Howard Dresner

Experience

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  Digital Equipment Corporation (USA)

  Jan 1985 - Jan 1992

  Marketing Executive
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  Gartner

  Jan 1992 - Jan 2005

  VP & Gartner Fellow

  Spent 13 years at Gartner, as lead analyst for Business Intelligence. Drove the definition and direction of the Business Intelligence research agenda, taking BI from an esoteric "backwater" to a mainstream and highly valued research area. Twice selected as "analyst of the year" and inducted as a Gartner "cultural icon". Named Vice President in 1996, Distinguished Analyst in 2003 and Gartner Fellow in 2004. In addition to driving much of the research surrounding BI, founded and chaired Gartner's European and North American Business Intelligence (now Data and Analytics) conferences. Show less

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  Hyperion Solutions

  Jan 2005 - Jan 2007

  Chief Strategy Officer

  Focused efforts upon corporate strategy, product direction, and acquisitions. Externally, drove thought leadership initiatives and served as a “voice” of Hyperion for customers, analysts and the market at large. As a result, succeeded in making Hyperion the uncontested leader in performance management solutions. Early in 2007 Hyperion was acquired by Oracle.

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  Dresner Advisory Services, LLC

  Jan 2007 - now

  Founder and Chief Research Officer

  Lead an elite team of world-class analysts and professionals focused upon creating and sharing thought leadership for business intelligence (BI), analytics, performance management, information management and related topics.Through our Wisdom of Crowds® market research products, we engage with a global community to redefine how research is created and shared.