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Event Overview

Today's businesses require innovative practices and capabilities to increase bottom-line performance and keep up with the competition. Enterprise architects are in a unique position to drive the IT innovation that supports these business initiatives. But to be effective, enterprise architects must be able to articulate business strategy better than their business executives and govern IT implementations to ensure that the enterprise is headed toward its strategic goals.

Forrester's Enterprise Architecture Forum 2008 will show you how your EA program can accelerate value delivery using technology trends and proactive approaches to improve business efficiency and flexibility. Make your EA program something that the business and IT can't live without!

• Gain pragmatic advice on critical success factors for enterprise architects backed by Forrester's data-driven research.
• Discuss relevant, top-of-mind technology issues, including service-oriented architecture (SOA), business process management (BPM), and legacy strategies.
• Discover the latest technology trends that can make your applications agile, functionally robust, and easy to integrate.
• Forecast and prepare for future challenges in business and information collaboration.

Who Should Attend?

This Event will examine the key issues for making enterprise architects and your EA programs more successful. Because enterprise architects are only one of many IT stakeholders with a key role to play in driving innovation, the forum is also relevant to these other roles:

• Application Development & Program Management professionals
• Information & Knowledge Management professionals
• Business analysts, consultants, and other influencers

Why Attend?

• One-on-one meetings with Forrester analysts
• Compelling keynote addresses from leading executives and IT leaders
• Dedicated tracks and breakout sessions
• Peer-networking sessions with more than 200 attendees
• Best practices and timely case studies from senior enterprise architects
• Pertinent technology solutions from a select group of vendors

Attend A Pre-Forum Workshop!

Service-Oriented Architecture: Architecting Enterprise Success
Wednesday, February 6, 2008
Randy Heffner, Vice President, Principal Analyst
Larry Fulton, Senior Analyst

Join Forrester analysts for a one-day, interactive workshop providing perspectives on key SOA technologies, SOA lifecycle management strategies, and SOA design strategies. Attendees will have an opportunity to outline their plan for proceeding with SOA implementation in their organization. Discounted rate of $1,500 for paying EA Forum 2008 attendees ($1,975 regular rate). Register online or call +1 888.343.6786.