Why Scaling Products Without Architecture Slows You Down

Product-centric operating models are now the default aspiration for digital organizations. Agile adoption continues to rise. Our data shows that 55% of firms in North America and Europe now use Agile or product-centric ways of working, up double digits…

You Can’t Mature Enterprise Architecture Until You Decide What “Better” Means

Ask ten enterprise architects what maturity looks like and you’ll get at least ten different answers. Some want to fix the basics: brittle platforms, slow delivery, a business that doesn’t trust them. Some want to prove value in terms the C…

The Four EA Archetypes: A Story Of How EA Finds Its True Place

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…

Architects Must Go Where Value Flows and Make Process-Outcomes The Center Of EA

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…

Introducing The Forrester Wave™: Workday Services, Q2 2024

In our 25-criterion evaluation of Workday services providers, we identified the most significant ones and researched, analyzed, and scored them. This blog introduces you to the report on how each provider measures up and helps enterprise technology lea…

SAP shares reached a record high; restructures 8000 jobs and lures customers with Cloud ERP migration discounts.

Existing SAP ECC customer or recent on-prem SAP S/4HANA customer? Take advantage of the new RISE migration discounts in 2024.

Banking Functionality Doesn’t Differentiate Banking Software Anymore, But Technology And Ecosystems Do

Functionality in retail and corporate banking is not highly differentiating anymore. In the future, only those that can support partner solutions in their ecosystem seamlessly can fully cope with banking industry’s expanding requirements.

How to Use Microservices: A Guide for Enterprise Architects

Many organizations have started to break up a portion of their monolith applications and systems, transitioning to sets of smaller, interconnected microservices.

A recent survey by TechRepublic, found that organizations who used microservices were reaping clear benefits: 69% were experiencing faster deployment of services, 61% had greater flexibility to respond to changing conditions, and 56% benefited more from rapidly scaling up new features into large applications.