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Dwight B. Davis, Vice President, Ovum Summit

Dwight B. Davis has tracked progressions and strategies in all segments of the IT industry for 25 years, including seven years at Ovum Summit, formerly Summit Strategies. His broad scope of industry knowledge and well-established relationships with industry executives make him a consistently reliable and sought-after source for accurate and intuitive analysis and consulting. Dwight focuses primarily on strategies and trends related to infrastructure and applications software, XML-based Web services, virtualisation, software-as-a-service, and information management and analysis. Dwight leverages his extensive experience to analyse the strategies of the major software vendors including Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, SAP, Sun Microsystems and BEA, as well as emerging and innovative start-up vendors.

Dwight's reputation as an authority on Microsoft and other key IT vendors has earned him appearances in broadcast interviews aired on CNBC, CNN and National Public Radio. His views have been quoted in more than 500 trade and general-press articles, including The Wall Street Journal, Business Week, Reuters, USA Today, Computerworld, eWEEK and Network World. In addition, Technology Marketing named Dwight one of the most influential analysts in the industry in its 2001, 2002 and 2003 industry analyst rankings.

Prior to Ovum Summit, Dwight was editorial director of Windows Watcher, the premiere executive newsletter monitoring and analysing Microsoft. Earlier, he served as a senior editor or contributor to a number of industry publications, including High Technology, Datamation and Electronic Business. In the 1980s, he also co-authored a book on artificial intelligence. Dwight earned a master's degree in Science Journalism at Boston University.