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Report:The Future Of Solution Architecture, Part 2: User Roles Within A Business Capability

Design Around User Roles, Not Application Silos

In the siloed application mindset of 20th-century solution models, a key design question is, "How should we build the user interface (UI) for this application?" By contrast, the appropriate design...

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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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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?

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

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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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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...

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Report:Forrester's Enterprise Reference Architecture Tool Kit: Documentation Templates

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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Tool:Organizations Doing More SOA Governance Are More Satisfied With SOA

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Report:Establish Business Capabilities As The Foundation Of Your Technology Strategy

The old foundations of technology strategy — hot tech trends and business plans — have become inadequate, resulting in technology silos and hard-wired solutions. In a new era of...

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

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Tool:Forrester Wave™: Standalone SOA Management Solutions, Q4 '11

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Report:Adoption Of SOA: Still Strong, Even In Hard Times

Current Use Of SOA Advances 27% Among Enterprises, 45% Among SMBs

Service-oriented architecture continues to find a welcome home in both enterprises and SMBs. Even during the Great Recession, all sizes of organizations moved ahead in their adoption of SOA. Global...

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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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Tool:For Each Of Four Primary SOA Product Categories, Enterprise-Level SOA Users Buy Earlier

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Blog:Your Future Needs A Type 4 Technology Strategy

As I discuss with clients the developing notions of Forrester's Business Capability Architecture (see blog post #1 and blog post #2), I have found it important to distinguish between different...

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Report:Mobile Solution Architecture: User Authentication Is The Foundation Of Mobile Trust

Start Small And Keep An Eye On The Breadth Of Your Future Mobile Scenarios

User authentication is a key foundation of security for mobile apps — as it is for application security in general. Determining which authentication approach to use for your mobile solution...

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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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Tool:While ESBs Are The Dominant First Buy, Interest In Other Products Grows More Quickly

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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...

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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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Tool:Architects Name The Five Most Valuable SOA Governance Practices

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Report:The Future Of Solution Architecture: Six Business Design Focal Points

Move From Application And Outsourcing Silos Toward Building Your Business

Borrowing words from science fiction writer William Gibson: The future of solution architecture is here — it's just not yet evenly distributed or highly integrated. Even with a long list of...

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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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Report:Integrate Cloud Into Existing Architecture Strategies

Strategic Plan: The Cloud Computing Playbook

With the level of industry hype about cloud computing, CIOs may get the impression that adopting cloud-based offerings is a sure path to business benefit. But cloud computing is not the answer to all...

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