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• Report Break Through Data Governance Fatigue

  A Framework For Effectiveness And Sustainability

  February 25, 2021 | Michele Goetz

  Data governance was never about the data. It was about your business. Focusing on command and control cultures, bureaucracy, complexity, and technology has hobbled data governance success....

• Report Your Business Is Only As Fast As Your Data

  Executive Overview: The Data Management Playbook

  January 15, 2021 | Michele Goetz

  What you know — and how well you use that knowledge — fuels your competitiveness and growth. To keep up with empowered customers and nimble competitors, you must change how your firm provisions and...

• Report Enterprise Data Fabric Enables DataOps

  Advanced Level: Data Practices For Insights-Driven Businesses

  December 23, 2020 | Noel Yuhanna

  Business users want faster and easier access to trusted data to make accurate business decisions, while technology organizations want to simplify data management. Forrester invented the tech...

• Report DataOps For The Intelligent Edge Of Business

  Go Beyond Traditional Data Management And Governance

  December 3, 2020 | Michele Goetz

  The world of data is changing from persistent states to data in motion. New data management and governance practices are necessary to move from analytics to operational use cases. To make this...

• Report Analytics, Cloud, And Intelligent Content Services: Stay Ahead Of The Curve

  Benchmarks: The Enterprise Content Management Playbook

  November 6, 2020 | Cheryl McKinnon

  Benchmarks provide enterprise architecture (EA) professionals and their content management program peers with data to inform their roadmaps. Use this report to gauge how other organizations invest...

• Report Evaluate Your Data And Information Management Maturity

  Assessment: The Data Management Playbook

  October 30, 2020 | Michele Goetz

  Strong data management enables insights into customer needs and optimal business operations. It also is a prerequisite for competing with the coming wave of AI-powered systems. Enterprise...

• Report Develop Five Processes To Drive Ongoing ECM Program Success

  Processes: The Enterprise Content Management Playbook

  October 26, 2020 | Cheryl McKinnon

  Program governance, information governance, implementation, continuous improvement, and support services are the primary processes that help firms design a sustainable enterprise content management...

• Report Measure What Matters: Rethink Success Metrics When Adopting Modern Content Platforms

  Performance Management: The Enterprise Content Management Playbook

  October 6, 2020 | Cheryl McKinnon

  Technology leaders can fall into the trap of measuring the performance of an enterprise content management (ECM) initiative by merely counting user- or system-generated activities. Enterprise...

• Report Drive Successful Outcomes With Strategy: Align ECM Programs To Core Business Missions

  Strategic Plan: The Enterprise Content Management Playbook

  September 16, 2020 | Cheryl McKinnon

  Enterprise architecture (EA) professionals need a solid content strategy that serves business objectives such as revenue growth and improved customer experience — without neglecting compliance...

• Report Invest In Fresh Skills As ECM Shifts To Modern Content Platforms

  Organization: The Enterprise Content Management Playbook

  September 11, 2020 | Cheryl McKinnon

  As enterprise content management (ECM) investments shift to content services and cloud deployment models, the composition of the program team will change. Enterprise architecture (EA) professionals...

• Report Build An Outcome-Focused EA Discipline, 2020

  Executive Overview: The EA Practice Playbook

  August 28, 2020 | Gordon Barnett

  The ability to nimbly navigate change in business environments and leverage technology effectively makes the difference between an adaptive enterprise and one that's always a beat behind....

• Report Programs, Not Projects: The Shift To Content Services Demands Agility And Iteration

  Continuous Improvement: The Enterprise Content Management Playbook

  August 14, 2020 | Cheryl McKinnon

  Successful enterprise content management (ECM) deployments share several common characteristics: engagement with business stakeholders; clear governance programs; adoption of Agile development and...

• Report Solve Your Top Content Challenges With Flexible, Modern Platforms

  Tools And Technology: The Enterprise Content Management Playbook

  July 31, 2020 | Cheryl McKinnon

  Enterprise content management (ECM) is not a single technology but a broad spectrum of document, process, and analytics services. The market has shifted to cloud-native, modern platforms fueled by...

