IT must decide where technology standards are appropriate, where flexibility is needed, and how to govern compliance and exceptions to standards.

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Many organizations lack the organizational capability, vision and commitment to successfully implement an enterprise architecture (EA) initiative. Evaluating enterprise readiness across 12 categories and addressing issues before embarking on an...

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Many organizations attempt to implement enterprise architecture (EA) without a clear sense of where they are and where they want to go. Determining your enterprise's current state of EA, the desired target state, and a roadmap for getting there...

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Enterprise architecture is a discipline made up of frameworks, methods and tools that help organizations of all sizes chart a course away from unnecessary costs due to systems and process duplication in the entire organization. EA focuses on...

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IT Leaders are looking for a holistic system of IT projects and solutions that denotes business processes, information stores, applications, security and technical infrastructure. EA provides competitive advantage and significantly lower...

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With increasingly complex business models, more sophisticated solutions and escalating costs, IT leaders are finding it harder than ever to manage both cost and complexity within their organizations. Enterprise architecture is an engine for...

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Info-Tech recently conducted several surveys for our research projects. This document is a high level summary of those results, and an introduction to the resulting research.

For many organizations, transactional hub architecture represents the ideal Master Data Management (MDM) solution. However, it may not be possible or necessary for some environments given the cost and complexity of this project. When...

A critical component of any master data management (MDM) project is finding the appropriate architecture to support the solution. Making the right choice requires an understanding of the standard architectures and their associated benefits and...

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With the increase in demand for data for strategic decision making, companies are forced to collect information about customers, customer behaviors, and markets for use in decision making. Storing and managing this data in an easily accessible...

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Data volumes are growing exponentially as more companies capture information about customers, customer behaviors, and markets for use in decision making. Managing this data can be a challenge. IT leaders must build an Information Architecture...