Ever wanted to ask a Forrester Research analyst a question and didn’t have a subscription to their service?

OutSystems sponsored an open Q&A session with John Rymer at Forrester on the topic "The Future of Enterprise Applications." During two weeks, we invited the IT community to post their questions for John in this website. John then selected 9 questions and we taped his answers.

John asked us to thank his Forrester colleagues whose research supported many of his responses including, Jeffrey Hammond, Ellen Daley, Julie Ask, James Staten, Rob Koplowitz, Clay Richardson, Connie Moore, Phil Murphy and Paul Hamerman.

 

Question 1: Mobile Devices

What will be the impact of fully web-enabled mobile devices and touch-devices on Enterprise application development?

 

Question 2: BPM and ETL

How prevalent is the use of BPM and ETL tools as opposed to corporations doing custom development to accomplish (...)

 

Question 3: Legacy Apps

How do we deal with our existing application portfolio?

Mobile Devices   BPM and ETL   Legacy Apps

 

Question 4: Enterprise Agile

What % of future apps will be developed using agile technologies? Applicability of Agile to large scale enterprise apps?

 

Question 5: Cloud Hosting

Will Enterprise Applications be hosted in the Cloud or on premise - what's the selection criteria? What's next after the Cloud?

 

Question 6: Disposable Apps

Will the next generation of Enterprise apps (both built and bought) be disposable?

Enterprise Agile   Cloud Hosting   Question 6 - Disposable Apps

 

Question 7: Social Networking

Do you think Enterprise Applications will work like internal social networks for companies?

 

Question 8: Key Innovations

What are the key upcoming innovations that will change the face of enterprise applications?

 

Question 9: Build vs. Buy

Will agile organizations with agile tool kits be able to surpass COTS vendors in delivering on-target business applications?

Question 7 - Social Networking   Question 8 - Key Innovations   Question 9 - Build vs. Buy