Advising on the commercial impact of technology and
    market changes in telecoms, software and IT services

Laurent Lachal, Open Source Research Director

Laurent Lachal is currently in charge of Ovum's open source research practice, working in close co-operation with other members of the Ovum software group to cover the various aspects of the open source movement and its impact on the software market. In his 15-year career as an IT analyst, Laurent has provided software vendors and users with insight into a wide range of issues from high-level business strategy issues to low-level technology ones, through comment papers, market and technology reports, conference presentations, workshops and consultancy assignments.

As a key contributor to Ovum's Software@Ovum advisory service, Laurent's work has covered the whole spectrum of business applications through the management of three evaluation reports: Ovum Evaluates: ERP, Ovum Evaluates: Corporate Financial Systems and Ovum Evaluates: B2B E-Procurement. He also has a strong understanding of the infrastructure software area, as former manager of the Ovum Evaluates: EAI report and of the BPM research practice.

Prior to joining Ovum, Laurent was a senior analyst at Gartner, specialising in the European software market.