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Training Architects Has Never Been So Important — Here’s Why
Many enterprise architecture teams are unable to scale their impact or evolve their practices due to a growing skills gap. Learn the three distinct but interconnected dimensions of training that high-performing EA teams invest in.
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M-Files Embeds Itself More Deeply Into The Microsoft Ecosystem
Find out how M-Files' deepening of its partnership with Microsoft will impact customers and the overall enterprise content management market.
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Factories, Foundries, Or Refineries? Seeking The Right Metaphor For Agentic AI
The critical question facing enterprise architects: How will you evolve your practice to manage AI’s inherent ambiguity, address human concerns around AI adoption, and architect systems that capture and leverage tacit knowledge?
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Graphic IT Management Requires Clear Language
In the battle to manage increasingly complex IT portfolios, organizations must learn to establish a structured ontology: a shared understanding of how applications, platforms, technologies, and assets interact.
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IBM Think 2025: A Bold Step Toward AI-First Enterprise Transformation
Get Forrester's five key takeaways from the recent IBM Think 2025 event and our five pieces of advice for technology leaders based on what we heard.
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Atlassian’s AI Offensive Is Changing Work Forever
Atlassian has launched a sweeping upgrade to its platform, and the message is crystal-clear: AI isn’t just a feature; it’s the foundation. If you’re working in tech, managing teams, or even just part of a business using Jira or Confluence, this isn’t a subtle shift; it’s a tectonic one. Atlassian dropped a full suite of […]
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The Augmented Architect: Real-Time Enterprise Architecture In The Age Of AI
What if the EA function was no longer confined to episodic review and disconnected models? This is the emerging reality — a direct consequence of the operationalization of architecture via closed feedback loops, AI agents, large language models (LLMs), retrieval-augmented generation, vector databases, and dynamic graph-based systems.
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Call For Entries: The 2025 Enterprise Architecture Awards
Forrester is thrilled to announce the opening of nominations for the 2025 global Enterprise Architecture Awards. Learn more about this year’s awards and how to apply here.
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Meet The Analyst: Covering ERP, FP&A, SaaS, And The Enterprise Software Market
I am thrilled to begin my journey as principal analyst on the enterprise software, IT services, and digital transformation-focused team at Forrester. For nearly two decades, I have led major business-technology initiatives. During the last eight years for Forrester Consulting, I helped clients drive transformative results. Now, I am eager to deliver clear, actionable insights […]
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The Enterprise Architecture Tool Market Starts 2025 With A Notable Merger
In a Forrester landscape report published in May 2024, we predicted that M&A activity would continue to change and disrupt the enterprise architecture management suite (EAMS) market. This trend started in 2023, continued throughout 2024, and now, amazingly, as we enter 2025, the market has reached a further peak.
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Mergers And Acquisitions Continue To Reshape The EA Tool Market
In November 2023, LeanIX was absorbed by SAP; in September 2024, Ardoq acquired ShiftX; and most recently, on December 11, 2024, Orbus Software announced its acquisition of Capsifi. All these acquisitions point to a significant shift in the enterprise architecture management suite space. Orbus Software, recognized as one of the leading vendors in The Forrester […]
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Choose The Enterprise Architecture Management Suite That Best Supports Your Transformation
Who are the top vendors in the enterprise architecture management space and what sets them apart? Find out in this preview of the new Forrester Wave™ on enterprise architecture management suites.
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AI And GenAI Are Game-Changers For Enterprise Architecture Leaders
Generative AI has started to drive new levels of business value as it cuts across different domains of business operations. Learn how AI and genAI will disrupt the enterprise architecture discipline in this preview of a new report.
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Predictions 2025: GenAI Reality Bites Back For Software Developers
AI assistants are only the beginning of the generative AI software development revolution. Find out what’s in store for software developers in our 2025 predictions for software development.
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Forrester’s 2024 Enterprise Architecture Award Winner And Finalists For APAC
What does excellence in enterprise architecture look like? Learn more about the enterprise architecture strategy that won Contact Energy, a New Zealand electricity generator and retailer, this year’s EA Award for the APAC region.
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Celebrating Excellence: DRÄXLMAIER Group Wins The 15th Annual Enterprise Architecture Award In EMEA
Learn more about the enterprise architecture practice at DRÄXLMAIER Group, winner of this year’s EA Award for EMEA.
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Why Forrester’s SAP Services Landscape, Q3 2024, Is So Important
We recently completed The SAP Services Landscape, Q3 2024. A lot has changed in the SAP ecosystem since the last edition of this Forrester landscape. SAP ECC to SAP S/4HANA cloud migrations are taking center stage for the vast majority of SAP clients. The RISE with SAP offering has undergone massive changes in the last […]
Three Bold Ways To Spotlight Your Tech Excellence
Seize your chance to earn a prestigious Forrester award for innovation in tech strategy, enterprise architecture, or data & AI. Elevate your team and show the world what true trailblazers look like.
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How India’s National Stock Exchange (NSE India) Builds Its Critical IT Infrastructure
Learn how one of the largest stock exchanges in the world uses information technology to deliver services that meet stringent regulatory standards as well as unique investor needs.
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Celebrating Excellence: Scotiabank Wins The 15th Annual Enterprise Architecture Award In North America
Get an inside look at the enterprise architecture strategies of this year’s EA Awards winner, Scotiabank, and learn which firms were runners-up.
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Tech Leaders Target Scale And Enhanced Productivity With 2025 Budgets
Technology architecture leaders see positive economic signs heading into the 2025 budget planning season. Find out how you can optimize your budget in the year ahead to fund new technology investment and experimentation.
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