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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: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: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: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: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: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: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:Effective High-Level Architecture Principles Spoon-Feed Business Implications To Stakeholders

US Government's Architecture Principles Illustrate Right Form And Content

High-level architecture principles encapsulate and communicate an enterprise's goals, vision, and values. They are key constructs that provide guidance to governance bodies and individuals for making...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Formal IA Programs Move Information Strategies Forward

Information architecture programs suffer from EA's worst problem: They have a strategic and enterprisewide focus that can appear disconnected from immediate-term business needs. But significant...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Define The Shifting Responsibilities Of The Information Architect

Organization: The Information Strategy And Architecture Playbook

This report outlines the organization element of the information strategy and architecture playbook for enterprise architecture (EA) professionals. The definition of the information architect role...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Let The Adjacent Possible Guide Your Information Strategy

Strategic Plan: The Information Strategy And Architecture Playbook

A new era of information agility is upon us that promises an explosion of opportunities similar to that of the dot-com boom period. But these opportunities are completely dependent upon an...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Demystifying EA Programs

Enterprise architects must advance a strategic, enterprisewide agenda in the context of siloed interests and a "show me the money" attitude toward the business value of projects. The going is never...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Information And Data Architecture Initiatives Are On The Rise

Only half of the 157 respondents in Forrester's first enterprise architecture (EA) home page poll say that they have had a formal information or data architecture program in place for more than two...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Is EA Certification Important?

Our Survey Says "No," But A Significant Pro-Certification Minority Is Emerging

The majority of the respondents in Forrester's May 2007 enterprise architecture (EA) home page poll — 65% — say that EA certification is not currently important. But a significant...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Case Study: Freescale Semiconductor Uses Data Services To Analyze Real-Time Data

Advances in technology that enable real-time data integration and analysis raise the bar for organizations' in-house information management capabilities, but they can provide significant advances in...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Create KPIs That Show The Effectiveness Of Your Information Strategy

Continuous Improvement: The Information Strategy And Architecture Playbook

How effective is your information strategy? You can't answer that question without a comprehensive assessment process and key performance indicator (KPI) reporting mechanism that specifically targets...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Information Strategies Move Center Stage

Vision: The Information Strategy And Architecture Playbook

A veritable flood of information coming from widespread digitization has created new opportunities and risks that business executives can't ignore. Forrester is seeing a dramatic uptick in the...

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