Forrester

For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Tool:Among SOA Users With One Product, The Primary Choices Are ESB And SOA Management

For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

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

For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

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

For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Blog:Your Future Needs A Type 4 Technology Strategy

As I discuss with clients the developing notions of Forrester's Business Capability Architecture (see blog post #1 and blog post #2), I have found it important to distinguish between different...

For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Build Your Stepwise Strategy For Business-Centered EA

Strategic Plan: The EA Method Playbook

This report describes the strategic plan of Forrester's EA method playbook — our set of high-value practices that enterprise architects should use to help their organizations plan, architect,...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

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

For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Blog:Digital Business Design Is The New Integration

If your organization is like nearly every other one I've talked to in the past 20+ years, you have a spaghetti chart of integration connections between all the siloed applications that run your...

For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Forrester's Enterprise Reference Architecture Tool Kit: Documentation Templates

Design patterns, proven technology stacks, and well-documented application infrastructure are fundamental tools for promoting common practices in the design of business solutions. Enterprises create...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Tool:SOA Users With Broader SOA Project Scope Buy Earlier

For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Architect For The Next Digital Decade

Vision: The EA Method Playbook

In the midst of continuing economic, political, competitive, and technological disruption over the next decade, your enterprise architecture (EA) practice will flounder unless it gains clear vision...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Client Inquiry:What Should We Do With Architecture When Separating Businesses?

While we've seen many examples of mergers and acquisitions, what is the expert opinion on opportunities when an organization separates into separate entities, in the context of architecture? Are...

For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Tool:Organizations Doing More SOA Governance Are More Satisfied With SOA

For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Blog:Get On Board: A Copernican Shift In The Focus Of Your IT Delivery

Step back and think: How would you answer the question, “What does your IT group deliver to your business?” Your answer will indicate how you think about the relationship between business...

For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Design Your Contact Center From The Outside In

Strategic Plan: The Contact Centers For Customer Service Playbook

As more enterprises develop organizational and operational structures to better manage customer experience, they need to drive this down into contact center architectural design. Today's challenge is...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Client Inquiry:Job Description Posting For An SOA Architect

Can you please send some key requirements, skills, areas of focus, and areas of demonstrated expertise for an SOA architect?

For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Tool:Architects Name The Five Most Valuable SOA Governance Practices

For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Tool:The More SOA Products Owned, The Higher The Satisfaction — And The Dissatisfaction

For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Digital Business Design Is The New Integration

Create A Cohesive Business From Your (Seemingly Random) Collection Of Applications And Data

Integration is a perennial challenge for application development and delivery (AD&D) professionals. Vintage, monolithic applications are hard to deal with, and point solutions abound, including point...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Tool:For Each Of Four Primary SOA Product Categories, Enterprise-Level SOA Users Buy Earlier

For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Blog:Products Are Going Digital -- What Leading Examples Are *You* Seeing Out There?

Here's a flash of the blindingly obvious: More and more products are going digital. You know this, but what I'm interested in is how they are going digital and to what degree....

For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Conceptual Architecture: Overview

A conceptual architecture is a tool that enterprise architects can use to enhance communication, provide context, and aid direction setting. Though there are many situations in which an architect...

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For Business Technology Professionals

Blog:The Biggest Problem With SOA Isn't Really About SOA

I'll soon have a client report out with interesting Forrester data about how SOA adoption continued apace during the Great Recession. In the meantime, Forrester partnered with TechTarget on a...

For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Evolving Your Architecture For Groundswell Customer Service

An Empowered Report: A Customer Service Example Of Responsive Architecture

Forrester's recent book, Empowered, describes the type of technology-based innovation by frontline employees that can cause nightmares for enterprise architects. However, rather than attempting to...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Blog:Get A Strong Focus For Your Approach To Cloud

In discussions on cloud computing, I often talk to architects who have been told to create a "cloud strategy." This sounds appropriate enough, but there’s a devil in the details: When the...

For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Blog:Business 2011 Gets Faster; Business Rules And SOA Policy Get More Important

Can you remember a year when your business both (1) grew in a healthy way and (2) changed more slowly than the year before? Besides a company’s early startup years, such would be the exception,...