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Report:Bank EAs: Start Working With A Customized Business Capability Map

Use Forrester's Sample Business Capability Map For Retail Banking As A Starting Point

Business-IT alignment continues to be a top priority for banks' business leaders and CIOs. The enterprise architects (EAs) who need to support these executives will find that a business capability...

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Report:Global EA Drives Global IT: Assess Your EA Initiative's Global Readiness

Poor results when working to facilitate global IT are often a result of poorly executed global EA programs, poor preparation, and/or a too-positive perception of the global business and IT...

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Report:Global Enterprise Architecture Self-Assessment Tool

Forrester's Global Enterprise Architecture Self-Assessment Tool is an interactive tool designed to help enterprise architecture professionals identify their global EA initiative's probability of...

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Report:Global EA Drives Global IT: Case Studies

More and more, large global enterprises are going for global modes of operation, including global IT and, in particular, globally used applications. Enterprise architecture (EA) is one of the crucial...

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Report:Global Banking Platform Deals 2008: Functionality

Three Top Functional Areas Drive Banking Platform Projects

Forrester surveyed 17 vendors of globally deployed banking platforms on their 2008 deals and analyzed the results from a functional and regional perspective. This analysis shows that the global...

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Report:Global Banking Platform Deals 2008: Regions

Some Like It Hot

Forrester surveyed 17 vendors of globally deployed banking platforms on their 2008 deals and analyzed the results with a regional perspective. This analysis shows that North America joined Asia...

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Report:Global Banking Platform Deals 2008: Vendors

We Identify Globally And Regionally Successful Vendors

Forrester surveyed 17 vendors of globally deployed banking platforms on their 2008 deals. Overall, looking at participants of both the 2007 and 2008 survey, counted deals shrunk by 10% from 2007 to...

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Report:Global Banking Platform Deals 2008: Setting The Stage In A Maturing Market

Forrester surveyed 17 vendors of globally deployed banking platforms on their 2008 deals. The outcome? The two top groups remained largely unchanged: Oracle and Temenos are the two Global Power...

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Report:Five Hot Technologies For Enterprise Architects

SOA Lives Up To Expectations With Hot Technologies Paving The Way

Forrester surveyed 140 enterprise architects, IT planners, and IT strategists on their take on service-oriented architecture (SOA) and 19 software infrastructure technologies. The outcome? Enterprise...

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Report:A First Look At Islamic Banking

Large And Growing Segment Captures The Attention Of Conventional Banks

Islamic finance and in particular Islamic banking is a growing segment within multiple countries as well as on a global level. Conventional banks increasingly show interest in Islamic banking....

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Report:Enterprise Architects Are Not Proving Their Value

Gaps, Acceptable In Good Times, May Be Challenging In Bad Times

Forrester surveyed 140 firms and their enterprise architecture (EA) groups in October 2008 — after the financial market meltdown — to identify the trends regarding EA organizations,...

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Report:Use Procurement Touchpoints For A Lightweight Enterprise Architecture Governance Process

Targeted EA Artifacts Can Improve Governance Even When Resources Are Tight

In difficult economic times, enterprise architecture (EA) groups must often switch from a strategic focus to more tactical issues and cost management. Nevertheless, EA groups should maintain some...

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Report:The Forrester Wave™: Global Banking Platforms, Q1 2009

A Compact Group Of Banking Platforms Offers Agile Banking Support

Forrester evaluated world-leading banking platform products across 108 criteria and found that Infosys Technologies with Finacle, TCS Financial Solutions (TCSFS) with TCS BaNCS, and Temenos with T24...

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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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Report:The Future Shape Of Banking Architecture In 2023

Industrialized Banking And The New CRM Will Support High-Touch

Forrester's research on banking IT in 2023 identified a series of requirements and the architectural layers of the future banking platform. The key layers show: (1) a focus on personalized customer...

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Report:Intelligent Devices Will Drive Ubiquitous Banking

Smart Devices Will Shape High-Touch Banking

An increasing number of banks are working on their long-term business and IT visions of the future, continually realigning their IT strategies. To help enterprise architects better understand the...

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Report:Bank Branches Are Here To Stay — But With Key Differences

High-Tech Will Drive High-Touch Banking

An increasing number of banks are working on their long-term business and IT visions of the future, continually realigning their IT strategies. To help enterprise architects better understand the...

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Report:Financial Services Of The Future: Collaborative Competition Will Be The Norm

An increasing number of banks are working on long-term business and IT visions of the future, realigning IT strategies on a continual basis. To help enterprise architects better understand the...

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Report:Global Banking Platform Deals 2007: Regions And Functionality

Some Cool Regions Are Heating Up

Forrester surveyed 15 vendors of globally deployed banking platforms on their 2007 deals. What is the outcome of the regional and functional analysis? Asia Pacific has overtaken Europe in the global...

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Report:Global Banking Platform Deals 2007: Vendors

We Identify Globally And Regionally Successful Vendors

Forrester surveyed 15 vendors of globally deployed banking platforms on their 2007 deals. Oracle Financial Services (Oracle FS) and TEMENOS remain the Global Power Sellers. But they are defending...

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Report:A First Look At Enterprise Architecture In A Flat World

An increasing number of firms are shifting the focus of their enterprise architecture (EA) practice from a local and national approach to a more regional, multicountry, and global one. This change in...

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Report:The Next Phase Of Business Services Specification

SAP's Industry Value Network For Banking Gets Independent

SAP and a group of vendor and user companies such as Microsoft and Standard Bank are currently building a new initiative, working on a business services ecosystem for banking called Banking Industry...

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Report:Business Services Ecosystems For Banking: The Future Is Bright And Most Likely Heterogeneous

Vendors Use Multiple Approaches To Drive Semantic Business Services Specifications

Forrester surveyed application infrastructure, banking platform, and IT services vendors on their approaches toward semantic specifications of business services in the banking industry. We...

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Report:Semantic Business Services Specifications Support Business Agility

Business services ecosystems provide semantic specifications — and eventually standardization — of business services interfaces. In addition, some ecosystems include supplementary...

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Report:Enterprise Architecture Needs To Plan For Outsourced SOA

The Impact Of SOA On Offshoring: The User Perspective

To make service-oriented architecture most effective, a strong relationship between the business and IT needs to be in place. Introducing an IT services vendor creates a triangular relationship with...

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