For Business Process & Applications Professionals

Trends 2009: Master Data Management

Findings From Forrester's August 2009 Global Master Data Management/Data Quality Online Survey

by Rob Karel, October 23, 2009

Forrester continues to witness growing enthusiasm for master data management (MDM) initiatives across all industries, and in many cases those visions are slowly becoming reality. Yet while many large organizations work to either improve an existing MDM . . .

For Business Process & Applications Professionals

Trends In Data Quality  (582 KB PPT)

by Rob Karel, October 23, 2009

This set of data charts will examine key trends in data quality gleaned from Forrester's August 2009 Global Master Data Management/Data Quality Online Survey.

For Business Process & Applications Professionals

Warning: Don't Assume Your Business Processes Use Master Data

Synchronize Your Business Process And Master Data Strategies

by Rob Karel, Clay Richardson, September 21, 2009

Business process management (BPM) professionals understand the need for data but often only pay it lip service, doing little to take responsibility for ensuring data quality within their processes. Data management professionals, on the other hand, drive . . .

For Information & Knowledge Management Professionals

Five Additional Options To Consider For Web Content Management

by Stephen Powers, Tim Walters, Ph.D., August 18, 2009

The Web content management (WCM) market remains fragmented, with a wide range of products that manage anything from simple static Web pages to complex sites designed to maximize customer engagement. Forrester's recent report, "The Forrester Wave™: . . .

For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Selecting A Comprehensive Integration Solution  (1.6 MB PPT)

by Ken Vollmer, July 7, 2009

This presentation discusses the factors that should be considered when choosing a comprehensive integration solution. Refer to the recent Forrester document entitled "Create An Enterprise Integration Strategy To Lower Your Costs" for additional information . . .

For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Create An Enterprise Integration Strategy To Lower Your Costs

A Methodology For Effectively Addressing Today's Business Integration Challenges

by Ken Vollmer, June 12, 2009

Enterprises have traditionally tackled integration challenges as an offshoot of their application development activities, but this approach's effectiveness is waning rapidly. As business challenges become more complex and involve more intricate interactions . . .

For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Topic Overview: How BPM Can Help The Bottom Line In Difficult Financial Times

BPM-Enabled Improvements In Business Agility Flow To The Bottom Line

by Ken Vollmer, March 17, 2009

The current global economic crisis is putting increasing pressure on enterprise architects to find new — and more cost-effective — ways of meeting business needs. One software category in particular offers proven solutions to help increase operational . . .

For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

TechRadar™ For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals: Software-As-A-Service

CRM And Collaboration Are Growing, And Many New Categories Are On The Horizon, Q1 2009

by Liz Herbert, March 12, 2009

As software-as-a-service (SaaS) becomes increasingly important to firms' application strategies, sourcing and vendor management professionals are taking ownership of the research, purchasing, negotiations, and ongoing vendor relationships for these solutions. . . .

For Information & Knowledge Management Professionals

Don't Be Content With Your Web Content Management In 2009

by Stephen Powers, February 5, 2009

While most organizations continue to invest in Web content management (WCM) initiatives, some appear to be postponing WCM projects due to budgetary constraints or deferring in favor of other enterprise software goals in the coming year. However, while . . .

For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

2009 Update: Evaluating Integration Alternatives

Scenario-Based Guidance For Choosing Products That Provide Application, Process, And Data Integration Features

by Ken Vollmer, Rob Karel, Larry Fulton, Noel Yuhanna, January 26, 2009

Technical innovation and mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity continue to drive the evolution of the integration marketplace, leading to a market with a significantly different array of features and tools than what existed just 18 months ago. In . . .

For Business Process & Applications Professionals

Topic Overview: Business Intelligence

by Boris Evelson, November 21, 2008

Business intelligence (BI) is a set of methodologies, processes, architectures, and technologies that transform raw data into meaningful and useful information. It allows business users to make informed business decisions with real-time data that can . . .

For Information & Knowledge Management Professionals

Topic Overview: Must-Read I&KM Research For An Economic Downturn

by Matthew Brown, Connie Moore, Rob Karel, October 29, 2008

Financial bailouts, downward consumer spending, and roller-coaster stock markets are starting to put pressure on information and knowledge management (I&KM) professionals. Will industry consolidation mean gut-wrenching systems consolidation? How will . . .

