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For CIO Professionals

Report:The Hybrid² Integration Challenge

CIOs Are Juggling Heterogeneous Integration Silos And Cloud Apps

As current application environments get more complex and heterogeneous, the respective data and application logic is spread across a multitude of different environments — both on premises and...

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For Security & Risk Professionals

Report:API Management For Security Pros

Security professionals increasingly must respond to the needs of business owners exploring web application programming interfaces (APIs) as a new channel for recognizing business value. APIs can...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:The Forrester Wave™: API Management Platforms, Q1 2013

Layer 7 And WSO2 Lead This Emerging Field

In Forrester's 15-criteria evaluation of application programming interface (API) management platform vendors, Layer 7 and WSO2 — and their solutions — rose to the top, followed by Intel,...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Financial Services Firms Prepare For The Business Applications Of The Future

Service-Oriented Architecture Has Reached A Mature State In Banking

Today's financial services firms often find their application landscape can no longer cope with their most urgent business drivers. Forrester's Q3 2012 Global Financial Services Architecture Online...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Digital Business Design Is The New Integration

Create A Cohesive Business From Your (Seemingly Random) Collection Of Applications And Data

Integration is a perennial challenge for application development and delivery (AD&D) professionals. Vintage, monolithic applications are hard to deal with, and point solutions abound, including point...

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For Security & Risk Professionals

Report:TechRadar™ For Security Pros: Zero Trust Identity Standards, Q3 2012

Road Map: The Identity And Access Management Playbook

This report outlines Forrester's solution to help security and risk (S&R) leaders develop their road map of IAM processes using Forrester's TechRadar™ methodology. The extended enterprise...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:KonyOne Offers A Flexible, Low-Code Platform

Going Hands On With KonyOne Shows How Middleware Is Evolving

In the latest installment in our "hands-on mobile" series, we rebuild and deploy the simple mobile application we built last fall with the KonyOne mobile middleware platform. The KonyOne platform...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Increase Business Flexibility By Embracing Future Trends

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...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Embracing The Open Web: Web Technologies You Need To Engage Your Customers, And Much More

The open Web is a culture, a community — and a set of preferred technologies for Internet applications. While HTML5 is the best known of these technologies, the open Web also includes...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

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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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Case Study: IOR Transformed To Increase Business Agility

Pragmatic Adoption Of SOA, Agile, Open Source, And Cultural Change Tactics Yielded Improved Business-IT Relationships And A More-Agile Organization

The Vatican Bank, or Istituto per le Opere di Religione (IOR), transformed its application development and delivery organization over a three-year period to become: 1) agile — to respond to...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

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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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

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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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

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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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Business Service Architecture: Shaping The Services Within Your Business Model

Business Services Unify Portfolios And Help Firms Manage Business Change

Business capability maps are an excellent conceptual tool for planning and assessment. But your business runs on the physical implementation of people, process, information, and technology, and while...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:2011 Integration Survey, Part Two: The Calm Before The Storm

The Current Vendor Landscape And How Open Source Will Change It

A wide range of vendors provides organizations with a complex array of commercial integration products and services. Forrester recently surveyed 167 application development and enterprise...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:ESB Implementation Best Practices

Customer Feedback Obtained During A Recent Forrester Wave™ Evaluation

Application delivery professionals and enterprise architects can benefit from the lessons learned by organizations that have already implemented an enterprise service bus (ESB) solution. The advice...

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For Security & Risk Professionals

Report:Protecting Enterprise APIs With A Light Touch

By 2012, OAuth Will Be The Incumbent Cloud API Security Solution

Enterprises face a tension between the cloud-friendly software environment promoted by the Web, with its easy-to-use REST interface style and proliferation of lightweight services, and the security...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

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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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Forrsights: The Software Market In Transformation, 2011 And Beyond

Shifting Buying Preferences Lead To New Software Priorities

As the global information and communications technology market recovers from recession, the software market — the largest IT subsegment — is fueling the growth. More importantly, for the...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:ESBs See Rapid Growth Outside SOA's Shadow

ESB Use Cases Are About Much More Than SOA

Forrester is one among many organizations that positions an enterprise service bus (ESB) as service-oriented architecture (SOA) infrastructure, and ESBs are indeed effective in supporting the...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Service Bus, Q2 2011

Software AG, Tibco Software, Oracle, And Progress Software Lead The Way

In Forrester's 109-criteria evaluation of both commercial and open source enterprise service bus (ESB) vendors, we found that Software AG, Tibco Software (Tibco), Oracle, and Progress Software are...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Case Study: Freescale Semiconductor Uses Data Services To Analyze Real-Time Data

Advances in technology that enable real-time data integration and analysis raise the bar for organizations' in-house information management capabilities, but they can provide significant advances in...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Seven Top Integration Trends For 2011 To 2012

The Need For Speed, Services, And SaaS Is Shaping The Integration Future

Integration remains a high priority for enterprises in 2011 to 2012, leading Forrester to mine client inquiries and interview industry experts for insight into the latest integration trends....

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For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

Report:APeJ IT Services Report: 2010

This document provides vendor strategists with an overview of the IT services market in APeJ in 2011. The research is based on interviews with key MNCs and local vendors in the Asia Pacific IT...

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