Yankee Group today announced that research industry veteran Carl D. Howe has joined the firm as director of Enterprise Software Research. In this new role, Mr. Howe will look at the changes in software technology affected by the proliferation of mobile technology and will counsel Yankee Group clients on what impact software innovation will have on future business decisions. He joins from Blackfriars Communications, a company he co-founded with Joe Butt, an associate from his tenure at Forrester Research.

At Yankee Group, Mr. Howe’s research focus will also include enterprise software infrastructure, developer environment, mashups, developer toolkits, service-oriented architecture (SOA) and mobile operating systems.

“Carl is a highly respected industry leader,” said Zeus Kerravala, senior vice president, Yankee Group Enterprise Research group. “His experience as an analyst, marketing strategist and innovative thinker will serve as a strong asset to our Enterprise Research team. Carl’s approach to combining his analytical and management consulting experience in research will provide Yankee Group’s clients with invaluable insight for their businesses.”

Mr. Howe has more than 15 years of experience as an analyst and management and marketing consultant. Before Yankee Group, he was the principal and CEO and principal of Blackfriars Communications, Inc., where he advised companies on how to distill, communicate and deliver their business value. He also tracked Apple, Inc. and was an active blogger.

Before co-founding Blackfriars, Mr. Howe was a research director and principal analyst at Forrester Research. At Forrester, he directed research on networking, computing and software infrastructure. His research there outlined the next wave of internet innovation after the web and forecasted the impact of open source software. Earlier, he spent 18 years working at BBN Corporation, where he helped develop operating systems for some of the largest commercial parallel processors in the world.

Carl Howe is a graduate of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he has also lectured as a member of the faculty. He was also a faculty member at Wellesley College.

“Just as the wired internet changed forever how business was done in the 1990s, Yankee Group’s Anywhere vision of mobile IP connectivity is reshaping the business and software landscape again,” said Howe. “I am excited to join Yankee Group to help guide global companies through this next exciting, but disruptive change.”

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