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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Select The Core Methods And Techniques You Need To Deliver BPM Excellence

Policy And Procedures: The Business Process Management Playbook

This report outlines the critical methods and techniques for business process management (BPM) initiatives. It represents a key component of Forrester's solution for BPM excellence. It is designed to...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Identify Essential Methods For Your Business Architecture Program

Processes: The Business Architecture Playbook

Business architecture (BA) is the practice through which an organization adds analytical rigor to the planning and decision-making surrounding change. Whether changes are driven by competitive...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Focus On The Transformational Impact Of Business Architecture

Business Impact: The Business Architecture Playbook

This report outlines the business impact of Forrester's solution for enterprise architecture (EA) executives working on business architecture. This report is designed to help you align the strategic...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Increase Business Flexibility By Embracing Future Trends

Vision: The Business Applications Playbook

This report outlines the vision aspect of Forrester's solution for application development and delivery (AD&D) professionals working on business applications strategy. It summarizes the key business...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:The Process-Driven Business Of 2020

Why And How To Shift From Incremental Improvement To Transformation

Business executives expect the CIO to help continuously improve processes by implementing major software suites, developing new apps, or enhancing existing processes. Spurred by the great recession,...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Trends In Aligning Business Process And Master Data Management Initiatives

These data charts present the results of Forrester's 2011 Process Data Management Online Survey.

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Innovative Technologies Will Drive Enterprise Applications And ERP To A Bright New Future

In the next five years, enterprise apps will be transformed by technologies that disrupt preconceived notions about ownership and support costs, process flexibility, insight, and speed of delivery....

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Current Business Architecture Models Lack Both Breadth And Depth

Interest in business architecture continues to grow. Though there is a great deal of discussion, there is little consensus about what business architecture is, how organizations should pursue it, and...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Metadata Architecture — EA's Key Contribution To The Industrialization Of IT

Business pressures have forced IT management to begin applying formal management disciplines to the delivery of IT services. In the past decade we have seen the rise of portfolio and project...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Trends 2011: ERP Customers Demand Better Flexibility, Cost Transparency, And Mobility

Enterprise applications for running your business (i.e., ERP) are evolving rapidly to enable more flexibility, better user experiences, and new deployment options offering more predictable long-term...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:The Shifting Market For Business Process Analysis Tools

Business process analysis (BPA) began as a separate market run by vendors that developed specialized tools, but a combination of forces is buffeting these vendors: Their markets withered during the...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Do CIOs Care About IT Management Tools?

CIOs are constantly working to run IT like a business — focusing on business orientation through capabilities like IT planning, portfolio management, and IT investment optimization. A myriad of...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:CIOs: Business Alignment And BT Enablement Require Business Capability Maps

At Your Level, You Can't Rely On Any Other Single IT Business Model

CIOs are aggressively tackling their planning and management challenges, deploying tools and building models to address a wide variety of functions like asset management, IT services management,...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Economic Forces Drive Lean BPM Trends And Adoption

Data chart with key findings from the April 2009 Global Lean BPM Online Survey. Results include data on BPM initiative ownership, budgets, tools, and SaaS.

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Software AG Acquires IDS Scheer To Finalize Its Five-Year Restructuring Plan

Software AG Will Pass The €1 Billion Revenue Mark Once It Closes The Deal

Software AG continues to stay the course on its five-year turnaround plan. After stabilizing its legacy application business — mostly by replacing its former integration offering with the...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Use EA Assessment And Maturity Models To Guide Your EA Program Next Steps

A recent survey revealed that a minority of enterprise architects perform regular EA assessments. While a wide range of assessment methodologies are available to EA organizations, none of them are...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Use TOGAF 9 As Your Next EA Framework

TOGAF V9 Complements Your Existing EA Framework With Methodology And Templates

An enterprise architecture (EA) framework describes the deliverables an EA function should produce as well as how to create these deliverables. A framework helps EA leaders organize their efforts as...

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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:Help Yourself Make Tomorrow's IT Decisions

Tools For IT Planning

Flexibility and quick thinking are vital when planning for IT, so go ahead and arm yourself with the best weapons: You're going to need them. Volatility in the marketplace and an increased reliance...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Enterprise Architecture Tool Trends: Slow Adoption But Expanding Usage

The December 2008 Global EA Toolbox Online Survey shows slow progress of enterprise architecture (EA) tools adoption. Given the growth of EA as a practice, the slow adoption belies a change in how...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Tools For IT Planning

Strategic planning is more difficult than ever. Today's volatile economic environment means that IT must plan quickly, more flexibly, and more thoroughly. Plans that don't follow this path quickly...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

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

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

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...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Vendor Snapshot: Lombardi Blueprint Bridges Gap Between Process Discovery And Execution

Austin-based Lombardi Software's latest offering, Blueprint, positions the vendor to extend its leadership in human-centric business process management (BPM) and takes direct aim at Microsoft Word,...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:The Forrester Wave™: Business Process Analysis, EA Tools, And IT Planning, Q1 2009

IDS Scheer, Casewise, MEGA, Metastorm, And Troux Technologies Lead The EA Tools Category

In this second release of Forrester's assessment of enterprise architecture and business process analysis (BPA) tools, Forrester assessed nine leading vendors in a 93-criteria evaluation. We found...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Choose From Five Basic Approaches To Business Architecture Based On Your Context And Goals

As interest in business architecture grows, multiple approaches are evolving. Architects are blending a wide variety of generic models to develop business architectures that are specific to their...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Are Open Source And Low-Priced Solutions Available For Tooling EA?

Justifying an enterprise architecture (EA) tools investment continues to be a problem — particularly when compared with just using Microsoft Visio. So what are the alternatives for inexpensive...

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