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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:EA Process Toolkit: Example Processes, Deliverables, And Responsibilities

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:The Forrester Enterprise Architecture Maturity Assessment: Q2 2013

Forrester's enterprise architecture (EA) maturity assessment model tool will help EA leaders define and communicate their direction and value in a variety of ways depending on the unique challenges...

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Report:The Forrester Wave™: EA Management Suites, Q2 2013

The 10 Providers That Matter Most And How They Stack Up

There is a plethora of vendors in the enterprise architecture management suite (EAMS) market that, like many EA practices themselves, excel at only a portion of a comprehensive EA practice. It is not...

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Report:EA Practice Toolkit: Designing Your Operating Model And Structure

Enterprise architecture practices have a number of choices to make when deciding where responsibilities land within their organization. Forrester sees an increasing trend for EA leaders to take more...

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Report:Create A Strategy To Leverage Emerging Technology

Strategic Plan: The Emerging Technology Playbook

For many organizations, the use of emerging technology is confusing, slow, and problematic. Which emerging technologies should be part of IT's standard approach? Which should IT push for business to...

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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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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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Report:Assessing Organizational Readiness For A Business Architecture Program

Assessment: The Business Architecture Playbook

Business architecture (BA) provides a coordinating framework for organizational analysis and change, helping to integrate different groups of stakeholders who often pursue subtly divergent...

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Report:Assessment Toolkit Overview: Assessing Your Readiness For High-Performance EA

This workbook provides a step-by-step overview of the contents of the High-Performance EA Readiness Toolkit. Use this deck as a primer for completing the Excel-based readiness toolkit and to learn...

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Report:The Forrester Readiness Assessment For High-Performance EA

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Report:Track Progress Toward High-Performance EA

Performance Management: The EA Practice Playbook

This report outlines the performance management section of Forrester's solution for enterprise architecture (EA) professionals building a high-performance EA practice. We designed this report to help...

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Report:Communicate EA Capabilities Companywide

Change Management: The EA Practice Playbook

This report provides an approach to formulating and implementing an enterprise architecture (EA) communication program that eliminates the guesswork and uncertainty that usually surround such...

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Report:Measure EA's Business Goals, Engagement, And Influence

Metrics: The EA Practice Playbook

This report outlines the metrics for enterprise architecture (EA) impact of Forrester's solution for EA executives building a high-performance EA program. Developing and executing a metrics and...

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Report:Transform EA Resources, Relationships, Processes, And Foundations

Assessment Framework: The EA Practice Playbook

This report outlines the assessment framework of Forrester's solution for enterprise architecture (EA) executives working on creating a high-performance EA practice. A high-performance EA practice is...

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Report:Let Business Needs Drive Your Enterprise Architecture

Stakeholder Needs: The EA Practice Playbook

This report outlines the stakeholder needs portion of Forrester's solution for enterprise architecture (EA) professionals building a high-performance EA practice. This report is designed to help you...

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Report:Focus EA Impact On Planning, Governance, And Innovation

This report outlines the high-level business impact of Forrester's solution for enterprise architecture (EA) executives working on building a high-performance EA practice. Describing the added...

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Report:Build A High-Performance EA Practice

Executive Overview: The EA Practice Playbook

The ability to nimbly navigate change in business environments makes the difference between an industry-leading enterprise and one that always seems a beat behind. But how can a large organization...

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Report:EA Management Suite Dashboards: Samples For Application And Project Portfolio Management Roles

An enterprise architecture (EA) tool can be a significant investment because of both the cost of the purchase or subscription and the cost of implementation. The best approach to demonstrate value is...

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Report:Profiling The Strategy-Oriented EA Practice

Enterprise architecture (EA) leaders know that EA's value to the firm increases as it shifts its focus from tactical work to enabling tomorrow's competitive advantages. But that shift can be slow,...

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Report:Forrester's EA Maturity Assessment, Q3 2011

Use this tool to periodically assess the maturity of your EA program relative to the expectations of your stakeholders and your target EA mission. The assessment results are displayed by EA archetype...

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Report:Forget EA Nirvana: Assessing EA Maturity

Use EA Archetypes To Assess Maturity And Align Effort With Expectations

Enterprise architecture (EA) maturity models abound. Each comes with its own opinion on EA maturity, its own system for scoring it, and a single set of beliefs on the proper role of EA within a firm....

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Report:EA Management Suite Dashboards: Samples For The CIO Role

An EA tool can be a significant investment both because of the cost of the purchase or subscription and the cost of implementation. The best approach to demonstrate value is to directly serve the...

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Report:What EA Management Suite Vendors Are Doing Well (And What They're Not)

What To Expect When Evaluating Offerings

Forrester's recent evaluation of the enterprise architecture management suite (EAMS) market uncovered a wide variety of current vendor capabilities and future visions of the EAMS market. While each...

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Report:The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Architecture Management Suites, Q2 2011

Mega International, Troux Technologies, Software AG, And Alfabet Lead This Upcoming Category

Forrester evaluated 10 of the leading enterprise architecture management suite (EAMS) vendors across 89 criteria and found that Mega International (Mega), Troux Technologies, Software AG, and alfabet...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:The State Of EA 2010

EA's Top Focus: Overcoming Long-Standing Obstacles

Forrester's "State Of EA 2010" report shows consistent themes and incremental progress by the enterprise architecture (EA) function in most firms. EA leaders are part of senior IT management and have...

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