Randy Heffner

Vice President, Principal Analyst serving Application Development & Delivery PROFESSIONALS

Randy serves Application Development & Delivery Professionals. He is a leading expert on architectures and design approaches for building enterprise applications that are secure and resilient in the face of continuous business and technology change. This makes service-oriented architecture (SOA) one of Randy's primary focus areas. Since enterprise applications need much more than SOA, Randy led the development of Forrester's digital business architecture, which provides a broad architectural context around SOA. For seven years, Randy has been a driving force for Forrester's research on application architecture trends, concepts, patterns, and best practices.

Particular focus areas within Randy's research include general application architecture and design issues; overall SOA strategy; SOA platform and infrastructure strategy; core SOA design concepts; Web services architecture; and standards, SOA security, SOA, and Web services management. He also covers coordination and leadership of other analysts' SOA work. Randy continues to develop strategies and structures to guide enterprises' longer-term evolution toward digital business architecture.

Previous Work Experience

Randy has extensive experience with enterprise architecture management and application architecture and design. Randy was a chief architect at Sprint, where he led enterprise architecture and standardization efforts, along with the analysis and introduction of application servers, component architectures, object-oriented development, application security architectures, CORBA, distributed transaction management, and other new technologies. His IT experience also includes technology leadership, management, and application development with a Big Five consultancy and in the retail and litigation support industries.


Education

Randy received a bachelor's of business administration from Baylor University's business school, where he was named the outstanding student in computer information systems.

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    Tool:Mobile Development Popularity Is Now On Companies' Radar More Than Ever

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    Report:Seven Top Integration Trends For 2011 To 2012

    The Need For Speed, Services, And SaaS Is Shaping The Integration Future

    Integration remains a high priority for enterprises in 2011 to 2012, leading Forrester to mine client inquiries and interview industry experts for insight into the latest integration trends....

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    Charts & Figures:Mobile Development Popularity Is Now On Companies' Radar More Than Ever

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    Report:Creating An Enterprise Database Security Plan

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    Report:NoSQL Offers New Options To Application Developers

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    Report:Stay Alert To Database Technology Innovation

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    Growth in the volume and pace of business is driving new application and data requirements that are often well beyond the design limits of existing relational database technologies. These include...

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    Report:Your Enterprise Data Archiving Strategy

    Data Archiving Is A Flexible Technology That Delivers Many Use Cases

    With growing data volume, increasing data security breaches, and complex application-performance issues, most enterprises today face significant data management challenges. Keeping inactive data...

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    Report:Database Tools Fill Gaps In Vendors' Bundled Tools

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    Client Inquiry:What Are Typical DBA Salary Ranges, And How Large Are The Talent Pools For The Various RDBMS Types?

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      Report:The Forrester Wave™: Database Auditing And Real-Time Protection, Q2 2011

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      In Forrester's 147-criteria evaluation of database auditing and real-time protection vendors, we found that the market is rife with mature products. IBM, Imperva, and Sentrigo lead the pack because...

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      Report:Market Overview: Database Security, 2011

      Database Security Solutions Mature While The Market Consolidates

      Enterprise databases continue to experience growing attacks despite enhanced security processes and increasing database security approaches. Security gaps in solutions persist in intelligent...

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      Report:SQL Azure Raises The Bar On Cloud Databases

      Ease Of Use, Integration, Reliability, And Low Cost Make It A Compelling Solution

      Over the past six months, Forrester interviewed 26 companies using Microsoft SQL Azure to find out about their implementations. Most customers stated that SQL Azure delivers a reliable cloud database...

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      Report:The Future Of Customer Data Management

      Vision: The Customer Data Management Playbook

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      Report:The Steadily Growing Database Market Is Increasing Enterprises' Choices

      An Overview Of The Enterprise Database Management System Market In 2013

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      Report:Why Enterprise Database Security Strategy Has Become Critical

      This presentation discusses database security trends and drivers, current database security challenges, why enterprises should focus on an enterprisewide database security strategy, the three pillars...

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      Report:The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Cloud Databases, Q4 2012

      Four Leaders And Four Strong Performers Compete For A Share Of The Enterprise Cloud Database Market

      Cloud database offerings represent a new space within the broader data management platform market, providing enterprises with an abstracted option to support Agile development and new social, mobile,...

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      Tool:Forrester Wave™: Database Auditing And Real-Time Protection, Q2 '11

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      Tool:Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Cloud Databases, Q4 '12

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      Report:Case Study: EMC Tames Oracle ERP Data Growth

      Informatica Helps Archive Data To Improve Performance And Lower Cost

      Like most large organizations, EMC struggles with the performance and manageability of mission-critical applications because of increased data volume and user numbers. In the past, EMC added more...

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      Report:The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise ETL, Q1 2012

      Informatica, IBM, Oracle, SAP, SAS, Ab Initio, And Talend Lead, With Pervasive, Microsoft, And iWay Close Behind

      In Forrester's 60-criteria evaluation of enterprise extract, transform, and load (ETL) vendors, we found that Informatica, IBM, Oracle, and SAP maintain leadership positions thanks to their ability...

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      Report:Trends In ETL Adoption

      This data chart examines ETL adoption trends based on a survey of 173 professionals who have purchased ETL software at their organizations.

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      Report:The Forrester Wave™: Data Virtualization, Q1 2012

      Informatica, IBM, Composite Software, And Denodo Technologies Lead, With SAP, Microsoft, Oracle, Stone Bond, And Red Hat Close Behind

      In Forrester's 53-criteria evaluation of data virtualization — also known as information-as-a-service (IaaS) — vendors, we found that Informatica, IBM, Composite Software, and Denodo...

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      Report:Forrester's Data Management Reference Architecture

      Align Data Management Roles To Create Stronger Business Value

      The continuing explosion in data volume, increasing numbers of business users, growing data complexity, compliance requirements, need to support global operations, and growing need for real-time...

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      Report:Simpler Database Migrations Have Arrived!

      IBM, ANTs Software, And EnterpriseDB Offer Innovative New Options

      Database migrations have always been complex, time-consuming, and costly due to proprietary data structures and data types, SQL extensions, and procedural languages. It can take up to several months...

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      Report:Craft Your Future State BI Reference Architecture

      Road Map: The Business Intelligence Playbook

      In the face of rising data volume and complexity and increased need for self-service, enterprises need an effective business intelligence (BI) reference architecture to utilize BI as a key corporate...

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