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Understanding the 8 Critical Capabilities of Enterprise Architecture Tools
Selecting the right EA tool requires an understanding of these eight capabilities and their importance in meeting the needs of the organization.
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February 2012

Understanding the 8 Critical Capabilities of Enterprise Architecture Tools: Selecting the right tool requires an understanding of these eight capabilities and their importance in meeting the needs of the organization. The eight capabilities are repository/metamodel, modeling, decision analysis, presentation, administration, configurability, frameworks and standards, and usability.

January 2012

7 Building Blocks for a Successful Master Data Management Plan: MDM is not just about technology and MDM program managers should use a business-driven framework to ensure that all the component parts of MDM are addressed. Learn how to create an MDM vision, strategy and business case in this Gartner webinar.

Euro Crisis: Plan Now to Minimize Impact on IT and Business: The eurozone crisis continues to cause market volatility and personal and corporate uncertainty. The ramifications will be felt both within eurozone countries and by companies doing business there.

Top 10 Strategic Technologies for 2012: Find out the top 10 technology trends that companies should be factoring into their strategic planning for 2012. In this webinar, Gartner analysts will discuss the strategic technologies with the potential for significant impact on the enterprise during the next three years.

December 2011

Magic Quadrant for Public Cloud Infrastructure as a Service: Public cloud infrastructure as a service – on-demand virtual data center services on shared infrastructure – is a still-maturing, rapidly evolving market. Each vendor has a unique offering, and the sourcing of these services must be done with care.

Virtualization: Know When and Where to Reach Your Ceiling: In virtualization there are several factors to consider when deciding whether to deploy a server application or workload in a virtual machine.

November 2011

The Trends Driving Your Mobile Strategy Now Through 2015: In this free webinar, Gartner analysts discuss the mobile trends that will drive your strategy, and explain how to turn complexity into opportunity.

October 2011

Enterprise Business Architecture: Uniting Business and IT: Enterprise architects are in a unique position to enable and lead the unification of business and IT.

Gartner Worldwide IT Spending Forecast: The outlook for data center investment and how data center demographics are changing.

Eight Practical Tips to Link Risk and Security to Corporate Performance: Most security and risk related metrics don't show the significance of what security and risk leaders provide for their enterprises.

September 2011

Strategies for Developing Your Next Generation Security Metrics: Most security and risk related metrics don't show the significance of what security and risk leaders provide for their enterprises.

The Gartner Business Risk Model: Companies that use leading key risk indicators outperform their competitors in terms of return on equity and assets.

The Practical Guide to Sourcing Strategy 2011 and Why You Need It: The economy, your competitors and your CxOs are creating a long list of reasons for you to evolve your sourcing strategy to enter the next decade.

Security Processes You Must Get Right: Chief information security officers face intense pressure to demonstrate the value they deliver. Their first step is to develop a catalog of core security processes that defines the most-important services they deliver.

August 2011

Emerging Technologies for Mobile Security: Security markets are heavily influenced by moving threat-targets in the mobile device space and wild speculation over point solution, which raises risk in some cases by clogging the market with weak players.

Top Security Trends and Takeaways for 2011-12: Cybersecurity threats continue to morph and have severe impact. Trends like use of the cloud, consumerization and mobility are changing the way IT is delivered and are both enabling new threats and breaking old security processes.

Articulate the Business Value of Information Security: While security budgets held up comparatively well during the recession, organizations are shifting their focus from survival back to growth mode.

Social Media: Identity, Privacy, and Security Considerations: Saying "no" is not the way IT organizations should respond to business strategists interested in social media.

Best Practices to Align Risk and Security to Business Strategy: Aligning risk and security activities to business strategy is necessary when reporting and communicating to business executives.

July 2011

ERP Road Map Development Methodology: Enterprises need a way to align their ERP investments with business strategy, vendor capabilities and other internal technology investments.

Selecting a Business Process Management Suite: A Business Process Management Suite (BPMS) unifies many existing technologies into an integrated suite that supports the entire process improvement life cycle.

Taking a Strategic Approach to Social Media: Social media is about engaging communities in new ways to achieve otherwise impossible business value. It is about strategy. It is about thriving, surviving or disappearing in a new age of human behaviors fueled by mass collaboration.

Unified Communications: Driving Business Value: The dramatic, rapid convergence of communications, collaboration and social media, accompanied by new cloud delivery models, poses a critical challenge for CIOs and planners.

