7 months, 20 days ago

Plan Now For Major Changes To Oracle Java Licensing Costs

Oracle has again changed licensing rules for its widely used Java product. On January 23, 2023, the company introduced a new license metric, the SE Universal Subscription. It offers all the benefits of the legacy Java SE subscription, plus universal us…

11 months, 16 days ago

Meet The New EMEA Enterprise Architecture Analyst

What Topics Will You Be Covering At Forrester? I am part of the Technical Architecture and Delivery Service. I will be authoring research for the “Lead A High Performing Enterprise Architecture Practice” priority. Briefly said I will help clients to be…

5 years, 4 months ago

Technology Innovation: It’s Time For CIOs To Step Up Their Game

CIO: It’s Time To Step Up Your Technology Innovation Game In 2018, the CIO role team at Forrester has stepped up its emphasis on technology and technology innovation. Now we believe it’s time for you to up your game. At the beginning of the year, we ma…

5 years, 7 months ago

AWS Broadens Focus On Innovation Acceleration

At its AWS Summit in San Francisco this week, Amazon Web Services announced a series of new services and GA’d a few from Re:Invent but the theme coming out at the conference was clearly on broadening its ability to accelerate your organization’s digita…

5 years, 8 months ago

Drive Digital Culture Into Your Organization’s DNA

Transformation is hard. If you have the wrong culture, the wrong mindset, it is almost impossible. Cultural alignment is a huge enabler of change — when done well, it greases the skids; when poorly executed, it can stop transformation dead in its track…

6 years, 1 month ago

Global Tech Market Will Grow By 4% In 2018, Reaching $3 Trillion

Forrester’s has published its mid-year global tech market outlook for 2017 and 2018 (see “Midyear Global Tech Market Outlook For 2017 To 2018”). In constant currencies, we project that global purchases of technology software, hardware, and services by businesses and governments will grow by 3.4% in 2017, and by 4% in 2018. Software and tech […]

6 years, 2 months ago

Forrester Gathers Experts Across Disciplines To Tackle Europe’s Most Pressing Privacy, Security, and Trust Challenges

Fresh off a successful event in Washington, DC last week, we’re gearing up for Forrester’s Privacy & Security Forum Europe in London on 5-6 October. Forrester is gathering experts in cybersecurity, privacy, customer experience, regulatory compliance, identity management, personalization, blockchain, and a range of related topics.  Together, Forrester analysts and leaders from firms like ABN […]

6 years, 3 months ago

A Customer-Led Approach Is Fundamental To The Integration Of Worldpay And Vantiv

Vantiv has the largest payments industry acquisition of 2017 ($10.4B) under its belt — now what? Integration is the trickiest part of any acquisition and comes after the dust settles and the deal is done. This crucial phase begins in earnest this week for Vantiv and Worldpay. To accelerate its business and achieve the full […]

6 years, 4 months ago

Progress At The White House: A TBM In Every Pot

I was fortunate to participate in a historic morning gathering last week at the White House! Industry-leading private sector CIOs discussed and shared their technology business management (TBM) best practices, approaches, and ideas with CIOs and technology leaders of federal agencies. The White House leader for strategic initiatives kicked off the morning by setting expectations […]

11 years, 3 months ago

Optimizing ISO/IEC 27001 Using O-ISM3

Read more about a recently published Open Group guide titled “Optimizing ISO/IEC 27001 using O-ISM3” that is relevant to organizations using ISO27001/27002 as their Information Security Management System (ISMS). Continue reading →

11 years, 10 months ago

Enterprise Architects and Paradigm Shifts

By Stuart Boardman, KPN It’s interesting looking back at what people have written over the course of the year and seeing which themes appear regularly in their blogs. I thought I’d do the same with my own posts for The … Continue read…

11 years, 10 months ago

SF Conference to Explore Architecture Trends

By The Open Group Conference Team In addition to exploring the theme of “Enterprise Transformation,” speakers at The Open Group San Francisco conference in January will explore a number of other trends related to enterprise architecture and the pro…