Michael Blechar
Having been with Gartner for more than 15 years, Michael Blechar is vice president and distinguished analyst in the Applications Architecture Research area of Gartner’s Research and Advisory Services. Mr. Blechar specializes in the area of business and IT modeling tools and collaboration, model-driven development, metadata repositories, and information architecture, analysis, and design. He is the research topic leader for service-oriented development of applications.
Mr. Blechar has 40 years of experience in data processing, having held technical and management positions in systems development, data and database administration, and computer-aided software engineering (CASE) for several Fortune 500 companies, including American Can, Ciba-Geigy and the New York Stock Exchange. Prior to joining Gartner in 1993, Mr. Blechar managed the corporate development center, methodology and data management personnel at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida. Previously, he served five years as director of product technology and as U.S. product manager for CGI Systems, the vendor of (now IBM’s) Pacbase Integrated-CASE development tool. Mr. Blechar has served on the ANSI IRDS (Repository) standards committee.
“I enjoy helping end users make good business decisions in terms of their IT acquisitions and strategies. I also enjoy helping vendor clients identify market opportunities and threats, as well as opportunities for alliances, partnerships, mergers and acquisitions. I find it both exciting and rewarding to provide stimulating insights that drive industry change and to be around teams of colleagues able to do the same.”