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Rob services Customer Insights Professionals. He is a leading expert on how businesses can use marketing technologies to build customer relationships and create competitive differentiation. As a principal analyst with Forrester, Rob provides research and consulting to clients on technology strategy, road maps, readiness, benchmarking, and organizational design.
Rob's research focuses on marketing technology trends, forecasts, best practices, requirements planning, organizational models, and ROI assessments. He covers marketing technology products and vendors in campaign management and marketing automation, customer decision management, real-time optimization, and marketing resource management.
His prior work experience includes marketing software development, digital analytics, and marketing strategy. Rob consults with companies in financial services, insurance, telecommunications, retail, and software. Rob also frequently speaks at industry events, and his press coverage includes MarketWatch, The Wall Street Journal, and Destination CRM.
Rob is a gradaute of Clemson University and Indiana University.
Cross-channel campaign management (CCCM) tools are the heart of the enterprise marketing platform, yet campaigns are too rigid and too rooted in batch-based techniques to allow firms to achieve ...

Customers, empowered by always connected digital devices, can engage with brands at any time, from any place, and at any point within the customer life cycle. To respond with relevance in real t...
The evolution from channel-specific to cross-channel campaigns affords firms the opportunity to improve relevance and deliver sustainable competitive advantage. The processes of measuring and re...

The age of the customer ties success to firms' ability to know and serve their customers. Campaigns provide an instrument to drive customer behavior, but traditional campaign approaches can't ke...

For the recent Forrester Wave™ evaluation of cross-channel campaign management (CCCM), we surveyed 130 customers about their vendors. We found that users were generally satisfied with the ...

In Forrester's 81-criteria evaluation of cross-channel campaign management (CCCM) vendors, we identified, researched, and scored 12 products from 11 providers: Alterian, Aprimo, ExactTarget, IBM...

Marketing today is impossible without significant investments in technology. When Forrester first charted the landscape of marketing technologies in 2007, we found that marketers were investing ...

For the recent Forrester Wave™ evaluation of cross-channel campaign management (CCCM), we surveyed 130 customers about their vendors. We found that users were generally satisfied with the ...

Marketers require ever more technology to capture, integrate, analyze, and apply customer data to marketing programs. Forrester recommends that marketers establish an enterprisewide marketing te...

Marketing resource management (MRM) systems promise to enhance marketers' ability to optimize planning, budgeting, collaboration, and asset creation. MRM received significant attention in the mi...