June 2011

Enterprise Architects: Know Thy Business Strategy: EA practitioners must proactively focus EA efforts on their business strategy, even when their business strategy is not understood, defined or communicated.

Applied Security Intelligence is No Longer Optional: Immense faith placed in access control and encryption may have been problematic.

Build, Retrofit or Colocate; Why Not a Hybrid Approach?: Determining whether to build a new data center, retrofit the one you have or begin using colocation facilities is not an easy decision, until now.

Understanding Your IT Maturity is Key to Business Success: Knowing what organizational capabilities to keep, enhance or shed in pursuit of enterprise objectives is daunting. Gartner has developed a comprehensive and adaptive tool to help.

May 2011

MDM Primer: How to Define Master Data and Related Data: Although, conceptually, the definition of master data is simple, each organization will conclude that its specific examples of what constitutes master data will be slightly different.

Enterprise Content Management: Best Practices and Benchmarks: Business buyers want clear business cases for further investment in enterprise content management; we've gathered some of the best proof points.

How to Profit From Social CRM: Businesses are using social CRM to engage potential customers, retain current customers, reach new markets and achieve practical business benefits.

Trends That Business Intelligence Leaders Cannot Ignore: Leaders of business intelligence (BI) initiatives need new breakthrough approaches to succeed.

Critical Practices for Successful BPM Prioritization: Business process management often produces higher ROI than a number of comparable investments in IT. BPM results are primarily delivered in terms of improved business performance.

April 2011

Trends Driving Your Mobile Strategy through 2015: 2011 will be the most complex year the mobile industry has ever experienced. We'll discuss the mobile trends that will drive your strategy, and explain how to turn complexity into opportunity.

SaaS Industry Report Card: An industrywide report card on how software as a service (SaaS) vendors support Gartner's four components of SaaS.

Data Center and Server Consolidation Projects: Advances in technology have made second- and third-wave consolidation projects now viable.

Five Best Practices for Improving EA Communications: Now more than ever, as economic uncertainty puts many enterprise architecture (EA) budgets and programs at risk, chief architects and their teams must prioritize communication and advocacy.

March 2011

Predicts 2011: CRM Enters a Three-Year Shake-Up: The next few years will see changes in SaaS spending, social software, bolt-on CRM applications, and even some shuffling of CRM revenue leaders.

Rethink Your Networking and Mobility Strategy for Future Success: Video, mobility, unified communications, virtualization and cloud computing will require us to rethink how networks are designed, built and run. Leading this change requires foresight; merely reacting is not enough.

The Two Sides of IT Governance: Significantly simplify implementing or modifying IT governance by dividing IT governance into two components, demand governance and supply-side governance. This will improve the quality of business investment decision making and can foster agility.

The Big Migration: Windows 7 and Office 2010: Deciding what office product to deploy is another multimillion-dollar decision. With more than 80 percent of organizations skipping Vista, Windows 7 has become a critical project that will touch every PC in almost every organization.

February 2011

When to Consider a Single-Instance ERP Strategy: A single-instance ERP strategy is seen by many executives as a key driver of operating efficiencies and process standardization. However, it is not right for every organization. Understand key success factors to help you decide.

Best & Worst Enterprise Architecture Practices: By 2013, 5% of EA programs will use leading indicators of business performance to demonstrate EA value. How does your EA program deliver value back to the business? Join us as we discuss best practices of high-performing teams plus lessons learned by others.

Six Steps to Overcome Resistance to ITIL Process Improvement: Through 2015, organizations that do not address cultural and organizational change during IT process improvement initiatives will fail to fully deliver the promised benefits at least 80% of the time. This report covers six foundational steps to reduce resistance to change.

Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2011: What technologies will have significant impact on your business during the next three years? The impact may be a potential for disruption to IT or the business, the need for a major investment or the risk of being late to adopt.

January 2011

From Business Intelligence to Intelligent Business: Intelligence cannot be bought. Harnessing information to provide intelligent insight to improve business performance is a major challenge. Provide leadership by developing a cross-enterprise perspective of information and processes supported by technology.

How Web and Cloud Computing Will Drive Your IT Strategies: Listen as Leading Gartner Analyst David Mitchell Smith explores the combination of Web computing and cloud computing and how they will become the primary strategies of many enterprises, powering business solutions for the next decade and beyond.