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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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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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Report:Smart Computing Innovation Must Be Guided By EAs

Forrester predicts that the latest cycle of technology innovation, "Smart Computing," will reshape the technology market through 2017. Smart Computing — which involves a blend of smart devices,...

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Report:Topic Overview: Information Architecture

Information architecture (IA) is a cornerstone of enterprise architecture (EA), but 43% of the architects we surveyed either have not yet addressed this domain or have only begun to implement what...

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Report:The Top 15 Technology Trends EA Should Watch

IT organizations need to inform their annual and longer-term plans with an understanding of how changes in technology will enable business outcomes. EA groups are the logical leaders for this effort....

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Report:Case Study: Using SOA And BPM To Support Enterprise Agility

How A Florida College Used An Integrated Approach To Reach Its Goals

Case studies are often the best way to illustrate technology's dramatic impact on enterprises. This case study provides an excellent example of how a joint implementation of a service-oriented...

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Report:Selecting A Comprehensive Integration Solution

This presentation discusses the factors that should be considered when choosing a comprehensive integration solution. Refer to the recent Forrester document entitled "Create An Enterprise Integration...

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Report:Create An Enterprise Integration Strategy To Lower Your Costs

A Methodology For Effectively Addressing Today's Business Integration Challenges

Enterprises have traditionally tackled integration challenges as an offshoot of their application development activities, but this approach's effectiveness is waning rapidly. As business challenges...

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Report:Across All Vertical Industry Groups, The Majority Of SOA Users Are Expanding Its Use

SOA Satisfaction Is High; Usage Patterns Vary By Industry

Across Forrester's seven vertical industry groups, service-oriented architecture (SOA) penetration ranges from 75% among utilities and telecom enterprises to 49% for public sector enterprises....

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Report:SOA Is Far From Dead — But It Should Be Buried

Doing SOA Right Opens The Door To A Much Bigger Architecture Vision

Sparked by a tinderbox of economic jitters and technology backlash, a recent thread of industry discussion cries out, "SOA is dead!" Although many have had fun with the discussion, it is in fact...

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Report:Five Hot Technologies For Enterprise Architects

SOA Lives Up To Expectations With Hot Technologies Paving The Way

Forrester surveyed 140 enterprise architects, IT planners, and IT strategists on their take on service-oriented architecture (SOA) and 19 software infrastructure technologies. The outcome? Enterprise...

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Report:Topic Overview: How BPM Can Help The Bottom Line In Difficult Financial Times

BPM-Enabled Improvements In Business Agility Flow To The Bottom Line

The current global economic crisis is putting increasing pressure on enterprise architects to find new — and more cost-effective — ways of meeting business needs. One software category in...

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Report:SOA Policy Management: Vendors And Products

The Market Landscape For SOA Policy Management Infrastructure And Services

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) policy management is an important and emerging subset of SOA strategy, SOA governance, and SOA platform planning. Because SOA policy features and functions are...

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Report:2009 Update: Evaluating Integration Alternatives

Scenario-Based Guidance For Choosing Products That Provide Application, Process, And Data Integration Features

Technical innovation and mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity continue to drive the evolution of the integration marketplace, leading to a market with a significantly different array of features...

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Report:The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Service Buses, Q1 2009

Progress Software, Oracle, Software AG, IBM, And TIBCO Software Lead Among Commercial And Open Source Solutions

In Forrester's 171-criteria evaluation of enterprise service bus (ESB) vendors, we found that Progress Software, Oracle, Software AG, IBM, and TIBCO Software support the broadest range of protocols...

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Report:Web Services Security Specifications: WS-Security Achieves Critical Mass Of User Adoption

Current use of WS-Security doubled over the past two years: Now 30% of enterprises pursuing service-oriented architecture (SOA) use WS-Security as part of their SOA and Web services security...

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Report:Establishing A Solid Architecture Foundation For SOA Policy Infrastructure

Plan To Extend Your SOA Platform With SOA Policy Management

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) policy adds important business and technical flexibility to an SOA-based solution, and it requires coordinated use of features and functions from multiple types of...

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Report:Pursuing SOA In Hard Times

Adjusting Best Practices For SOA When Resources Are Tight

Big bang approaches to service-oriented architecture (SOA) are hard to justify at any time but near impossible to justify in hard times. Instead, you must tie SOA progress directly to current-day...

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Report:Measuring SOA Service Reuse

Look To IT Costs And Business Value For A Complete Picture

Service reuse is both a feature and a benefit of service-oriented architecture (SOA). On the one hand, reuse is among the most easily measured behaviors in SOA. On the other hand, reuse statistics...

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Report:EA Pros: Must-Read Research In An Economic Downturn

Economists are debating the length and depth of the economic impact of the credit crunch and the October market meltdown. What can enterprise architects do to survive or — dare we think it...

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Report:Building Interoperability And Federation Into Your SOA Platform Strategy

As large and heterogeneous enterprises reach greater service-oriented architecture (SOA) maturity, enterprise architects often find that different business areas or domains need different things from...

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Report:The Forrester Wave™: Integration-Centric Business Process Management Suites, Q4 2008

Software AG, IBM, And TIBCO Software Lead

Forrester evaluated leading integration-centric business process management suite (IC-BPMS) vendors across 109 criteria and found that Software AG, IBM, TIBCO Software, Vitria Technology, Oracle ,...

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Report:Embracing Your Application Vendor's Competing SOA Vision

Commercial application vendors are service-orienting their offerings at various paces, but the move to service-oriented architecture (SOA) is inevitable. Each vendor's own SOA vision will guide its...

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Report:User Interviews Reveal Broad Adoption Of IC-BPMS Components

Customers Use BPM And SOA Features The Most; B2B The Least

In just the past three years, we've seen the features available in integration-centric business process management suites (IC-BPMSes) rapidly evolve well beyond their enterprise application...

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Report:Building A Strong SOA Policy Life Cycle

Integrate Policy Into Your SOA Governance And Service Life-Cycle Processes

Policy management builds added flexibility and business value to your strategy for service-oriented architecture (SOA). Achieving these benefits requires you to enhance your SOA processes and add new...

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