360°IT Blogger - Clive Longbottom
Clive Longbottom (FRSA), service director at Quocirca
Clive Longbottom is a highly respected, globally recognised industry analyst and founder of business and IT analysis company Quocirca. His primary coverage area is business processes facilitation. Clive helps companies understand the core processes in their value chains, and the technologies that can facilitate these processes in the most flexible and effective manner. Within this remit, he covers a range of approaches and technologies, including collaborative tools, workflow, business process discovery and management tools, service-based architectures, data centre design and optimisation, hardware and software stacks and outsourcing (including functional outsourcing such as cloud computing), as well as associated areas such as security, voice/data convergence and IT asset optimisation. Clive also works with ICT vendors to help them co-ordinate their approach to under-served markets through the provision of pragmatic solutions to meet the complex needs of individuals and communities in these markets. Clive is a well-known presenter and pundit, a regular columnist for Silicon.com columnist, and provides comment and insight to a wide range of media outlets. Consistently placed high in Apollo’s “top European quoted analysts” tables, Clive helps people understand the real issues behind the headlines. His pragmatic approach focuses on delivering actionable advice, and he is wary of “flavours of the month” and the “cut and burn” approaches of many analysts.
In his spare time, Clive is a fully qualified wolf handler, working as a volunteer with the UK Wolf Conservation Trust in Beenham near Reading. He began his career as a chemical engineer and has a BSc. (Hons) in Chemical Engineering from the University of Aston in the UK.
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