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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

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Henry Dewing

For Vendor Strategy Professionals
Client Inquiry:Videoconferencing Network Operations Center (VNOC) Services
Henry DewingMarch 18, 2011
Who are the leading VNOC providers? Are there any factors distinguishing these leaders? Can you explain the VNOC industry? Can you touch on VNOC maturity, adoption, benefits, and drawbacks? What...
For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals
Blog:Polycom Develops New Video Products and Services – And Market Opportunity
Henry DewingOctober 10, 2012
On Monday morning, Polycom invited a few hundred of their closest friends to New York to open the NASDAQ stock market. Then, they revealed a new set of products...
For Vendor Strategy Professionals
Blog:What IS Telepresence?
Henry DewingJune 02, 2011
Whenever vendors talk about videoconferencing today, they use the term telepresence. Come on guys – do yourself and your potential customers a favor – let’s be more careful...
For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals
Charts & Figures:iWorkers Are Interested In Self-Provisioning, But Are Hesitant About Footing The Bill
A Changing Workforce Demands New Solutions And Business Models
Henry DewingAugust 04, 2011
For Security & Risk Professionals
Report:Identify, Engage, And Train Mobile Stakeholders
Change Management: The Mobile Security And Operations Playbook
Henry DewingMay 15, 2012
This report outlines the change management recommendations of Forrester's solution for security and risk (S&R) and infrastructure and operations (I&O) executives working on mobile security and...
- Downloads: 367
For Vendor Strategy Professionals
Blog:Intellectual Property And Patents Are BIG BUSINESS – All By Themselves
Henry DewingSeptember 30, 2011
The tech industry has been percolating and I have noticed a few transactions based on intellectual property (IP) portfolios recently — most notably: Nortel sold about 6,000 patents to a...
For Vendor Strategy Professionals
Blog:The Collaboration Cloud
Henry DewingDecember 30, 2011
Cloud is the latest buzz in the IT market, and we at Forrester have covered this quite extensively. As I reflect on 2011, this is a theme that has also played prominently in many collaboration vendor...
For Vendor Strategy Professionals
Blog:Microsoft Acquires Skype – What Is It Really Worth? A Vendor Strategist's View
Henry DewingMay 10, 2011
The acquisition of Skype puts Microsoft into a commanding position in the consumer UC as a service market. To date, Microsoft has had little to say when Skype, Yahoo, AIM and others talked about...
For Vendor Strategy Professionals
Blog:It's The Network! AT&T Marks Their Territory
Henry DewingJune 15, 2011
During the recent AT&T Analyst Conference, we analysts were all treated to 2 great shows - a tour of Yankee Stadium’s ICT systems (followed by an opportunity to watch the Yankees beat the...
For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals
Report:Preparing For Uneven Corporate Adoption Of Video Communications
Video-As-A-Service Will Accelerate Video Into The Business Mainstream
Henry DewingMay 09, 2011
Use of video for business communication is expanding at some companies and stagnant at others. The more that information workers use desktop (and handheld) video solutions, the more they expect video...
- Downloads: 646
For Vendor Strategy Professionals
Blog:Lotusphere — Business. Made Social.
Henry DewingJanuary 19, 2012
IBM, as always, put on a really big show at Lotusphere this year. More than 5,000 attendees from all walks of IT and business came together to find out how IBM could help them execute their business...
For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals
Report:Use Context To Drive A Seamless UC&C Service Layer
Vision: The Communications And Collaboration Infrastructure Playbook
Onica King, Henry Dewing, Art SchoellerDecember 20, 2012
Increasing consumerization of IT and advances in both cloud technologies and deployment models tremendously affect the enterprise not simply on how we communicate but where, when, and on what kind of...
- Downloads: 170
For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals
Report:Unified Communications And Collaboration Is Poised For Growth As Demand Rises
Market Landscape: The Communications And Collaboration Infrastructure Playbook
Henry Dewing, TJ KeittNovember 06, 2012
I&O professionals choosing unified communications and collaboration (UC&C) solutions today face a daunting array of solution types, capabilities, and business models. This report outlines a...
- Downloads: 426
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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals
Client Inquiry:What Are The Best Practices For Digital Signage Solutions And What Vendors Provide Them?
Henry DewingJune 15, 2011
What vendors provide digital signage solutions? What are best practices for implementing digital signage solutions?
For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals
Blog:Cisco’s Collaboration Technology Group – Rowan Trollope Takes The Helm
Henry DewingNovember 07, 2012
Today, Rowan Trollope took charge of the Cisco Collaboration Technology Group, being named SVP/GM, according to a blog posted by Marthin DeBeer...
For Vendor Strategy Professionals
Blog:Cisco Strategy Evolves And Tactics Mature
Henry DewingJuly 15, 2011
I just returned from Las Vegas where my meetings with Cisco executives, including John Chambers, Gary Moore, David Hsieh, Murali Sitaram, Kara Wilson, and OJ Winge, clearly demonstrated that Cisco is...
For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals
Report:Cloud Strategies To Drive Telco Growth
Telcos Should Provide Wholesale Infrastructure For Cloud Services
Henry DewingFebruary 09, 2012
Telcos can grow their revenue base beyond access and transport to offer a range of wholesale services that many cloud service providers (CSPs) may lack the ability or skills to build themselves....
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For Vendor Strategy Professionals
Blog:Ramblings From Enterprise Connect #EC12
Henry DewingMarch 29, 2012
Cloud, technology populism, video, and integrated solutions were in evidence throughout the show. Here is what I learned or conformed at Enterprise Connect 2012: Cloud is happening. Buyer interest...
For Vendor Strategy Professionals
Blog:Telepresence Is A Trend To Watch In 2011
Henry DewingDecember 06, 2010
In his report, “The Top 15 Technology Trends EA Should Watch: 2011 To 2013” Gene Leganza names telepresence as a tech trend to watch. 42% of respondents to the August 2010 Tech...
For Vendor Strategy Professionals
Blog:Consumer Videoconferencing And Calling Are Both In Your Living Room And In Your Hand
Henry DewingOctober 06, 2010
What do Umi, FaceTime, Qik, and Skype have in common? No, they are not failed attempts to win at Scrabble; they all are solutions for delivering consumer videoconferencing/calling with significant...
For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals
Tool:Usage Is Growing Among Firms Using Or Planning UC Systems, But So Is Dissatisfaction
Henry DewingSeptember 10, 2010
For Vendor Strategy Professionals
Blog:AT&T Business Solutions Drives Technological Innovation Into Practical Use
Henry DewingMay 24, 2010
I spent some time last week with Ron Spears, president and CEO of AT&T Business Solutions (ABS), and his team in Bedminster, NJ, and I am happy to have seen real evidence that AT&T Labs is indeed...
For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals
Blog:2012 Huawei Global Analyst Summit: Enterprise is Part of the Plan
Henry DewingMay 09, 2012
Henry Dewing with Dan Bieler, Katyayan Gupta, Tirthankar Sen, and Bryan Wang ...
For Vendor Strategy Professionals
Client Inquiry:Collaboration Versus Unified Communications
Henry DewingJanuary 25, 2011
How does Forrester define collaboration versus unified communications?
For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals
Tool:Lync Has Slightly Broader Use Than WebEx As Webconferencing Technology Has Matured
Henry DewingAugust 04, 2011
For Vendor Strategy Professionals
Blog:Social Enterprise Apps — $6 Billion Market Opportunity By 2016
Henry DewingSeptember 30, 2011
With the end of the quarter closing in, I wanted to take a step back and fill you all in on new research we have on the way. This quarter we looked at the evolution of Social Enterprise Apps, and...

