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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 …
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…
The 10th anniversary of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America in Atlanta was both a celebration of progress in the open-source community and a moment of reflection about the challenges facing that same community amid change.
At Forrester, we’re deprecating the term configuration management database in our research. Instead you’ll increasingly see it termed “IT management graph.” Find out why.
Congratulations to Takeda Pharmaceuticals, winner of this year’s Enterprise Architecture Award for North America. Learn more about Takeda’s winning strategy as well as the strategies of our two finalists.
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
Join Forrester Analyst, Akshara Naik Lopez for an interactive peer discussion with technology leaders currently using SAP on their migration plans and experiences.
CIOs routinely face a frustrating dilemma that drives them to ask the question: Are you truly spending the company’s money as effectively as possible? The answer lies in strategic portfolio management. Learn how this discipline is transforming how tech…
Congratulations to The Hong Kong Jockey Club, this year’s winner of the Enterprise Architecture Award in APAC, and runners-up AIA Group and Nan Shan Life Insurance Company. Learn how excellent EA practices helped all three align their IT strategies wit…