Search Results

• Report Insight Platforms Connect Data To Action

  January 24, 2018 | Brian Hopkins

  The pace of innovation and availability of data are outstripping firms' ability to keep up. Read this report to understand how an emerging class of software — insight platforms — can better connect...

• Report Stretch Your Data Management Capabilities

  January 10, 2018 | Brian Hopkins

  Firms face an enormous data management challenge: how to act on data and insights to serve increasingly powerful customers and outmaneuver disruptive competitors. Architects once had time to plan...

• Report The Anatomy Of A System Of Insight

  January 5, 2018 | Brian Hopkins, Michele Goetz, Noel Yuhanna

  Your big data strategy is likely too little, too late. Customers are changing their expectations too quickly, and data lakes are becoming swamps. Insights-driven disruptors are using systems of...

• 

  Webinar Use The Forrester Wave™ When Moving Your Big Data Into The Public Cloud

  October 10, 2017 | Brian Hopkins

  Public cloud adoption is the No. 1 priority for technology decision makers investing in big data. However, most enterprise architects are not ready for the disruption that this shift will cause....

• Report The Forrester Wave™: Insight Platforms-As-A-Service, Q3 2017

  Google's Powerful Combination Of Machine Learning, Real-Time, And Insight Application Tools Makes It A Leader

  August 2, 2017 | Brian Hopkins

  In our 36-criteria evaluation of insight platform-as-a-service (PaaS) providers, we identified the eight most significant ones — 1010data, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Databricks, GoodData, Google,...

• Report Move Your Big Data Into The Public Cloud

  You Won't Be Able To Keep Up With Customers If You Don't

  June 15, 2017 | Brian Hopkins

  Public cloud adoption is the No. 1 priority for technology decision makers investing in big data. However, most enterprise architects are not ready for the disruption that this shift will cause....

• Report The Cloudy Future Of Hadoop

  Hadoop Is Here To Stay, But The Cloud Will Change What It Is

  March 1, 2017 | Brian Hopkins, Mike Gualtieri

  Happy birthday! This is the year that Apache Hadoop and its community turns 10 years old, and we have all watched the child star rocket to big data superstardom. But will this bright future...

• Report The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Insight Platform Suites, Q4 2016

  The Seven Providers That Matter Most And How They Stack Up

  December 7, 2016 | Brian Hopkins

  Insight platforms that combine data management, analytics, and insight execution tools were 2016's top emerging technology priority according to enterprise architects. In our 30-criteria evaluation...

• Report Vendor Landscape: Insights Platforms, Q3 2016

  Insight Platforms Turn Big Data Into More Action

  August 2, 2016 | Brian Hopkins

  The market for data analytics technologies has exploded, and your business needs actionable insight from data more urgently than ever. But it is easy to get lost with so many choices and appealing...

• Report Breakout Vendors: Big Data Integration For Business Process Automation

  Pneuron And AlphaPoint Merge Big Data Integration And Business Process Orchestration

  August 1, 2016 | Brian Hopkins

  How much effort should your organization spend on integrating data? Most firms have already spent a lot of time and money, and their data lake projects aren't reducing their efforts that much. In...

• Report Use Big Data Initiatives To Achieve Digital Operational Excellence

  Part II: Digital Operational Excellence

  May 20, 2016 | Nasry Angel, Brian Hopkins

  This toolkit discusses more architectural pattern details around the emerging architecture for systems of insights. It will help architects plan their future state for big data.

• Report Breakout Vendors: Big Data Integration

  Looker Data Sciences, SnapLogic, And Snowflake Computing Push The Boundaries Of Established Big Data Integration

  May 10, 2016 | Brian Hopkins

  How are you going to get more value from your data lake? Most big data integration vendors focus on making classic processes faster with tools for moving data into a lake and working with it there....

• Report Brief: SAS Bets Its Future On An Insight Platform

  The New SAS Viya Platform Is At The Heart Of The Firm's Modernization Strategy

  May 9, 2016 | Brian Hopkins

  SAS has large industry footprint and a long tradition as an advanced analytics leader. If you work for a large enterprise, SAS is likely present somewhere at your organization. However, SAS has...

