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TJ serves CIO Professionals. His research focuses on the business of collaboration software, which includes adoption, business models, pricing, and positioning, and how information workers affect the adoption and deployment of collaboration software within their business. His research of the collaboration space also deals with how these technologies are applied to facilitate interactions between companies — vendor to partner, vendor to supplier, vendor to customer — for purposes of marketing, product development, and innovation. In addition, TJ researches serious gaming, which is the use of games and gaming dynamics for business or educational purposes and the use of virtual worlds for collaboration and training. His work helps professionals understand the technology and demographic trends that are affecting the markets they serve and provides guidance on how best to position their products to meet these challenges. TJ has been cited in ComputerWorld and the Financial Times.
Prior to joining Forrester, TJ was an analyst at a new product development firm, conducting voice of the customer and litigation-related market research for technology and other firms.
TJ has a B.S. in public relations and an M.S. in applied communication research from Boston University.
What are the pitfalls surrounding SharePoint Search in the Internet space, especially in regard to Office 365?
Google, Microsoft, And Autonomy Face Credible Competitors
Forrester evaluated 12 enterprise search vendors that vary widely in their brand awareness, cost, and ease of use. Google, Autonomy, and Microsoft are the most well-known names; they own a large...
First-generation enterprise search was not easy to use and produced unsatisfactory results from a usability and relevance standpoint. Today's knowledge workers demand role-specific, contextual search...

Vision: The Content Management Playbook
Successful management of content throughout its life cycle has never been more challenging. Customers and employees, operating in a social, mobile world, expect easy mechanisms to create and consume...
Yesterday, HP agreed to buy UK software firm Autonomy Corp. for $10 billion to move into the enterprise information management (EIM) software business. HP wants to add IP to its portfolio, build...
Content and collaboration professionals struggle to measure the success of search functionality on publicly facing websites and intranets. They mine through diverse data to answer questions like:...
The inability to find content, a lack of compliance, and poor customer experiences all add up to real costs. If you care about getting the right information to the right people at the right time and...
My colleague Gene Leganza, who serves Enterprise Architecture Professionals, compiled the top 15 technology trends EA should watch over the next three years. He highlights technologies that are...
As organizations formalize their information architecture (IA) practices, Forrester expects the mission of IA to crystallize. Put simply, the value of IA is that it enables the delivery of the right...
What are people using for analysis of profile information generation? Specifically, what systems support natural language use techniques for developing profile information about individuals or...
Remember The Jetsons? The flying cars and the automated kitchen and the food pills? Sometimes modern life can feel like that futuristic utopia. We've got robots in the...
To give your search program momentum, you must show how an investment in search technology helps the organization's bottom line. One-size-fits-all enterprise search deployments are often too diffuse...
Results From Forrester's Q1 2011 Site Search Online Survey
Search on many corporate websites is an understaffed, IT-funded afterthought. But watch for the status quo to change. Two-thirds of the decision-makers Forrester surveyed will expand website search...
What companies are the players in natural language processing (NLP) that enhance search on websites? How do they differ from open source equivalents? Do they have APIs that allow integration with...
Perhaps no one understands better than Dan Ranta, Director of Knowledge Sharing at ConocoPhillips, that the challenge of sharing knowledge is very real — while the potential payoff can be...
In 2007 Larry Elison said: "We think the paradigm for doing business, how people do their daily jobs is changing and is moving to a search paradigm.” For years Oracle has worked on weaving...
How do enterprise search and business intelligence (BI) tools complement each other, and what are the use cases for these? What products cover the areas of enterprise search, semantic tools,...
I'd like to know more about how text analytics works in the context of "reading" CSR rep typed-in comments when customers call in with issues. How does text analytics fit into a data strategy?
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS 2007) has lousy metadata capabilities. If tagging content and managing taxonomies in MOSS 2007 are important to you— and they should be —...
How To Identify Nonessential Clutter To Safeguard And Make The Most Of The Content That Matters
There's probably a lot of junk digital content in your enterprise that no one feels ready or authorized to delete. Redundant and unnecessary information sloshes around in content management systems...
Highly Integrated With A Risk Of Lock-In
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...

Video is not a fringe format anymore. Increasingly, information workers consume video in the workplace for training purposes, technical help, and real-time communication with colleagues and...