Call For Entries: The 2025 Enterprise Architecture Awards
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.
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Meet The Analyst: Covering ERP, FP&A, SaaS, And The Enterprise Software Market
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 …
Choose The Enterprise Architecture Management Suite That Best Support Your Transformation
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 GenAI Are Game-Changers For Enterprise Architecture Leaders
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…
Why Forrester’s SAP Services Landscape, Q3 2024 Is So Important
We recently completed ‘The SAP Services Landscape, Q3 2024’. A lot has changed in the SAP ecosystem since the last edition of this Forrester landscape. SAP ECC to SAP S/4HANA cloud migrations are taking center stage for the vast majority of SAP clients…
ServiceNow And Atlassian: The Rise Of IT Management Platforms
The recent ServiceNow Knowledge 2024 and Atlassian Team 24 conferences revealed a structural realignment in important sections of the IT management market. Find out how in this post.
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…
EA Teams Struggle To Communicate Architecture’s Value
The maturity of enterprise architecture (EA) varies greatly across companies, industries, and geographies. In France, 84% agree that their teams are effective in communicating EA’s value, while just 54% of UK respondents agree. Learn more in this previ…
High-Performance IT: Finding The Right Tech For Your IT Style
When it comes to adopting the right technology for your organization, one size does not fit all. Learn how high-performance IT can help your organization match the right next tech to your IT style.
Forrester’s Workday Services Landscape Shows Industry Clients Adopting Workday Finance, Adaptive, And PRISM
It’s that time of year again, when many clients are in phase zero, or what Forrester calls a pre-RFP assessment period, of strategically planning what to do with their legacy enterprise human capital management and finance applications or contemplating…
All Architects Must Deliver Business Outcomes
Use this impact map to understand how architecture teams can demonstrate and articulate their business value.
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…