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Research (Europe), Service Optimization Technologies

Sarah Burnett

Executive Vice President and Distinguished Analyst

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Sarah Burnett, Executive Vice President and Distinguished Analyst, is a well-known industry analyst and market influencer. At Everest Group, she leads the firm’s Service Optimization Technologies (SOT) research program globally. As part of this role, she researches and advises clients on automation technologies, such as Robotic Process Automation (RPA), Artificial Intelligence (AI), and global service providers’ capabilities in the field. Based in London, she also serves European clients across Everest Group’s Europe-focused global services research areas.

Sarah is chair of BCSWomen, the women’s group of the British Chartered Institute for IT, and founder of AI Accelerator, a programme of free AI events, seminars and webcasts by experts, to inform and educate participants.

Sarah’s accolades include:
• Named one of 50 most influential women in UK IT by Computer Weekly in 2017 and 2016
• Also in 2016, she was named an outsourcing A Lister by the Global Sourcing Association (GSA)
• In 2017 Sarah was named a Digital Leaders’ Champion for the UK South East

As well as contributing to media, Sarah often speaks at leading client and industry events and webinars. She is active in social media as well with frequent blogs and Twitter posts (@SarahBurnett).

“Sarah is a highly respected expert in the business process automation market. Not only has she greatly enhanced our go to market strategy and product development, but we believe that she has made a significant contribution to the Robotic Process Automation industry through her insightful reports.”

— Senior Advanced Process Automation Executive of a leading provider of cloud and on-premise software

“Sarah’s research and advice has helped us with our product development and go-to-market strategies. Her technology assessments and detailed research on enterprise-grade Robotic Process Automation (RPA) has been a major catalyst helping to define and accelerate one of the fastest growing markets in enterprise software today. Her efforts have helped thousands of customers to understand the key features of RPA technology, what to buy and how to take advantage of the software to get significant returns from their investments fast.”

— Co-founder and CEO of a leading platform for enterprise RPA

“Sarah and her team did a great job of helping us formulate our automation strategy. They helped us benchmark our capabilities, identify the business processes that offered the biggest opportunities for automation, and what technologies to use.”

— Senior Automation Executive of one of the world’s leading IT companies

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