Forrester

For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Information Strategies Move Center Stage

Vision: The Information Strategy And Architecture Playbook

A veritable flood of information coming from widespread digitization has created new opportunities and risks that business executives can't ignore. Forrester is seeing a dramatic uptick in the...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Purchasing The Building Blocks For Data Management

Tools And Technology: The Data Management Playbook

Today's enterprise data architecture is changing to accommodate models and definitions that are frequently abstracted from data sources, federated sources, and data analytics performed during the...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Create KPIs That Show The Effectiveness Of Your Information Strategy

Continuous Improvement: The Information Strategy And Architecture Playbook

How effective is your information strategy? You can't answer that question without a comprehensive assessment process and key performance indicator (KPI) reporting mechanism that specifically targets...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Drive Information Strategy Performance Management With Capability Models

Performance Management: The Information Strategy And Architecture Playbook

As capability maps become the prevailing form for modeling business architectures, capability-based planning is growing into an effective practice to map organizations' general path forward....

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Mobile Solution Architecture: User Authentication Is The Foundation Of Mobile Trust

Start Small And Keep An Eye On The Breadth Of Your Future Mobile Scenarios

User authentication is a key foundation of security for mobile apps — as it is for application security in general. Determining which authentication approach to use for your mobile solution...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Information Architecture Planning Toolkit

As business executives develop an appreciation for the potential value in their information assets, they're looking to architects to help them dramatically improve their information management and...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:How To Successfully Set Up IT Infrastructure For Your Business In China

For the thousands of foreign companies that establish business operations in China every year, one of the first things on their to-do lists is setting up IT infrastructure, including horizontal and...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:The State Of Business Architecture And Business Architects In 2013

Landscape: The Business Architecture Playbook

Interest in business architecture (BA) is high across firms. The more mature and successful BA practices collaboratively work with business leaders and executives to address their current and future...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Map Your Way To Your Information Strategy's Business Outcomes

Road Map: The Information Strategy And Architecture Playbook

One of the most difficult aspects of an information architecture (IA) practice is engaging stakeholders to buy into your strategy and contribute to your architecture development. The architect's best...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:The State Of Application Rationalization

Landscape: The Application Rationalization Playbook

Many enterprise architects (EAs) have been rationalizing application and technology portfolios for some time, and the experience shows. It is a stable, relatively successful initiative that engages...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Develop The Implementation Road Map For BPM Excellence

Road Map: The Business Process Management Playbook

Developing an effective road map for business process management (BPM) is imperative if your initiative is to avoid a premature death. Managing processes effectively implies using processes to manage...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Cut Through Silos With An Agile Technology Introduction Strategy

To succeed in the digital age, enterprise architects must seize opportunities by adopting new approaches for emerging technolgy introduction. This report highlights the technology introduction and...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:The State Of EA 2013: Information And Business Architecture Take Hold; New Hardships Arise

Landscape: The EA Practice Playbook

Since 2009, Forrester's global state of enterprise architecture (EA) online survey has tracked the trends, priorities, and challenges of the EA practice. In our latest survey, the scale of EA value...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Benchmark Business Architecture Performance

Benchmarks: The Business Architecture Playbook

Strategic change initiatives are proliferating in organizations. To facilitate execution of these initiatives, firms are investing in business architecture (BA) to help assess and plan them —...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Financial Services Firms Prepare For The Business Applications Of The Future

Service-Oriented Architecture Has Reached A Mature State In Banking

Today's financial services firms often find their application landscape can no longer cope with their most urgent business drivers. Forrester's Q3 2012 Global Financial Services Architecture Online...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Using Tools And Technology For Business Architecture Programs

Tools And Technologies: The Business Architecture Playbook

Business architecture (BA) programs rely on a set of models and methods that often benefit from being linked to each other and to other external data sources. For some enterprise architects,...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Build Your Mobile Engagement Strategy

Strategic Plan: The CIO's Mobile Engagement Playbook

Mobile technology is rapidly evolving as a means for organizations to deliver new customer experiences, enhance customer value, and improve employee productivity. When combined with social, cloud,...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Create A Business Architecture Program That Helps Your Business Manage Change

Executive Overview: The Business Architecture Playbook

Strategic change initiatives are proliferating in organizations. There may be multiple programs to improve customer experience, co-existing alongside projects to reduce costs, streamline internal...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Digital Business Design Is The New Integration

Create A Cohesive Business From Your (Seemingly Random) Collection Of Applications And Data

Integration is a perennial challenge for application development and delivery (AD&D) professionals. Vintage, monolithic applications are hard to deal with, and point solutions abound, including point...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:How To Implement Digital Business Design

Move Deliberately, But Carefully, Toward Forrester's Vision For The Future Of Integration

Application development and delivery (AD&D) professionals need a foundation for recasting their integration strategies to meet 21st-century demands for business agility. Forrester's vision for...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:The Transformation Imperative In Financial Services Defies Any Crisis

The Q3 2012 Global Financial Services Architecture Online Survey Continues To Show A Focus On Transformation

Today's financial services firms often find that their application landscape is no longer able to cope with their most urgent business drivers. Forrester's Q3 2012 Global Financial Services...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

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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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Organize Your Business Architecture To Deliver Your Strategy

Organization: The Business Architecture Playbook

This report assists business architecture (BA) leaders in organizing the BA roles and skills needed to successfully execute a business architecture program. One of the major challenges facing...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Build A Business Architecture Program Road Map

Road Map: The Business Architecture Playbook

Too often, business architecture (BA) programs struggle to create a clear identity for the value they can deliver and get pulled in multiple directions. Successful BA programs — th ose with...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Develop A Stakeholder-Focused Business Architecture Strategy

Strategic Plan: The Business Architecture Playbook

This report is designed to help business architecture (BA) leaders construct a strategy meeting the needs of the organization's key stakeholders. Many organizations are reinventing or redesigning...

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