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Tool:Required Capabilities Vary According To The Size And Distance Of Your Remote Location

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Tool:The Forrester/TechTarget Shows Stronger Pressure For An ESB Purchase

Discussion:Evaluating Application Fit With Cloud

Thanks for a well written article. The fitment concept is extremely important for organization to move to Cloud and embrace it. I would like to highlight that EA and business needs to agree on the...

Discussion:Updated 2010: The Pillars Of Enterprise Architecture Terminology

I am interested in further research about the evolving integration architecture landscape. Some see this as a domain in itself, even espousing the Integration Competency Centre, whereas this research...

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Tool:TechRadar™: Technologies For Empowered Employees, Q4 '11 Technologies Evaluated

Discussion:Promote EA Agility And Build Trust

Brian - This research provides a pragmatic framework that will help organizations advance their IT architecture. Well done.

For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Tool:Governance-Oriented SOA Products Correlate With Higher SOA Satisfaction

Discussion:Fourteen Business Architecture Challenges And How To Overcome Them

Where can I find a typical job descirptions for a chief architect and members of his team. it is my experience that being able to describe precisely what an architect is key for credibility with the...

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Tool:Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Content Management, Q4 '11 Overall

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Report:Tapping The Power Of Search-Based Applications

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...

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Discussion:Build A High-Performance EA Practice

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Blog:Empowered: Forrester's Great New Book And An Opportunity To Participate In Web 3.0 -- Which Can Help Enhance EA Influence

My colleagues Ted Schadler and Josh Bernoff are preparing the launch of their coauthored new book, Empowered, after the success of Josh Bernoff’s Groundswell. Basically, Empowered’s...

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Tool:Lean And Six Sigma Tools Address Distinct Business Process Maturity Levels

Discussion:The Evolution From EA Tools To EA Management Suites

Now that you are have put some meat around what you mean by 3rd generation EA tooling, here are my thoughts. The 3rd generation EA Management Suite is more of an organic growth in EA tooling. The...

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Report:How To Measure Search Success: Goals First, Then Metrics

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:...

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Report:Fuse Technology, Innovation, And Business Change In Your Planning Cycle

Planning Methods: The EA Method Playbook

In most businesses today, technology has become a strong driver for innovation. The fruits of technology innovation are experienced all across the business model — from the point of customer...

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Report:SharePoint Partners Can Plug Taxonomy Gaps

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 —...

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Discussion:The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Architecture Management Suites, Q2 2011

Given that this entire space is still in evolution, I would have thought more consideration would be given to how open and standards-based a tool is to minimize the risk of vendor lock-in. What is...

Discussion:What's in a typical service portfolio?

I've been doing some service portfolio (as in SOA service portfolio, not ITIL service catalog) analysis work recently, and was curious about the percentage of the service portfolio for each of these...

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Report:Readiness Assessment For Information Strategy And Architecture Toolkit

Developing a cohesive information strategy that can deliver on current and future business needs is challenging. Building an information architecture is a highly collaborative endeavor, and to...

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Blog:Metadata Investments Are Difficult To Justify To The Business

Rob Karel and I (thanks to Rob) recently published the second document in a series on metadata, Best Practices: Establish Your Metadata Plan, after a document about metadata strategy. This...

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Tool:Organizations Doing More SOA Governance Are More Satisfied With SOA

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Tool:Top Challenges Are Creating A Road Map, Evangelizing, And Ensuring A Customer Focus

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Report:Branch Office Infrastructure Capabilities Road Map

It is possible to greatly reduce the complexity of your branch office infrastructure, thanks to cheaper bandwidth, desktop virtualization, and cloud computing technologies such as...

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Report:Use Forrester's Architecture Review Tool Kit To Advance Your EA Program

Materials To Implement A Scalable Project Architecture Review Process

Project architecture review is an essential practice EA teams should use to advance enterprise architecture strategies. A well-designed and transparent review process provides a counterbalance to...

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