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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: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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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™: 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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Blog:Build Innovation Zones Into Your Architecture

Forrester’s recent book, Empowered, describes the type of technology-based innovation by frontline employees that can cause nightmares for enterprise architects. New tools for business...

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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: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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Client Inquiry:How Do You Support Stateful EJB Services?

How do REST and SOAP support stateful Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) services via stateless EJB web services, as web service standards do not directly support stateful interactions?

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Blog:Digital Business Design Is The New Integration

If your organization is like nearly every other one I've talked to in the past 20+ years, you have a spaghetti chart of integration connections between all the siloed applications that run your...

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Report:Use A Reference Architecture To Speed Cross-Channel Digital Experience Delivery

Forrester's Digital Experience Reference Architecture Balances Four Opposing Forces

Four opposing forces complicate digital experience delivery: the need for speed of initial delivery and ongoing change, the need to deliver experiences that are coherent and familiar across channels...

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Client Inquiry:What Should We Do With Architecture When Separating Businesses?

While we've seen many examples of mergers and acquisitions, what is the expert opinion on opportunities when an organization separates into separate entities, in the context of architecture? Are...

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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: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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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....

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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:How To Implement Digital Business Design

Move Deliberately, But Carefully, Toward Forrester's Vision For The Future Of Integration

Application development and delivery (AD&D) professionals need a foundation for recasting their integration strategies to meet 21st-century demands for business agility. Forrester's vision for...

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Blog:Business 2011 Gets Faster; Business Rules And SOA Policy Get More Important

Can you remember a year when your business both (1) grew in a healthy way and (2) changed more slowly than the year before? Besides a company’s early startup years, such would be the exception,...

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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:SOA Product Adoption: SOA Management Solutions Provide The Strongest Benefit

Although Many Buy An ESB First, More Buy SOA Management In The Long Run

Although enterprise service bus (ESB) products are an early focus for purchase by service-oriented architecture (SOA) users, SOA management products have more-sustained buying focus and also...

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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...

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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,...

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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 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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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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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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