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Will the dynamic application approach with its agile methods and technologies be applied in the majority of future EA? Would you please specify how?

As the pace of change in Business and Processes increases, what is ROI timeline that should be expected when deciding to move ahead with an Enterprise Application?

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

What needs to be done for users to feel more responsible and accountable for success or failure of business applications, instead of the IT departments?

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Will the next generation of enterprise applications be a cloud version of today's ERP? Or will the model be completely different?

Will the next generation of enterprise applications be disposable?

Must enterprise enable customization of rules, workplace, and process by business users?

What happens applications when finally the mass consumer market can use them?

What's PaaS all about and how will it affect the future of Enterprise Applications?

Does Agile methodologies like SCRUM of project management work well with large scale Enterprise Applications ?

Will there still be Enterprise Applications hosted on premises or will they all be in the cloud...? If there is still a choice, what criteria to use?

How will the industry overcome the soon-to-be internet address shortage?

Will touch technology be more of a way-of-life than a trend and do you think industry will adapt or rewrite?

In what way will the prevention of security flaws affect the objectives of cloud, social, and mobile computing within Enterprise Applications?

How green will Enterprise apps become? Which starting points do you see besides implementing green data centers?

How prevalent do you see the use of BPM and ETL tools as opposed to corporations utilizing in-house developed processes to integrate applications or services for SOA? Where do you see the market trend headed in today's economy?

Can you envision a future that has enterprise ISVs that do NOT have a SaaS offering? How long will it take for all ISVs to become SaaS?

How will Social Media and Enterprise Applications converge over time?

If I wanted to outsource development of an enterprise application to Cognizant, Wipro, Accenture or Infosys. Which firm has the best in-house capability amongst its staff when it comes to knowledge about secure software development?

Do you think we will start to see enterprises collaborating in order to build industry-vertical specific enterprise applications in an open source manner?

Any thoughts on what guidance an enterprise architect should provide to software development in terms of patterns and practices for incorporating privacy preferences into enterprise applications?

Hi John - Regarding Composite Applications, don't SOA/BPMS artifacts (services and flowcharts) constrain generalization and customization? Is dynamic discovery and chaining of predefined components the best it gets?

Will the iPad (and the like) change anything in the Enterprise?

John, what role do you see development tools playing in the future to ease the complexities of creating enterprise applications?

John, thinking of the future of AD, EA, and BPM, have you had any insight that leads you to believe that there will be an overlap, and that we may be heading for 'process based' 'developer' Enterprise Applications, not just niche composite apps.

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John, What are the key upcoming innovations that will change the face of enterprise apps? Thanks!

Are companies adopting composite web applications and mashups to support their strategic and tactical business needs?

Waterfall, IE, RAD, RUP, XP, TDD, Agile, Lean...what's next? and what's best for Enterprise Apps?

How will fully web enabled mobile devices affect the Enterprise?

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

What do you think about Enterprise software market size in next five years, especially in APAC region?

How can Enterprise Applications deliver flexibility in a world where customers increasingly expect innovation and diversity?

Enterprise Data Cloud is the future?

What comes after the cloud?

What is the role of IT in the modern enterprises? Isn't IT an excuse for offloading software delivery and maintenance costs from Business Units?

In the context of the current economical crisis do you think enterprises will reach out for big brand packages or more flexible customizable platforms?

How do we get a handle on the existing applications in our portfolios?

Do "industry frameworks" like IBM's qualify as applications?

How will use of distributed/elastic caches change enterprise apps -- if at all?

How much responsibility should business users take for the apps they use?

How can you use Agile development techniques and tools to drive change in old-fashioned and tech-scared corporations?

What's the foreseeable impact of having the Facebook-generation getting in touch with Enterprise Apps as they get a job?

How do events play into business processes today and how is event processing being used to make applications more dynamic?

Do you think the outsourcing of the Enterprise Software delivery teams to foreign countries will be a common practice in the future? Will Model Driven development and Agile Methods take an important role in the success of these dispersed teams?

I'm curious about your thoughts about technologies to build enterprise level apps from scratch. Would you head down the .NET route or J2EE Which Web development language (ASP.NET, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Java, Python, etc.) would you recommend and why?

Will business apps morph into flexible business process definitions built of services from decomposed apps?

Does IT matter?

With all this talk about disappearing IT assets is the role of the CIO an endangered species?

Will there ever be an enterprise application "App Store" ?

Will Commercial Off-The-Shelf software be replaced by these new breed agile business process application kits ?

How will enterprises differentiate in the future and what role will enterprise apps play in that differentiation?

John, what's the role of new data architectures - dynamic schemas, "big data," NoSQL, etc. - in the future of enterprise apps?

John, to your question about SAP-Sybase and whether SAP's future is in mobile apps, how do you envision 'anywhere' enterprise apps changing the game?

what does it mean to have a "sponsor" to let non-clients ask you questions? will Forrester keep doing this when they find somebody else to pay for it?

John, what % of future applications will be developed with Agile technologies such as #BPM / #Decisionmgt? @CMatignon

There has been an increase in the number and type of web apps being used in the enterprise space. Do you think this is just a fad or are web apps really the future of enterprise applications?

Hi John - Is the mainframe really dead, or will it continue to live in the enterprise for 20 more years?

Do you believe that SaaS packages will eventually replace on-premise installations of traditional packages? Thanks.

John Rymer is VP and Principal Analyst at independent research firm, Forrester Research, Inc.

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