• Report EA Professionals, Use Reference Models To Accelerate Your Martech Strategy

  Reference Models Provide A Common Language To Help Optimize Martech Investments

  July 20, 2020 | Gordon Barnett, Rusty Warner

  Successfully enabling a customer-obsessed strategy is dependent on a well-coordinated technology strategy championed by both business and technology executives. To succeed, outcome-driven...

• Report The ECM Playbook Is Your Guide To A Rejuvenated Program Strategy

  Executive Overview: The Enterprise Content Management Playbook

  July 17, 2020 | Cheryl McKinnon

  Enterprise content management (ECM) continues to evolve to services-driven platforms. Rapid changes in the technology and competitive landscape complicate businesses' objectives to grow revenue and...

• Report Content Services Are Foundational For Employee And Customer Experiences: Look Ahead To 2025

  Vision: The Enterprise Content Management Playbook

  July 13, 2020 | Cheryl McKinnon

  Content services and modern content platforms dominate the enterprise content management (ECM) conversation. New vendors as well as veterans with next-generation architectures are winning deals...

• Report Assess Your Enterprise Content Management Maturity Level

  Assessment: The Enterprise Content Management Playbook

  July 10, 2020 | Cheryl McKinnon

  This report provides a framework for enterprise architecture (EA) professionals to assess their organization's content management maturity, identify capability gaps, and plot a course for program...

• Report Now Tech: Cloud Data Warehouse, Q2 2020

  Forrester's Overview Of 14 Cloud Data Warehouse Providers

  July 1, 2020 | Noel Yuhanna

  You can use cloud data warehouse (CDW) to build data warehouses more quickly, support new business use cases, and lower infrastructure, software, and administration costs. But to realize these...

• Report Use Continuous Assessments To Mature Your Business Architecture, 2020

  June 30, 2020 | Gordon Barnett

  Firms with effective enterprise architecture (EA) combine talent and capabilities to solve thorny architectural challenges and advance business outcomes. In the digital era, they also need business...

• Report Now Tech: Data Virtualization, Q2 2020

  Forrester's Overview Of 15 Data Virtualization Providers

  June 29, 2020 | Noel Yuhanna

  You can use data virtualization to deliver integrated and real-time data to support various business needs, create a self-service data platform for business users, and secure sensitive data by...

• Report Assess Your Business-Centric EA Capabilities — 2020

  Assessment: The EA Practice Playbook

  June 26, 2020 | Gordon Barnett

  Effective enterprise architecture (EA) leaders build an ecosystem that combines talent and capabilities to solve thorny architectural challenges and advance business outcomes. In the digital era,...

• Report The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Data Fabric, Q2 2020

  The 15 Providers That Matter Most And How They Stack Up

  June 10, 2020 | Noel Yuhanna

  In our 25-criterion evaluation of enterprise data fabric providers, we identified the 15 most significant ones — Cambridge Semantics, Cloudera, DataRobot, Denodo Technologies, Hitachi Vantara, IBM,...

• Report Your ECM Roadmap Is A Living Document: Plan For Quick Wins, And Adapt To Changing Needs

  Roadmap: The Enterprise Content Management Playbook

  June 3, 2020 | Cheryl McKinnon

  Enterprise architecture (EA) professionals play — or will play — an essential orchestration role as their organizations invest in technologies to improve customer and employee experiences. This...

• Report Enterprise Architecture In 2025 And Beyond

  Vision: The EA Practice Playbook

  May 22, 2020 | Gordon Barnett

  As firms become more customer obsessed, the enterprise architecture (EA) mandate becomes richer and more complex — and that changes the work the EA ecosystem must do. To see how the work of EA will...

• Report Business Architecture In 2025 And Beyond

  Evolving To Support Outcome-Based Architecture

  May 20, 2020 | Gordon Barnett

  As firms continue their evolution to become customer obsessed, the need for specialist business architecture (BA) professionals becomes more apparent. Today, most BA pros focus on helping their...