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For Vendor Strategy Professionals

Client Inquiry:Videoconferencing Network Operations Center (VNOC) Services

For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Blog:Polycom Develops New Video Products and Services – And Market Opportunity

For Vendor Strategy Professionals

Blog:What IS Telepresence?

For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Charts & Figures:iWorkers Are Interested In Self-Provisioning, But Are Hesitant About Footing The Bill

For Security & Risk Professionals

Report:Identify, Engage, And Train Mobile Stakeholders

For Vendor Strategy Professionals

Blog:Intellectual Property And Patents Are BIG BUSINESS – All By Themselves

For Vendor Strategy Professionals

Blog:The Collaboration Cloud

For Vendor Strategy Professionals

Blog:Microsoft Acquires Skype – What Is It Really Worth? A Vendor Strategist's View

For Vendor Strategy Professionals

Blog:It's The Network! AT&T Marks Their Territory

For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:Preparing For Uneven Corporate Adoption Of Video Communications

For Vendor Strategy Professionals

Blog:Lotusphere — Business. Made Social.

For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:Use Context To Drive A Seamless UC&C Service Layer

For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:Unified Communications And Collaboration Is Poised For Growth As Demand Rises

For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Client Inquiry:What Are The Best Practices For Digital Signage Solutions And What Vendors Provide Them?

For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Blog:Cisco’s Collaboration Technology Group – Rowan Trollope Takes The Helm

For Vendor Strategy Professionals

Blog:Cisco Strategy Evolves And Tactics Mature

For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:Cloud Strategies To Drive Telco Growth

For Vendor Strategy Professionals

Blog:Ramblings From Enterprise Connect #EC12

For Vendor Strategy Professionals

Blog:Telepresence Is A Trend To Watch In 2011

For Vendor Strategy Professionals

Blog:Consumer Videoconferencing And Calling Are Both In Your Living Room And In Your Hand

For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Tool:Usage Is Growing Among Firms Using Or Planning UC Systems, But So Is Dissatisfaction

For Vendor Strategy Professionals

Blog:AT&T Business Solutions Drives Technological Innovation Into Practical Use

For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Blog:2012 Huawei Global Analyst Summit: Enterprise is Part of the Plan

For Vendor Strategy Professionals

Client Inquiry:Collaboration Versus Unified Communications

For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Tool:Lync Has Slightly Broader Use Than WebEx As Webconferencing Technology Has Matured

For Vendor Strategy Professionals

Blog:Social Enterprise Apps — $6 Billion Market Opportunity By 2016

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