Analyst Profile Detailed
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Melissa Webster
Program Vice President, Content and Digital Media Technologies
Team:
Client Computing
Content Technologies
Digital Marketplace and New Media
Enterprise Workplace
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Melissa Webster leads IDC's Content and Digital Media Technologies research program. This program tracks, analyzes, and forecasts markets and trends in document and content management, records management, digital asset management, and digital rights management, and document and rich media authoring and publishing software. Current research topics include dynamic enterprise publishing, XML, and digital media in the enterprise – including video, audio, podcasting, digital signage, and other emerging applications. Ms. Webster is a member of IDC’s Enterprise Workplace research team.
A frequent speaker at industry conferences and other events, Ms Webster’s research is frequently cited in the business and trade press, including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, USAToday, Business Week, ComputerWorld, and a host of other publications.
Ms. Webster has more than 20 years of experience in the software industry with enterprise software vendors and internet companies ranging from the Fortune 500 to venture-backed startups. She has held senior management positions in marketing, business development, and product development at Oracle, Information Builders, Object Design, RetailExchange, FairMarket, and UniSQL, and has a strong background in object-oriented and multimedia databases, XML, user interface design, and application infrastructure technologies. Ms. Webster formerly led IDC’s Application Life-Cycle Management research program. Ms. Webster holds a B.A. degree from Wellesley College.
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Worldwide Information Access, Analysis, and Management Software 2010 Top 10 Predictions
Susan Feldman, Melissa Webster, Dan Vesset, Caroline Dangson, Henry D. Morris, Brian McDonough
Jan 2010 - Doc # 221579
Top 10 Predictions
This IDC study presents 10 predictions for the information access, analysis, and management software market in 2010. 2010 could well prove to be a seminal year for information access, analysis, and management software market. T ...
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Oracle OpenWorld 2009: Oracle Applications Recap
Michael Fauscette, Albert Pang, Dan Vesset, Tomoko Akagi, Robert P. Mahowald, Henry D. Morris, Elisabeth Rainge, Alan Tong, Rona Shuchat, Sanjeev Pal, Melissa Webster
Dec 2009 - Doc # 221133
Insight
This IDC Insight takes a look at the recent Oracle OpenWorld User and Partner Conference held in San Francisco, California. This annual event, which even in this poor economic climate drew over 40,000 people, previewed new prod ...
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