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

Mike Davis, Senior Analyst

Mike is a senior analyst with Ovum, covering the breadth of information management technologies, with a particular focus on information discovery and access.

As a consultant, researcher and accomplished speaker, Mike's analysis and strategic advice is highly respected in both blue-chip businesses and large public sector organisations across Europe.

Before Ovum, Mike worked at Butler Group for six years leading the Knowledge Management and Public Sector practices, developing particular expertise in the areas of enterprise portals, business intelligence, compliance and records management.

Mike's career prior to becoming an analyst was principally in the UK National Health Service (NHS), but he also spent periods as an IT consultant and as the IT manager for an international chartered institute. During his seventeen years in the NHS, Mike was both an operational manager for community healthcare services and an information services director, acting as a key advisor on regional and national initiatives.

Mike is frequent speaker at conferences and master classes across Europe and in Asia-Pacific, and provides comments for both mainstream media, such as the Financial Times and CNBC, and the specialist computing press.

Mike gained an MBA in 1998; he describes himself as a strategist with a passion for management and a flair for information.