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Stéphane Vanrechem 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
Enterprise architects (EAs) are under pressure. The AI era is reshaping business models, accelerating transformation, and demanding new levels of agility. Yet many EA teams are struggling to keep up not because of a lack of frameworks or tools, but bec…
By Charles Betz, VP, Principal Analyst and Stéphane Vanrechem, Senior Analyst, Forrester Enterprise architecture (EA) has always aimed for clarity, control, and coherence. Yet its practitioners are often thwarted by an overwhelming paradox: They must g…
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, a…
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 …