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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

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 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 Enterprise Architecture Professionals

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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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

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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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

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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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Best Practices: Implementing An EA Management Suite

Successes And Lessons Learned From Customer References

The EA management suite (EAMS) is the next step in the evolution of EA tools. Going beyond modeling and standards repositories, the EAMS addresses pragmatic EA objectives such as IT planning, road...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

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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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Business Architecture Is A Catalyst For The Evolving PMO

Business Architecture Knowledge Enhances PMO Value

Project portfolio management (PPM) is a recognized best practice for increasing businesses' return on their IT spend. With their in-depth understanding of the firm's operating model and their ability...

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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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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

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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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

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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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 Enterprise Architecture Professionals

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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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

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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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

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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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:The Profile Of Corporately Supported EA Groups

Tactics For Improving Corporate Management's Support For EA In Large Firms

As a key strategic entity in any large firm, the enterprise architecture (EA) group requires a strong positive relationship with the ultimate decision-makers — the corporate management...

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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: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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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

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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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

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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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

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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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:EA Effectiveness Is Linked To Business And IT Process Standardization

Firms With More Standardization See Greater EA Impact And Support

In September 2009, Forrester Research surveyed 416 IT executives familiar with their firm's EA program to determine the state of their EA practice — its maturity, structures and roles,...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

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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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

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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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

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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