Henry serves enterprise architecture (EA) professionals by helping them understand the concepts, techniques, and tools they need to support the digital business. His current research focuses on integration — both internal to a business and business to business — and on data governance, stewardship, and discovery. Henry also has a separate research stream on how customers' values affect companies and government.
Henry has done previous work on master data management, enterprise application integration, middleware, adapters, business activity monitoring, enterprise architecture tools, and open source and risks issues.
Henry came to Forrester through its acquisition of Giga Information Group and Giga's affiliation with GigaGroup. He brings more than 30 years of IT experience to his clients. Prior to joining GigaGroup, he was the technical director of Euriware, a French IT services company specializing in industrial IT and related technologies. In addition, Henry was involved as chief architect in strategic projects for large telecommunications, automotive, and marketplace customers.
At earlier stages of his career, he held various technical positions in a knowledge management company and at Alcatel.
Henry is the author or coauthor of many reference articles and books on IT architecture. He has a master's degree in IT from the ESIEE engineering school in Paris. He is fluent in French and English and is based in Paris.
You can use integration-platform-as-a-service (iPaaS) or hybrid integration platforms to improve customer experience, accelerate continuous integration and continuous delivery, and even have them become core to new products and services. But to access these benefits, you'll first have to select from a diverse set of vendors — vendors that vary by size, functionality, geography, and vertical market focus. Enterprise architecture (EA) pros should use Forrester's Now Tech report to understand the value they can expect from an integration platform provider and select vendors based on size and functionality.
The data economy is thriving. Firms are eager to deliver a seemingly endless supply of data and insights to meet the insatiable demand. This new frenzy raises the bar on data governance — data quality was only the beginning. Not only do companies need to build new data products and services, they also need to set prices, terms, and conditions — and ensure the regulatory compliance of their data.
Forrester evaluated 10 of the leading enterprise architecture management suite (EAMS) vendors across 89 criteria and found that Mega International (Mega), Troux Technologies, Software AG, and alfabet are Leaders, collectively offering the most-advanced EA tools evolving into the new EAMS market. This market is still being defined, and several other vendors — Metastorm, IBM, Casewise, and Avolution — have started transitioning from second-generation EA tools to EA management suites. These four vendors are Strong Performers — excellent choices to consider, particularly for firms with IT governance processes that are still maturing. The risk of disappointment when adopting an EAMS is still relatively high, and adopting a second-generation EA tool that allows expansion to additional stakeholders — while the tool evolves — can represent a safer approach for many organizations. The Salamander Organization is also a Strong Performer; it delivers a toolbox and services to "build your own EAMS," providing another safe option. Despite its recognized leadership in second-generation EA tools supporting ArchiMate and TOGAF, BiZZdesign has not yet started the journey toward offering an EAMS, though it is still a good choice for traditional EA approaches.
In this second release of Forrester's assessment of enterprise architecture and business process analysis (BPA) tools, Forrester assessed nine leading vendors in a 93-criteria evaluation. We found that IDS Scheer, Casewise, MEGA, Metastorm, and Troux Technologies lead the pack for general EA tool usage. For the more specific IT planning usage category, these Leaders are joined by the most powerful vendor in this specific category: alfabet. The Leaders are followed by IBM, a Strong Performer in all three categories; iGrafx, a Strong Performer in the business process analysis category and the general EA category; and Sybase, a Contender in all three categories.
The need to integrate systems of engagement, demand for greater agility, and execution in the cloud are driving the disruption of the integration landscape. Enterprise architecture (EA) professionals must assess their integration solutions' ability to meet these new requirements and future ones for systems of automation and the internet of things (IoT). This report helps EA pros by providing a definition of integration-platform-as-a-service (iPaaS), a reference architecture for integration platforms, a categorization of vendors in the market, and an assessment of their maturity. This is an update of a previously published report. We've revised it to reflect findings in Forrester's recent Wave™ on iPaaS for dynamic integration.
Enterprise architects increasingly use road maps as essential graphics for technology planning and synchronizing business planning with technology strategy. With virtually no option other than the manual construction of road maps, architects are creating significant maintenance burdens for themselves. Is automation an option? Unfortunately, apart from a single vendor — alfabet — enterprise architecture (EA) tool vendors are only just starting to develop their road-mapping capabilities or have announced that their road-mapping functionality will begin with their 2008 releases. No EA niche vendors exist that fit the bill as a tactical solution in the meantime. Forrester recommends that customers press their existing EA tool vendors to deliver road-mapping capabilities — now.
In our 28-criteria evaluation of data governance stewardship and discovery (DGSD) providers, we identified the 12 most significant ones — Alation, ALEX Solutions, BackOffice Associates, Cloudera, Collibra, DATUM, Global Data Excellence, Global IDs, IBM, Infogix, Informatica, and SAP — and researched, analyzed, and scored them. This report shows how each provider measures up and helps enterprise architecture (EA) professionals make the right choice.