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