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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:Business Capability Architecture: Use Business Outcomes To Drive Technology Strategy

Business capability maps, as a key element of business architecture, are central to laying a new and better foundation for technology strategy. To build on this foundation, we introduce Forrester's...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Client Inquiry:What Should We Consider When Evaluating Cloud Combined With SOA?

Part of our application is in the cloud, and we want to insert it into our service-oriented architecture (SOA). What are the interactions between cloud computing and SOA? How do we evaluate risk,...

For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

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

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:Integrate Cloud Into Existing Architecture Strategies

Strategic Plan: The Cloud Computing Playbook

With the level of industry hype about cloud computing, CIOs may get the impression that adopting cloud-based offerings is a sure path to business benefit. But cloud computing is not the answer to all...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

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

For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Mobile Solution Architecture: User Authentication Is The Foundation Of Mobile Trust

Start Small And Keep An Eye On The Breadth Of Your Future Mobile Scenarios

User authentication is a key foundation of security for mobile apps — as it is for application security in general. Determining which authentication approach to use for your mobile solution...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Tool:SOA Users With Broader SOA Project Scope Buy Earlier

For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Tool:Forrester Wave™: Standalone SOA Management Solutions, Q4 '11

For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:The Forrester Wave™: SOA Service Life-Cycle Management, Q1 2012

Software AG, Progress Software, And SOA Software Lead; IBM, Oracle, HP, And WSO2 Have Strong Solutions

In Forrester's 55-criteria evaluation of service-oriented architecture (SOA) service life-cycle management (SLM) vendors, we found that Software AG, Progress Software, and SOA Software lead the pack....

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Tool:Forrester Wave™: SOA Application Gateways, Q4 '11

For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Adoption Of SOA: Still Strong, Even In Hard Times

Current Use Of SOA Advances 27% Among Enterprises, 45% Among SMBs

Service-oriented architecture continues to find a welcome home in both enterprises and SMBs. Even during the Great Recession, all sizes of organizations moved ahead in their adoption of SOA. Global...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Use A Reference Architecture To Speed Cross-Channel Digital Experience Delivery

Forrester's Digital Experience Reference Architecture Balances Four Opposing Forces

Four opposing forces complicate digital experience delivery: the need for speed of initial delivery and ongoing change, the need to deliver experiences that are coherent and familiar across channels...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

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

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

Blog:Build Innovation Zones Into Your Architecture

Forrester’s recent book, Empowered, describes the type of technology-based innovation by frontline employees that can cause nightmares for enterprise architects. New tools for business...

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 Product Adoption Is Widespread, But Many SOA Users Have Yet To Buy

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 Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:The Forrester Wave™: SOA Application Gateways, Q4 2011

Layer 7, Vordel, IBM, and Forum Systems Lead, With Intel Close Behind

In Forrester's 45-criteria evaluation of service-oriented architecture (SOA) application gateway vendors, we found that Layer 7 Technologies (Layer 7), Vordel, IBM, and Forum Systems lead the pack...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Tool:A Strategic Business Focus With SOA Correlates With Higher SOA Satisfaction

For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:The Forrester Wave™: Standalone SOA Management Solutions, Q4 2011

Progress Software Leads; IBM, SOA Software, WSO2, And Managed Methods Have Strong Solutions

In Forrester's 51-criteria evaluation of standalone service-oriented architecture (SOA) management solution vendors, we found that Progress Software leads the pack with its broad and deep...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

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