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Report:Deliver On Big Data Potential With A Hub-And-Spoke Architecture

Strategic Plan: The Data Management Playbook

Data management has become as crucial as financial management to leading firms, but businesses grapple with data management platforms that can't respond fast enough to fickle customers and fluid...

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Report:The Patterns Of Big Data

A Data Management Playbook Toolkit

The purpose of this toolkit is to clarify and illuminate the most common big data patterns. Use this research as a basis for business conversations. Study the problems we identified and the results...

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Report:Break Down Silos With An Emerging Technology Road Map

Road Map: The Emerging Technology Playbook

Firms increasingly depend on technology to be innovative and disruptive. However, our data indicates that most firms are not doing a good job of getting new technology in the door and ensuring that...

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Report:Assess Your Readiness For Emerging Technology Opportunities

Assessment: The Emerging Technology Playbook

The pace of business is accelerating; digitized information makes constant change and disruption an ongoing reality. Firms count on emerging technologies to give them a leg up in increasingly...

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Report:Create A Strategy To Leverage Emerging Technology

Strategic Plan: The Emerging Technology Playbook

For many organizations, the use of emerging technology is confusing, slow, and problematic. Which emerging technologies should be part of IT's standard approach? Which should IT push for business to...

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Report:Cut Through Silos With An Agile Technology Introduction Strategy

To succeed in the digital age, enterprise architects must seize opportunities by adopting new approaches for emerging technolgy introduction. This report highlights the technology introduction and...

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Report:Create Agile Processes For Introducing Emerging Technology

Processes: The Emerging Technology Playbook

With its careful approach to planning technology investments and general aversion to risk, IT is not meeting business demands for emerging technology as a driver for innovation and growth. Enterprise...

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Report:Technology Standards Toolkit

An effective standards program provides an important foundation for any enterprise architecture (EA) program. Both new and well-established programs will want to get and keep their standards house in...

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Report:Build The Case For Emerging Technology

Business Case: The Emerging Technology Playbook

The business appetite for new technology to fuel innovation, generate growth, engage with customers, and create differentiation is insatiable. According to our survey data, however, your business is...

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Report:Navigate Digital Disruption With An Emerging Technology Vision

Vision: The Emerging Technology Playbook

Emerging information technology has been a key enabler of business evolution since the 1960s and shows no signs of letting up. As we move beyond simple digitization of information to digital business...

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Report:Use Effective EA Deliverables To Guide Change

Deliverables: The EA Practice Playbook

This report defines an approach for creating enterprise architecture (EA) deliverables as part of a high-performance EA practice. It is designed to help you create work products that matter to...

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Report:BUILD TRUST AND AGILITY WITH AN EA PROCESS FRAMEWORK

Processes: The EA Practice Playbook

This report outlines the process framework of Forrester's solution for enterprise architecture (EA) professionals building a high-performance EA practice. The process framework links EA activities to...

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Report:Federal IT Cost Reduction Efforts Will Require Process Change To Succeed

In an attempt to control IT costs, the US federal government is establishing mandates that are forcing deep and massive technology change. With data center consolidation and cloud migrations entering...

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Report:The Top 10 Business Technology Trends EA Should Watch: 2012 To 2014

Driving increasing capacity for business innovation remains high on the CIO's agenda, but enterprise architects (EAs) struggle to keep up with the rapidly changing technology landscape while also...

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Report:The Top 10 Technology Trends EA Should Watch: 2012 To 2014

Enterprise architects (EAs) struggle to keep up with the rapidly changing technology landscape while also answering the call for application and technology consolidation. To help EAs balance business...

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Report:Connect The Dots Between Business Outcomes And Emerging Technology

Forrester hosted a "tweet jam" on technology trends on July 29. Cloud was clearly atop all other subjects, but business intelligence (BI), mobile, and social were also discussed — the general...

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Report:Big Opportunities In Big Data

Positioning Your Firm To Capitalize In A Sea Of Information

Opportunities to improve the bottom line exist in a flood of information; however, gaining insight from data becomes challenging as it grows extremely large. Emerging technology applies the power of...

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