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Joseph serves Customer Intelligence Professionals. He is a leading expert on web, mobile, and application analytics, online testing and targeting, and tag management. His research focuses on the generation and application of marketing intelligence from digital channels to deliver highly relevant and engaging online and multichannel customer experiences.
Prior to joining Forrester Research, Joseph was the vice president of platform strategy at Alterian, where he focused on product strategy, product marketing, analyst relations, and corporate development. Prior to Alterian, he was vice president of marketing and product development at MarketerNet. Joseph began his career at Experian, where he held a variety of roles spanning technical project consulting, business development, and product management.
Previous speaking experience includes presenter and master of ceremonies duties for a variety of technology and services vendor customer events, the National Center For Database Marketing, Infopresse Web Analytics, Teradata Partners, Click Summit, eMetrics, and Xchange. Joseph serves on the advisory board for the Northern Illinois University College of Business Interactive Marketing program and is a member of the Digital Analytics Association.
Joseph graduated with honors from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, earning a B.S. in business administration and majoring in marketing. He is Pragmatic Marketing Certified for Product Management Knowledge.
The "Social Layer" Ignites The Next Wave Of Social Technology Innovation
Enterprise social technology vendors have begun to actively position their offerings to meet integration requirements, and the term "social layer," which Forrester originally heard from Socialtext...
The Vendor Landscape Creates More Opportunity And Complexity
When Forrester introduced the concept of the Information Workplace (IW) in 2006 it was largely a vision of the future. Since then, much has changed. The world economy has suffered a prolonged...

Investments in enterprise social technology continue to rise. At the same time, the bet on enterprise social initiatives becomes increasingly strategic. The stakes are high, the risk of failure looms...
Three Firms Achieve Tangible Results
Companies depend on innovation to sprint out of the current economic doldrums and to return to profitability and growth. Innovation is a discipline with established best practices, needed skill sets,...
Adoption Of SharePoint 2010 — A Serious Application Platform — Is Strong
The stage is set for a big upswing in custom application development on SharePoint. First, SharePoint Server 2010 adoption is very strong, and this version of the product has the strongest features...
These data charts contain the full results of Forrester's August 2012 Global SharePoint Usage Online Survey. The results indicate that weak mobile access and social computing features combined with...
How US Information Workers Adopt And Use Technology
This report is a graphical analysis of Forrester's Q2 2011 US Workforce Technology And Engagement Online Survey of 4,985 US information workers. Armed with this baseline data from every US industry,...
Change Management: The Social Business And Collaboration Playbook
It's often said, "You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink." Nowhere in the world of enterprise IT is this adage more fitting than in social business and collaboration. For two...

Customer Struggles With Social, Cloud, And Mobile Signal A Transition
Microsoft SharePoint is the centerpiece of many enterprises' collaboration and content strategies, but it isn't clear to us that enterprises will continue to invest in SharePoint to provide a broader...

What are the trends in the market size for enterprise social networking in North America? How will growth and adoption change these next few years?
Business Impact: The Social Business And Collaboration Playbook
Like Ponce de Leon searching for the Fountain of Youth, businesses have long searched for the value of collaboration. Skeptics say that the quest, like de Leon's, is a fool's errand. Many argue that...

Innovation Isn't Just About New Products
More than 95% of the enterprise budget decision-makers Forrester surveyed indicated that increasing IT capacity and resources for innovation is on their agenda for the next year, according to our...