For Business Process & Applications Professionals

Fit Your Data Architecture To Your Analytical Needs

Forrester's Business Intelligence Data Architecture Decision Tool Helps You Make The Right Choice

by Boris Evelson, Rob Karel, July 9, 2009

Delivering business intelligence (BI) effectively depends on a data management architecture that fits your reporting and analytical requirements. Unfortunately, many data warehousing (DW) and BI professionals overlook the need to optimize an end-to-end . . .

For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

EA Must Guide Master Data Management Initiatives Through Information Architecture

by Gene Leganza, June 22, 2009

Master data management (MDM) can be used as a strategic means to deliver a trusted view of critical data throughout the enterprise. However, MDM has not yet matured as a business capability, and there is still a great deal of market confusion regarding . . .

For Information & Knowledge Management Professionals

The Critical Role Of A SharePoint Information Architecture

It's A Blank Slate And A Chance To Get It Right This Time

by Leslie Owens, Rob Koplowitz, February 24, 2009

SharePoint buyers expect intuitive navigation, contextual search, and easy administration out of the box. But such benefits depend on how content is structured, labeled, and categorized, and they require a nuanced understanding of how different audiences . . .

For Business Process & Applications Professionals

Federation: Sharpen Your Focus On Vast Constellations Of Data

by James G. Kobielus, October 2, 2008

Scattered business information permeates many enterprises. This disunited data often conforms to various schemas and formats, resides in sundry databases and applications, and falls under the purview of myriad owners, administrators, and business domains. . . .

For CIOs

What Are The Hot Roles In IT?

by Marc Cecere, August 14, 2008

Near-term demand for hot roles in IT will be driven by the need for local and cross-discipline knowledge, changes in technology, greater emphasis on managing risk and the enterprise, and a limited supply of key roles. For example, business architects . . .

For Information & Knowledge Management Professionals

The Persuasive Content Architecture

Understanding How To Apply ECM To Marketing's Business Objectives

by Craig Le Clair, Stephen Powers, July 2, 2008

Customer experience expectations rise each year as customers want faster responses to requests, more conversational interactions, and more relevant content. Marketers now find themselves under pressure to better manage content associated with their outbound . . .

For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Sybase ASE Remains A Strong Enterprise DBMS

Reliability, Support, And Innovation Are Behind Sybase's Increased Growth

by Noel Yuhanna, March 5, 2008

Over the past year, Forrester interviewed 65 Sybase customers who use Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE). A majority of these customers rated Sybase ASE as a highly reliable database management system (DBMS) with strong database features, very good . . .

For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Information And Data Architecture Initiatives Are On The Rise

by Gene Leganza, April 17, 2007

Only half of the 157 respondents in Forrester's first enterprise architecture (EA) home page poll say that they have had a formal information or data architecture program in place for more than two years. How is this possible, when common wisdom has it . . .

For Application Development & Program Management Professionals

Information Server Takes IBM One Step Closer To Delivering Information-As-A-Service

by Rob Karel, Noel Yuhanna, December 28, 2006

Today, enterprise architects and information managers find it difficult to collaborate because metadata is not easily shared and synchronized across their tools and processes. Recently, IBM began to move toward a solution for this problem when it announced . . .

Build Your Privacy Program: Privacy Information Architecture

by Michael Rasmussen, November 3, 2006

Privacy programs must define privacy information architecture. This architecture maps the flow of personal information through all of your organization's business processes and specifies restrictions on the use of that information inside your firm. Specifically, . . .

For Application Development & Program Management Professionals

Implementing Your Digital Business Architecture

Case Studies And Guidance For Evolving Your Future IT Architecture

by Randy Heffner, September 5, 2006

Forrester's Digital Business Architecture vision describes the future of IT architecture: A core of metadata that defines business processes, policies, and rules, and controls business operations across your diverse set of IT applications, computing infrastructure, . . .

For Application Development & Program Management Professionals

EDA, SOA 2.0, And Digital Business Architecture

How Event-Driven Applications Fit Into The Future Of IT Architecture

by Randy Heffner, September 1, 2006

Forrester has long considered event-driven processing to be an integral part of service-oriented architecture (SOA), but some industry players are just recently catching up. They are combining event-driven architecture (EDA) and SOA and calling it SOA . . .

For Information & Knowledge Management Professionals

IBM Delivers On Its Vision Of Role-Based Workplaces

by Erica Driver, April 12, 2006

IBM has begun to deliver a range of packaged software products and software-plus-services solutions that incorporate the concept of roles into workplaces for information workers in jobs as varied as CFOs and compliance officers, call center workers, and . . .

For Information & Knowledge Management Professionals

IBM Doubles Down On Information On Demand

Software Giant Invests $1 Billion To Support IOD Products And Services

by Barry Murphy, April 3, 2006

IBM has raised the stakes in information management by putting $1 billion behind the software platform of its Information On Demand (IOD) strategy over the next three years. The chips are to be spread across the IOD technology components, including data . . .

Topic Overview: Enterprise Architecture

by Alex Cullen, Gene Leganza, March 28, 2006

As businesses focus on top- and bottom-line growth (and as IT becomes integral to this growth), IT departments are turning to enterprise architecture (EA) to best advance objectives ranging from operational efficiency to delivering IT-enabled business . . .

The Enterprise Architecture Of SOA

Essential Action Items For The EA Group's Plans

by Alex Cullen, February 21, 2006

Whether or not you have a strategy for service-oriented architecture (SOA), SOA is inevitable. Software vendors are re-architecting their solutions around this architecture concept and in-house developers and solution architects are rushing to use it . . .

Exploiting Unstructured Information In Pharma

Harness Content To Spur Discovery And Mitigate Regulatory And Legal Risks

by Laura Ramos, January 6, 2006

Bowing to regulatory mandate, pharmaceutical manufacturers manage unstructured information — narrative and images typically found outside relational stores — as an obligatory expense. But as the risk of regulatory and legal challenges increase, pharma . . .

For Information & Knowledge Management Professionals

Information Management 101

How To Tackle An Enterprise Information Management Strategy

by Barry Murphy, January 3, 2006

Organizations constantly search for ways to innovate and improve performance. To gain competitive advantage, many desire to more effectively leverage information within their many electronic and manual systems. After all, abundant information — about . . .

Simplifying Information Architecture

Creating An IA Program That Works

by Alex Cullen, September 9, 2005

Too often an enterprise's information is an unmanaged asset — businesses can't find consistent information and IT struggles under the resulting weight of project delays and ballooning storage costs. Information architecture (IA) helps IT address business . . .

Creating The Information Architecture Function

by Gene Leganza, June 16, 2004

Past "boil the ocean" attempts to model the enterprise's data failed to provide value, but current integration needs have revived interest in formal approaches to information architecture. A pragmatic approach requires central coordination of a cross-divisional . . .

Metrics for Enterprise Architecture: Don't Forget Information, Business Architecture & the Business Value of IT Progress

by Gene Leganza, September 24, 2002

Keep in mind the need for metrics showing progress in information and business architecture initiatives, as well as linking architecture activity to successful revenue-producing initiatives that involve architecture and business staff collaborating.