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Jost serves Application Development & Delivery Professionals, particularly in financial services. As an analyst, he is an expert on a number of architecture and technology topics in global banking, such as off-the-shelf banking platforms (including core banking), banking architecture, banking platform transformation, multichannel platforms, architecture, and strategy. He also led research into the business and technology aspects of banking in the future (banking in 2023).
During his more than ten years with Forrester, Jost has provided strategic analysis and pragmatic advice to executives, operational-level managers, and architects on topics such as strategy plans, architecture development, governance, and large-scale software development, integration, and deployment. As a conference speaker and quoted expert, Jost has addressed numerous topics, such as industry trends, implementation, and the operation and migration of applications and systems, as well as the economic and strategic issues around these technologies.
Jost came to Forrester through its acquisition of Giga Information Group. Prior to Giga, Jost was director of architecture at DG Bank, where he was responsible for the medium- and long-term development of architecture and related topics and for the definition of the technology part of its multichannel strategy. He was the chairman of the bank's architecture decision body. Prior to joining DG, Jost worked as a technology consultant for eight years. He was responsible for a consulting practice that ran projects in the architecture and information technology space. Earlier, Jost worked on database systems, operating systems, software development, Unix standardization, and IT security, including contributions to the German and European IT security criteria.
Jost holds the German equivalent of a master's degree in computer science from the RWTH Aachen University.
Road Map: The Business Applications Playbook
Firms are often torn between forces driving application change or transformation and the overarching desire for cost management. At the same time, they often struggle to deliver projects on time and...

Market Heat Returns After A Prolonged Cooldown
Forrester surveyed 29 vendors of globally deployed banking platforms on their 2012 deals. The results indicate a growing market: We counted nearly 20% more deals in 2012 than in 2011 among firms that...

The Q3 2012 Global Financial Services Architecture Online Survey Continues To Show A Focus On Transformation
Today's financial services firms often find that their application landscape is no longer able to cope with their most urgent business drivers. Forrester's Q3 2012 Global Financial Services...
Vision: The Business Applications Playbook
This report outlines the vision aspect of Forrester's solution for application development and delivery (AD&D) professionals working on business applications strategy. It summarizes the key business...

Small Banks Are Cloud Providers' Primary Target Market In The Banking Space
The cloud has become a key topic for many firms in many industries, including banking. In the future, banks should leverage the potential of public and community cloud solutions if they want to...
Use Processes, Not Features And Functions, To Identify The Best Solution
Based on best and next practices for off-the-shelf banking platform selection and Forrester's generic banking business processes, Forrester has identified an approach that accelerates banking...
There Are Many Reasons For Failure, But Technology Is The Least Significant
Application development and delivery teams know that they need to manage nearly unmanageable complexity when it comes to designing, selecting, and delivering a new banking platform to transform a...
Banking IT In 2023 Becomes Banking IT Today As Well As Banking IT In 2026
Application development and delivery teams in financial services must design and select future-proof, forward-looking business applications capable of coping with future business scenarios. To...
Demand Centers And Functional Heterogeneity Make Selection More Difficult
Forrester surveyed 23 vendors of globally deployed banking platforms on their 2010 deals. Core banking and channels continue as important factors in many regions. Beyond that, regional functional...
Some Are Less Global Than Others
Many off-the-shelf business apps are supposed to be global. However, the reality of what it really means to be global lies between off-the-shelf support and vast amounts of customization....
Findings From Forrester's Q3 2010 Global Financial Services Architecture Online Survey
Forrester's Q3 2010 Global Financial Services Architecture Online Survey shows that many financial services firms need to refocus their application infrastructure strategies to fully align with...
Tata Consultancy Services, Infosys Technologies, And Temenos Lead, With SAP, Oracle, FIS, and Polaris Software Lab Pursuing Fast
Forrester evaluated world-leading banking platform products across 80 criteria and found that Infosys Technologies, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), and Temenos are in the Leader category. Infosys...
A Cold Breeze And Only One Hot Region Characterize The 2009 Market
Forrester surveyed 17 vendors of globally deployed banking platforms on their 2009 deals. The regional analysis shows that Asia Pacific has been the single highly active region. Most of the remaining...
2009 Was Not The Best Of All Times
Forrester surveyed 17 vendors of globally deployed banking platforms on their 2009 deals. Considering participants of both the 2008 and 2009 surveys, deal volume shrunk by 18% from 2008 to 2009....
Forrester surveyed a total of 16 vendors offering a variety of different Internet/multichannel banking solutions. The overall outcome? Many of the solutions enable multichannel business processes by...
Banks all over the world show strong interest in comprehensive and forward-looking solutions offering Internet and multichannel banking capabilities in a cost-effective and flexible way. Forrester...
Implementing Ubiquitous And Industrialized Banking
Ubiquitous banking, industrialization, new core competencies, and the right balance of collaboration among competitors are key drivers for the banking platform of the future. A new interaction- and...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...