Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
In nearly every EA leadership conversation I’ve had this year, the same tension surfaces: the practice is doing real work, but stakeholders can’t describe what it delivers. Expectations have surged, roles have expanded, and transformation p…
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…
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…
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 …
One of the things I’ve been pushing for years is the idea that data strategy should itself be data driven. In other words, if we are claiming that all these expensive data and analytics initiatives are driving business improvement, let’s see the eviden…
One of the things I’ve been pushing for years is the idea that data strategy should itself be data driven. In other words, if we are claiming that all these expensive data and analytics initiatives are driving business improvement, let’s see the eviden…
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 …