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Jarrod Gingras

Jarrod Gingras is an Analyst covering technology across the enterprise information landscape including web content management and enterprise content management.

Jarrod is a more than 10 year veteran of the content technology industry, starting his career as a web developer and information architect. Prior to joining The Real Story Group in 2007, Jarrod worked as an information architect and user interface designer at a systems integration firm, where he developed user-focused content management strategies and solutions for clients in the financial services, retail, healthcare, insurance, and manufacturing industries.

Since joining The Real Story Group, Jarrod has contributed to research across the enterprise information landscape, with a special focus on the end-user experience for the technologies we evaluate. He has also advised clients such as the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Nokia, and MIT-Sloan Business School on their enterprise information challenges.

Jarrod's Advisory Papers and Webinars

  • You must be subscribed to this research stream 2013 Enterprise Search Logo Landscape [slides]
  • You must be subscribed to this research stream 2013 Brand & Digital Asset Management (DAM) Logo Landscape [slides]
  • You must be subscribed to this research stream 2013 Cloud File Sharing & Collaboration Logo Landscape [slides]
  • You must be subscribed to this research stream 2013 Enterprise Portals & Content Integration Logo Landscape [slides]
  • You must be subscribed to this research stream 2013 Web Content Management (Web CMS) Logo Landscape [slides]
  • You must be subscribed to this research stream 2013 Enterprise Collaboration & Social Software Logo Landscape [slides]
  • You must be subscribed to this research stream 2013 Digital Marketing Technology Logo Landscape [slides]
  • You must be subscribed to this research stream 2013 Broadcast & Media Asset Management (MAM) Logo Landscape [slides]
  • You must be subscribed to this research stream 2013 Enterprise Content Management (ECM) / Document Management Logo Landscape [slides]
  • You must be subscribed to this research stream Webinar: Avoid Making These Five Mistakes with Your Next Technology Procurement
  • You must be subscribed to this research stream Webinar - Create a Vendor Short List in Minutes - Introducing the Custom ShortList Builder
  • You must be subscribed to this research stream Webinar - Product Price Negotiations
  • You must be subscribed to this research stream Are cloud-based file-sharing services too immature for the enterprise?
  • You must be subscribed to this research stream 2011 Document Management Market Analysis
  • You must be subscribed to this research stream Webinar - Why ECM and WCM Projects Fail
  • You must be subscribed to this research stream Managing Content in a Mobile World
  • You must be subscribed to this research stream Pardon the ECM Interruption
  • You must be subscribed to this research stream ECM & Document Management Marketplace 2010

