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Maureen Fleming

Program Vice President , Business Process Management and Middleware

Maureen Fleming is Program Vice President for IDC's Business Process Management and Middleware research area. In this role, Ms. Fleming examines the products and processes used for building, integrating, and deploying applications within an extended enterprise system.

With more than 20 years of industry and analyst experience, Ms. Fleming most recently came from Symantec, where she worked in the strategy and planning group. A major area of focus was examining emerging security technologies aimed at protecting an enterprise’s digital assets from outbound threats stemming from bad process and malicious employee behavior.

Prior to Symantec, Ms. Fleming ran marketing for a startup firm focused on commercializing the use of grid technology to deploy content and applications to the edges of networks. She also worked in the product marketing and the office of the CTO groups at Ascential Software before its acquisition by IBM. During her tenure there, she focused on the strategy, planning and product-enablement of real-time data integration. Prior to Ascential, Ms. Fleming led the team at a startup firm that invented the concept of business activity monitoring (BAM). Ms. Fleming was also an analyst at Gartner, where she researched technologies that allowed enterprises to create and manage information, particularly real-time information and the associated enabling technologies.

Ms. Fleming began her career in technology as a programmer for the University of Michigan, where she has a Bachelor’s of General Studies degree with

concentrations in computer science, economics and journalism.

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Research Authored by Maureen Fleming

Worldwide Public Application Development and Deployment as a Service: 2010–2014 Forecast
Stephen D. Hendrick, Melinda-Carol Ballou, Maureen Fleming, Al Hilwa, Carl W. Olofson
Aug 2010 - Doc # 224052      Market Analysis
This IDC study provides a sizing of the worldwide public application development and deployment as a service (ADDaaS) market from 2005 through 2009 and a 2010–2014 forecast for this market. Historical and forecast revenue data is shown f ...
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Worldwide Process Automation Middleware 2009 Vendor Shares
Maureen Fleming
Jun 2010 - Doc # 223740      Competitive Analysis
This IDC study examines the process automation middleware market from 2005 to 2009. Revenue and market share of the leading vendors as well as revenue by geography are provided.: "This market is crowded but with significant opportun ...
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File Transfer Software Consolidation Continues: Ipswitch Acquires MessageWay
Maureen Fleming
Jun 2010 - Doc # lcUS22385410      IDC Link
Consolidation continues in the managed file transfer (MFT) market with the acquisition of MessageWay by Ipswitch. On June 15, the privately held, Lexington, Massachusetts, vendor announced it made an undisclosed cash payment for the assets ...
Worldwide Enterprise Service Bus and Connectivity Middleware 2009 Vendor Shares
Maureen Fleming
Jun 2010 - Doc # 223724      Competitive Analysis
This IDC study examines the enterprise service bus (ESB) and connectivity middleware market from 2005 to 2009. Revenue and market share of the leading vendors are provided as well as revenue by geography.: "We be ...
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Worldwide Integration and Process Automation Middleware 2009 Vendor Shares
Maureen Fleming
Jun 2010 - Doc # 223524      Competitive Analysis
This IDC study examines the integration and process automation middleware market and submarkets for the period from 2005 to 2009. Revenue and market share of the leading vendors are provided for 2007–2009.: "As e ...
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IBM Premium-Priced Acquisition of Sterling Commerce Shows Newfound Commitment to Multi-Enterprise Integration
Maureen Fleming, Robert Parker
May 2010 - Doc # lcUS22353910      IDC Link
IBM agreed to acquire AT&T’s Sterling Commerce unit for $1.4 billion. The companies expect the acquisition to close in the second half of 2010. Sterling, based in Dublin, Ohio, will remain at its current location, and the company and 2,500 ...
Worldwide Application Server Middleware 2009 Vendor Shares
Maureen Fleming
May 2010 - Doc # 223525      Competitive Analysis
This IDC study examines the application server middleware market and submarkets for the period from 2005 to 2009. Revenue and market share of the leading vendors are provided for 2007–2009.: "A war is brewing for ...
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Worldwide Application Deployment Software 2009 Vendor Shares
Maureen Fleming
May 2010 - Doc # 223504      Competitive Analysis
This IDC study examines the application deployment software market and submarkets for 2005–2009. Revenue for 2007–2009 and 2009 market share of the leading vendors are provided.: "Given the significant investment ...
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GXS and Inovis: Implications for the Retail Industry
Maureen Fleming, Robert Parker
May 2010 - Doc # GRI223197      Perspective
This IDC Retail Insights Perspective reviews the details of the GXS-Inovis merger. This document also provides analysis of the implications for the retail industry and provides guidance to buyers.:
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Worldwide Application Development and Deployment: 2010 Predictions
Melinda-Carol Ballou, Maureen Fleming, Al Hilwa, Stephen D. Hendrick, Carl W. Olofson
Apr 2010 - Doc # 222850      Update
This IDC update identifies and discusses the top 10 trends that IDC believes will have a material impact on the application development and deployment (AD&D) markets during 2010 and the first half of 2011. These trends speak of ...
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