Michael Dortch
Founder and Lead Analyst, www.DortchOnIT.com
Michael E. Dortch has decades of experience in helping IT users and vendors translate technological concepts and trends into business benefits through focused, effective research, analysis, interpretation, and outreach. Before branching out on his own, he oversaw Aberdeen Group's analysis of key enabling business technologies, such as master data management (MDM), software as a service (SaaS), and RFID. Prior to that, he was Director of IT Infrastructure Management Strategies for Robert Frances Group (RFG), where he led coverage of trends in collaboration technologies, open source software and business process management (BPM).