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Voice of the Enterprise

Rapid, relevant and predictive insight on customer sentiment, technology choices and spending plans

Quarterly insight into enterprise IT spending, technology adoption and pain points

Voice of the Enterprise draws on 451 Research's proprietary panel of technology professionals to track, analyze and anticipate the emerging technologies disrupting enterprise IT. It provides a rapid, relevant and predictive look at your customers' plans and needs on a quarterly basis across key technology market segments.

More than just survey data

Our team of industry-leading analysts interpret each Voice of the Enterprise survey's findings to deliver actionable insight for your business. Voice of the Enterprise clients have access to custom data cuts, analyst inquiry sessions, strategy days, and exclusive analyst webinars, and are able to leverage data charts externally to support their product messaging and marketing initiatives.

A clear picture of how enterprise IT is changing

Voice of the Enterprise quarterly surveys focus on major themes, and 451 Research clients can access the service in ways that make sense for their business. Take a deep dive into one technology segment, or leverage Digital Pulse to get a high-level view at how enterprise technology is changing across all segments covered.

Subscribers can access the service through individual market packages and an all-access package.

Service lines include:

  • AI & Machine Learning

  • Cloud, Hosting & Managed Services

  • Hyperconverged Infrastructure

  • Customer Experience & Commerce

  • Data & Analytics

  • DevOps

  • Information Security

  • Internet of Things

  • IoT: Operational Technology Perspective

  • Storage

  • Workforce Productivity & Collaboration

Digital Pulse

Voice of the Enterprise: Digital Pulse provides you with actionable data and insight into the enterprise strategies for cloud platforms and related technologies and services, and their underlying business and technology drivers. Combining 451 Research’s industry-leading analysis with insights from our extensive community of mid-level and senior IT professionals, Voice of the Enterprise: Digital Pulse provides a view into enterprise IT strategies related to IT vendor selection.

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Voice of the Enterprise covers key technology segments driving digital transformation, and each survey focuses on a particular theme such as:
  • Budgets and Spending
  • Workloads and Key Projects
  • Organizational Dynamics
  • Vendor Evaluations

Key Analysts
Research Vice President and General Manager, Voice of the Enterprise

Melanie Posey

Melanie Posey is the Research Vice President and General Manager 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.

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Research VP and GM, Voice of the Enterprise and Voice of the Service Provider

Liam Eagle

Liam Eagle is a Research Vice President and General Manager for the Voice of the Enterprise and Voice of the Service Provider practices at 451 Research. His research focuses on service providers, with an emphasis on managed infrastructure services, and how these providers source, build and deliver cloud and other technologies.

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Research Manager, VotE Hyperconverged Infrastructure

Christian Perry

Christian Perry is a Research Manager covering IT infrastructure at 451 Research. In this role, Christian manages the Voice of the Enterprise (VotE) products – built on 451 Research's proprietary global network of senior IT decision-makers – covering datacenter, server and converged infrastructure topics.

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Research Vice President, VotE Storage

Henry Baltazar

Henry Baltazar is a Research Vice President for the Storage Channel at 451 Research. Henry returned to 451 Research after spending nearly three years at Forrester Research as a senior analyst serving Infrastructure & Operations Professionals and advising Forrester clients on datacenter infrastructure technologies.

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Associate Analyst, VotE Storage

Liam Rogers

As an Associate Analyst in 451 Research’s Applied Infrastructure & DevOps Channel, Liam Rogers covers technology and business-model innovation across the enterprise storage landscape. His coverage includes hyperconverged infrastructure, software-defined storage and persistent storage for containers.

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Principal Analyst, VotE DevOps

Jay Lyman

Jay Lyman is a Principal Analyst with 451 Research’s Applied Infrastructure & DevOps Channel. He covers infrastructure software, primarily private cloud platforms, cloud management and enterprise use cases that center on orchestration, the confluence of software development and IT operations known as DevOps, Docker and containers.

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Research Director, VotE: IoT

Rich Karpinski

Rich Karpinski is Research Director for 451 Research’s Voice of the Enterprise: Internet of Things survey and advisory offering. In that capacity, Rich tracks, analyzes and anticipates the pace and direction of IoT adoption, overseeing 451’s quarterly survey of IoT adopters and twice-annual survey of operations technology (OT) professionals.

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Research Director, VotE: Information Security

Daniel Kennedy

Daniel Kennedy is the Research Director for Information Security for 451 Research’s Voice of the Enterprise (VoTE) quantitative research product, where he is responsible for managing all phases of the research process.

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Research Vice President, VotE: Datacenter Transformation

Kelly Morgan

Kelly leads the services analyst teams, which track hosting, managed services and multi-tenant datacenter providers worldwide. Coverage includes providers, market size, datacenter supply and demand, and the dynamics of the industry overall.

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Research Director, VotE: Datacenter Transformation

Dan Thompson

As a Research Director for 451 Research, Dan Thompson provides insight into the Multi-Tenant Datacenter (MTDC) market space. Dan is particularly focused on MTDCs that are trying to move up the stack to offer additional services beyond colocation and connectivity.

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Research Vice President , VotE: Data & Analytics

Matt Aslett

Matt Aslett is a Research Vice President with responsibility for 451 Research’s Data, AI and Analytics Channel – including operational and analytic databases, Hadoop, grid/cache, stream processing, data integration, data governance, and data management, as well as data science and analytics, machine learning and AI.

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Founder & Research Vice President, VotE: AI & Machine Learning

Nick Patience

Nick Patience is 451 Research’s lead analyst for AI and machine learning, an area he has been researching since 2001. He is part of the company’s Data, AI & Analytics research channel but also works across the entire research team to uncover and understand use cases for machine learning.

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Associate Analyst, VotE: AI & Machine Learning

Jeremy Korn

Jeremy Korn is an Associate Analyst for the Data, AI & Analytics Channel at 451 Research, where he covers artificial intelligence and machine learning in the enterprise. In addition, Jeremy helps lead the Voice of the Enterprise: AI and Machine Learning survey, which provides qualitative insights into AI adoption, use cases and infrastructure.

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Research Vice President, VotE: Customer Experience & Commerce

Sheryl Kingstone

Sheryl Kingstone leads 451 Research’s coverage for Customer Experience & Commerce, which covers the many aspects of how customer experience is a catalyst for digital transformation. She oversees the company’s coverage of a variety of customer experience software markets spanning ad tech, marketing, sales, commerce and service.

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Senior Analyst, VotE: Workforce Productivity & Collaboration

Conner Forrest

Conner Forrest is a Senior Analyst with the Workforce Productivity and Collaboration team at 451 Research. His areas of focus are content management, HR tech and corporate performance management.

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Research Director, VotE: Workforce Productivity & Collaboration

Chris Marsh

Chris Marsh sets the vision for and manages 451 Research's Workforce Productivity and Collaboration practice. His own research focuses on workforce productivity software including the project, team, task, content and innovation management applications into which businesses are putting more of their data and workflows...

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