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Stéphane Vanrechem The demos all blurred together. Another week, another vendor pitch. Slide after slide promised a “single source of truth,” “360degree visibility,” and “seamless collaboration across the enterprise.” The names changed. The interfaces changed. But to the…
By Stéphane Vanrechem, Senior Analyst, Forrester For years, many enterprise architecture (EA) teams operated in isolation, building elaborate frameworks that few understood and even fewer used. Then something shifted: Architects started solving actual …
For years, many enterprise architecture (EA) teams operated in isolation, building elaborate frameworks that few understood and even fewer used. Then something shifted: Architects started solving actual business problems instead of perfecting abstract …
Your architects are making technology decisions in isolation. And you’re paying for it. Retail picks Azure. Manufacturing goes AWS. Three business units each spin up customer data hubs. Nobody documents the APIs they create. Your teams think they’…
Most CIOs face mounting cost pressure, driven by the business. Forrester’s 2025 Business and Technology Services Survey found that 48% of business leaders rank cost reduction as a top priority. Many organizations have already chased quick savings: 76% …
Enterprise architecture (EA) is having a moment. After years of being dismissed as slow, rigid, or misaligned with agile ways of working, EA is now at the center of one of the fastest‑growing, most strategic software markets. Our latest research confir…
Enterprise architecture (EA) leaders face unprecedented pressure to cut through complexity. Technology portfolios are sprawling, operating models are in flux, and the mandate for strategic alignment has never been more urgent. In The Enterprise Archite…
Customer journeys, value streams, and day-to-day processes are where value is created, or lost. Yet most EA teams still optimize IT systems in isolation, invisible to the business outcomes they’re supposed to enable. GenAI is now automating decis…
By Stéphane Vanrechem, Senior Analyst, Forrester Enterprise architects are entering a transformative phase. As agentic AI becomes embedded in enterprise architecture (EA) tools, it’s not just automating tasks — it’s redefining the architect’s role. In …
Forrester is proud to announce Philip Morris International as the winner of the 2025 Enterprise Architecture (EA) Award for EMEA and Saudi Telecom Company as the runner-up. Learn more about their EA strategies in this post and at Technology & Inno…
Learn in this report how GenAI and Agentic AI demand EA job to evolve