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Report:The Forrester Wave™: Information-As-A-Service, Q1 2010

IBM, Informatica, Composite Software, And Denodo Technologies Lead, With Microsoft And Red Hat Close Behind

In Forrester's 123-criteria evaluation of information-as-a-service (IaaS) — also known as data services — vendors, we found that IBM, Informatica, Composite Software, and Denodo...

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Report:Lean Software Is Agile, Fit-To-Purpose, And Efficient

Bloat kills. Whether it's excessive complexity in the application, its underlying platform or architecture, or the process used to deliver it, overloaded platform software and heavy processes impede...

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Report:The Forrester Wave™: Information-As-A-Service, Q1 2008

BEA Systems Leads, With IBM, Oracle, And Red Hat Following Closely

Forrester evaluated leading enterprise information-as-a-service (IaaS) vendors across 94 criteria and found that BEA Systems, IBM, Oracle, and Red Hat have established leadership positions, thanks to...

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Report:Application Development Pros: Must-Read Research In Any Economic Downturn

Whether the economy slips into recession or not, many firms are starting to tighten their budgets. Although this means even more limited resources than usual, the business will continue to expect...

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Report:The ESB Reference Architecture Model

Part One Of A Two-Part Series On Integration Solution Architecture Models

Although enterprise service buses (ESBs) have been around for a number of years, there is still a lot of confusion regarding the actual capabilities these products provide. Product enhancement...

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Report:Making Use Of A Simple Model For Project Prioritization

Application development organizations rarely have enough bandwidth to tackle every project that the business would like to see developed. But when trying to determine which project should come first,...

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Report:Topic Overview: Service-Oriented Architecture For Apps Dev And Program Management Pros

For a single, isolated solution delivery project, it's OK to think of service-oriented architecture (SOA) as just Web services (WS) standards for better application integration: Your application...

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Report:Information-As-A-Service: What's Behind This Hot New Trend?

Information-as-a-service has exploded on the scene over the past two years, moving from an obscure topic to one of the top usage scenarios in service-oriented architecture (SOA). Forrester expects...

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Report:Preparing For The Business Technology Analyst

As traditional notions of the business analyst evolve, application development and program management professionals must prepare for a new, emerging type of business analyst: the business technology...

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Report:Canonical Information Modeling Is Key To Many Information-As-A-Service And SOA Strategies

Forrester recently surveyed 1,017 decision-makers at North American and European enterprises on the adoption of service-oriented architecture (SOA) and related technologies including...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Building Interoperability And Federation Into Your SOA Platform Strategy

As large and heterogeneous enterprises reach greater service-oriented architecture (SOA) maturity, enterprise architects often find that different business areas or domains need different things from...

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Report:It's Time To Tame The ERP Integration Beast

Meeting ERP Integration Needs Inside And Outside The Enterprise

Integration challenges are often the foremost obstacle to getting the full value from packaged enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions. Strategies for overcoming this obstacle vary considerably...

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Report:Information Fabric 2.0: Enterprise Information Virtualization Gets Real

Forrester's information fabric vision of enterprise information virtualization has evolved as enterprises have implemented more parts of the vision and as vendors have extended information-as-a...

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Report:Best Practices: A Pragmatic Approach To Software Reuse

Achieving Optimal Reuse Of A Broader Range Of Assets

Development leaders have looked for ways to increase reuse since the early days of software development in an effort to increase developer productivity. This drive for reuse has brought changes in...

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Report:Make Software Delivery More Responsive To The Business

Executive Overview: The Agile And Lean Playbook

Most firms are experiencing rapid and fundamental change in both business and technology. How do you cope? You must transform your software delivery approach — minor tweaks to traditional...

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Report:How To Foster Software Innovation To Exploit The Economic Recovery

Best Practices In Software Innovation From Leading Software Developers

Software innovation plays an increasingly vital role in enterprise success as a key part of more and more products and services, whether on the Web, a phone, a desktop PC, a car, or in your home....

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Report:Update Your Application Development Sourcing Strategy To Drive Innovation And Differentiation

In 2009, the technology industry entered a new cycle of technology innovation and growth, powering a multiyear period of technology investment predicted to last through 2016: the business technology...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:ESB Lessons Learned

Incremental Adoption And A Clear, Business-Focused Vision Are Key

Organizations adopting enterprise service bus (ESB) technology often encounter challenges with legacy technology, the need for new skills, organizational acceptance, and new service-oriented...

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Report:An Oracle-BEA Combo: How It Will Affect You

By acquiring BEA Software's wealth of large corporate customers and well-respected middleware products, Oracle would be second only to IBM in that key market. Oracle's Larry Ellison has long...

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Report:The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Service Bus, Q2 2006

Cape Clear Software And BEA Systems Are The Top Performers

Forrester evaluated leading enterprise service bus (ESB) vendors across more than 100 criteria and found that Cape Clear Software and BEA Systems were the top two performers overall. Other vendors in...

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Report:Building Interoperability And Federation Into Your SOA Platform Strategy

If your SOA platform must span multiple diverse domains, then it should become a federation of interoperable SOA infrastructure elements that work together to ease and control service usage across...

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Report:The Arrival Of Smart Computing Reinforces The Need For Dynamic Business Applications

Smart Computing Drives The New Era Of IT Growth

Since the 1950s, the US has seen three cycles of technology investment growth and refinement. In 2008, the US entered its fourth such cycle, which Forrester is labeling "Smart Computing." Smart...

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Report:Role Overview: The Application Development Professional In 2007

Leading The Way To More Effective And Efficient Delivery Of Business Value

Although the strategies and tactics of the application development organization have changed dramatically over the past decade, the primary purpose remains the same: driving application-related...

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Report:An Interoperable And Federated SOA Platform Strategy Matters To App Dev Pros, Too

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) silos are a thorn in the side of application development professionals, but new SOA strategies can alleviate some of that pain. Through federated SOA, a solution...

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Report:Shaping Your Middleware Strategy To Benefit From ESBs

Many enterprise message-oriented middleware (MOM) infrastructures have evolved into complex assemblies of multiple proprietary products. Despite innovations like enterprise application integration...

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