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Rob Koplowitz

Vice President, Principal Analyst serving CIOs

Blog: CIO Blog

Rob serves CIO Professionals with research in the areas of information workplace and collaboration strategy. Rob delivers strategic guidance, helping enterprises define enterprise solutions that drive efficiency and competitive differentiation. His current research focuses on core elements of collaboration strategy, including collaboration platforms, workspaces, and enterprise social strategy.

Previous Work Experience

Rob comes to Forrester with many years of experience in enterprise software consulting, product marketing, product management, and strategy. Most recently, he was director of product management at Microsoft, where he played a strategic role with Duet, a joint initiative brought to market with SAP. Prior to Microsoft, Rob was a senior director of product marketing at Oracle Corporation, where he focused on Oracle's content, collaboration, portal, and business intelligence offerings. He also spent fifteen years in consulting working for Lotus/IBM and other global software services firms with a focus on corporate collaboration.

Education

Rob holds a B.A. in economics from the University of California, Davis.

Research Coverage:

Cisco Systems, Cognizant Technology Solutions, Enterprise Collaboration, Information Management, Information Workplace, Instant Messaging, Messaging, Microsoft, Oracle, Research In Motion, SAP, Wipro

Rob Koplowitz's Research

For Application Development & Delivery Professionals
Report: SharePoint Adoption Faces Three Barriers: Mobile, Social, And Cloud
John R. Rymer, Rob KoplowitzFebruary 27, 2013
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 w...
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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals
Report: SharePoint Enters Its Awkward Teenage Years
Rob Koplowitz, John R. RymerFebruary 06, 2013
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 br...
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For CIOs
Report: Social Business And Collaboration Success Hinges On Effective Change Management
Rob Koplowitz, Claire Schooley, Philipp KarcherFebruary 04, 2013
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 tw...
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For CIOs
Report: Office 2013: A Breakthrough In Productivity
Rob Koplowitz, John R. Rymer, Ted Schadler, Art Schoeller, Philipp Karcher, Frank E. Gillett, Christopher Voce, Leslie OwensJanuary 29, 2013
Microsoft looks to strike three very familiar chords with the release of Office 2013: mobile, social, and cloud. Each has become table stakes for enterprise software, and in order for Microsoft ...
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For CIOs
Report: Mapping The Value Of Social Business And Collaboration
Rob KoplowitzNovember 05, 2012
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 ...
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For CIOs
Report: The Forrester Wave™: Collaboration Platforms, Q3 2009
Rob KoplowitzAugust 06, 2009
In Forrester's 66-criteria evaluation of collaboration platform vendors, we found that Microsoft and IBM Lotus led the pack based on the breadth of functionality in their offerings. Novell edged...
- Downloads: 3360
For Application Development & Delivery Professionals
Report: Topic Overview: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
Kyle McNabb, Rob KoplowitzApril 24, 2008
Forrester's Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 research helps information and knowledge management (I&KM) professionals get to grips with the sometimes viral adoption of Microsoft's ...
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For CIOs
Report: Enterprise Social Networking 2010 Market Overview
Rob KoplowitzApril 22, 2010
2010 will be a defining year for enterprise Web 2.0. With IBM Lotus and Microsoft attempting to extend dominant positions in collaboration and messaging to social software, a very broad and rich...
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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals
Report: Now Is The Time To Determine SharePoint's Place In Your Application Development Strategy
John R. Rymer, Rob KoplowitzJuly 16, 2008
As application development managers, you may see Microsoft SharePoint as a collaboration application. But as many shops are discovering, SharePoint is also a development platform that people bot...
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Report: The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Social Platforms, Q3 2011
Rob KoplowitzAugust 24, 2011
In Forrester's first ever, 62-criteria evaluation of enterprise social platform vendors, we found that IBM, Jive, NewsGator, and Telligent led the pack due to breadth and depth of functionality ...
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Rob Koplowitz's Planned Reports

Jun 2013

Report: Social Business And Collaboration Technology Guidebook

53% of IT professionals surveyed consider increased investment in collaboration to be a high or critical priority. Business expectations are high and so are the stakes for the CIO. New technolog...