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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:The Top 15 Technology Trends EA Should Watch: 2011 To 2013

An Empowered Report: High-Impact Technologies That You Should Track

Forrester began summarizing technology trends last year to help enterprise architects create their organizations' technology watch lists. For this year's list of top trends, we've used the same...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Topic Overview: Information Architecture

Information architecture (IA) is a cornerstone of enterprise architecture (EA), but 43% of the architects we surveyed either have not yet addressed this domain or have only begun to implement what...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Enterprise Architecture? What's In It For Me?

To Communicate EA's Value, Architects Must Relate It To Stakeholders' Goals

Enterprise architects know that their EA programs provide significant value to their organizations. But communicating EA's value is challenging: As a strategic activity, it doesn't have the immediate...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Topic Overview: Enterprise Architecture

As business technology (BT) becomes integral to organizations' focus on growth, innovation, and flexibility, IT organizations are turning to enterprise architecture (EA) to best advance objectives...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Forrester's Data Management Reference Architecture

Align Data Management Roles To Create Stronger Business Value

The continuing explosion in data volume, increasing numbers of business users, growing data complexity, compliance requirements, need to support global operations, and growing need for real-time...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:The State Of Enterprise Architecture 2010: Organization, Priorities, And Support

The EA team of 2009 reports high into the IT organization (either to the CIO or senior planning roles beneath the CIO), has broad acceptance and support, and spends about half its time on strategic...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:The State Of Enterprise Architecture 2010: Drivers, Initiatives, And Technology Priorities

Enterprise architecture (EA) priorities for 2010 show a continued focus on helping IT reduce costs and get applications out on time and on budget. For the longer term, however, EA will look to enable...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:EA Pros: Must-Read Research In An Economic Downturn

Economists are debating the length and depth of the economic impact of the credit crunch and the October market meltdown. What can enterprise architects do to survive or — dare we think it...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:TechRadar™ For Enterprise Architecture Professionals: Technologies For Empowered Employees, Q4 2011

Tech-Empowered Staff Members Innovate While Enterprise Technology Manages The Risk

Your employees — like your customers — have more power than ever before. Mobile, social, video, and cloud technologies give individuals tremendous access to information and resources....

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Industry Innovation: Insurance

Technology Trends That Insurance CIOs Must Tap To Drive Growth

Today's insurance CIOs are shifting their focus away from cost reduction to speed, flexibility, and innovation. As insurance buyers' habits change from face-to-face interactions with agents to...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Updated Q2 2011: Simplifying Information Architecture

Creating An IA Program That Works

It has been more than five years since Forrester first published this report outlining a simple approach to information architecture, but this domain of enterprise architecture (EA) has matured...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Five Trends That Will Shape The EA Profession In 2008

In 2008, enterprise architects will find themselves at the center of a struggle to change their organizations into significantly more agile enterprises. As solution delivery morphs from traditional...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Inquiry Spotlight: Enterprise Architecture Best Practices, Q1 2009

Forrester examined 2,292 end user inquiries from enterprise architecture (EA) professionals. Most of these inquiries were on specific technology topics such as information and knowledge management,...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Information Architecture Deliverables: What Matters Most?

Five Artifacts Underpin An Effective Program

Architects in any domain have no time to waste creating deliverables that wind up collecting dust on a shelf. Information architects, who have historically had a particularly difficult time engaging...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Role Overview: The Enterprise Architecture Professional In 2007

In 2007, enterprise architects face the ongoing issues of defining technology strategy and improving the overall effectiveness of enterprise architecture (EA) processes, but the imperative to merge...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Case Study: Deutsche Bank Turns To Business Architecture To Transform Business-IT Alignment

Enterprise architecture (EA) programs are becoming more business focused, helping IT deliver greater value to the business. Business-focused EA teams are developing the "next practices" for...

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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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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Trends For EA Professionals In 2009

Enterprise Architects: Use Today's Economic Challenges To Focus And Sharpen Your Efforts

Enterprise architecture (EA) will continue its journey up the value chain in 2009, but there's no doubt that the road will be bumpy at best. Helping their organizations deal with economic conditions...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Build A High-Performance EA Practice

Executive Overview: The EA Practice Playbook

The ability to nimbly navigate change in business environments makes the difference between an industry-leading enterprise and one that always seems a beat behind. But how can a large organization...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:EA Must Guide Master Data Management Initiatives Through Information Architecture

Master data management (MDM) can be used as a strategic means to deliver a trusted view of critical data throughout the enterprise. However, MDM has not yet matured as a business capability, and...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Trends In Information Architecture Practices

IA Engages The Business But Is Slow To Show Value

Over the next several years, businesses will look to developments in technology to enable powerful new views into markets, populations, business processes, and supply chains. But will they be in a...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Jump-Starting New EA Programs

Leaders of newly created or recently renewed enterprise architecture (EA) programs can spend months generating momentum for the initiative, particularly when the EA team includes dotted-line subject...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Enterprise Architects Play A Key Role In Uncertain Economic Times

When the economic climate is uncertain and threatening to become less friendly, executives take a closer look at the value of their investments. They will put IT projects — and IT...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:A Framework For Information Management And Consumption Technology

Tools And Technology: The Information Strategy And Architecture Playbook

Enterprise architects carry the heavy responsibility of planning for elaborate implementations of complex technology. They must weigh the implications of the plans for all of the related architecture...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Infrastructure Architects Link Technology Strategy With Long-Term EA And Business Goals

The specifics of various architecture roles have become a hot topic as enterprise architecture (EA) practices have matured. A common role in many organizations is the infrastructure architect. A...

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