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Rob Koplowitz

Rob Koplowitz
Vice President, Principal Analyst

Research Coverage

Collaboration Strategy, Enterprise Collaboration, Information & Knowledge Management, Information Workplace, Instant Messaging, Messaging

Research Focus

Rob serves Content & Collaboration Professionals with research in the areas of information workplace and collaboration strategy. Rob delivers strategic guidance, helping enterprises define enterprise that drive efficiency and competitive differentiation. His current research focuses on core elements of collaboration strategy including collaboration platforms, workspaces and enterprise social strategy.

Previous Work Experience

Rob comes to Forrester with many years of experience in enterprise software consulting, product marketing, product management, and strategy. Most recently, he was director of product management with Microsoft where he played a strategic role with Duet, a joint initiative brought to market with SAP. Prior to Microsoft, Rob was a senior director of product marketing with Oracle Corporation where he focused on Oracle’s content, collaboration, portal and business intelligence offerings. He also spent fifteen years in consulting working for Lotus/ IBM and other global software services firms with a focus on corporate collaboration.

Education

Rob holds a B.A. in economics from The University of California, Davis.

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The Forrester Wave: Activities Streams March 2012
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