For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

The Forrester Wave™: Integration-Centric Business Process Management Suites, Q4 2008

Software AG, IBM, And TIBCO Software Lead

by Ken Vollmer, October 6, 2008

Forrester evaluated leading integration-centric business process management suite (IC-BPMS) vendors across 109 criteria and found that Software AG, IBM, TIBCO Software, Vitria Technology, Oracle , SAP, and Cordys Software achieved leadership status based . . .

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 Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Many Enterprises Don't Use Their Enterprise Integration Tools For B2B

by Ken Vollmer, October 1, 2008

A recent Forrester survey indicates that just 53% of organizations use their enterprise integration tools to meet their B2B needs. The other 47% rely on B2B-specific integration tools to accomplish their objectives in this area. There are many reasons . . .

For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Use A Comprehensive Set Of Criteria When Selecting An IC-BPMS Tool

Targeting Products That Support Integration, BPM, And SOA Efforts

by Ken Vollmer, Henry Peyret, June 25, 2008

Integration-centric business process management suites (IC-BPMSes) are the most comprehensive tools available to assist enterprises with their service-oriented-architecture-based (SOA-based) business process management (BPM), business-to-business integration . . .

For Application Development & Program Management Professionals

Using CEP To Improve Customer Service

A Case Study Of A European Mobile Telecommunications Company

by Charles Brett, May 14, 2008

Telecommunications companies confront a high volume of inbound calls that deal with many different topics and problems. It is important for these companies to have valuable interactions with their customers as quickly as possible, whether they are solving . . .

For Application Development & Program Management Professionals

Information-As-A-Service: Delivering Real-Time Information Drives Market Toward The Mainstream

by Noel Yuhanna, Mike Gilpin, May 2, 2008

Increasing business demand for near-real-time delivery of high-quality information in context is driving enterprise architects and application developers toward new service-oriented ways of accessing and integrating enterprise information. Earlier-era . . .

For Vendor Strategy Professionals

Winning In A Unique Technology Niche

Succeeding With A Consistent, Targeted Business Model

by Merv Adrian, Rob Karel, December 11, 2007

Many technology industry firms squander the opportunity to craft a go-to-market strategy that leverages truly differentiated technology, target markets, and business models. A careful examination of these should drive practices for customer acquisition, . . .

For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

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

by Mike Gilpin, November 15, 2007

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 information-as-a-service (IaaS). Compared to other SOA technologies . . .

For Business Process & Applications Professionals

Market Overview: Open Source ETL Tools

An Attractive Alternative To Custom Code

by Rob Karel, Michael Goulde, November 6, 2007

As open source, community-driven software continues its evolution from an interesting experiment to a viable technology alternative for enterprises, additional market segments develop open-source alternatives. The latest segment in the trend is open source . . .

For Business Process & Applications Professionals

Ab Initio: Get To Know High-End Transaction Processing's Mysterious Leader

by Rob Karel, Merv Adrian, November 5, 2007

Enterprise architects and information managers often have to face very high value information management, performance, complexity, and scalability challenges. Only some find technology solutions that can tackle these challenges, but Ab Initio is a vendor . . .

For Application Development & Program Management Professionals

Imperva Is A Leader In Enterprise Database Auditing And Real-Time Protection

The Forrester Wave™ Vendor Summary, Q4 2007

by Noel Yuhanna, October 26, 2007

Imperva is a Leader with a strong performing and scalable auditing solution that scored high in most areas that we evaluated. Imperva has strong support for audit and compliance reporting, end-to-end audit analysis, fraud detection, response auditing, . . .

For Application Development & Program Management Professionals

Guardium Is A Leader In Enterprise Database Auditing And Real-Time Protection

The Forrester Wave™ Vendor Summary, Q4 2007

by Noel Yuhanna, October 26, 2007

Guardium is a Leader across the board in our evaluation of enterprise database auditing and real-time protection, a result of the broad range of features and functionality built into the product and the company's strong product and corporate strategy . . .

For Application Development & Program Management Professionals

Tizor Systems Is A Leader In Enterprise Database Auditing And Real-Time Protection

The Forrester Wave™ Vendor Summary, Q4 2007

by Noel Yuhanna, October 26, 2007

Tizor Systems is a Leader in the enterprise database auditing and real-time protection market because it provides strong support for alerting, audit and compliance reporting, performance, policy administration, the discovery of private data, integration . . .