Forrester Research today confirmed that industry analyst veterans Peter Burris and James Kobielus recently joined the firm. Mr. Burris, who recently co-founded Wikibon, joins Forrester as a principal analyst focused on the Vendor Strategy Professional. Mr. Kobielus joins Forrester as a senior analyst for the Information and Knowledge Management Professional.

Peter Burris has been a leading IT industry analyst for nearly two decades. His expertise spans multiple IT domains, including IT infrastructure design and implementation, application development and sourcing, and the relationship between business value and information technology.

During his professional career in the research business, Mr. Burris has co-founded several startups, including Appergy and Wikibon. He also served as CEO and President of META Group's dotcom subsidiary, a Vice President and Analyst at META Group, and a Research Director at both META Group and IDC.

David Vellante, co-founder of Wikibon, commented on Mr. Burris' role there. "We're grateful for Peter's contributions and welcome his future participation -- because Wikibon is an open source community we don't exclude anyone who works at traditional firms. In fact, we recently had a Peer Incite where some IDC folks participated."

Mr. Vellante said that Wikibon continues to grow by all measures, including registrations, site traffic, content, pageviews, and expertise. An enhanced site and new features are in the works.

James Kobielus joins Forrester with more than 20 years experience in the distributed computing and telecommunications industry. Most recently, he was a Principal Analyst at Current Analysis. He is a recognized authority on identity management, strategic telecommunications and information systems topics. His coverage area included business intelligence (BI), master data management, data integration, data warehousing, data mining, data quality, DBMSs, EII, ETL, metadata management, semantics, and compliance.

Prior to joining Current Analysis, Mr. Kobielus worked at an Internet service provider and as an independent analyst. He was a senior industry analyst at Burton Group for more than six years. At Burton Group, he focused on directories, security, and application platforms. He has also held research and senior analyst positions at a variety of telecommunications, systems integrations and consulting organizations.

Mr. Kobielus has been a contributing editor for Network World since 1987, authoring the "Above the Cloud" column, and publishes a personal blog. He is a prolific author, including BizTalk: Implementing Business-to-Business E-Commerce (Prentice Hall PTR, 2000, ISBN 0-13-089159-2), Workflow Strategies (IDG, 1997, ISBN 0-7645-3012-7), and Measuring Business Value of Information Technologies (International Center for Information, 1987, ISBN 0-9450-9802-2).

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