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J.P. serves Infrastructure & Operation Professionals in predicting and quantifying IT disruptions. J.P.'s expertise is in the IT management software and IT operations market, and his research examines the shifting industry dynamics caused by economic pressures and the impact of new technologies such as virtualization on the IT organization.
J.P. has several decades of experience as an IT technology designer and marketer and also as a client of IT technology. He has broad experience in designing advanced technology solutions in industrial and commercial applications and bringing them to market. He has written extensively on technology for several business publications. J.P. is often a featured speaker at vendor-sponsored events and webinars.
J.P. came to Forrester through the acquisition of Giga Information Group, where he was the research director of the computing infrastructure group. J.P. started his IT career in early 1968 as a software engineer working on the automation of nuclear power plants in France. J.P. then joined Bull General Electric in Paris (subsequently Honeywell Bull), where he was a designer and project leader of very large network infrastructures in France, Scandinavia, and the US. At Bull, J.P. occupied several positions in engineering, marketing, and sales. J.P. moved to the US in 1984 and filled several engineering and marketing positions with Bull Information Systems. In 1994, J.P. created Epitome Technology Corporation, a middleware software company focused on manufacturing execution systems. Prior to joining Giga, J.P. worked as an IT management consultant for several large financial institutions in the US.
J.P. graduated from Ecole Superieure d'Electricite (Supelec) in Paris (M.S. in computer science). J.P. is a US citizen based in Naples, Fla., and speaks French fluently.
Forrester conducted an online survey fielded in September 2010 of 1,042 Hispanic US individuals ages 13 to 17. For results based on a randomly chosen sample of this size (N = 1,042), there is 95%...
The Impact Of Media Fragmentation Patterns On Communication Strategy
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Build Trust And Advocacy With Targeted Content And Engagement Strategies
Forrester Research conducted an online survey in July 2011 of 7,085 consumers ages 18 and older in South Korea, Australia, Japan, metropolitan China (including Hong Kong, Shanghai, Beijing,...
Forrester conducted an online survey fielded in July 2011 of 64,515 US and Canadian online adults ages 18 to 88. For results based on a randomly chosen sample of this size (N = 64,515), there is 95%...
From Creating Awareness To The Act Of Purchase
Television is still the dominant medium to get messages in front of European consumers, but the Internet is now the primary medium consumers use to research their purchases. Within the digital...
Forrester conducted an online survey fielded in November 2010 of 4,006 US Hispanic individuals ages 18 to 75. For results based on a randomly chosen sample of this size (N = 4,006), there is 95%...
North American Consumer Technographics®
This report is a graphical analysis of Forrester's North American Technographics® Online Benchmark Survey (Part 1), Q2 2012 (US, Canada). It provides a generational overview of US consumers'...
Optimize Your Products For Emerging Social Media Channels
The rise of social networking has been one of the key disruptive trends of the past five years, but content, as well as communication, has driven that growth. Facebook, as the dominant social...
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Over the past year, our video strategy series has presented the business case goals and best practices for building video products and adding video to your Web site. This report demonstrates how...
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European Consumer Technographics®
This report is a graphical analysis of Forrester's European Technographics Online Benchmark Survey, Q3 2012. It provides an overview of European consumers' Internet and consumer technology behaviors....
North American Consumer Technographics®
This report is a graphical analysis of Forrester's North American Technographics® Online Benchmark Survey, Q3 2011 (US, Canada). It provides a generational overview of US consumers'...
Forrester conducted an online survey fielded in September 2010 of 4,681 young US individuals ages 12 to 17. For results based on a randomly chosen sample of this size (N = 4,681), there is 95%...
Forrester conducted an online survey fielded in September 2011 of 4,588 young US individuals ages 12 to 17. For results based on a randomly chosen sample of this size (N=4,588), there is 95%...
The Lessons To Learn From Gaming, Mobile's Most Advanced Content Market
The Western European mobile gaming market is set to grow from €764 million at the end of 2010 to €1.46 billion by the end of 2015. Growth will come from a combination of a rise in the...
Asia Pacific Technographics®
For the past seven years, Forrester has been tracking consumers' online and offline behavior in Asia Pacific. As in recent years, this dedicated report helps companies understand the online and...