Forrester Research

	Jost Hoppermann Vice President, Principal Analyst

Research Coverage

Enterprise Architecture, EA Governance Processes, EA Organizational Structure, Application Planning & Strategy, Retail Banking, Enterprise Architecture Practices, Application Development, Multichannel Architecture, Banking Platforms, Financial Services, Architecture & Technology Strategy

Research Focus

Jost serves Enterprise Architecture professionals, particularly around financial services. As an analyst, he is an expert on a number of global banking technology topics, including banking platforms, software infrastructure, multichannel platforms, architecture, and application strategy planning. He also covers enterprise architecture from an organizational and process perspective on an industry-neutral basis.
During almost seven years with Forrester, Jost has provided strategic analysis and pragmatic advice to executives, operational-level managers, and architects on topics like strategy plans, architecture development, and governance, as well as large-scale software development, integration, and deployment.
As a conference speaker and quoted expert, Jost has addressed numerous topics like industry trends, implementation, security, administration, the operation and migration of applications, systems, and networks, as well as the economic and strategic issues around these technologies.

Previous Work Experience

Jost came to Forrester through its acquisition of Giga Information Group. Prior to Giga, Jost was director of architecture at DG Bank, where he was responsible for the medium- and long-term development of architecture and related topics as well as for the definition of the technology part of its multichannel strategy. He was the chairman of the bank's architecture decision body. Prior to joining DG, Jost worked as a technology consultant for eight years. He was responsible for a consulting practice that ran projects in the architecture and information technology space. Earlier, Jost worked on database systems, operating systems, software development, Unix standardization, and IT security, including collaboration on the creation of German and European IT security criteria.