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Forrester’s 2023 Enterprise Architecture Awards Winner And Finalists For APAC
Learn how our APAC Enterprise Architecture Award winner and finalists use outcome-driven enterprise architecture for business success.
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Navigating The Waters Of Enterprise Software? Keep An Eye On The Agile Vendors
Learn why focused enterprise software vendors like Adobe and Salesforce maintain superior product quality over behemoths like IBM and SAP.
Budget Your 2024 Cloud And AI Priorities Wisely
Download our 2024 Planning Guide for Technology Architecture & Delivery Leaders to learn where cloud, data center, software, and emerging tech budgets are shifting.
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Discover The Foundational Priorities And Capabilities That Every Architect Must Adopt
Enterprise architects want a best-in-class enterprise architecture department, but they can only achieve this by having the right foundational priorities and architecture capabilities. Learn how in our new research.
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LeanIX To Be Acquired By SAP In Q4 2023: A Vote Of Confidence By SAP In Enterprise Architecture
LeanIX, a privately held enterprise architecture (EA) management solution, is set to be acquired by SAP, as announced on September 7, 2023 (click here). SAP has made this strategic acquisition to offer SAP clients access to a complete suite of tools essential for continuous business transformation. It includes AI-driven process optimization, particularly in enterprise architecture. […]
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Forrester’s 2023 Enterprise Architecture Awards Winner And Finalist For EMEA
Learn how our EMEA Enterprise Architecture Award winner and finalist use outcome-driven enterprise architecture for business success.
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Open Source Under Attack: Your Source Is Ajar
The open source world has seen high-profile projects with unusual terms. They call themselves “open source” and “free for research and commercial use.” Whether a project is open source does matter. It could be not-quite-closed source masquerading as truly open - it could be ajar source.
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Heat Reuse In Data Centers May Be Required And Regulated
Debates surrounding the Energy Efficiency Act, which aims to reduce energy use in public authorities, corporations, and data centers, will potentially influence future laws globally. Why is this important and what does it mean? Here’s the context: Data centers use a lot of energy. The International Energy Agency estimated that global data center electricity consumption […]
2024 Tech Budget Missteps You’ll Want To Avoid
Explore benchmark data from Forrester’s 2024 Planning Guide reports for tech leaders to see where you’re over- or underinvesting.
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Forrester’s 2023 Enterprise Architecture Awards Winner And Finalists For The Americas
Learn how our winner, U.S. Bank, and finalists Rockwell Automation and Takeda Pharmaceuticals have used outcome-driven enterprise architecture for business success.
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Generative AI Will Supercharge The Green Market Revolution
The advent of generative AI brings immense potential for the technology to aid in areas of environmental sustainability efforts. This incudes measurement and reporting, research and revolution, and design and manufacturing, among others. Find out the details in this blog.
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Fourteen Years Of The Forrester Enterprise Architecture (EA) Awards
Over the past 14 years, we’ve recognized 66 EA Award winners, showcasing how accountable, agile, continuous, influential, pragmatic, and valuable EA practices drive organizational adaptivity, creativity, and resilience. You can see the full year-by-year list of award winners at the end of this blog, but here’s three stories from past years that illustrate the type of outcome-driven architecture that we are seeking. And if you think your practice fits the bill, submit an entry to the 2023 EA Awards, which will be co-judged by Forrester and The Open Group.
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Forrester Partners With The Open Group On 2023 EA Awards
Forrester is partnering with The Open Group on the 2023 EA Awards. Find out how to apply.
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Are You Managing Your Technical Debt? If Not, It Might Be Killing You. Here’s What You Can Do.
Enterprises accrue technical debt by hurriedly writing new code and deploying more software to keep up. If not properly managed, that technical debt will lead to poor business outcomes. Learn how technology lifecycle management can help.
Align Tech Spending With 2024 Benchmarks
Download our 2024 Planning Guide for Technology Executives to learn how to drive growth with strategic tech budgeting.
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The Death Of Microservices?
A blog from Amazon has been buzzing in the IT industry: A monolithic architecture produced superior performance compared to a serverless microservices approach. It reduced infrastructure cost by over 90% and increased scaling capabilities. So are microservices dead? Is it time to go back to the monolith? To answer like an architect: It depends.
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Call For Entries: Forrester Technology Awards 2023
Calling all entries for the Forrester Technology Strategy Impact Awards and the Forrester/The Open Group Enterprise Architecture Awards.
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The State Of IT Environmental Sustainability, 2023: Results From A Global Survey Of IT And Sustainability Decision-Makers
Technology and sustainability leaders can use the insights in this report to benchmark their own state of IT environmental sustainability.
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Plan Now For Major Changes To Oracle Java Licensing Costs
Oracle has again changed licensing rules for its widely used Java product. On January 23, 2023, the company introduced a new license metric, the SE Universal Subscription. It offers all the benefits of the legacy Java SE subscription, plus universal use rights (desktop, server, and third-party cloud) and triage support for customers’ entire Java portfolio, […]
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FinOps Is Getting A Seat At The Executive Table
Earlier this year, I promised a slew of research on FinOps. Today, I published the first in this series, What Technology Executives Need To Know: FinOps. This report is especially timely, as FinOps is getting a front-row seat with executives globally across verticals and across organizations of all sizes. Amid a growing economic slowdown, efficiency […]
Discover The Top 10 Emerging Technologies For 2023
Watch this on-demand webinar to see which technologies made our list, which didn't — and a benefits horizon to help you plan your investments.
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Recommendations From The 2023 Application Development Benchmarks, Europe
The 2023 Application Development Benchmarks, Europe report is now available. This document mirrors the global 2022 Application Development Benchmarks so that European tech execs can read both in conjunction and get an even better picture of application development costs and practices around the world. In this blog, we give some recommendations to consider after reading […]
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Forr The Planet: Sustainability Interview Series — Mary de Wysocki, Chief Sustainability Officer at Cisco
Read this interview with Cisco's chief sustainability officer Mary de Wysocki to learn about her priorities in building up the sustainability team and the challenges that lie ahead in the telecommunications sector.
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Is The Enterprise Architecture Discipline Mature Enough?
Would it surprise you to know 30% of EA departments are being disbanded? Find out why and how to keep yours from becoming one of them.
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