Maxine Holt
Senior Research Analyst
Butler Group

Maxine joined Butler Group in September 2000, where her current focus is on services, including service provision, outsourcing, and off-shoring, and IT risk management. In addition to this she has been involved in research and report production for the IT security and compliance areas. Prior to joining Butler Group Maxine gained over 14 years experience in the IT industry, employed by end-users and solution providers, working in a number of roles from analyst/programmer to consultant, in the financial and Internet sectors.

After obtaining a BTEC National Diploma in Computer Studies, Maxine joined a major building society’s IT department as an analyst/programmer utilising IBM mainframe technology. Whilst there she gained a good grounding in IT fundamentals, including structured methodologies and varying transaction-processing systems. This was followed by a spell at a credit-scoring consultancy, in a varied role ranging from gathering client requirements through to implementation and support. The systems worked on by Maxine provided significant exposure to client/server architecture.

Maxine then moved into the Internet sector, joining a large telecommunications company in a purely pre-sales role discussing requirements with clients and then suggesting the most appropriate solution to fulfil their needs. An opportunity then arose to join a major business Internet Service Provider, moving into a combination of pre- and post-sales environments. Maxine was involved in meeting with clients to discuss their requirements and writing reports on the most appropriate solutions. Furthermore, the analysis and technical design of the delivery was an area of responsibility, alongside continuing research into the Internet arena.

Since joining Butler Group Maxine has gained a great deal of expertise in the research areas of outsourcing, security, IT governance, and IT risk management, and combines her role as Senior Research Analyst with that of Research Team Manager.

During her career, Maxine studied for a HNC in Business & Finance and subsequently a BA (Honours) degree in Business Administration. Butler Group: Analyst Biography

Angela Eager
Senior Research Analyst
Butler Group

Angela joined Butler Group in January 2008. She focuses on the enterprise applications area, including business applications such as CRM and ERP, plus topics like application infrastructure and BI where they interface with enterprise business applications. In addition she covers business application models and deployment areas like SaaS.

After gaining a BA (Hons) degree in Combined Arts, Angela started work as an IT journalist on Microscope, a weekly trade publication for the IT channel. She moved to PC Magazine as a reporter before moving up to the position of Executive Editor, where she was responsible for managing and carrying out the comparative hardware and software reviews that formed a major part of the publication. She gained hands-on experience across a range of areas, carrying out comparative assessments of enterprise-level applications such as Lotus Notes for instance, which included specifying project scope, involvement in implementation and administration, before going on to test and assess the software from a user perspective.

She left PC Magazine to become Editor of PC User, a monthly print magazine that covered enterprise IT from a comparative review and strategic assessment perspective and was targeted at C-level executives. Her next role was Launch Editor and then Editor of InformationWeek in the UK. This labs-based IT publication was also targeted at C-level executives and concentrated on providing a strategic overview of all aspects of enterprise-level IT, as well as providing comparative reviews of products and technologies.

After a number of years as a freelance journalist and media consultant Angela took the position of Principal Analyst for enterprise applications at ComputerWire, an independent IT news and analysis service, which was later acquired by Datamonitor. During her seven years at ComputerWire she deepened her knowledge of the enterprise applications sector. In addition to originating regular market and vendor analysis, she provided news and analysis for the daily newswire service, was a contributing editor to Computer Business Review magazine and participated in a number of consultancy projects.

Marcus Herzog, PhD
VP Product Management and Product Marketing
Lixto

Marcus Herzog received his PhD from the Vienna University of Technology. Marcus started his professional career working for a number of companies, including Siemens AG, in the information technology sector in engineering. After receiving his masters degree, Marcus joined the Computer Science department of the Vienna University of Technology, where he worked as project lead in a number of European research projects in the fields of multimedia and internet computing. Since 2000 Marcus focused on developing the Lixto technology. Marcus is a co-founder of Lixto.