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Every few years we like to "take the pulse' of our A&G readership. This is our way of tapping into your collective mindset to determine the latest in EA trends, topics and ideas. This information helps us shape our editorial for the coming months and makes sure we stay up-to-date on what is of interest to EA's and the wider community.

When I started as an architect, I was part of the team called “IT Architecture.” It was clear what we did and who we did it for – we standardized technology and designs so that IT would be more reliable, deliver business solutions more quickly, and cost less. We were an IT-centric function. Then the term “Enterprise Architecture” came in – and spurred debates as to “isn’t EA

Last month, Gartner released its 2010 Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Architecture Tools report.

Despite the lack of a sustained full-on recovery in the global economy, one gets the feeling that we're at the beginning of a period of tech expansion and growth, doesn't one?

We ask a lot of our CIOs. Just follow the myriad magazine articles and research pieces targeting CIOs to read of the breadth and depth of expectations heaped upon a single role. The industry experts who define what CIOs ”should be” suggest that they must be technology visionaries and innovators, business transformation change agents, vendor relationship negotiators, sav

For our last A&G Webinar,  Alex Cullen of Forrester Research joined me to discuss his research on the State of EA in 2010. The research was driven by Forrester’s latest Global Annual State of Enterprise Architecture Online Survey.