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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Tool:Among SOA Users With One Product, The Primary Choices Are ESB And SOA Management

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Report:Information Strategies Move Center Stage

Vision: The Information Strategy And Architecture Playbook

A veritable flood of information coming from widespread digitization has created new opportunities and risks that business executives can't ignore. Forrester is seeing a dramatic uptick in the...

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Report:Develop The Implementation Road Map For BPM Excellence

Road Map: The Business Process Management Playbook

Developing an effective road map for business process management (BPM) is imperative if your initiative is to avoid a premature death. Managing processes effectively implies using processes to manage...

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Report:EAs: Use POST To Define Your Collaboration Strategy

An Empowered Document: Your Collaboration Strategy Should Be People-Centric, Not Tech-Centric

Technology is diffusing throughout your business, and traditional means of IT oversight have become less effective in this age of empowered HEROes. Enterprise architects (EAs) should use new means of...

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Report:Drive Coherence Across Your Diverse Information Architecture Landscape

Landscape: The Information Strategy And Architecture Playbook

The enterprise's ability to manage information strategically is becoming a high priority, but a coherent and comprehensive approach to information in the enterprise is a pipe dream for most...

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Tool:While ESBs Are The Dominant First Buy, Interest In Other Products Grows More Quickly

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Report:Let The Adjacent Possible Guide Your Information Strategy

Strategic Plan: The Information Strategy And Architecture Playbook

A new era of information agility is upon us that promises an explosion of opportunities similar to that of the dot-com boom period. But these opportunities are completely dependent upon an...

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Report:Build Your Skills Development Road Map For Achieving BPM Excellence

Skills And Staffing: The Business Process Management Playbook

Lack of sufficient business process skills continues to dog progress and momentum for enterprisewide business process management (BPM) initiatives. Yet when it comes to growing BPM skills, most...

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Report:Map Your Way To Your Information Strategy's Business Outcomes

Road Map: The Information Strategy And Architecture Playbook

One of the most difficult aspects of an information architecture (IA) practice is engaging stakeholders to buy into your strategy and contribute to your architecture development. The architect's best...

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Report:Meet The New Business Architect

The key to a successful business architecture (BA) practice is developing strong business architects. Technology architects can be successful with narrow domain knowledge, but business architects...

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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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Report:Responsibilities And Requirements For Common Architecture Roles

Forrester has assembled job descriptions for five roles found within a typical enterprise architecture (EA) practice — the group of IT professionals who report to the manager of EA and provide...

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Tool:EA's Priority Is To Communicate And Connect With Value

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Report:Planning For Cloud 2.0

How Cloud Infrastructure-As-A-Service Will Change For The Better

Cloud computing is still in its infancy, and it's already becoming clear that the first versions of infrastructure–as-a-service (IaaS) need some improvement. To plan their strategy for public...

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Tool:TechRadar™: Infrastructure Virtualization, Q2 '11

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Report:Your Journey To Lean: Continuous Improvement Supported By Tools

Wipro's Case Study Shows The Way

Forrester interviewed the executives responsible for the deployment of the Lean continuous improvement initiative at Wipro Technologies, a global supplier of technology services. The case study shows...

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Report:BUILD TRUST AND AGILITY WITH AN EA PROCESS FRAMEWORK

Processes: The EA Practice Playbook

This report outlines the process framework of Forrester's solution for enterprise architecture (EA) professionals building a high-performance EA practice. The process framework links EA activities to...

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Client Inquiry:What Is The Role Of The Business Architect In Support Of EA?

What is the role of the business architect in support of EA?

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Tool:Progress With Business Architecture Versus Corporate Support For EA

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Report:The State Of Business Architecture In 2011

High Interest And Great Expectations But Limited Progress Since 2008

Interest in business architecture (BA) has remained high over the past three years, but progress has been limited. In conducting Forrester's Q2 2011 Global Current State Of Business Architecture...

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

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Report:Business Architecture Programs Should Align With The Organization's Context

Business architecture (BA) initiatives are taking many forms as business architects work to find a model that encourages business buy-in and participation. Few BA programs are chartered by business...

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Report:Forrester's Architecture Review Tool Kit: Project Review Questionnaire — Sample Forms

This workbook contains several sample forms for capturing information about projects as part of an overall architecture review process. They represent several variations and styles and are based on a...

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Report:Deliver On Big Data Potential With A Hub-And-Spoke Architecture

Strategic Plan: The Data Management Playbook

Data management has become as crucial as financial management to leading firms, but businesses grapple with data management platforms that can't respond fast enough to fickle customers and fluid...

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Report:Business Architecture 2020 — Extending Beyond Organizational Boundaries

Future Look: The Business Architecture Playbook

The rise of business architecture (BA) initiatives has resulted in a rapidly maturing business architecture body of knowledge. Today, business architecture practices focus within the boundaries of a...

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