Eitan Michael Azoff, PhD, MSc, BSc(Eng).Based near Newark-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire, UK.
An industry analyst since 2003, bringing over 20 years of experience in pure and applied research and consulting in the IT industry. Michael is a member of Ovum’s IT solutions group, providing research, advice, and consulting for enterprise users of technology, IT vendors, and vertical domains.  He leads the research on software development and lifecycle management for enterprise IT, and for systems engineering and advanced product manufacturing. Michael also covers artificial intelligence and machine learning, and has written a book on neural networks. His research spans machine intelligence to AI hardware acceleration, and applications in vertical domains.   Current research interests: microservices, containers and cloud native computing; artificial intelligence/machine learning/cognitive computing; agile, Lean, and DevOps methodologies and processes; mobile and web app development platforms; ALM-PLM integration; application performance management; and software application security.