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Henry D. Morris
Senior Vice President, Worldwide Software and Services Research

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Henry Morris is the Senior Vice President for IDC's Worldwide Software and Services research groups. Dr. Morris started the Analytics and Data Warehousing research service at IDC, and coined the term "analytic applications" in 1997. In addition, Dr. Morris led a major study on the financial impact of business analytics, which examined the ROI of analytics projects at 43 sites in North America and Europe. Currently, Dr. Morris is exploring the relationship between business intelligence and business process automation - "intelligent process automation" and the requirements for unified access to structured and unstructured data.

He also has been quoted in and written papers for trade publications, such as DM Review, Computerworld, KMworld, and Software Magazine on trends in business intelligence, business performance management, data warehousing, knowledge management, and enterprise applications.

Prior to joining IDC in 1995, Dr. Morris served in a variety of technical and management positions at Digital Equipment Corporation, where he specialized in software for application development. Dr. Morris has been an instructor in technical writing at Northeastern University and Bentley College, and an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Colgate University. He earned a B.A. with distinction from the University of Michigan and his Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Pennsylvania.

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SAP and Sybase Bet on the Convergence of Mobile, Analytics and Information Management
Henry D. Morris, Ruediger Spies, Bo Lykkegaard, Luisa Bordoni
Aug 2010 - Doc # lcUS22476710      IDC Link
During a recent co-located press conference in Frankfurt and Boston, SAP and Sybase management confirmed their strategy and outlined their technology plans as follows:For enterprise mobility, they will launch a mobile platform (Sybase Unwir ...
SAP at Midyear: Solid Improvement Continues Led by Growth in Americas
Henry D. Morris, David Bradshaw, Ruediger Spies, Bo Lykkegaard
Jul 2010 - Doc # lcUS22437310      IDC Link
SAP announced their Q2 financials with a solid gain of 5% year-over-year in software license revenue (6% for the first half) and 8% in software and software-related services revenues (9% for the first half). The performance was mixed across ...

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Innovative Information Access Companies Under $100 Million to Watch, 2010
Brian McDonough, Dan Vesset, Susan Feldman, Henry D. Morris
Sep 2010 - Doc # 224841      Industry Development and Models
This IDC study recognizes a group of companies with annual revenue under $100 million that deliver innovative solutions to meet information access needs. The companies are profiled in this study and cited as "innovative information acces ...
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Worldwide and Regional Public IT Cloud Services 2010–2014 Forecast
Frank Gens, Robert P. Mahowald, Richard L. Villars, John F. Gantz, Henry D. Morris, Stephen D. Hendrick, Mary Johnston Turner, Rona Shuchat, Melinda-Carol Ballou, Matthew Eastwood, Chris Morris, Satoshi Matsumoto, Chris Ingle, David Bradshaw, Lidice Fernandez, Nigel Wallis, Vladimír Kroa
Jun 2010 - Doc # 223549      Market Analysis
This IDC study forecasts revenue growth from public IT cloud services through 2014, segmented by five functional categories within eight regions/countries. The forecast data, driven by IDC's key assumptions for public IT cloud services d ...
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Appearances

IDC Analyst Networking Reception at Oracle OpenWorld
San Francisco, CA United States
September 21, 2010

Envisioning the New Normal: IDC Software Predictions 2010
Framingham,, MA United States
February 18, 2010

Envisioning the New Normal: IDC Software Predictions 2010
Burlingame, CA United States
January 26, 2010

Information Management for Business Optimization Executive Roundtable:
Atlanta, GA United States
November 10, 2009

Information Management for Business Optimization Executive Roundtable:
Seattle, WA United States
September 24, 2009