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Nicholas Carter

Sr Director Analyst

Nicholas Carter is a Senior Director research analyst with Gartner's Tech Product Manager team within the Technology and Service Providers research unit. Mr. Carter's research deals with product management across various technology domains, with a special focus on Application Programming Interfaces (API), Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS), composable technologies and Digital Platforms.

Previous experience

Prior to joining Gartner, Mr. Carter was Senior Director of Product Management at OpenText Corporation.He was responsible for delivering OpenText's SaaS Cloud platform, API business, developer experience and tooling. He also led Product Management for the OpenText Business Process suite. Prior to that he was in charge of OpenText's Content Product Management team covering everything from Capture, Content, Information Governance and Archiving. He was also responsible for OpenText's IP portfolio for 4 years and ensuring that IP was appropriately shared across the organization.Before OpenText Mr. Carter worked for Cincom Systems where he worked to build an award-winning Customer Communication Management product, focused on automating and personalizing customer interactions.Mr. Carter started as an IBM Assembler programmer at British Airways and then moved into Real Time Support for BA before moving into technical support and then Product Management at Cincom in the UK

Professional background

Cincom Systems, Product Manager, 5 years

OpenText, Senior Director Product Management, 14 years

Xerox, Managing Principal, 3 years

Areas of coverage
  • Advance Product and Services Strategy

  • Lead With Product Management Excellence

  • Craft World-Class Product Strategies

  • Improve Product Marketing Execution

  • Foundations of Product Leadership

Education

Bachelor Science (hons) Geology.

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Top Issues That I Help Clients Address

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APIs and API Management software and Pricing

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Product Management

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Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS)

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AI Agents

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Agent pricing