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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:The Future Of Solution Architecture, Part 2: User Roles Within A Business Capability

Design Around User Roles, Not Application Silos

In the siloed application mindset of 20th-century solution models, a key design question is, "How should we build the user interface (UI) for this application?" By contrast, the appropriate design...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

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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For CIO Professionals

Report:Why Strategic Functions Fail

Part 3 Of A Three-Part Series On Why Key IT Roles Fail

Certain roles in IT can significantly change the organization for good or bad. Through a combination of surveys, interviews, and consulting engagements, we gathered in-depth information on the common...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Client Inquiry:Can You Please Provide Feedback On Potential Vision Statements For A BA Organization?

I am trying to develop a solid vision statement for our business architecture (BA) organization that is supported by our mission. The vision statement represents the future, is result-oriented, and...

For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Tool:Lenses Provide Frameworks For Strategic Analysis

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:Best Practices: EA Should Take An Active Role In Mergers And Acquisitions

Five Pragmatic Practices To Improve EA Value Throughout The M&A Process

A new wave of mergers and acquisitions (M&As) is happening, and contrary to previous M&A periods in which IT was only tactically involved, organizations now draw IT into their plans for cost savings...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Case Study: Discover Financial Supercharges EA Effectiveness With A Comprehensive Repository

Profile Of An InfoWorld/Forrester Enterprise Architecture Award Winner

Enterprise architecture (EA) organizations often toil out of the limelight — helping their firms improve business-IT alignment, rationalize their application portfolio, and guide their use of...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Client Inquiry:Job Description Posting For An SOA Architect

Can you please send some key requirements, skills, areas of focus, and areas of demonstrated expertise for an SOA architect?

For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Tool:Questions To Facilitate A Strategic Needs Discussion

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:How To Successfully Set Up IT Infrastructure For Your Business In China

For the thousands of foreign companies that establish business operations in China every year, one of the first things on their to-do lists is setting up IT infrastructure, including horizontal and...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Federal IT Cost Reduction Efforts Will Require Process Change To Succeed

In an attempt to control IT costs, the US federal government is establishing mandates that are forcing deep and massive technology change. With data center consolidation and cloud migrations entering...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:IT Capability Maps Help CIOs Manage IT Like A Business

As CIOs strive to evolve IT from a Solid Utility or Trusted Supplier to a fully integrated business partner, they need the ability to describe IT functions in business terms. While IT has long sought...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Begin BT Strategic Planning With Clear Business Goals

Business Goals: The BT Strategic Planning Playbook

Clear business goals lie at the heart of good strategy. Unfortunately, many organizations have aspirational goals that make strategic planning difficult at best, and they lack the mechanism to...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Track Progress Toward High-Performance EA

Performance Management: The EA Practice Playbook

This report outlines the performance management section of Forrester's solution for enterprise architecture (EA) professionals building a high-performance EA practice. We designed this report to help...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Tool:SOA Product Adoption Is Widespread, But Many SOA Users Have Yet To Buy

For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Got Content? You Need Information Architects

The inability to find content, a lack of compliance, and poor customer experiences all add up to real costs. If you care about getting the right information to the right people at the right time and...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:The EA Road-Mapping Tool Kit

Road maps have proven to be enterprise architects' most effective communication and planning artifacts. They are summarized planning documents with an implementation timeline, enabling the analysis...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:The Who Of Business Technology Decision-Making

The BT Governance Collection: Stakeholders And Structures

Enterprise governance is about decision rights: who has input into decisions, who makes them, how are outcomes measured, and who is held accountable for those outcomes. Business technology (BT)...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Build Your Stepwise Strategy For Business-Centered EA

Strategic Plan: The EA Method Playbook

This report describes the strategic plan of Forrester's EA method playbook — our set of high-value practices that enterprise architects should use to help their organizations plan, architect,...

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Report:Technology Landscape: Metadata Management, Q2 2013

The Foundation For Data Governance, Tooling, And More

Metadata management is the foundation for data governance, management, and use. But despite this, firms have a spotty record of collecting, harmonizing, and managing the metadata inherent in their...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Forrester's Enterprise Reference Architecture Tool Kit: Documentation Templates

Design patterns, proven technology stacks, and well-documented application infrastructure are fundamental tools for promoting common practices in the design of business solutions. Enterprises create...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Tool:Forrester Wave™: EA Management Suites, Q2 '13

For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Tool:Forrester Wave™: EAMS Business-Strategy Scenario, Q2 '13