Gene Leganza

Vice President, Principal Analyst serving Enterprise Architecture PROFESSIONALS

Gene provides research and advisory services that address the needs of Enterprise Architecture Professionals. Gene has been researching best practices in making enterprise architecture programs effective since 1999 and focuses on helping clients implement a pragmatic approach to EA that has clear value to business and IT leaders.

Previous Work Experience

Gene has more than 25 years of IT experience, including enterprise architecture planning, infrastructure architecture, IT management, performance management, capacity planning, product strategy, and application development. Gene came to Forrester through its acquisition of Giga Information Group. Prior to joining Giga, he was director of infrastructure architecture and capacity planning at John Hancock Financial Services in Boston. Previously, he held senior IT positions at First Data Corporation and Fidelity Investments and development and marketing management positions at leading software firms.

He has published dozens of papers on various topics and has spoken at a variety of conferences in the US and abroad.


Education

Gene earned a B.A. in psychology and music from Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut.

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    Client Inquiry:What Are Best Practices For Scorecard Development?

    We are trying to develop a comprehensive executive-level scorecard for our administration area or operations/service areas, not IT. We are looking for best practices to help us develop the format or...

    • For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

      Blog:To Be (To Cloud) Or Not To Be (Not To Cloud) BI

      My colleagues and I have just completed yet another engagement with a large client — one of dozens recently — who was facing a to be or not to be decision: whether to move its BI platform...

      • For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

        Blog:Key Findings From Forrester's Latest Enterprise BI Maturity Survey (2010 Update)

        Here's what the latest numbers from Forrester's 2010 enterprise BI maturity survey show. Organizations that use BI show increased (+5.7% from 2009) levels of maturity. However,...

        • For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

          Blog:BI In Russia And Israel

          I recently had both the privilege and pleasure to do a deep dive into the cold and warm BI waters in Russia and Israel. Cold - because some of my experiences were sobering. Warm - because the...

          • For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

            Blog:Use A Four-Step Approach To Select The Right BI Services Provider

            BI projects are never short, and, alas, many of them don't end since a fast-paced business environment often introduces new requirements, enhancements, and updates before you're even done...

            • For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

              Blog:When ROLAP Is Not A ROLAP

              I get many inquiries on the differences and pros and cons of MOLAP versus ROLAP architectures for analytics and BI. In the old days, the differences between MOLAP, DOLAP, HOLAP, and ROLAP were...

              • For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

                Blog:Top 10 BI Predictions For 2013 And Beyond

                It’s that time of year again, when everyone starts asking for the BI predictions for next year. Good news: We did a pretty good job on the last year’s predictions, and so there’re...

                • For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

                  Blog:What Is ADV And Why Do We Need It?

                  As one of the industry-renowned data visualization experts Edward Tufte once said, “The world is complex, dynamic, multidimensional; the paper is static, flat. How are we to represent the rich...

                  • For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

                    Blog:Top 10 Business Intelligence Predictions For 2012

                    Demands by users of business intelligence (BI) applications to "just get it done" are turning typical BI relationships, such as business/IT alignment and the roles that traditional and...

                    • For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

                      Blog:Agile Business Intelligence Solution Centers Are More Than Just Competency Centers

                      By Boris Evelson and Rob Karel Our latest BI solution center (BISC, which in our definition is more than a BICC/BI COE) report is now live on the Forrester website. Here’s a brief summary....

                      • For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

                        Blog:To BI Or Not To BI — That Is The Question For SAS

                        First of all, congratulations, SAS AR team, for one of the most efficiently and effectively run events. SAS needs to make up its mind whether it wants to be in the BI game or not. Despite what...

                        • For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

                          Blog:Data Discovery And Exploration - IBM Acquires Vivisimo

                          Today IBM announced its plans to acquire Vivisimo - an enterprise search vendor with big data capabilities. Our research shows that only 1% to 5% of all enterprise data is in a structured, modeled...

                          • For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

                            Blog:Do You Have BI On BI?

                            BI is used to build, report, and analyze business performance metrics and indicators. What about measuring the performance of BI itself? How do you know if you have a high-performing, widely used BI...

                            • For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

                              Blog:Self-Service BI

                              Traditional BI approaches and technologies — even when using the latest technology, best practices, and architectures — almost always have a serious side effect: a constant backlog of BI...

                              • For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

                                Blog:Why I Don't Want To Research BI Market Size

                                I know, I know, this is what analysts do. But I personally would never want to get involved in doing a BI market size – it’s open game for serious critique. Here are some of the reasons,...

                                • For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

                                  Blog:The Cognos 10 Launch And My Key Takeaways From IBM IOD

                                  I don’t know when, but at some point in the not too distant future, the world of enterprise software and applications will become simpler. We will only have four to six vendors and platforms to...

                                  • For Business Process Professionals

                                    Client Inquiry:Which Financial Reporting Tool Vendors Should We Compare?

                                    We are looking for a comparative analysis of the financial reporting tools that major US insurance companies are using to perform daily, monthly, quarterly, and year-end reports, BI analytics, and...

                                    • For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

                                      Blog:What SQL Cannot Do

                                      I recently asked my Twitter followers if they had good examples of queries, business questions that SQL can't do. It turns out a better question is "what SQL can't do easily", so I thought...

                                      • For Business Process Professionals

                                        Client Inquiry:Can You Provide Some Market Information On Antivia (BusinessObjects)?

                                        We are looking to utilize and further promote the SAP BusinessObjects Xcelsius software currently in use by looking to: 1) deploy interactive "drillable" to lowest-level-detail Xcelsius dashboards to...

                                        • For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

                                          Blog:Oracle OBIEE 11g Launch: "We are back!"

                                          Whoever said BI market is commoditizing, consolidating and getting very mature? Nothing can be farther from the truth. On the buy side, Forrester still sees tons of less-than-successful BI...

                                          • For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

                                            Blog:Does The Good Old 80/20 Rule Work For Estimating BI Costs?

                                            I get tons of questions about "how much it costs to develop an analytical application." Alas, as most of us unfortunately know, the only real answer to that question is “it depends.” It...

                                            • For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

                                              Blog:Results Of Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Business Intelligence Platforms, Q4 2010

                                              As I was doing research for our Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Business Intelligence Platforms, Q4 2010, I couldn’t help but remember a dear old friend of mine, who was/is one of the...

                                              • For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

                                                Blog:Everything You Wanted To Know But Were Afraid To Ask About BI

                                                How does an enterprise — especially a large, global one with multiple product lines and multiple enterprise resource planning (ERP) applications — make sense of operations, logistics, and...

                                                • For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

                                                  Blog:Mobile BI And Cloud BI Evaluation Criteria

                                                  Mobile BI and cloud BI are among the top trends that we track in the industry. Our upcoming Enterprise BI Platforms Wave™ will dedicate a significant portion of vendor evaluation on these two...

                                                  • For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

                                                    Blog:Advanced Data Visualization - A Critical BI Component

                                                    As one of the industry-renowned data visualization experts Edward Tufte once said, “The world is complex, dynamic, multidimensional; the paper is static, flat. How are we to represent the rich...

                                                     
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