Larry Cannell Research Director Farmington Hills, MI USA Years of Experience 5 years at Gartner 29 years IT industry Areas of Coverage High Performance Workplace Open Source View Latest Research Resources Create Analyst Alert Contact Gartner Roles and Responsibilities Larry Cannell is a Research Director in the Gartner for Technical Professionals Collaboration and Content Strategies service. Mr. Cannell covers enterprise collaboration and social software, search, content management, and open-source collaboration and content solutions. Previous Experience Mr. Cannell was previously the workstream leader for collaboration and social software research for Ford Motor Co.'s advanced IT group and a program manager of collaborative solutions. Mr. Cannell was also an original member of the Enterprise 2.0 Conference Advisory Board (previously known as the Collaborative Technologies Conference). Mr. Cannell has successfully deployed innovative IT services for more than 25 years. His experience covers a broad set of areas, including collaborative, content and communication solutions, as well as networking, security, distributed systems and open-source technologies. Professional Background Ford Motor Co., IT Researcher and Program Manager, 23 years Education B.S., Computer Science, Western Michigan University LATEST RESEARCH More by this author Title Publish Date Author(s) What's New in SharePoint 2013 and Yammer for Social Software, and Should You Move to It? 13-Mar-2013 Larry Cannell Solution Path: Improving Organizational Effectiveness With Social Software 11-Jan-2013 Larry Cannell Cisco Software as a Service: Extending WebEx Collaboration Beyond Web Conferencing 13-Dec-2012 Bill Pray, Larry Cannell Social Infrastructure 12-Nov-2012 Larry Cannell Microsoft's Changing Social Software Strategy: Yammer, SharePoint and the Role of Cloud Services Within Office 06-Nov-2012 Larry Cannell