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Blog:The First Rule Of Big Data — Don't Talk About Big Data

I’ll be chairing Big Data World Europe on September 19 in London; in advance of that event, here are a few thoughts. Since late 2011, we’ve seen the big data noise level eclipse cloud and...

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Report:Technology Standards Toolkit

An effective standards program provides an important foundation for any enterprise architecture (EA) program. Both new and well-established programs will want to get and keep their standards house in...

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Blog:Spiders And Elephants – Social Connections And Big Data Will Determine The Next Big Winners And Losers

I’ve been following a couple of 2011 developments that together may determine the next big technology winners and losers. To get your click, I’ve been obscure in my title. Spiders refers...

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Blog:Not Your Grandfather’s Data Warehouse

As I dig into my initial research, it dawned on me – some technology trends are having an impact on information management/data warehouse (DW) architectures, and EAs should consider these when...

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Report:Business Technology "Strategy On A Page" Toolkit

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Blog:Are Your Employees Doing This?

I just saw something that makes a point I covered in a technology trends briefing for a client yesterday. After getting my Sun-dried Ethiopia Harrar (a $3.45 “clover-brewed,”...

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Blog:The Emerging Technology Juggernaut

I heard a great analogy from a client recently; buying new technology is like buying a new car - there are a lot of different strategies. Some people want a new car every couple of years and pay a...

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Report:Expand Your Digital Horizon With Big Data

At extreme scale, traditional data management and business intelligence (BI) become impractical, and your business does not get what it demands — more insight to drive greater business...

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Blog:Blogging From the IBM Big Data Symposium - Big Is More Than Just Big

Just attended a Big Data symposium courtesy of IBM and thought I’d share a few insights, as probably many of you have heard the term but are not sure what it means to you. No. 1: Big Data is...

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Blog:Do Not Depend On EA To Innovate

Many organizations expect EAs to be the source of technology innovations. They are broadly knowledgeable, experienced, connect-the-dots kind of people you might naturally expect to come up with...

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Client Inquiry:How Should Our IT Department Evolve?

As IT is rapidly changing, how should our IT department evolve? What should we focus on?

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Blog:Please Join Us At The Forrester Technology Trends Tweet Jam, 10-11 ET on 7/29

It's that time again, and we are busy updating our annual report, "The Top 15 Trends EA Should Watch." For this year, we have expanded the number of analysts contributing to the research,...

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Blog:Closing The Innovation Gap

Greetings — thanks for taking the time to read my inaugural blog! Let me introduce myself by way of continuing a discussion that I started at Practicing EA and CIO.com on innovation...

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Report:Connect The Dots Between Business Outcomes And Emerging Technology

Forrester hosted a "tweet jam" on technology trends on July 29. Cloud was clearly atop all other subjects, but business intelligence (BI), mobile, and social were also discussed — the general...

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Report:Build The Case For Emerging Technology

Business Case: The Emerging Technology Playbook

The business appetite for new technology to fuel innovation, generate growth, engage with customers, and create differentiation is insatiable. According to our survey data, however, your business is...

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Report:Create A Strategy To Leverage Emerging Technology

Strategic Plan: The Emerging Technology Playbook

For many organizations, the use of emerging technology is confusing, slow, and problematic. Which emerging technologies should be part of IT's standard approach? Which should IT push for business to...

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Blog:What Happens When Central "IT" No Longer Exists?

When we get used to something, we often think it will never change, but it does eventually; who bought a house in 2006 and assumed the value would surely keep going up? We are working at an...

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Report:Cut Through Silos With An Agile Technology Introduction Strategy

To succeed in the digital age, enterprise architects must seize opportunities by adopting new approaches for emerging technolgy introduction. This report highlights the technology introduction and...

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Blog:The Top Technology Trends For The Next Three Years (Part 2)

As promised in my blog last week, here is part 2. In part 1, I introduced the two trends reports we did this year and showed the list of trends for business technology. These are trends and...

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Report:How Forrester Clients Are Using Big Data

These data charts are based on the June 2011 Global Big Data Online Survey.

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Report:Federal IT Cost Reduction Efforts Will Require Process Change To Succeed

In an attempt to control IT costs, the US federal government is establishing mandates that are forcing deep and massive technology change. With data center consolidation and cloud migrations entering...

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Blog:From Our EA Community — Boiling Down Your BT Strategy To A Single Page

Last fall, a member of our enterprise architecture community asked a simple question — how do you represent IT strategy on a single page? What resulted was the most read and commented...

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Blog:Avoid Becoming A One-trick Pony: Embrace Your Business' Need For Real-time

  #next_pages_container { width: 5px; hight: 5px; position: absolute; top: -100px; left: -100px; z-index: 2147483647 !important; }The term “one-trick pony” allegedly originated back...

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Blog:Technology Is Everywhere — Are You Paying Attention?

We are currently in a technology growth cycle, which is likely to continue for another five to seven years.* The opportunities presented by the likes of cloud, mobile, social, and big data are...

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Report:Use Effective EA Deliverables To Guide Change

Deliverables: The EA Practice Playbook

This report defines an approach for creating enterprise architecture (EA) deliverables as part of a high-performance EA practice. It is designed to help you create work products that matter to...

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