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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…
The Asia-Pacific region’s submissions for our Enterprise Architecture Awards are very impressive. Can EA orgs in EMEA and the Americas rise to the same standard?
Today’s technology executives face a perfect storm of market disruptions, shifting priorities, and relentless pressure to deliver. So why are most still operating with governance models built for a different era? Find out in this preview of our upcomin…
Disruptive technologies such as automation and AI and autonomous mobility boost efforts towards some strategic priorities but can work against environmental sustainability goals. For example, these technologies bring high compute demands, increased ele…
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…
On July 1, 2025, M-Files — the enterprise content management (ECM) vendor — announced a deepening of its strategic partnership with Microsoft. M-Files will now use Microsoft’s SharePoint Embedded as its foundational document repository. M-Files diffe…
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),…
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.
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 …
Today’s enterprise architecture (EA) practices are critical to enable a firm’s customer-obsessed digital transformations. As more traditional EA practices become commoditized, Enterprise Architecture Management Suite (EAMS) vendors that show strong use…
AI and, most recently, generative AI (genAI) have uncovered the true power of automating tasks that previously were tedious to complete or difficult to improve the efficiency of the work within a singular domain of the business. But much more important…