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Tool:While ESBs Are The Dominant First Buy, Interest In Other Products Grows More Quickly

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Report:The Forrester Wave™: E-Signatures, Q2 2013

Electronic signatures are gaining momentum and becoming an increasingly popular topic of inquiries by Forrester clients. In retrospect, today's e-signature users will be seen as early adopters...

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Blog:Have Your Cake And Eat It Too!

  How can your firm deliver great, loyalty-inspiring customer experience – and achieve its efficiency objectives? Firms that want to boost Return on Equity (ROE) or Return on Capital...

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Blog:The Context For EA Success Is Changing – Are You Changing For This New Context?

As architects, we all know the importance of context. The right architecture for one context – say, an organically growing company – doesn’t work for a company growing by...

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Blog:2012 Predictions – Technology Will Shape Who We Are As People And Businesses

In the first phase of the information age, technology helped us achieve new levels of productivity. In the next phase, technology will shape who we are. Why? Because technology is everywhere –...

Discussion:Jump-Starting Your Business Architecture Program

Isn't this simply a generic outline for any vision or goal-setting session? What makes this approach unique to Business Architecture?

Discussion:Business Architecture Programs Should Align With The Organization's Context

Good perspective Jeff! Thx

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Tool:Required Capabilities Vary According To The Size And Distance Of Your Remote Location

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Blog:Healthcare – an industry transformed by technology. Could you be the Forrester analyst to cover it?

The healthcare industry is undergoing transformation.  What’s driving this?  A wide range of factors, from new regulations and government programs, to new treatments and approaches,...

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Tool:The Forrester/TechTarget Shows Stronger Pressure For An ESB Purchase

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Report:Identify How BPM Can Improve Your Organization

Business process management (BPM) attempts to alleviate problems around productivity bottlenecks, customer channel integration, cycle time reduction, and customer service improvement. But while those...

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Discussion:Updated Q2 2011: Assess Your Enterprise Agility

Getting a handle on aglity is a little challenging. Some good thoughts here.

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Report:Natural Resources Firm Applies Capability Maps To Bring Order To Its Business Environment

Distributed and fast-paced business organizations are a major challenge for IT. Distributed business units tend to see the world from their viewpoint, creating overlapping and sometimes competing...

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Report:Let Business Needs Drive Your Enterprise Architecture

Stakeholder Needs: The EA Practice Playbook

This report outlines the stakeholder needs portion of Forrester's solution for enterprise architecture (EA) professionals building a high-performance EA practice. This report is designed to help you...

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Discussion:Big Opportunities In Big Data

Looking fwd to hearing how integration factories and data virtualization play a role in the big (enterprise big data) picture. Really nice job.

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Blog:Which Mountain Are You Trying To Climb?

When I look at the sorts of advisory work we engage in, I am often struck by the fact that our client organizations are at very different start points on their business architecture journeys. The...

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Blog:Solving the Complexity Conundrum

'Reducing complexity' is a reason frequently given by organizations when instigating an application rationalization initiative.  However, complexity can be challenging to define and...

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Client Inquiry:SharePoint Search In The Internet Space

What are the pitfalls surrounding SharePoint Search in the Internet space, especially in regard to Office 365?

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Report:Reflections From A BPM Thought Leader: Phil Gilbert, IBM

Forrester Research is launching a limited number of discussions with business process management (BPM) thought leaders; this is the first of the series. Given that BPM suites (BPMSes) verge on a...

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Discussion:Business Capabilities Provide The Rosetta Stone For Business-IT Alignment

I like the way you and your team present the benefits of a business capability map. I believe a Business Architecture team should own the business capability map, sooner than later. In my case, my...

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Blog:Big Data, Analytics, And Hospital Readmission Rates

The US government will start tracking hospital readmission rates. Why? Because we spend some $15B each year treating returning patients. Many of these would not need to return if they followed...

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Tool:TechRadar™: Technologies For Empowered Employees, Q4 '11 Technologies Evaluated

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Blog:How Mature Is Your Firm's Use Of Social Technologies?

Social technology, which includes blogs, microblogging (Twitter), social networking tools, and next-generation collaboration platforms, is a fundamental shift in how businesses use...

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Tool:Governance-Oriented SOA Products Correlate With Higher SOA Satisfaction

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Blog:2012 EA Award Winners — Where Are They Now?

The InfoWorld/Forrester Enterprise Architecture Awards recognize excellent EA programs — ones that due to their business focus, and strategic yet pragmatic orientation, provide sustained value...