• Report The Platform Explosion: Harness It Or Lose Agility

  Job No. 1 For EA Pros: Don't Let Complexity Kill Responsiveness

  March 30, 2016 | Brian Hopkins, John Rymer

  The neat boundary between platforms and applications is gone, resulting in a spike in the number of software platforms in the average enterprise. Vendors of all types — SaaS providers, systems...

• Report A Technology Guide To Turn Data Into Customer-Obsessed Action

  Leverage Forrester's Data, Analytics, And Insight-To-Action Technology Research To Become Customer-Obsessed

  March 17, 2016 | Brian Hopkins

  All the market noise about data and analytics misses an important idea — your business cares about changing outcomes, and data and analytics are simply a means to that end. But knowing what type of...

• Report TechRadar™: Big Data, Q1 2016

  March 10, 2016 | Noel Yuhanna, Brian Hopkins

  To remain competitive, firms absolutely must mine insights from vast and diverse data sets. However, the complexity of the big data technology ecosystem can stall key initiatives to improve...

• 

  Webinar Predictions 2016: The Path From Data To Action

  January 27, 2016 | Brian Hopkins, Srividya Sridharan

  Companies are drowning in data but starving for insights. While firms recognize the business imperative to leverage new sources of insights and technologies to achieve differentiating customer...

• Report Use Big Data Initiatives To Deliver Digital Business Value

  Part I: Digital Customer Experience

  December 14, 2015 | Nasry Angel, Brian Hopkins

  In what seems like the blink of an eye, our world has become digital. Work schedules, personal preferences, and opinions all live coded in databases. Empowered customers have many options and...

• Report The Gulf Cooperative Council's Big Data Opportunity

  How The GCC Can Use Big Data To Be More Competitive

  November 20, 2015 | Brian Hopkins

  The Middle East is a new frontier for business innovation. In particular, the possibilities for using big data and advanced analytics to improve regional outcomes are enormous — and the region...

• Report Predictions 2016: The Path From Data To Action For Technologists

  How Technology Managers Will Elevate Systems Of Insight

  November 9, 2015 | Brian Hopkins, Carlton A. Doty, Jennifer Belissent, PhD

  The blistering speed of change in data and analytics will heat up more in 2016, making it harder than ever for enterprise architects and technology managers to make sense of it all. In this brief,...

• Report Quick Take: IBM Forecasts Insights-Driven . . . And Buys The Weather Company

  October 29, 2015 | Brian Hopkins, Ted Schadler

  First, IBM morphed from "big iron" to software and services. Now, it's transforming again. Yesterday, IBM announced its intent to acquire everything except the TV business from The Weather Company....

• Report The Four Things Data Scientists Wish You Knew

  Get The Most Out Of Your Data Science Investments

  October 26, 2015 | Brian Hopkins

  In a business environment increasingly characterized by the imperative to use deeper insights to engage customers and outpace competitors, data science is a hot topic. But data science is very...

• Report Quick Take: Teradata Must Lean Hard Into BT

  Teradata Reinvents Itself As A Data Management ESV As Disruption Hits The Industry With Full Force

  October 23, 2015 | Brian Hopkins, Michele Goetz, Noel Yuhanna

  Teradata has enjoyed dominance as the best-of-breed in data warehousing for the largest of enterprises. But unprecedented disruption from open source solutions, simple cloud-based options, and...

• Report Brief: Why Data-Driven Aspirations Fail

  Our Annual State Of Strategic Planning, EA, And PMO Online Survey Shows Why Architects' Data-Driven Aspirations Will Underdeliver

  October 7, 2015 | Brian Hopkins

  Data-driven hopes are high. Forrester's Q3 2015 Global State Of Strategic Planning, Enterprise Architecture, And PMO Online Survey indicates that a large majority of enterprise architecture (EA)...

• Webinar The Top Technology Trends To Watch: 2016 To 2018

  October 7, 2015 | Bobby Cameron, Brian Hopkins

  Five years into the age of the customer, investments in mobile, cloud, big data, predictive analytics, and social technologies are booming. But unlike previous technology cycles, tech investments...