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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:The Forrester Wave™: Project Portfolio Management, Q4 2009

This Mature Market Is Showing That Diversity Needs To Be The Name Of The Game

Forrester evaluated 14 project portfolio management (PPM) vendors using 80-plus criteria and found that CA, HP, Planview, Oracle, and SAP led the pack because of versatile offerings combined with...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Architecture Management Suites, Q2 2011

Mega International, Troux Technologies, Software AG, And Alfabet Lead This Upcoming Category

Forrester evaluated 10 of the leading enterprise architecture management suite (EAMS) vendors across 89 criteria and found that Mega International (Mega), Troux Technologies, Software AG, and alfabet...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:2010 IT Budget Allocations: Planning For 2011

Baseline Spending Allocation Figures For Comparison

During this time of year, Forrester receives a large number of requests for information about IT budget allocations. As CIOs and their planning teams engage in creating next year's IT budget, it is...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Build A High-Performance EA Practice

Executive Overview: The EA Practice Playbook

The ability to nimbly navigate change in business environments makes the difference between an industry-leading enterprise and one that always seems a beat behind. But how can a large organization...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Do CIOs Care About IT Management Tools?

CIOs are constantly working to run IT like a business — focusing on business orientation through capabilities like IT planning, portfolio management, and IT investment optimization. A myriad of...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Forrester's Best Practices Framework For BT Leadership Maturity

Use Our Self-Assessment To Accelerate Your BT Transformation

As CIOs help their firms succeed with business technology (BT) — pervasive technology use with increased direct control by the business — they struggle to answer two deceptively simple...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Forrester's Best Practices Framework For BT Leadership Maturity Workbook

This assessment workbook is intended be used in conjunction with "Forrester's Best Practices Framework For BT Leadership Maturity." IT leaders can rate their organizations on a one to five maturity...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Let Business Needs Drive Your Enterprise Architecture

Stakeholder Needs: The EA Practice Playbook

This report outlines the stakeholder needs portion of Forrester's solution for enterprise architecture (EA) professionals building a high-performance EA practice. This report is designed to help you...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Profiling The Strategy-Oriented EA Practice

Enterprise architecture (EA) leaders know that EA's value to the firm increases as it shifts its focus from tactical work to enabling tomorrow's competitive advantages. But that shift can be slow,...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Best Practices: Implementing An EA Management Suite

Successes And Lessons Learned From Customer References

The EA management suite (EAMS) is the next step in the evolution of EA tools. Going beyond modeling and standards repositories, the EAMS addresses pragmatic EA objectives such as IT planning, road...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Lessons Learned In PPM Software Implementations

Recommendations From Customer Reference Interviews For The Forrester Wave™ Evaluation Of PPM Software

In accordance with the Forrester Wave product evaluation methodology, Forrester conducted more than 50 customer reference interviews with users from 14 project portfolio management (PPM) software...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Forrester's EA Maturity Assessment, Q3 2011

Use this tool to periodically assess the maturity of your EA program relative to the expectations of your stakeholders and your target EA mission. The assessment results are displayed by EA archetype...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Social Technologies Will Penetrate IT Management Tools

A Tweet or any other status update, by design, is a small packet of information. When collected and put in a business context — particularly complex collaborative situations like IT project...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Business Architecture Is A Catalyst For The Evolving PMO

Business Architecture Knowledge Enhances PMO Value

Project portfolio management (PPM) is a recognized best practice for increasing businesses' return on their IT spend. With their in-depth understanding of the firm's operating model and their ability...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Inquiry Spotlight: Demand Management, Q3 2009

Despite reduced IT budgets, demand for IT services continues and in some cases accelerates as the business strives to use IT to cut its own costs. Organizations that simply roll with the punches with...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:EA Management Suite Dashboards: Samples For Application And Project Portfolio Management Roles

An enterprise architecture (EA) tool can be a significant investment because of both the cost of the purchase or subscription and the cost of implementation. The best approach to demonstrate value is...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:The State Of EA 2010

EA's Top Focus: Overcoming Long-Standing Obstacles

Forrester's "State Of EA 2010" report shows consistent themes and incremental progress by the enterprise architecture (EA) function in most firms. EA leaders are part of senior IT management and have...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Transform EA Resources, Relationships, Processes, And Foundations

Assessment Framework: The EA Practice Playbook

This report outlines the assessment framework of Forrester's solution for enterprise architecture (EA) executives working on creating a high-performance EA practice. A high-performance EA practice is...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Forget EA Nirvana: Assessing EA Maturity

Use EA Archetypes To Assess Maturity And Align Effort With Expectations

Enterprise architecture (EA) maturity models abound. Each comes with its own opinion on EA maturity, its own system for scoring it, and a single set of beliefs on the proper role of EA within a firm....

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Using Tools And Technology For Business Architecture Programs

Tools And Technologies: The Business Architecture Playbook

Business architecture (BA) programs rely on a set of models and methods that often benefit from being linked to each other and to other external data sources. For some enterprise architects,...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:The CIO's 2010 Software Outlook

IT Trades Business Innovation For Cost-Reduction Focus

From September to November 2009, Forrester asked 2,165 North American and European IT software decision-makers for their plans and perceptions on software spending and trends in 2010. Amid...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Focus EA Impact On Planning, Governance, And Innovation

This report outlines the high-level business impact of Forrester's solution for enterprise architecture (EA) executives working on building a high-performance EA practice. Describing the added...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:What EA Management Suite Vendors Are Doing Well (And What They're Not)

What To Expect When Evaluating Offerings

Forrester's recent evaluation of the enterprise architecture management suite (EAMS) market uncovered a wide variety of current vendor capabilities and future visions of the EAMS market. While each...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Predict SaaS PPM Implementation Costs Using Forrester's Estimation Tool

Project portfolio management (PPM) software tools remain a popular method for automating the process of gathering, evaluating, managing, tracking, and reporting on IT's project investments, and...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Measure EA's Business Goals, Engagement, And Influence

Metrics: The EA Practice Playbook

This report outlines the metrics for enterprise architecture (EA) impact of Forrester's solution for EA executives building a high-performance EA program. Developing and executing a metrics and...

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