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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 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: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: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:Inquiry Spotlight: Organizing Architecture Teams Q1 2009

Forrester examined a total of 2,292 end user inquiries from enterprise architecture (EA) professionals in 2008. Many of these inquiries were about specific technology topics such as information and...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Case Study: EA Aligns IT With Business' Emergent Strategy

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

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Best Practices: Starting Or Restarting An EA Effort

Enterprise architecture (EA) continues to gain recognition as a key practice for maximizing the impact of business' use of technology. An effective EA practice can eliminate business-IT alignment...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Develop Business-Focused And Strategic EA Organizations

Organization: The EA Practice Playbook

This report outlines the organizational structures, roles, and skills you'll need to make sure that your enterprise architecture (EA) program is strategic, business-focused, and pragmatic. Building a...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Make EA Business-Focused, Strategic, And Pragmatic

Future Look: The EA Practice Playbook

This report outlines the future look of Forrester's solution for enterprise architecture (EA) professionals building a high-performance EA practice. It will help you understand the future of EA in...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Progress With Business And Information Architecture Leads To Increased EA Support

Enterprise architects face an ironic dilemma: On the one hand, the general perception of EA's value is on the rise. How do we know? Research shows that EA reporting relationships are moving from...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Case Study: DHL Express Uses Business Architecture To Design A New Service Offering

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

• Downloads: 670

For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Can EA Drive Business Innovation?

Point/Counterpoint From Forrester's Enterprise Architecture Forum 2008

In spite of the existence of many organizational barriers, enterprise architecture (EA) can successfully drive business innovation efforts. However, this must be done through close collaboration with...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Inquiry Spotlight: Building An EA Practice, Q2 2009

Forrester examined 2,292 end user inquiries from enterprise architecture (EA) professionals in 2008. The topics of these inquiries were wide ranging, including questions about information and...

• Downloads: 584

For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Market Update: Human And Social Services Enterprise Software

The Large Enterprise Market Is Down To Cúram Software, Oracle, And SAP

Forrester last reviewed enterprise software offerings in human and social services in 2006 — what's changed? The shift to installing commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) software rather than...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:EA Governance Provides Traction

Ensuring That Plans And Road Maps Turn Into Reality

Enterprise architecture (EA) governance links EA plans to IT action, ensuring that IT planning, project portfolio management, and project execution align with enterprise goals. Two major approaches...

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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:Case Study: Logistics Company Aligns The Application Portfolio With Business Strategy

A logistics company had grown through acquisition, and due to a narrow enterprise architecture (EA) focus, weak governance, and troublesome politics, its former EA practice was largely ineffective....

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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:Assess Your Readiness For A Cohesive Information Strategy And Architecture Program

Assessment: The Information Strategy And Architecture Playbook

Information workers thrive or falter depending on their ability to get the information they need quickly and easily, with high confidence that it's the right information. Enterprises need to protect...

• Downloads: 404

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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Report:The Forrester Wave™: Human And Social Services Enterprise Frameworks, Q3 2006

Cúram Software Leads In Our Product Evaluation

Forrester evaluated leading human and social services enterprise framework vendors across 93 criteria and found that Cúram Software has established early human and social services enterprise...

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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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