our company
MWD Advisors is a specialist European IT advisory firm which provides practical, independent industry insights that show how leaders create tangible business improvements from IT investments.
The company was formed in 2005 by two highly regarded and influential industry analysts with nearly 40 years combined experience working for a variety of IT vendors, including Autonomy, Deloitte Consulting, ICI, Oracle, Sun and Sybase. Prior to founding MWD they both held senior positions at the advisory firm Ovum.
Since forming the company, MWD has grown to comprise a number of experienced research and advisory professionals. MWD’s analysts bring over 40 years' experience working with senior IT decision makers worldwide from a range of industries including retail, financial services, oil and gas, travel and leisure, utilities, manufacturing, public sector, healthcare and telecoms. Over 3000 subscribers currently benefit from MWD's research.
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The MWD team continues to grow and reflect the needs of our customers. We're always looking out for talented people: if you are interested in joining the MWD team, please contact us.
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MWD Advisors
Registered in the UK as Macehiter Ward-Dutton Limited, company registration no. 5764840.
Registered address: Tardis, Henfield Road, Horsham, West Sussex, RH13 8DR, U.K.
Switchboard: +44 (0) 20 8099 4301
Sales: +44 (0) 20 8099 4401
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contact the team directly
Neil Ward-Dutton
e: neilwd@mwdadvisors.com
T: +44 (0) 20 8099 4601
M: +44 (0) 7971 022173
@neilwd
Beth Barling
e: beth@mwdadvisors.com
T: +44 (0) 20 8099 8297
M: +44 (0) 7971 021860
@bethbarling
Angela Ashenden
e: angela@mwdadvisors.com
T: +44 (0) 20 8099 4222
M: +44 (0) 7908 261408
@aashenden
Helena Schwenk
e: helena@mwdadvisors.com
T: +44 (0) 20 8099 8460
M: +44 (0) 7834 234838
@hmschwenk
general contacts
Sales:
sales@mwdadvisors.com
General information requests: info@mwdadvisors.com
Client services (clients only): clientservices@mwdadvisors.com
Press relations (announcements, etc): pr@mwdadvisors.com
Website feedback: feedback@mwdadvisors.com
how we work
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the team
Neil is MWD's co-founder and Research Director, and is one of Europe's most experienced and high-profile IT industry analysts. His areas of expertise include business process management (BPM), enterprise architecture (EA) and service oriented architecture (SOA) and IT governance, and he is currently the lead analyst for MWD's BPM Continuous Advisory Service. Neil has acted an advisor to leading vendors, including IBM, Oracle, Microsoft, BEA, Hewlett-Packard, SAP, and Borland; and to large IT user organisations in Media, Government, Transport, Financial Services, and Telecommunications. For more on Neil's research see the BPM insights page.
Beth is responsible for research and service quality and delivery as well as managing MWD's communication with clients, research subscribers, the media, partners and other communities of interest. Previously Beth was part of the European management team at AMR Research. This followed a decade’s experience as an industry analyst at AMR Research and Ovum. Most recently Beth successfully ran her own independent research and marketing communications consultancy for technology vendors.
Angela is a highly accomplished and experienced IT industry analyst and public speaker. With experience in many areas around collaboration and information management, she has advised clients on technology and management issues relating to collaboration, enterprise content management, portals, workflow, enterprise search and e-learning. Angela regularly presents at conferences and seminars on information management technology and markets, as well as writing for journals and trade publications on various topics. For more on Angela's research see the Collaboration insights page.
Helena leads MWD's Analytics and Information Management research programme and looks at how organisations can best apply BI and analytic practices to help improve productivity, drive efficiencies and growth, and create a sustainable competitive advantage in their businesses. Her areas of expertise include advanced analytics, real time operational analytics, social and cloud BI as well as Big Data analytics. Helena combines six years of expertise as a former data warehousing practitioner with twelve years as an industry analyst. She has a wealth of experience providing authoritative research and advice to both enterprises and technology vendors on the topics such as product selection, vendor comparisons and market positioning. Helena presents regularly at conferences and seminars, and has contributed to media titles such as CIO.com, Computer Weekly and Business Week. For more on Helena's research see the Analytics and Information Management insights page.