Steve Hendrick Email & Phone Number

Tiverton, Rhode Island, United States

Steve Hendrick specializes in application development and deployment topics including DevOps, application management, application platforms, decision analytics, middleware, and the broad spectrum of tools and technologies that support professional developers and IT managers. Steve has over 20 years of experience as an industry analyst and 10 years of.

Greater Boston Area

• Applied Decision Research (ADR) provides software vendors with a variety of services in support of product development and product marketing. ADR expertise includes qualitative and quantitative methods for supporting a.
• Market needs/strategy
• Competitive positioning
• Product feature identification and prioritization
• Buyer journey and win/loss analysis
• Customer experience management

Greater Boston Area

• Launched new application development and deployment research service.
• Pioneered competitive platform-as-a-Service primary research using discrete choice analytic techniques to drive insight into PaaS adoption, satisfaction, feature preference, and container adoption
• Created thought leadership models, reports, white papers, videos, and blogged across the following technology areas: application development tools, middleware, PaaS, IaaS, IoT, DevOps, decision analytics, and workload.
• Supported product launch activities for a variety of vendors ranging from startups to existing market leaders in PaaS, decisioning, DevOps, and ITSM
• Consulted to PaaS leaders and startups in the areas of strategy, product capabilities/positioning, and licensing
• Drove business development with software vendors in support of product positioning, ROI/TCO, buyer persona/journey research, lab validation, and product/service go-to-market support.

Greater Boston Area

• Responsible for all research and consulting activities of the application development and deployment (AD&D) research team.
• Established IDC as a market intelligence leader in application development and deployment research
• Increased annual net profit margins from 24% to 74% over the last 10 years through staffing decisions, research leverage, and tools to improve productivity
• Principal analyst in the areas of platform-as-a-service, enterprise application platforms, business rule management systems, and modeling & architectural tools
• Acknowledged thought leader in decision management, modern application development, and cloud application platforms
• Consultant to all of the leading worldwide software and infrastructure vendors on a variety of middleware and cloud services topics in support of product strategy, acquisitions, and messaging

Greater Boston Area

• Lead analyst for application development, application lifecycle management, application integration, web services, and SOA.
• Created ground breaking research to size and forecast the worldwide number of professional developers for all worldwide countries and regions
• Formalized deployment platform research coverage
• Introduced market coverage of SOA, web services, and deployment platforms

Geater Boston Area

• Primary analyst in the areas of application development, data management, and data integration.
• Initiated research coverage of Java, application lifecycle management, and modeling tools
• Pioneered IDC’s first data warehousing research

Greater Boston Area

• Responsible for primary research and publications in the areas of application development and deployment and system management software.
• Originated research coverage of database management systems and development tools

Greater Boston Area

• Directed internal organization-wide development of financial information systems to facilitate cost allocation, financial planning, reporting, and product profitability. Established and implemented costing and pricing.
• Directed applications teams to design, develop, and implement financial MIS system components across multiple data centers
• Researched and developed inter-departmental transfer pricing for global banking products
• Supported the financial turnaround of cash management partner services

Greater Boston Area

• Managed the start-up of a new product management department to support international banking software products.
• Managed the build out of a product management department to support international electronic banking services
• Provided sales support and guidance in product pricing

Mba, Quantitative Methods

Ba, Economics, Mathematics (Minor)

Activities and Societies: Alpha Sigma Phi