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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.
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Forrester is conducting a deep dive into dynamic case management usage by interviewing 50 companies implementing these solutions and evaluating 10 dynamic case management (DCM) platforms...

Ask Hard Questions About Business, Process, And Technology Best Practices
Business process pros live at the intersection of business and technology and bring process methodologies, business knowledge, and technology insights to business transformation initiatives. Finding...
Fill Gaping Hole In Process Needs
Enterprises need to shift from isolated enterprise social projects to a process-oriented view that drives business outcomes. Smart process apps — an emerging $34 billion software category...
Landscape: The Business Process Management Playbook
Firms continue to invest massive amounts of money and time into improving their business processes. Why? Because of the imperative to optimize their business operations for their markets, even as...

Metrics: The Business Process Management Playbook
A business process — at its highest level — is any activity that helps an enterprise achieves its goals. Measurement via metrics and comparison via benchmarks are critical to achieving...

Functional and industry-specific on-premises packaged apps aligned with organizational silos have worked well for well-defined, highly structured processes where volume, scale, and straight-through...

Electronic signatures are gaining momentum and becoming an increasingly popular topic of inquiries by Forrester clients. In retrospect, today's e-signature users will be seen as early adopters...

Demand For Web Self-Service And Standards Drive Market Transformation
In 2006 Forrester identified Adobe and IBM as the clear market leaders in e-forms. At the time, e-forms emerged as the critical component to replace paper, leading to the digital forms of today that...
A Roundtable Discussion With Forrester Analysts
Customers have more power today than ever before. They have tremendous influence and reach through social media, more options and choices of whom to buy from, and high expectations about customer...
Future Look: The Business Process Management Playbook
Enterprise architects leading business process management (BPM) excellence initiatives live at the crossroads of business strategy and process execution, providing BPM insights to technologists and...

Organize Content And Improve Dynamic Case Management
Content analytics that mines unstructured content brings to mind tricky, long projects and visions of Ph.D.'s with white coats who comb through vast collections of content on a galactic scale. Yet...
Vendors Move Toward Mature Service Offerings
If you think capture and imaging is old technology, you're correct; it has been around for more than twenty years. But there are still a lot of paper-based processes out there, and Forrester clients...
Engineering Document Management And Control For Owner Operators
Forrester has written extensively about the need for ECM vendors to provide line-of-business (LOB) applications to enterprise customers. The market, however, has paid less attention to the emergence...
An Empowered Report
Too many enterprises communicate with customers using antiquated approaches. After all, smart devices, pervasive video, and social media have given new power to customers and citizens —...
Managed Print Services Show Steady Growth
Business process professionals continue to recommend that organizations outsource non-core and declining document-intensive processes. At the same time, acceptance of outsourced document processing...

ECM And BPM Anchor The Portfolio Of Technologies That Will Improve Hospitals' Processes
Our current paper-based health information process wastes hundreds of billions of dollars annually. Transforming this into a streamlined 21st century electronic system will require moving through...
Document processing services (DPS) encompass a diverse set of specialized services, such as capture, printing, and office fleet management, for document-intensive business processes. Three distinct...
Performance Management: The Business Process Management Playbook
Advancing technology for business process management (BPM) and analytics is allowing broader and deeper treatment of performance metrics. As a result, defining and using performance metrics is an...

Vendors Move Toward Mature Service Offerings
While many offices look modern, unplanned and unmanaged use of printers, fax machines, copiers, and scanners leads to significant waste. Managed print services (MPS) are designed to help a business...

OK, a bit of a stretch here, but I did spend 15 minutes one-on-one with the great hurler last week at the Xerox analyst conference at Citi Field in New York. And thankfully, the Mets were not...
Many business process and content and collaboration professionals, and the vendors that support them, think that dynamic case management (DCM) is a newfangled marketing term to describe an old,...

Electronic signatures are gaining momentum and becoming an increasingly popular topic of discussion among Forrester clients. In retrospect, today’s e-signature users will be seen as early...