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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Focus Your Information Strategy On Business Impact

Executive Overview: The Information Strategy And Architecture Playbook

Enterprise architecture (EA) professionals face the challenge of burgeoning business interest in maximizing the potential of new and existing information assets in the face of immature information...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Client Inquiry:Can You Please Compare The Benefits Of An Enterprise Solution Versus A Cheaper, Faster Alternative?

I am continually having delivery teams question enterprise solutions as costly and time prohibitive. They spend considerable time investigating other vendors and custom solutions as cheaper...

For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Make EA Business-Focused, Strategic, And Pragmatic

Future Look: The EA Practice Playbook

This report outlines the future look of Forrester's solution for enterprise architecture (EA) professionals building a high-performance EA practice. It will help you understand the future of EA in...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Client Inquiry:What Is The Role Of The Data Architect In Support Of EA?

What is the role of the data architect in support of EA?

For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Client Inquiry:What Are The Best Practices For An EA Management Office?

Regarding the EA management office, what are best practices, things to avoid, or any tips for the EA structure itself? What direction is EA going in now?

For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Client Inquiry:Can You Please Provide Definitions For Application, Service, And Technology?

I am looking for some basic but important definitions in the context of my road map work. For example: application service technology. A definition of application might be: An application is a...

For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Blog:Join CIOs And CMOs As They Determine The Future Of Technology Planning In The Empowered Era

We at Forrester have written a lot about the “empowered era” in the past year. We’re talking about the empowerment of customers and employees, the consumerization of technology, and...

For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Information Architecture Deliverables: What Matters Most?

Five Artifacts Underpin An Effective Program

Architects in any domain have no time to waste creating deliverables that wind up collecting dust on a shelf. Information architects, who have historically had a particularly difficult time engaging...

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Blog:Chief Data Officers Are A Good Idea -- But How Is That Going To Work?

It seems to be popular these days amongst industry pundits to recommend that organizations add a new Cxx role: the Chief Data Officer (CDO). The arguments in favor of this move are exactly what...

For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Assess Your Readiness For A Cohesive Information Strategy And Architecture Program

Assessment: The Information Strategy And Architecture Playbook

Information workers thrive or falter depending on their ability to get the information they need quickly and easily, with high confidence that it's the right information. Enterprises need to protect...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:The Top 15 Technology Trends EA Should Watch: 2011 To 2013

An Empowered Report: High-Impact Technologies That You Should Track

Forrester began summarizing technology trends last year to help enterprise architects create their organizations' technology watch lists. For this year's list of top trends, we've used the same...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Blog:Focus Your Information Strategy On Business Impact

Today’s organizations must manage the explosive growth of all types of information while addressing greater-than-ever business demand for insights into customer needs and the business...

For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Case Study: BI-LO Directly Links EA Goals To Business Strategy

For an EA team that succeeded in significantly reducing costs by virtualizing infrastructure technology, success is a two-edged sword: It boosts the credibility of the EA team but links architects to...

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Report:Best Practices: Starting Or Restarting An EA Effort

Enterprise architecture (EA) continues to gain recognition as a key practice for maximizing the impact of business' use of technology. An effective EA practice can eliminate business-IT alignment...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Blog:Architects! Join Our Data Management Tweet Jam On MDM’s Next Evolution: Tuesday July 20 3-4 PM ET

A number of Forrester analysts have been collaborating on a series of Tweet Jams on topics related to data management. The last session was on BI, and the next one up is on MDM. These are very...

For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Client Inquiry:Can You Please Recommend Some Enterprise Architecture Reference Books?

Please recommend the top two or three reference manuals or books on the subject of enterprise architecture (EA) for an information technology group to use as a team study guide. The purpose of the...

For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Define The Shifting Responsibilities Of The Information Architect

Organization: The Information Strategy And Architecture Playbook

This report outlines the organization element of the information strategy and architecture playbook for enterprise architecture (EA) professionals. The definition of the information architect role...

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Report:Map Your Way To Your Information Strategy's Business Outcomes

Road Map: The Information Strategy And Architecture Playbook

One of the most difficult aspects of an information architecture (IA) practice is engaging stakeholders to buy into your strategy and contribute to your architecture development. The architect's best...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Metadata Architecture — EA's Key Contribution To The Industrialization Of IT

Business pressures have forced IT management to begin applying formal management disciplines to the delivery of IT services. In the past decade we have seen the rise of portfolio and project...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Case Study: Logistics Company Aligns The Application Portfolio With Business Strategy

A logistics company had grown through acquisition, and due to a narrow enterprise architecture (EA) focus, weak governance, and troublesome politics, its former EA practice was largely ineffective....

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For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

Report:Software Is Strategic, SIs Tactical

Saskatchewan's Social Services Ministry's Path To Modernization

Saskatchewan is the latest Canadian province to implement comprehensive modernization and automation of its social services case management technology. It took advantage of other organizations'...

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Blog:EA Forum 2011: Key Tech Trends That Will Change Your Business

Only a few weeks to go before Forrester’s US EA Forum 2011 in San Francisco in February! I’ll be presenting a number of sessions, including the opening kickoff, where I’ll...

For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Case Study: Freescale Semiconductor Uses Data Services To Analyze Real-Time Data

Advances in technology that enable real-time data integration and analysis raise the bar for organizations' in-house information management capabilities, but they can provide significant advances in...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Solution Architecture Tool Kit: Overview

This tool kit discusses the role and importance of solution architects, the solution architecture process, templates for solution architecture deliverables, and solution architecture best practices.

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Report:Develop Business-Focused And Strategic EA Organizations

Organization: The EA Practice Playbook

This report outlines the organizational structures, roles, and skills you'll need to make sure that your enterprise architecture (EA) program is strategic, business-focused, and pragmatic. Building a...

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