Rob Karel Rob Karel
Principal Analyst

Research Coverage

Information & Knowledge Management, Integration Technologies, Metadata Management, Extract Transform & Load, Master Data Management, Enterprise Information Integration, Master Data Management Strategy, Data Integration, Data Quality, Information Governance

Research Focus

Rob serves Information & Knowledge Management professionals. He is a leading expert in how companies manage data and integrate information across the enterprise. His current research focus includes master data management, data quality management, metadata management, data governance, and data integration technologies, including ETL and EII.

Previous Work Experience

Rob has more than 14 years of data management experience working in both business and IT roles to develop solutions that provide better quality, confidence in, and usability of critical enterprise data. Prior to joining Forrester, he managed Intuit's enterprise data quality initiatives and supported the implementation of Intuit's customer master reference system. Prior to Intuit, Rob managed the design and development of customer master and attribute management solutions for Cisco Systems. Earlier, Rob was research manager for the Global Mergers & Acquisitions product group at Thomson Financial Securities Data (now Thomson Financial Investment Banking).

Education

Rob holds a B.S. in finance from Ithaca College.

Latest Research

Planned Research

It's Time To Invest In Upstream Data Quality October 2008
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Leveraging Master Data To Transform Processes December 2008
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Achieving Trusted Data TEI October 2008
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Data and Content Classification: ItÂ’s Your Trusted Information Backbone October 2008
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Data Architecture For BI Decisioning Tool December 2008
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Recent Media Citations
Intelligent Enterprise, "How To Get A Data Quality Initiative Off The Ground," August 7, 2008
SearchSecurity.com, "CIO Role Could Shift Toward Data Quality, Says IBM group," July 9, 2008
eWeek, "ETL Time? Don't Forget The Metadata," June 5, 2008
CIO, "MDM: Companies Struggle to Find the Truth in Massive Data Flows," May 28, 2008
destinationCRM, "MDM Gets Trendy In 2008," May 19, 2008
CIO, "Why Business Analysts Are So Important for IT and CIOs," April 16, 2008