Jarrod's Recent Posts

  • Digital Workplace Trends 2013 now available - 25-Feb-2013
  • Enterprise Portals vs. Web CMS - Old Question, New Answers - 18-Jan-2013
  • Updated Evaluations for Solr-Lucene and Oracle-Endeca Search - 10-Jan-2013
  • WCXM Pitfall 12: Not preparing for content change - 20-Dec-2012
  • WCXM Pitfall 11: Missing or underestimating internal change management issues - 11-Dec-2012
  • WCXM Pitfall 10: Looking solely at the product and not enough at the vendor - 29-Nov-2012
  • WCXM Pitfall 9: Underestimating integration and other professional service needs - 27-Nov-2012
  • WCXM Pitfall 8: Underestimating hardware needs - 26-Nov-2012
  • What Are Your Big Challenges for 2013? - 21-Nov-2012
  • WCXM Pitfall 7: Picking a CMS package that doesn't play well with other company applications - 20-Nov-2012
  • WCXM Pitfall 6: Spending insufficient effort describing and organizing content, and underestimating migration times - 16-Nov-2012
  • WCXM Pitfall 5: Involving only internal stakeholders - 14-Nov-2012
  • WCXM Pitfall 4: Not involving internal Web CXM stakeholders from the very beginning - 8-Nov-2012
  • Five Mistakes That Can Kill a Technology Project Before It Starts - 7-Nov-2012
  • WCXM Pitfall 3: Thinking a web content management package will provide a full CMS solution - 5-Nov-2012
  • WCXM Pitfall 2: Not getting a clear mandate from the top - 2-Nov-2012
  • WCXM Pitfall 1: Selecting a Web CMS package before developing solid requirements and a business case - 30-Oct-2012
  • The Three Camps of Document Management - 18-Oct-2012
  • Updates to our ECM evaluations: Oracle, OpenText, and more - 11-Oct-2012
  • Three October Seminars in Washington D.C. - 1-Oct-2012
  • Are you ready for some conferences? - 5-Sep-2012
  • Major update to our SharePoint Evaluation research - 27-Aug-2012
  • Is SharePoint in the Cloud right for you? - 17-Aug-2012
  • Free webinar: Digital Marketing Technology Evaluations - 23-Jul-2012
  • Technology Buyer Risks - 19-Jul-2012
  • Introducing the Custom ShortList Builder - 18-Jul-2012
  • Free Webinar - How Cloud, Mobile, and Social Will Change the World of Information Management - 20-Apr-2012
  • 2012 Technology Predictions - 6-Dec-2011
  • Storage Wars in the Cloud - 17-Nov-2011
  • Box Playing Hardball - 14-Oct-2011
  • Unfiltered SharePoint Advice in Washington D.C. - 12-Oct-2011
  • How does your intranet stack up? - 29-Jun-2011
  • 5 Cloud Contract Considerations - 23-May-2011
  • Mobile - the Next Web CMS Frontier - 27-Apr-2011
  • Real Story Group March Madness Bracket - 14-Mar-2011
  • Content Therapy is back at info360 - 7-Mar-2011
  • Feeding Your Content Technology Research Needs - 8-Feb-2011
  • Faking a CMS? You're Not Alone - 7-Feb-2011
  • Webinar - The Document & Records Management Overview 2011 - 11-Jan-2011
  • Assessing Buyer Risk via Redesigned Cross-Checks - 21-Dec-2010
  • Content Management for Higher Education - 20-Dec-2010
  • Identifying the Right Content Management Stakeholders - 7-Dec-2010
  • How we get the real story - 6-Dec-2010
  • 2011 Content Technology Predictions - 1-Dec-2010
  • Call me a Grinch, but Web CMS is not dead - 30-Nov-2010
  • ECM3 Maturity Model - Version 2.0 - 28-Jun-2010
  • Have you taken the CM Pros 2010 survey yet? - 10-May-2010
  • Pardon the ECM Interruption - 7-Apr-2010
  • Think you can you stump these consultants? - 1-Apr-2010
  • Hiring a UK/Europe Account Executive - 31-Mar-2010
  • Selecting Wine and Software - 31-Mar-2010
  • Happy 1st Birthday ECM3: ECM Maturity Model - 25-Mar-2010
  • What makes your project successful in the real world - 19-Mar-2010
  • Iron Mountain buys Mimosa - 22-Feb-2010
  • New Enterprise Portals Research - 28-Jan-2010
  • 2010 Content Technology Predictions - 15-Dec-2009
  • 2010 Document Management Marketplace Analysis - 7-Dec-2009
  • Is WCM fundamentally broken? - 13-Nov-2009
  • See CMS Watch in Denmark - 8-Oct-2009
  • Help elect a new AIIM board member - 21-Sep-2009
  • EMC Acquires Kazeon - 2-Sep-2009
  • ECM Capture Specialists - 26-Aug-2009
  • ECM Where You Work - 24-Aug-2009
  • Portals are Everywhere - 17-Jun-2009
  • New Enterprise Portals Research: Portals Back in Fashion - 15-Jun-2009
  • SaaS ECM marketplace is partly cloudy - 25-May-2009
  • When will ECM open up? - 20-May-2009
  • Stump these consultants - and win an iPod! - 20-Mar-2009
  • Content Therapy Is Back! - 6-Mar-2009
  • New subscription options - 5-Mar-2009
  • Pardon the ECM Interruption - 5-Mar-2009
  • Will Lawsuits Impact the DAM Market? - 2-Mar-2009
  • Discussing DAM in Toronto and Dallas - 23-Feb-2009
  • Alex Rodriguez, Steroids, Records Management, and You - 9-Feb-2009
  • Search is dead -- Long live search and information access! - 25-Nov-2008
  • New Course on E-Discovery - 20-Nov-2008
  • Marqui de Sale - 19-Aug-2008
  • Introducing our new Online Education series - 29-Jul-2008
  • SaaS Web CMS vendor Marqui going belly up? - 11-Jul-2008
  • A Tale of Two Days at Web Content 2008 - 23-Jun-2008
  • The CMS Watch Twitter Experiment - 9-Jun-2008
  • Facebook: Not just a toy... - 12-May-2008
  • A Greener CMS? - 22-Apr-2008
  • Do you love Facebook, or need it? - 15-Apr-2008
  • Clickability as Open Source? - 31-Mar-2008
  • Have a seat on the couch... - 3-Mar-2008
  • Big Pink Monsters? - 2-Mar-2008
  • CrownPeak's New SaaS Option - 5-Feb-2008
  • The Stability of Clickability - 4-Feb-2008
  • ECM Suites Report 2008 Released - 4-Dec-2007
  • New York in December: Christmas Trees, Ice Skating, Polar Bears, and IOA! - 14-Nov-2007
  • Mondosoft still ticking - 12-Nov-2007
  • VisualSciences' Search and Publish: What about us? - 26-Oct-2007
  • CM Pros Fall 2007 Summit - 14-Jun-2007

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