Rob KarelPrincipal Analyst & Research Director
Data Federation, Data Integration, Data Quality, Extract Transform & Load, Information & Knowledge Management, Information Governance, Integration Technologies, Master Data Management, Master Data Management Strategy, Metadata Management
Rob serves Business Process & Applications Professionals. He is a leading expert in how companies manage data and integrate information across the enterprise. His current research focus includes process data management, master data management, data quality management, metadata management, data governance, and data integration technologies, including ETL and EII.
Rob has more than 19 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 and acquisitions product group at Thomson Financial Securities Data (now Thomson Financial Investment Banking).
Rob holds a B.S. in finance from Ithaca College.
The Secret To Better Customer Service: High Data Quality December 13, 2011 (Rating: 9) BookmarkPDF
Manage Master Data About Your People October 26, 2011 (Rating: 10) BookmarkPDF
Employee Master Data Management Trends October 26, 2011 BookmarkPDF
Trends In Aligning Business Process And Master Data Management Initiatives October 11, 2011 (Rating: 10) BookmarkPDF
Data Quality Impacts On Business Process Management October 11, 2011 (Rating: 10) BookmarkPDF
MDM Data Charts February 2012 Receive an alert when this document is published: email RSS
MDM Trends 2012 April 2012 Receive an alert when this document is published: email RSS
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