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Report:Best Practices: EA Should Take An Active Role In Mergers And Acquisitions

Five Pragmatic Practices To Improve EA Value Throughout The M&A Process

A new wave of mergers and acquisitions (M&As) is happening, and contrary to previous M&A periods in which IT was only tactically involved, organizations now draw IT into their plans for cost savings...

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Report:Technology Landscape: Metadata Management, Q2 2013

The Foundation For Data Governance, Tooling, And More

Metadata management is the foundation for data governance, management, and use. But despite this, firms have a spotty record of collecting, harmonizing, and managing the metadata inherent in their...

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Report:EAs: Use Social Technologies To Connect With Empowered HEROes

A challenging trend for enterprise architecture teams is extending their influence across the enterprise, and a prerequisite for achieving this influence is a deep understanding of "what's going on...

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Report:Fuse Technology, Innovation, And Business Change In Your Planning Cycle

Planning Methods: The EA Method Playbook

In most businesses today, technology has become a strong driver for innovation. The fruits of technology innovation are experienced all across the business model — from the point of customer...

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Client Inquiry:Cost Of Implementing An EA Management Suite

We are putting together an initial concept request for implementing an EA management software suite. We would like to know a "rough order of magnitude" regarding costs to implement such a solution,...

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Report:Fast-Tracking EA Renewal

Building An EA Program For "Dummies"

As businesses begin to look past the economic downturn, they are executing strategies that require a changed IT mission and plan. This in turn is changing the needs and expectations the EA function...

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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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Report:BCEA Performance Metrics Address Broader Business Outcomes

Performance Management: The EA Method Playbook

A good enterprise architecture (EA) methodology focuses on business outcomes. Forrester's EA method addresses both business outcomes and business agility, starting with how the business plans to how...

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Report:Barclays Bank's Consolidation Road Maps Focus On Process And Rendering

A Profile Of One Of The Winners Of The InfoWorld/Forrester Enterprise Architecture Award

Forrester teamed up with InfoWorld to identify five leading EA organizations using practices that yield measurable business value. In large organizations such as Barclays Bank, which spans 50...

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Report:Rearchitect Governance For Sustainable Business Agility

Governance: The EA Method Playbook

In an era of rapid business change, IT governance is often seen as a barrier. Governance too frequently means delay, overhead, and inflexible standards and strategies leading to missed opportunities...

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Report:Building An IT Strategy For IT Tooling

Apply Business Architecture Techniques To The Business Of IT

IT's implementation of process improvement frameworks such as the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL), project portfolio management (PPM), and the Software Engineering Institute's (SEI's) Capability...

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Report:Updated Q2 2011: Assess Your Enterprise Agility

Agree On Agility Objectives With Business Units

Since Forrester published the original version of this report in 2007, few firms have adopted a strict definition of agility. Given the recent uncertainty, CEOs are talking even more about agility,...

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Report:The Evolution From EA Tools To EA Management Suites

A Third Generation Of Tools Addresses Broader IT Management Needs

The EA tools market is transitioning to offer a new generation of products. As EA teams extend their scope, they are looking for tools that help them with their strategic objectives and engage a...

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Report:EA Management Suite Dashboards: Samples For The CIO Role

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

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Report:Aetna's EA Organization Uses Capability Maps To Connect Business Strategies

A Profile Of One Of The Winners Of The InfoWorld/Forrester Enterprise Architecture Award

EA organizations often toil out of the limelight, working with their firms to improve business-IT alignment, rationalize the application portfolio, and guide technology use. Forrester teamed up with...

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Report:Metadata Architecture — EA's Key Contribution To The Industrialization Of IT

Business pressures have forced IT management to begin applying formal management disciplines to the delivery of IT services. In the past decade we have seen the rise of portfolio and project...

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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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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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Tool:Forrester's Social Technographics® Groups Business Technologists By Social Behavior

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Tool:More Than 50% Of EA Groups Are Minimally Or Not Involved In ITIL

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Report:Integrate EA With ITIL Service Portfolio Management

It has been almost three years since ITIL v3 was released, superseding v2. While v3 has overtaken v2 in terms of overall adoption, most IT shops are still struggling to adopt v3's new service...

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Tool:ITIL V3 Adoption Continues To Progress

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Report:EA Methodologies Enlarge To Address The New Business Landscape

Landscape: The EA Method Playbook

Digital is increasingly part of products and services offerings — provoking disruption to the old ways of doing things. Companies are facing uncertain market changes and economic conditions,...

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