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Report:Taking The Fog Out Of Cloud Computing: Infrastructure-As-A-Service

Architect's Goal: Integrate IaaS As An Option On An Infrastructure Continuum

Some of the most compelling cloud computing stories are public infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) stories: stories of companies using many servers for a short time and charging that use to a credit...

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Report:Top Priority For Cloud Planning: Integrate Cloud Computing Into Existing Architecture Strategies

Don’t Fall For Hype — Build A Strong Foundation For Your Approach To Cloud

With the level of industry hype about cloud computing, CIOs may get the impression that adopting cloud-based offerings is a sure path to business benefit. But cloud computing is not the answer to all...

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Report:The Future Of Solution Architecture: Six Business Design Focal Points

Move From Application And Outsourcing Silos Toward Building Your Business

Borrowing words from science fiction writer William Gibson: The future of solution architecture is here — it's just not yet evenly distributed or highly integrated. Even with a long list of...

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Report:Updated 2010: The Pillars Of Enterprise Architecture Terminology

Understand And Communicate The Broad Structure Of EA

Since Forrester originally published this report in 2002, little has changed in the overall structure of enterprise architecture (EA), but business architecture practices are considerably more...

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Report:Insights For CIOs: SOA And Beyond

The worst CIO misunderstanding about service-oriented architecture (SOA) is thinking of it as only another technical initiative for software reuse. Although SOA's reuse potential is real and good,...

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Report:Topic Overview: Service-Oriented Architecture For Apps Dev And Program Management Pros

For a single, isolated solution delivery project, it's OK to think of service-oriented architecture (SOA) as just Web services (WS) standards for better application integration: Your application...

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Report:The Future Of Solution Architecture, Part 1: Business Processes Within A Capability

Processes Provide Structure; BPM And Other Technologies Enable Rich, Ongoing Process Optimization

Your organization's business processes cut across application boundaries, but traditional architectures reinforce these boundaries. In contrast with 20th-century solution models, which center on...

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Report:Conceptual Architecture: Overview

A conceptual architecture is a tool that enterprise architects can use to enhance communication, provide context, and aid direction setting. Though there are many situations in which an architect...

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Report:Forrester's Enterprise Reference Architecture Tool Kit: Examples And Process Guides

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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Report:Business Capability Architecture: Use Business Outcomes To Drive Technology Strategy

Business capability maps, as a key element of business architecture, are central to laying a new and better foundation for technology strategy. To build on this foundation, we introduce Forrester's...

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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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Report:Topic Overview: SOA And Beyond For App Dev And Program Management Pros

If developers treat service-oriented architecture (SOA) only as Web services standards for better application integration, it can easily result in siloed, point-to-point Web services that solve only...

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Report:Taking The Fog Out Of Cloud Computing: Planning For Security And Risk Management

Architectural planning for an organization's use of cloud computing products and services should focus first on the biggest differences between cloud computing and traditional computing options, and...

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Report:The Five Most Valuable SOA Governance Practices

Survey Ranks Broad SOA Governance Practices Above Detailed Practices

A recent Forrester survey showed that SOA governance increases SOA satisfaction and that each of 12 different SOA governance practices has a positive correlation with higher SOA satisfaction. Which...

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Report:SOA Centers Of Excellence: The Five Most Valuable Practices That Keep SOA On Track

Survey Ranks Governance As More Important Than Training For SOA COEs

Among the ways to keep a service-oriented architecture (SOA) initiative on track, forming a center of excellence (COE) is a frequently named option. Indeed, a recent Forrester survey shows that...

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Report:The Forrester Wave™: SOA Application Gateways, Q4 2011

Layer 7, Vordel, IBM, and Forum Systems Lead, With Intel Close Behind

In Forrester's 45-criteria evaluation of service-oriented architecture (SOA) application gateway vendors, we found that Layer 7 Technologies (Layer 7), Vordel, IBM, and Forum Systems lead the pack...

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Report:The Forrester Wave™: SOA Service Life-Cycle Management, Q1 2012

Software AG, Progress Software, And SOA Software Lead; IBM, Oracle, HP, And WSO2 Have Strong Solutions

In Forrester's 55-criteria evaluation of service-oriented architecture (SOA) service life-cycle management (SLM) vendors, we found that Software AG, Progress Software, and SOA Software lead the pack....

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Report:The Forrester Wave™: Integrated SOA Governance, Q1 2012

Software AG, Progress Software, IBM, And SOA Software Lead; Oracle, WSO2, And Tibco Software Have Strong Solutions

In Forrester's 121-criteria evaluation of integrated service-oriented architecture (SOA) governance vendors, we found that Software AG, Progress Software (Progress), IBM, and SOA Software lead the...

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Report:Integrate Cloud Into Existing Architecture Strategies

Strategic Plan: The Cloud Computing Playbook

With the level of industry hype about cloud computing, CIOs may get the impression that adopting cloud-based offerings is a sure path to business benefit. But cloud computing is not the answer to all...

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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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Report:SOA Security 2009: Four Solution Patterns

A Two-Dimensional Continuum For Diverse SOA Security Solutions

Architects crafting their organization's strategy and architecture for service-oriented architecture (SOA) security have a wide diversity of security requirements, business scenarios, and application...

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Report:The Forrester Wave™: Standalone SOA Management Solutions, Q4 2011

Progress Software Leads; IBM, SOA Software, WSO2, And Managed Methods Have Strong Solutions

In Forrester's 51-criteria evaluation of standalone service-oriented architecture (SOA) management solution vendors, we found that Progress Software leads the pack with its broad and deep...

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Report:SOA Security 2009: Products And Specifications

Selecting Standards, Specifications, And Products For SOA Security

As enterprise architects set their organization's strategy for service-oriented architecture (SOA) security, they will have to filter through a variety of standards, emerging specifications, and...

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Report:Build SOA Success With A Business-Focused Approach To SOA Design And Governance

Recent Survey Results Show Higher SOA Satisfaction With A Business Approach

Listen to industry discussion of service-oriented architecture (SOA), and you are likely to get the impression that SOA is best thought of as a technical approach for application integration. While...

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Report:SOA Adoption 2010: Still Important, Still Strong

Forrester's survey data shows that service-oriented architecture (SOA) still has strong penetration and high satisfaction rates. Even though today's headlines focus more on cloud computing, mobile...

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