Melanie Posey is the Research Vice President for 451 Research’s Voice of the Enterprise: Cloud Transformation offering. She focuses on tracking, analyzing and anticipating the pace and nature of enterprise cloud adoption.
Prior to joining 451 Research, Melanie spent more than 15 years at IDC in a variety of roles, providing analysis, forecasting and insight for the cloud, hosting, datacenter, managed services and telecommunications markets. At IDC, Melanie received numerous awards for research, collaboration, sales support and client service, including being named runner-up for the prestigious James Peacock Memorial Award.
During her more than 20-year career in the technology research and consulting arena, Melanie has been quoted extensively in the business and technology trade press, and is a frequent speaker at industry and client events.
Melanie holds an M.A. in international relations/international economics from the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), a division of Johns Hopkins University, an M.A. in political science from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and a B.A. in French from Amherst College.
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Combining a proprietary panel of more than 60,000 senior IT buyers with our robust data-collection methodologies, 451 Research's Voice of the Enterprise: Cloud Transformation tracks and analyzes the disruption occurring in the market today and exposes the major opportunities for enterprises, IT vendors, suppliers and investors. The study represents more than 600 completes of a web-based survey, completed by IT and datacenter facilities decision-makers worldwide, primarily based in North America and Europe, and supplemented by 19 in-depth phone-based interviews. The sample is representative of small, medium, large and very large organizations in both the private and public sectors. In addition to regular quarterly topics, the survey also focuses on the general IT and cloud budgets, the nature and pace of cloud adoption, how organizations are transforming their IT environments, and the role of cloud technology in improving IT agility and digital business-readiness.
The Voice of the Enterprise: Cloud Transformation, Organizational Dynamics survey was conducted in May through July 2017. The Quarterly Customer Narratives provide a detailed tracker of customer feedback from approximately 20 in-depth telephone interviews with end users, segmented by respondent, company size, vendor(s) used and theme (358-quote Excel report). The survey represents approximately 600 completed questionnaires and 19 hour-long interviews from pre-qualified IT decision-makers primarily based in North America, Europe and Asia. In addition to regular quarterly topics, this focuses on your company's application workloads and use of various technologies today and in the future.
The Voice of the Enterprise: Cloud Transformation, Organizational Dynamics PowerPoint deck includes charts and figures from the results of our quarterly survey of approximately 600 pre-qualified IT decision-makers primarily based in North America, Europe and Asia. The survey was conducted in May through July 2017. In addition to regular quarterly topics, this focuses on your company's application workloads and use of various technologies today and in the future.
The Voice of the Enterprise: Cloud Transformation, Organizational Dynamics survey was conducted in May through July 2017. The quarterly Excel Crosstab includes complete worldwide and regional survey results, including key metrics and segmentations. The survey represents approximately 600 completed questionnaires and approximately 19 hour-long interviews from pre-qualified IT decision-makers primarily based in North America, Europe and Asia. In addition to regular quarterly topics, this focuses on your company's application workloads and use of various technologies today and in the future.
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