Forrester

For CIO Professionals

Report:Seven Steps For Developing Process-Oriented Portfolios Of Business Technology Services

How To Better Manage Complexity And Keep It Under Control

Most organizations do not effectively align their business process management (BPM) and IT functions to control the increasing complexity that multifaceted, cross-functional processes and...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Get To Know Your 2010 Business Analysts

In Q3 2010, Forrester Research and the International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA) partnered to survey 1,461 business analysts (BAs), systems analysts, software requirements engineers, and...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Application Infrastructure Strategies Affirm A Need For Greater Flexibility

Findings From Forrester's Q3 2010 Global Financial Services Architecture Online Survey

Forrester's Q3 2010 Global Financial Services Architecture Online Survey shows that many financial services firms need to refocus their application infrastructure strategies to fully align with...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:The State Of Business Architecture In 2011

High Interest And Great Expectations But Limited Progress Since 2008

Interest in business architecture (BA) has remained high over the past three years, but progress has been limited. In conducting Forrester's Q2 2011 Global Current State Of Business Architecture...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Integrate EA With ITIL Service Portfolio Management

It has been almost three years since ITIL v3 was released, superseding v2. While v3 has overtaken v2 in terms of overall adoption, most IT shops are still struggling to adopt v3's new service...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Financial Services Firms' Technology Stacks Indicate A Desire For Vendor Independence

Findings From Forrester's Q3 2010 Global Financial Services Architecture Online Survey

Forrester's Q3 2010 Global Financial Services Architecture Online Survey shows that financial services firms fall into two groups: One focuses on single vendor technology stacks, allowing for easier...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:The State Of Application Rationalization

Landscape: The Application Rationalization Playbook

Many enterprise architects (EAs) have been rationalizing application and technology portfolios for some time, and the experience shows. It is a stable, relatively successful initiative that engages...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Integrated BA And IA Artifacts Are Valuable — And Hard To Find

Forrester's survey data shows that both business and information architecture practices are currently far less mature than enterprise architecture (EA) teams' technology and application architecture...

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For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

Report:SVM And EA Professionals Must Work Together On Emerging Technology Evaluations

When it comes to evaluating emerging technologies for adoption, sourcing and vendor management (SVM) and enterprise architect (EA) professionals play complementary roles. EA professionals typically...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:The Profile Of Corporately Supported EA Groups

Tactics For Improving Corporate Management's Support For EA In Large Firms

As a key strategic entity in any large firm, the enterprise architecture (EA) group requires a strong positive relationship with the ultimate decision-makers — the corporate management...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Financial Services Firms Again Seek To Renew Their Application Landscape

Findings From Our Q3 2010 Global Financial Services Architecture Online Survey

During the summer of 2010, Forrester surveyed 80 IT decision-makers in financial services (FS) firms in Europe, North America, and, for example, Australia, Japan, and South Africa. Our findings show...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Use Business Architecture Tools To Align EA With The CIO's Agenda

CIOs intuitively understand the value of a well-architected environment but leave the details up to the architects. Architects, on the other hand, often don't clarify the CIO's intention behind the...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:The State Of EA 2010

EA's Top Focus: Overcoming Long-Standing Obstacles

Forrester's "State Of EA 2010" report shows consistent themes and incremental progress by the enterprise architecture (EA) function in most firms. EA leaders are part of senior IT management and have...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Why Strategic Functions Fail

Part 3 Of A Three-Part Series On Why Key IT Roles Fail

Certain roles in IT can significantly change the organization for good or bad. Through a combination of surveys, interviews, and consulting engagements, we gathered in-depth information on the common...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Which Technology Trends Will Affect Your Infrastructure Architecture

EAs Should Track The Impact Of Technology Change To Their Infrastructure

Enterprise architects should track key infrastructure technology trends in end user computing, servers, networking, and storage to identify the areas of greatest technology volatility that will...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:SOA Product Adoption: SOA Management Solutions Provide The Strongest Benefit

Although Many Buy An ESB First, More Buy SOA Management In The Long Run

Although enterprise service bus (ESB) products are an early focus for purchase by service-oriented architecture (SOA) users, SOA management products have more-sustained buying focus and also...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

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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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:EA Effectiveness Is Linked To Business And IT Process Standardization

Firms With More Standardization See Greater EA Impact And Support

In September 2009, Forrester Research surveyed 416 IT executives familiar with their firm's EA program to determine the state of their EA practice — its maturity, structures and roles,...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:EAs: Use Social Technologies To Connect With Empowered HEROes

A challenging trend for enterprise architecture teams is extending their influence across the enterprise, and a prerequisite for achieving this influence is a deep understanding of "what's going on...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Fourteen Business Architecture Challenges And How To Overcome Them

A small subset of enterprise architects have established robust business architecture practices and are currently delivering business and IT value through business architecture initiatives. But many...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

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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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:How To Successfully Set Up IT Infrastructure For Your Business In China

For the thousands of foreign companies that establish business operations in China every year, one of the first things on their to-do lists is setting up IT infrastructure, including horizontal and...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

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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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

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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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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