The State of Enterprise Architecture
Forrester reported that only 40 percent of respondents claimed EA’s governance structure as matching IT’s structure
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EA primarily reports to:CIO (42 percent)Head of technology planning/strategy/governance (20 percent)CTO (15 percent)
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35 percent of EA professionals believe corporate management and line of business leaders are unaware of their activities
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CIOs are EA’s biggest champions–62 percent of those surveyed say their CIO supports them
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Top 3 Drivers for EA Programs According to RespondentsBetter strategic planningConsolidation of applicationsImprove business agility
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In the next three years, 44 percent of EA decision-makers plan on either completely replacing or making major pervasive changes to their collaboration architecture
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In the same timeframe, 37 percent of organizations will make major changes and replacements to their content platforms
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Approximately 41 percent of EA decision-makers say they will replace or make major changes to application integration in the next three years
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Half of respondents reported that EA needs to do a better job building hard-dollar business cases forarchitecture initiatives
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Close to 40 percent of respondents ranked improving communication of EA value within their top three priorities in 2011