Gartner Information Technology Expert

Marko Sillanpaa is a Research Director and has a dual focus in the Content Insights & Legal group. In the content space, Mr. Sillanpaa has extensive knowledge of content services platform (CSP) (formally, enterprise content management [ECM]). This experience covered a broad range of CSP-related technologies such as records management, multilingual authoring, web content management, document management, and business process management for vertically diverse clients for various line of business and back office solutions. In the legal space, he has extensive knowledge on legal document management (LDM) and contract life cycle management (CLM). His primary focus is on the overlapping technology spaces of purpose built LDMS or CLM solutions and custom solutions developed on content services platforms.

By advising on technology selection and best practices, he helps organizations reduce operational costs and improve employee effectiveness while maintaining privacy, security and regulatory compliance as necessary. He has a deep understanding of the capabilities and challenges in implementing complex solutions and he applies this in his advice to clients, offering pragmatic guidance to complex tactical and strategic problems.

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