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James G. Kobielus

James G. Kobielus
Senior Analyst

Research Coverage

Business Activity Monitoring, Business Intelligence, Business Process Management, Complex Event Processing, Customer Relationship Management, Customer Service & Support, Data Integration, Data Mining & Advanced Analytics, Data Warehousing, Enterprise Portals & Search, Information & Knowledge Management, Integration Technologies, Order Management, Packaged Applications, Predictive Analytics, Text Mining & Analytics

Research Focus

James serves Business Process & Application Development & Delivery Professionals. He is a leading expert on data warehousing, predictive analytics, data mining, and complex event processing. In addition to his core coverage areas, James contributes to Forrester's research in business intelligence, data integration, data quality, and master data management.

Previous Work Experience

James has a long history in IT research and consulting and has worked for both vendors and research firms. Most recently, he was at Current Analysis, an IT research firm, where he was a principal analyst covering topics ranging from data warehousing to data integration and the Semantic Web. Prior to that position, James was a senior technical systems analyst at Exostar (a hosted supply chain management and eBusiness hub for the aerospace and defense industry). In this capacity, James was responsible for identifying and specifying product/service requirements for federated identity, PKI, and other products. He also worked as an analyst for the Burton Group and was previously employed by LCC International, DynCorp, ADEENA, International Center for Information Technologies, and the North American Telecommunications Association. He is both well versed and experienced in product and market assessments. James is a widely published business/technology author and has spoken at many industry events.

Education

James has a B.A. in economics from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and an M.A. in journalism and mass communications from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Latest Research

Planned Research

Social Media Analytics: Deep Insights to Tune Your CRM Initiatives March 2012
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Agile Predictive Process Platforms: The Key to Business Agility February 2012
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The ROI of CRM Recommendation Engines February 2012
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Did You Know?

James enjoys working out: yoga, powerflex, body sculpting, cardio, etc. He also occasionally writes poems and recites them for people with mixed results. He reads extensively, listens to www.kexp.org, and loves his Zune.


James G. Kobielus serves Business Process professionals.

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Recent Media Citations
LeMagIT (FRA), "Neoview : A data warehouse that wasn’t," January 31, 2012
IDG News Service, "Pentaho Open Sources 'big Data' Integration Tools Under Apache 2.0," 1/30/2012
Financial Times, "Analysing customers: It pays to keep data near where they are crunched," 1/24/2012
Computerworld, "Oracle's Hadoop move could push rivals toward big data bundles," January 23, 2012
SD Times, "On Hadoop 1.0: James Kobielus," January 12, 2012
Computerworld, "Oracle's Big Data Appliance Brings Focus To Bundled Approach," Jan. 11, 2012