Ovum appoints IT services analyst in Sydney

By Stan Beer
Tuesday, 11 November 2008 12:48

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IT&T analyst and consulting group Ovum has appointed Jens Butler as Principal Analyst, IT Services, in its Asia-Pacific team, based in Sydney.

Butler has previously held senior positions at Gartner, META Group and IDC covering the services, sourcing and benchmarking markets. In addition, he has worked within the consulting industry at Fujitsu Consulting, Deloitte and SAIC within a strategy creation, programme and performance management, merger integration, governance and operational excellence capacity.

Butler has also presented at conferences, roadshows and senior management groups within Australia and internationally on a variety of sourcing, services and benchmarking areas.

Antonio Bartolome, Managing Director of Ovum Asia-Pacific said, “Jens brings a wealth of experience within the IT Services space, globally as well as locally. He is well-connected with the industry, having worked on both sides of the fence and especially within competing analyst firms”.

Butler will be responsible for conducting research on IT Services such as Sourcing, Social Computing, Sustainability as well as IT Services vendor profiling.