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Jost serves Application Development & Delivery Professionals, particularly in financial services. As an analyst, he is an expert on a number of architecture and technology topics in global banking, such as off-the-shelf banking platforms (including core banking), banking architecture, banking platform transformation, multichannel platforms, architecture, and strategy. He also led research into the business and technology aspects of banking in the future (banking in 2023).
During his more than ten years with Forrester, Jost has provided strategic analysis and pragmatic advice to executives, operational-level managers, and architects on topics such as strategy plans, architecture development, governance, and large-scale software development, integration, and deployment. As a conference speaker and quoted expert, Jost has addressed numerous topics, such as industry trends, implementation, and the operation and migration of applications and systems, as well as the economic and strategic issues around these technologies.
Jost came to Forrester through its acquisition of Giga Information Group. Prior to Giga, Jost was director of architecture at DG Bank, where he was responsible for the medium- and long-term development of architecture and related topics and for the definition of the technology part of its multichannel strategy. He was the chairman of the bank's architecture decision body. Prior to joining DG, Jost worked as a technology consultant for eight years. He was responsible for a consulting practice that ran projects in the architecture and information technology space. Earlier, Jost worked on database systems, operating systems, software development, Unix standardization, and IT security, including contributions to the German and European IT security criteria.
Jost holds the German equivalent of a master's degree in computer science from the RWTH Aachen University.
Industrialized Banking And The New CRM Will Support High-Touch
Forrester's research on banking IT in 2023 identified a series of requirements and the architectural layers of the future banking platform. The key layers show: (1) a focus on personalized customer...
A Compact Group Of Banking Platforms Offers Agile Banking Support
Forrester evaluated world-leading banking platform products across 108 criteria and found that Infosys Technologies with Finacle, TCS Financial Solutions (TCSFS) with TCS BaNCS, and Temenos with T24...
Forrester surveyed a total of 16 vendors offering a variety of different Internet/multichannel banking solutions. The overall outcome? Many of the solutions enable multichannel business processes by...
SOA Lives Up To Expectations With Hot Technologies Paving The Way
Forrester surveyed 140 enterprise architects, IT planners, and IT strategists on their take on service-oriented architecture (SOA) and 19 software infrastructure technologies. The outcome? Enterprise...
Implementing Ubiquitous And Industrialized Banking
Ubiquitous banking, industrialization, new core competencies, and the right balance of collaboration among competitors are key drivers for the banking platform of the future. A new interaction- and...
An increasing number of banks are working on long-term business and IT visions of the future, realigning IT strategies on a continual basis. To help enterprise architects better understand the...
Tata Consultancy Services, Infosys Technologies, And Temenos Lead, With SAP, Oracle, FIS, and Polaris Software Lab Pursuing Fast
Forrester evaluated world-leading banking platform products across 80 criteria and found that Infosys Technologies, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), and Temenos are in the Leader category. Infosys...
An increasing number of firms are shifting the focus of their enterprise architecture (EA) practice from a local and national approach to a more regional, multicountry, and global one. This change in...
In 2008, enterprise architects will find themselves at the center of a struggle to change their organizations into significantly more agile enterprises. As solution delivery morphs from traditional...
We Identify Globally And Regionally Successful Vendors
Forrester surveyed 15 vendors of globally deployed banking platforms on their 2007 deals. Oracle Financial Services (Oracle FS) and TEMENOS remain the Global Power Sellers. But they are defending...
Gaps, Acceptable In Good Times, May Be Challenging In Bad Times
Forrester surveyed 140 firms and their enterprise architecture (EA) groups in October 2008 — after the financial market meltdown — to identify the trends regarding EA organizations,...
Smart Devices Will Shape High-Touch Banking
An increasing number of banks are working on their long-term business and IT visions of the future, continually realigning their IT strategies. To help enterprise architects better understand the...
Enterprise Architects: Use Today's Economic Challenges To Focus And Sharpen Your Efforts
Enterprise architecture (EA) will continue its journey up the value chain in 2009, but there's no doubt that the road will be bumpy at best. Helping their organizations deal with economic conditions...
Use Forrester's Sample Business Capability Map For Retail Banking As A Starting Point
Business-IT alignment continues to be a top priority for banks' business leaders and CIOs. The enterprise architects (EAs) who need to support these executives will find that a business capability...
Vision: The Business Applications Playbook
This report outlines the vision aspect of Forrester's solution for application development and delivery (AD&D) professionals working on business applications strategy. It summarizes the key business...

Today's banking platforms must cope with continuously changing business environments and a flood of new requirements, while staying sufficiently agile. While some banks have already started to move...
High-Tech Will Drive High-Touch Banking
An increasing number of banks are working on their long-term business and IT visions of the future, continually realigning their IT strategies. To help enterprise architects better understand the...
Banking IT In 2023 Becomes Banking IT Today As Well As Banking IT In 2026
Application development and delivery teams in financial services must design and select future-proof, forward-looking business applications capable of coping with future business scenarios. To...
Be Strategic, Be Tactical, And Be Fast — The Multichannel Organization Revisited
Application development and delivery teams tasked with delivering rich and broad multichannel solutions are painfully aware that they will always be forced to set a course that balances rapid...
Infosys, i-flex solutions, SAP, And TEMENOS Lead In Global Core Banking
Forrester evaluated world-leading core banking suites across 88 criteria and found that Infosys, i-flex solutions, SAP, and TEMENOS are members of the leader category. Infosys scores highly on the...
Vendors Use Multiple Approaches To Drive Semantic Business Services Specifications
Forrester surveyed application infrastructure, banking platform, and IT services vendors on their approaches toward semantic specifications of business services in the banking industry. We...
Banks all over the world show strong interest in comprehensive and forward-looking solutions offering Internet and multichannel banking capabilities in a cost-effective and flexible way. Forrester...
We Identify Globally And Regionally Successful Vendors
Forrester surveyed 17 vendors of globally deployed banking platforms on their 2008 deals. Overall, looking at participants of both the 2007 and 2008 survey, counted deals shrunk by 10% from 2007 to...
Some Banking Platform Vendors Mastered The 2009 Storm Smoothly
Forrester surveyed 23 vendors of globally deployed banking platforms on their 2010 deals. Considering participants of both the 2009 and 2010 surveys, deal volume of the top 10 vendors increased by...
Enterprise Architects Need To Consider Value Delivery And Additional Options
In the first half of 2007, Forrester surveyed enterprise architects, IT planners, and IT strategists in European financial services firms to get their take on the current state of architecture...