Charles Betz

The recent ServiceNow Knowledge 2024 and Atlassian Team 24 conferences revealed a structural realignment in important sections of the IT management market. Find out how in this post.

Is an enterprise architecture tool truly essential for achieving a successful architecture practice? Hear both sides and more in this post.

Thinking about submitting an entry for Forrester’s Enterprise Architecture Awards this year? Good news: The deadline has been extended. Learn the major benefits you could gain from winning an award in this post.

As an IT organization grows, it eventually hits a point where spreadsheets aren't enough to assess its capabilities. This updated IT capability map can help assess your digital and IT organization's capabilities as well as its deficits, gaps, or redundancies.

Forrester's Enterprise Architecture Award submissions are in full swing, but the deadline for the the North American award is less than a month away. As you finalize your submissions, learn what makes a strong entry.

Modern digital and IT professionals encounter a similar dilemma: Technical debt and sprawl make IT portfolios insecure and unsustainable, but processes and controls intended to minimize debt and sprawl are themselves too often value-destroying. Are platforms the solution to this challenge?

Nominations are now open for Forrester's Enterprise Architecture Awards in partnership with the Open Group. Learn more about the awards and how your organization can apply.

The future of genAI is much bigger than question-and-answer-style chat. Learn why architects must get involved to help their organization understand its potential and the building blocks needed for a dizzying array of genAI-powered applications.

Use this impact map to understand how architecture teams can demonstrate and articulate their business value.

Learn how our winner, U.S. Bank, and finalists Rockwell Automation and Takeda Pharmaceuticals have used outcome-driven enterprise architecture for business success.

Last chance! We are extending the nomination deadline for our Technology Strategy Impact and Enterprise Architecture (EA) Awards to June 26, 2023.

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.

Forrester is partnering with The Open Group on the 2023 EA Awards. Find out how to apply.

Calling all entries for the Forrester Technology Strategy Impact Awards and the Forrester/The Open Group Enterprise Architecture Awards.

The definition of “asset” has broadened well beyond traditional financial boundaries in the earliest days of IT asset management. Technology stakeholders are often confused over what constitutes an asset, and the technologies to enable enterprise asset management frequently add to this confusion.

Happy holidays from the DevOps theme team! Our merry band of Forrester analysts covering enterprise architecture, infrastructure, application development, application security, and technology strategy meets periodically to share research, debate trends, and dive into breaking news. What are a few of the trends and themes that have caught our attention this year? Let’s dive in […]

Note: I have heard some concerns I’m “throwing I&O under the bus” here. That’s not the intent. I&O’s struggles stem from deliberate operating model choices by senior leaders. The individual contributors have always worked hard in difficult circumstances. I truly believe that proper product management will benefit them.  I just got back from the DevOps […]

Learn how the three finalists for Forrester’s Enterprise Architecture Award for North America drive their EA strategy and its impacts.

Find out which firms have made the cut and what the next steps are in naming the finalists.