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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Craft Your Business Change Delivery Process For Sustainable Business Agility

Implementation And Operation Methods: The EA Method Playbook

IT's traditional approach to delivering business change is broken. Siloed solution delivery projects struggle to keep up with the pace of business. Agile development, lean software, and business...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

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

For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Blog:Products Are Going Digital -- What Leading Examples Are *You* Seeing Out There?

Here's a flash of the blindingly obvious: More and more products are going digital. You know this, but what I'm interested in is how they are going digital and to what degree....

For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Architect For The Next Digital Decade

Vision: The EA Method Playbook

In the midst of continuing economic, political, competitive, and technological disruption over the next decade, your enterprise architecture (EA) practice will flounder unless it gains clear vision...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

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

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 Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Blog:The Big Mistake With Business Architecture

There’s a big mistake often made with business architecture — a very big mistake, yet a very subtle mistake. As you might expect, there are a number of mistakes one might make with...

For Business Technology Professionals

Blog:The Biggest Problem With SOA Isn't Really About SOA

I'll soon have a client report out with interesting Forrester data about how SOA adoption continued apace during the Great Recession. In the meantime, Forrester partnered with TechTarget on a...

For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Tool:SOA Governance Correlates With Higher SOA Satisfaction

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 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: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 Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Tool:Governance-Oriented SOA Products Correlate With Higher SOA Satisfaction

For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

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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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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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Client Inquiry:What Should We Consider When Evaluating Cloud Combined With SOA?

Part of our application is in the cloud, and we want to insert it into our service-oriented architecture (SOA). What are the interactions between cloud computing and SOA? How do we evaluate risk,...

For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

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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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Conceptual Architecture Tool Kit

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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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Evolving Your Architecture For Groundswell Customer Service

An Empowered Report: A Customer Service Example Of Responsive Architecture

Forrester's recent book, Empowered, describes the type of technology-based innovation by frontline employees that can cause nightmares for enterprise architects. However, rather than attempting to...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Blog:The Fallacy Of Architecting Behavioral Change With Social Technologies

  Social networking is hot, and it’s smart to think about how your organization might use it to generate benefit equal to the market hype. As you develop your social technology strategy,...

For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Forrester's Enterprise Reference Architecture Tool Kit: Overview

Materials To Promote Understanding Reference Architectures And Their Value

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

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Blog:Get A Strong Focus For Your Approach To Cloud

In discussions on cloud computing, I often talk to architects who have been told to create a "cloud strategy." This sounds appropriate enough, but there’s a devil in the details: When the...

For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Blog:Get On Board: A Copernican Shift In The Focus Of Your IT Delivery

Step back and think: How would you answer the question, “What does your IT group deliver to your business?” Your answer will indicate how you think about the relationship between business...

For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

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

For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Design Your Contact Center From The Outside In

Strategic Plan: The Contact Centers For Customer Service Playbook

As more enterprises develop organizational and operational structures to better manage customer experience, they need to drive this down into contact center architectural design. Today's challenge is...

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