST: 14:00 To succeed in digital business, data and analytics must be at the pulse of the organization and incorporated into all key decisions. As a result, new roles have emerged over the last few years and additional skills and competencies are required for existing roles. This webinar highlights the key roles and responsibilities in data and analytics and also the impact on the data and analytics organization model.
25 Jun 2018
Overcome IT Cost Optimization Challenges EDT: 10:00 a.m. | PDT: 7:00 a.m. | BST: 15:00 It's now more critical than ever to understand enterprise technology spend in order to effectively optimize both cost and value. This webinar focuses on the challenges and Gartner Top 10 Recommended Cost Optimization Ideas to help you optimize cost to prepare for the future. Learn how to implement a cost optimization program to evaluate these and other cost optimization ideas in order to pick the right ones for your organization.