Featured Speaker
Randy Heffner
Vice President, Principal Analyst |
As an analyst, Mr. Heffner contributes primarily to Forrester's offerings for Enterprise Architecture professionals. He is a leading expert on architectures and design approaches for building enterprise applications that are secure and resilient in the face of continuous business and technology change. This makes service-oriented architecture (SOA) one of his primary focus areas. Since enterprise applications need much more than SOA, Mr. Heffner led the development of Forrester's Digital Business Architecture, which provides a broad architectural context around SOA. For seven years, he has been a driving force for Forrester's research on application architecture trends, concepts, patterns, and best practices. Particular focus areas within Mr. Heffner's research include general application architecture and design issues, overall SOA strategy, SOA platform and infrastructure strategy, core SOA design concepts, Web services architecture, and standards, SOA security, SOA and Web services management, as well as coordination and leadership of other analysts' SOA work. He also continues to develop strategies and structures to guide enterprises' longer-term evolution toward Digital Business Architecture. Mr. Heffner has extensive experience with enterprise architecture management and application architecture and design having been a chief architect at Sprint. While at Sprint he led enterprise architecture and standardization efforts, along with the analysis and introduction of application servers, component architectures, object-oriented development, application security architectures, CORBA, distributed transaction management, and other new technologies. His IT experience also includes technology leadership, management, and application development with a big five consultancy and in the retail and litigation support industries. Mr. Heffner received a bachelor's of business administration from Baylor University's business school, where he was named the outstanding student in computer information systems. |
