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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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Rob Koplowitz
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Report:Move From Ideation To Innovation
Ideation: The Innovation Playbook
Nigel Fenwick, Rob KoplowitzJuly 13, 2012
Innovation is the number-one challenge for CEOs. And CIOs are increasingly asked to help solve the challenge by supporting innovation across the enterprise with new technology. The problem is that...
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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals
Report:SharePoint Enters Its Awkward Teenage Years
Customer Struggles With Social, Cloud, And Mobile Signal A Transition
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 broader...
- Downloads: 568
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Report:Mapping The Value Of Social Business And Collaboration
Business Impact: The Social Business And Collaboration Playbook
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 that...
- Downloads: 482
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Report:Office 2013: A Breakthrough In Productivity
Highly Integrated With A Risk Of Lock-In
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 to...
- Downloads: 333
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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 with...
- Downloads: 161
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Report:Social Business And Collaboration Success Hinges On Effective Change Management
Change Management: The Social Business And Collaboration Playbook
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 two...
- Downloads: 311
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Report:Staffing For Social Business And Collaboration Success
Skills And Staffing: The Social Business And Collaboration Playbook
Rob KoplowitzAugust 24, 2012
All too often, IT approaches staffing for social business and collaboration initiatives as it would other IT-led projects. With a focus on providing the best technical solution possible, the...
- Downloads: 315
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Report:The CIO's Role In The Social Business Policy
Policy And Procedures: The Social Business And Collaboration Playbook
Nigel Fenwick, Ted Schadler, Rob KoplowitzAugust 24, 2012
A clear social business policy is an essential guide for employees using social and collaboration tools for customer engagement and for internal or partner collaboration. While it takes a...
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Report:Office 2013: A Breakthrough In Productivity

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