Christine Dover is Research Director, Enterprise Applications and Digital Commerce Research with IDC’s Software Business Solutions Group. Christine provides insight and analysis into Enterprise Applications software vendors product portfolio, go-to-market strategies and their ecosystems. She also provides qualitative and quantitative market sizing and research on Enterprise Applications and Digital Commerce. In her role, Christine researches and consults with clients on topics such as social business integration with enterprise applications, industry-specific application solutions, engaging the developer community, partnering strategies to expand the overall enterprise application and digital commerce ecosystem.

Prior to joining IDC in 2010 as a Research Manager in the Software Channels Research group, Christine spent over twenty years in the software industry, including 13 years at Oracle Corporation where she managed the global Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN) program and was a member of the applications product release team. Christine has extensive experience in professional services, sales and consulting enablement, product management and marketing, and business development with enterprise applications from Oracle, SAP, Infor, salesforce.com, and Epicor.

Christine holds a BA from St. Mary's College of California and a Masters in Library and Information Science from San Jose State University. She is located in IDC's San Mateo, CA office.