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Henry serves Enterprise Architecture Professionals. His research focuses on the concepts, techniques, and tools required to bring business agility within enterprises. He publishes research around key agility indicators and agile governance and applies these principles to change EA practices to help build a sustainable business agility. Business agility depends highly on the level of enterprise risks the decision-makers can take. He is also researching metadata management as a means to bring agility at the right cost for IT supporting business agility. Business-Centered EA (BCEA) is the Forrester method to help build business agility.
Henry also researches the customer reaction component of business agility through the concept of Web4 by studying activists' social computing.
He thinks that collaboration would require a lot of change management to bring not only a productivity increase but the business agility required by large organizations.
Henry has done some previous work on master data management, enterprise application integration, middleware, adapters, business activity monitoring
, enterprise architecture tools, and ppen source and risks issues.
Henry came to Forrester through its acquisition of Giga Information Group and Giga's affiliation with GigaGroup. He brings 21 years of IT experience to his clients. Prior to joining GigaGroup, he was the technical director of Euriware, a French IT services company specializing in industrial IT and related technologies. In addition, Henry was involved as chief architect in strategic projects for large telecommunications, automotive, and marketplace customers.
At earlier stages of his career, Henry held various technical positions in a knowledge management company and at Alcatel CIT.
Henry is the author or co-author of many reference articles and books on IT architecture. He has a master's degree in IT from the ESIEE engineering school in Paris. He is fluent in French and English and is based in Paris.
How To Identify Nonessential Clutter To Safeguard And Make The Most Of The Content That Matters
There's probably a lot of junk digital content in your enterprise that no one feels ready or authorized to delete. Redundant and unnecessary information sloshes around in content management systems...

To give your search program momentum, you must show how an investment in search technology helps the organization's bottom line. One-size-fits-all enterprise search deployments are often too diffuse...
In 2007 Larry Elison said: "We think the paradigm for doing business, how people do their daily jobs is changing and is moving to a search paradigm.” For years Oracle has worked on weaving...
What are the pitfalls surrounding SharePoint Search in the Internet space, especially in regard to Office 365?
Video is not a fringe format anymore. Increasingly, information workers consume video in the workplace for training purposes, technical help, and real-time communication with colleagues and...
Putting senior managers in place to lead content and collaboration initiatives for their organizations is a growing imperative. Our ongoing work with Forrester clients indicates that the skills mix...
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS 2007) has lousy metadata capabilities. If tagging content and managing taxonomies in MOSS 2007 are important to you— and they should be —...
First-generation enterprise search was not easy to use and produced unsatisfactory results from a usability and relevance standpoint. Today's knowledge workers demand role-specific, contextual search...
Content and collaboration professionals struggle to measure the success of search functionality on publicly facing websites and intranets. They mine through diverse data to answer questions like:...
When selecting an enterprise search engine, what criteria should be used?
Yesterday, HP agreed to buy UK software firm Autonomy Corp. for $10 billion to move into the enterprise information management (EIM) software business. HP wants to add IP to its portfolio, build...
I'd like to know more about how text analytics works in the context of "reading" CSR rep typed-in comments when customers call in with issues. How does text analytics fit into a data strategy?
Vision: The Content Management Playbook
Successful management of content throughout its life cycle has never been more challenging. Customers and employees, operating in a social, mobile world, expect easy mechanisms to create and consume...
I am developing my on-site search road map. What trends are on the horizon?
Results From Forrester's Q1 2011 Site Search Online Survey
Search on many corporate websites is an understaffed, IT-funded afterthought. But watch for the status quo to change. Two-thirds of the decision-makers Forrester surveyed will expand website search...
Three Firms Achieve Tangible Results
Companies depend on innovation to sprint out of the current economic doldrums and to return to profitability and growth. Innovation is a discipline with established best practices, needed skill sets,...
As organizations formalize their information architecture (IA) practices, Forrester expects the mission of IA to crystallize. Put simply, the value of IA is that it enables the delivery of the right...
Remember The Jetsons? The flying cars and the automated kitchen and the food pills? Sometimes modern life can feel like that futuristic utopia. We've got robots in the...
Highly Integrated With A Risk Of Lock-In
Microsoft looks to strike three very familiar chords with the release of Office 2013: mobile, social, and cloud. Each has become table stakes for enterprise software, and in order for Microsoft to...
