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	November 7, 2005 Digital Business Architecture: IT Foundation For Business Flexibility An IT Architect's Introduction To Forrester's Digital Business Architecture by Randy Heffner with Laura Koetzle, Mike Gilpin, John R. Rymer, Jost Hoppermann, Alex Cullen	Average: 9  (1 rating)

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Executive Summary

Forrester's Digital Business Architecture lets diverse IT domains work together as one, enabling IT to deliver unified solutions to business problems that cross IT domains. This either: 1) drives down a firm's total spending on IT, or 2) lets IT deliver more business value at the same spending level. Building a Digital Business Architecture means capturing business processes and policies as metadata and combining diverse trends like business process management (BPM), service-oriented architecture (SOA), unified communications, and utility computing into a coherent model. And it's not a pipe dream; you can get started today by using joint business-IT teams to simultaneously design business processes and the IT solutions that embody those processes and connect them to the physical world.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• Your Business Is Embodied In Your (Inflexible) Technology Base
• The New Model For IT: Digital Business Architecture
• Digital Business Architecture Is Happening
• Getting To Digital Business Architecture

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