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Value streams and capability maps are both business architecture tools that can create a platform for strategic discussion and executive decision-making. Architects, business analysts, and process...

The Majority Of The Vendors Are Leaders In This Emerging Market
Today, business transformation is often about technology transformation. At the very least, business transformation is always technology-enabled, so what sort of consultants can best help clients...


Business process pros need to engage their business colleagues throughout business process management (BPM) projects; flow diagrams alone are not good enough. By understanding and adopting the...
Pegasystems And IBM Lead, With EMC, Appian, Singularity, And Global 360 Close Behind
In Forrester's 57-criteria evaluation of dynamic case management (DCM) vendors, Pegasystems, IBM, EMC, Appian, Singularity, and Global 360 led with the most dynamic, visionary platforms. Pegasystems...

Putting In Place The Right Signposts For Effective Delivery
Agile methods continue to grow in popularity, but dogmatic adoption can lead to teams applying Agile in contexts where it doesn't work. Kanban, a technique taken from Lean Manufacturing, provides...
What other BPM suite products besides Pegasystems offers industry-specific frameworks?
What Is The Right Customer Experience Strategy?
Most companies lack a customer experience strategy. As a result, their leaders struggle with decisions about funding and prioritizing projects meant to improve the customer experience at the...
Embrace This New Role To Drive Business Technology Transformation
You may have heard the term "business architect" in your travels; if you haven't, you soon will. This emerging role will be vital in leading business transformation, including your own improvements...
Vendors Move Toward Mature Service Offerings
If you think capture and imaging is old technology, you're correct; it has been around for more than twenty years. But there are still a lot of paper-based processes out there, and Forrester clients...
Today, enterprises swim in an endless ocean of business data used to power mission-critical business processes, executive decisions, corporate policies, and business rules. Many organizations kick...
Six Steps Process Professionals And IT Need To Perform In Collaboration
Business process professionals (BPPs) often complain about IT's ability to support them in delivering the performance optimization they are expected to provide together. The problem seems rooted in...
Business Process Pros Now Have An Additional BPM Tool At Their Disposal
Business process professionals often struggle with how to bridge the gap between the functionality of the inflexible enterprise resource planning (ERP) applications they're using to run their...
Navigating the complex contact center solution landscape continues to be challenging, particularly in light of the rapid rise of social computing, mobility, and voice of the customer initiatives...

Business Impact: The Business Architecture Playbook
This report outlines the business impact of Forrester's solution for enterprise architecture (EA) executives working on business architecture. This report is designed to help you align the strategic...

We plan to replace a major underwriting platform with a new system and need to answer three questions: 1) Do we really need a BPMS platform to implement a new underwriting system or would a...