Forrester's Customer Insights

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

One of my most pleasant and inspiring responsibilities is coordinating the annual Enterprise Architecture awards. These awards have been an institution since 2010, and as of last year now are conducted in partnership with The Open Group.

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PK

JULY 7, 2021

The post Enterprise AI can’t succeed without an enterprise information architecture model appeared first on PK. ” that described correlations between innovation, design of systems, and organizational group structures. Since there […].

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Forrester's Customer Insights

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Enterprise Architecture is so important… Clients all over Europe and in the US, continuously tell me about the importance of enterprise architecture (EA) within their organizations. Enterprise architects help the business in defining a technology strategy that will support the business strategy.

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Forrester's Customer Insights

JULY 11, 2022

Announcing the seven semi-finalists among those companies nominated for the prestigious Forrester Enterprise Architecture Award 2022 for North America! After a few intense weeks of processing and judging submissions, we are now at an exciting moment! Blue Cross NC […].

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Forrester's Customer Insights

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Enterprise architecture (EA) is a strategic capability for many Forrester clients. In Forrester’s Enterprise Architecture Award, we look for stories of EA excellence resulting in tangible business and customer results. The Forrester Outcome-Driven Architecture Model rests on a base of […].

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Forrester's Customer Insights

MARCH 2, 2020

Enterprise architecture (EA) teams must enable these goals with the right technology roadmap and with internal operating models that can help enterprises attain their goals. Digital transformation, innovation, and customer obsession top businesses’ strategic agendas.

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Forrester's Customer Insights

MARCH 12, 2019

Today’s enterprise architecture (EA) practices are relevant because they enable a firm’s customer-led and digital transformations. As more traditional EA use cases become commoditized, vendors that provide strong use cases that are vital to transformations will emerge as the leaders.

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Forrester's Customer Insights

MAY 30, 2023

You can see the full year-by-year list of award winners at the end of this blog, but here’s three stories from past years that illustrate the type of outcome-driven architecture that we are seeking. And if you think your practice fits the bill, submit an entry to the 2023 EA Awards, which will be co-judged by Forrester and The Open Group.

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AWS Machine Learning

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

To build an enterprise solution, developer resources, cost, time and user-experience have to be balanced to achieve the desired business outcome. This means that the architecture needs to be adjusted by reviewing the architecture workflow, synchronous and asynchronous implementation, transactions per second (TPS) calculation, and more.

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TechSee

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Generative AI will be transformative for every enterprise. This is the vision behind Sophie AI, the world’s first multisensory AI platform for the enterprise. As a Generative AI enterprise platform, Sophie AI is built to secularly observe, learn and interact at scale, helping your agents, engineers and end-customers.

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Forrester's Customer Insights

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

We’re now accepting nominations for our Technology Strategy Impact and Enterprise Architecture Awards across the NA, EMEA, and APAC regions. Learn more about the awards and how to apply in this post.

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Totango

JANUARY 3, 2024

Now, as we step into a new year, we’re witnessing an evolution of customer success, and there’s a new and improved Totango to help enterprise business leaders deliver business results and drive customer outcomes. showcasing, in our opinion, our strength of strategy and product offering for enterprise businesses.

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Forrester's Customer Insights

MARCH 1, 2021

Most organizations started 2020 planning to tackle digital transformation, innovation, and customer obsession. But then the global pandemic exploded everyone’s agendas, requiring lightning-fast reprioritization and rapid implementation of technology solutions to address a drastically changing work environment.

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SAP Customer Experience

MAY 19, 2022

Being an Enterprise Architect, I have been involved in the SAP solutions and architecture space for a long time and was planning for this certification from January 2022. Introduction "How to become SAP Certified Design Thinking Associate" is precisely what I searched for a few months back on google.

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Forrester's Customer Insights

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

I am pleased to announce two pieces of research I worked on over the summer, focused on continuing to build our research on our outcomes-based enterprise architecture model. Values drive the architecture […]

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Forrester's Customer Insights

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

This is in addition to my existing coverage of Technical Debt and Enterprise Architecture. I am happy to announce that my coverage area now includes Data Center Services, Infrastructure Outsourcing, and Semiconductors.

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AWS Machine Learning

MAY 5, 2023

Specifically, we use the example of architecture diagrams for complex images due to their incorporation of numerous different visual icons and text. The following figure shows an example diagram that illustrates an orchestrated extract, transform, and load (ETL) architecture solution. What images can be too complex to be searchable?

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AWS Machine Learning

JANUARY 5, 2024

Its AI/ML solutions drive enhanced operational efficiency, productivity, and customer experience for many of their enterprise clients. Figure 1 – SageMaker offerings for ML workload migration Wipro defined an architecture that addresses the challenges in a cost-optimized and fully automated way.

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AWS Machine Learning

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

The following diagram illustrates the solution architecture. Amazon SQS enables a fault-tolerant decoupled architecture. The solution also uses SageMaker notebooks (labeled T in the preceding architecture) to perform domain adaption, fine-tune the models, and deploy the SageMaker endpoints.

