Alan Rodger
Research Analyst
Butler Group

Alan Rodger is a former IT services practitioner with extensive experience from this market, covering numerous technology projects during over 20 years of hands-on management and technical roles with well-known service provider and end-user organisations.

Since joining Butler Group in 2002, Alan’s main focus topics have been outsourcing and services, security, and infrastructure management. He has co-authored several Butler Group Reports (on Identity and Access Management, IT Governance, Enterprise Architectures, IT Performance Optimisation, Security Management, and Application Lifecycle Management), undertaken speaking engagements for outsourcing providers, and has been quoted in the CBI’s Business Voice publication, the Sunday Times, Guardian, Computer Weekly, Computing, and many other trade magazines, as well as on Internet news sites, and on business-focused news television.

Alan has always maintained an interest in a wide variety of business technologies and their deployment – a particular interest is how the development of ICT is creating, and interacting with, change in business, governments, economies, and society.

Richard Edwards
Senior Research Analyst
Butler Group

For over 15 years Richard has helped many blue chip companies reap the business benefits of information and communication technologies. Richard started his IT career in 1986, when he switched his focus from civil engineering to the rapidly expanding world of computing. An early advocate of the PC, Richard introduced this new technology to hundreds of local government workers, engineers, managers, estimators, and clerical staff in the late 1980s before moving on to take up a role as an IT instructor and educator.

As the 1980s came to a close Richard joined the central IT unit of a large manufacturing and engineering company. As a technical consultant working within the unit’s Networking & Telecommunications department, Richard was involved in the evaluation, selection, and deployment of many new and emerging technologies such as Local and Wide Area Networks, electronic mail, groupware, document management, knowledge management, and of course the Internet.

Before joining Butler Group in July 2003, Richard was a technology management consultant with one of the world’s largest IT services companies; providing strategic and technical insight to organisations seeking to use IT to run their businesses better. A member of the firm’s Technology Consulting Group, Richard specialised in the architecture and design of IT infrastructures for knowledge worker solutions, and helped some of the world’s largest organisations formulate their information worker strategies.

Richard’s current focus for Butler Group is on information worker solutions and IT infrastructure. Richard also maintains a personal interest in so-called ‘disruptive technologies’ and social networking software.

Miguel Rodriguez
Senior Product Manager
ASG-Mobius

Miguel Rodriguez has worked in the software industry for more than 20 years with more than fifteen years of experience related to Content Management, including imaging, check processing, e-mail, and records management. Miguel has been involved in defining products that add functionality or complement SharePoint since the first version of SharePoint Portal Server in 2001.

Miguel has four years with ASG-Mobius as Sr. Product Manager for several products including ASG-ViewDirect E-mail Manager and ASG-TCI for SharePoint. Five years with eManage as Sr. Product Manager. Miguel previously worked at Unisys for 12 years in several positions from customer support to technical sales team manager.

Miguel received his Electronics Engineering B.S. from Pontificia Universidad Javeriana of Bogota; he is Certified Document Imaging Architect (CDIA).