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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

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

For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

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

For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Tool:Governance-Oriented SOA Products Correlate With Higher SOA Satisfaction

For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

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...

For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

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...

For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

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: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....

For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

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...

For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

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

For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

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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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Blog:The Fallacy Of Architecting Behavioral Change With Social Technologies

  Social networking is hot, and it’s smart to think about how your organization might use it to generate benefit equal to the market hype. As you develop your social technology strategy,...

For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

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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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Tool:Architects Name The Five Most Valuable SOA Governance Practices

For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Tool:The More SOA Products Owned, The Higher The Satisfaction — And The Dissatisfaction

For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

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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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

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: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...

For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

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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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,...

For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

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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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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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

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:Forrester's Enterprise Reference Architecture Tool Kit: Overview

Materials To Promote Understanding Reference Architectures And Their Value

Design patterns, proven technology stacks, and well-documented application infrastructure are fundamental tools for promoting common practices in the design of business solutions. Enterprises often...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Tool:Forrester Wave™: SOA Application Gateways, Q4 '11

For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Client Inquiry:SOA Fosters Success With Both Cloud And Mobile Technologies

With all the excitement about cloud and mobile devices, do you feel that SOA is critical to the success of the cloud? More and more of our data is going to be separated outside of the internal...