The Technology Awards recognise high-performing organisations that have enhanced business outcomes with their IT capabilities.
The Forrester Technology Strategy Impact Award 2025
Technology Strategy Impact Award
The Technology Strategy Impact Award honours those remarkable IT organisations that have proven their mettle in aligning technology with the dynamic needs of the business. The winner will:
- Enable capabilities: Demonstrate excellence in stabilising, operating, and protecting the business.
- Amplify capabilities: Utilise automation, data and analytics, AI, and other technologies to optimise outcomes and drive business efficiency at scale.
- Cocreate capabilities: Showcase the rapid development, delivery, and operation of new products, features, or services.
- Transform capabilities: Scale and rapidly deploy emerging technologies that create or disrupt new business models.
The 2025 Forrester Technology Strategy Impact Award Winner
mBank S.A.
mBank S.A., Poland’s first digital bank, is this year’s recipient of Forrester’s Technology Strategy Impact Award for EMEA. The bank is being honoured for successfully executing a comprehensive five-year modernisation strategy that has transformed its core banking infrastructure while maintaining operational excellence. Additionally, mBank continues to lead in cybersecurity innovation, proving that technology-led transformation can deliver measurable business outcomes without compromising stability or customer trust.
The Forrester Enterprise Architecture Award 2025
Enterprise Architecture Award
Forrester is pleased to announce that this year’s EA Awards are co-judged by The Open Group, author of the TOGAF® Standard, which was developed by The Open Group Architecture Forum
The Enterprise Architecture Award is the only global awards programme dedicated to recognising excellence in enterprise architecture. The recipients of this award can showcase their EA practice’s material contribution to their firms in managing risk, driving cost efficiency, improving CX (including EX), and increasing revenue. The winner will demonstrate:
- An EA roadmap that contributes to the high performance of its technology organisation and the entire business.
- EA practices driving change, growth, and differentiation through timely yet strategic decisions.
- An EA organisation that embodies the six foundational priorities: valuable, influential, agile, accountable, innovative, and collaborative.
- EA metrics that focus on customer outcomes and experiences.
The 2025 Forrester Enterprise Architecture Award Winner
Philip Morris International
Philip Morris International, a leading global consumer goods company, has been awarded Forrester’s Enterprise Architecture Award, presented in partnership with The Open Group. PMI’s Enterprise Architecture (EA) team has undergone a profound evolution—from a framework- and governance-focused function into a strategic partner at the heart of the company’s technology transformation. Fully embedded in PMI’s 2025 IT Strategy, EA now plays a pivotal role in shaping and executing initiatives that directly stem from business priorities. It drives measurable outcomes by accelerating delivery, enabling agility, and reducing risk—while supporting PMI’s bold vision of a smoke-free future
Technology Awards FAQ
No, all enterprise organisations (of 1,000+ employees) are welcome to apply.
High tech and services provider firms that compete directly in the technology and data space are not eligible for the awards but are welcome to nominate their clients, with their client’s written permission and agreement to the terms of the award.
Yes, the questions can be viewed by downloading the nomination packet.
Shortlisted nominees are selected on the qualitative and quantitative depth of their nominations.
A judging panel of Forrester experts will shortlist organisations and then interview them, if necessary, to carefully select award recipients.
A proprietary, quantitative, and qualitative scoring methodology will be applied to all applications.
No. All responses are treated as strictly confidential. If we wish to use anything from our conversation in published research, we will ask for your explicit permission.
Winners will be notified in August 2025.
The winning organisation will be interviewed on stage during a keynote and/or breakout session at this year’s event.
Yes, the keynote session with the winning organisation will be recorded and accessible via the digital platform. The breakout session will not be recorded.
Winners receive two complimentary tickets including a 1-night hotel stay for two senior executives.
Organisations that apply should be willing to have one senior executive, preferably the seniormost individual in technology, participate in a discussion of their organisation’s high-performance IT strategy on stage at Forrester’s Technology & Innovation Summit.
Organisations can submit for the Technology & Innovation NA awards or Technology & Innovation APAC awards.
Technology Strategy Impact Award: tsi-awards-EMEA@forrester.com
Enterprise Architecture Award: and ea-awards-EMEA@forrester.com
Forrester Awards
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