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AWS Machine Learning

JUNE 30, 2022

These traffic routing products generate their own source IP, whose IP range is not controlled by the enterprise customer. This makes it impossible for these enterprise customers to use the aws:sourceIp condition. The following diagram illustrates over-arching solution architecture. Set up the foundational architecture.

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AWS Machine Learning

DECEMBER 5, 2023

New and powerful large language models (LLMs) are changing businesses rapidly, improving efficiency and effectiveness for a variety of enterprise use cases. AWS is especially well suited to provide enterprises the tools necessary for deploying LLMs at scale to enable critical decision-making.

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AWS Machine Learning

JANUARY 26, 2024

Understanding and addressing LLM vulnerabilities, threats, and risks during the design and architecture phases helps teams focus on maximizing the economic and productivity benefits generative AI can bring. Many customers are looking for guidance on how to manage security, privacy, and compliance as they develop generative AI applications.

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AWS Machine Learning

MARCH 29, 2024

Solution overview The following diagram illustrates the solution architecture. In the preceding architecture, the following sequence of steps takes place in a live customer/agent conversation: Using the Amazon Lex Web UI, a customer asks to be connected to an agent. Dependencies among each step are cross-referenced.

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AWS Machine Learning

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

We used a convolutional neural network (CNN) architecture with ResNet152 for image classification. The following diagram illustrates the solution architecture. The model network consists of a ResNet 152 architecture followed by fully connected layers.

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Forrester's Customer Insights

APRIL 4, 2024

Over the years, my Forrester colleagues and I have observed that the maturity of enterprise architecture (EA) varies greatly among and within companies, industries, and geographies. Some EA practices are more IT-oriented, while others are more business-driven, but EA must always be outcome-driven and demonstrate its value.

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AWS Machine Learning

AUGUST 3, 2023

The following architecture uses Amazon Textract for accurate text extraction from any type of document before sending it to FMs for further processing. Highly unstructured documents are common in big enterprises. The sample application used in the preceding architecture is driven by events. He is based in Boston, MA.

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Forrester's Customer Insights

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

In the Forrester/InfoWorld Enterprise Architecture Awards competition, we look for the most dramatic stories of EA’s strategic leadership and concrete business impact.

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AWS Machine Learning

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Furthermore, the cost to train new LLMs can prove prohibitive for many enterprise settings. Amazon Kendra with foundational LLM Amazon Kendra is an advanced enterprise search service enhanced by machine learning (ML) that provides out-of-the-box semantic search capabilities. We have provided this demo in the GitHub repo.

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AWS Machine Learning

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Enterprises today face major challenges when it comes to using their information and knowledge bases for both internal and external business operations. Although enterprise knowledge bases have, over time, improved the customer experience, they can still be cumbersome and difficult to use.

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AWS Machine Learning

MARCH 1, 2024

In this post, we show how you can implement an architecture using Amazon EventBridge , Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), and AWS Lambda to automatically collect, transform, and load your Genesys call transcripts in the required format for the Amazon Lex automated chatbot designer. Download the GitHub repo and unzip to your directory.

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Circular Edge

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Transition from a 32-bit to a 64-bit architecture. Integrate with diverse third-party tools such as TrackPoint, BuyDesign, TAP/TAC, E2Open, etc., facilitating seamless interaction with JDE. Execute the upgrade of JDE to version 9.2.

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AWS Machine Learning

JUNE 13, 2023

Implementing a modern data architecture provides a scalable method to integrate data from disparate sources. Organizations can maximize the value of their modern data architecture with generative AI solutions while innovating continuously. The following diagram illustrates the architecture.

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AWS Machine Learning

OCTOBER 30, 2023

When building such generative AI applications using FMs or base models, customers want to generate a response without going over the public internet or based on their proprietary data that may reside in their enterprise databases. He has over 3 decades of experience architecting and building distributed, hybrid, and cloud applications.

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AWS Machine Learning

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

By using the Framework, you will learn operational and architectural best practices for designing and operating reliable, secure, efficient, cost-effective, and sustainable workloads in the cloud. This elevates operational excellence from a backend goal to a strategic asset, one that is integral to the success of the entire enterprise.

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West Monroe

APRIL 22, 2024

This involves creating an integrated view of enterprise architecture or a target operating model—outlining future-state technology teams, applications, and surrounding infrastructure. Once the to-be is drafted and socialized, we recommend leadership also develop a robust technology roadmap to guide the transition to target state.

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AWS Machine Learning

MARCH 26, 2024

We also provide a reference architecture to build an invoice automation pipeline that enables extraction, verification, archival, and intelligent search. Solution overview The following architecture diagram shows the stages of a receipt and invoice processing workflow. About the Authors Sushant Pradhan is a Sr.

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AWS Machine Learning

MARCH 11, 2024

The new VistaPrint personalized product recommendation system Figure 1 As seen in Figure 1, the steps in how VistaPrint provides personalized product recommendations with their new cloud-native architecture are: Aggregate historical data in a data warehouse. Mouloud Lounaci leads the Engineering team for Marketing Optimization at Vista.

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