SOA Provides Needed Support for Enterprise Architecture in Cloud, Mobile, Big Data, Says Open Group Panel

There’s been a resurgent role for service-oriented architecture (SOA) as a practical and relevant ingredient for effective design and use of Cloud, mobile, and big-data technologies. To find out why, The Open Group recently gathered an international panel of experts to explore the concept. Continue reading

Data wants to flow — active information

Why, oh why, didn’t I come up this point:

“Organizations that capitalize on big data stand apart [because] they pay attention to data flows as opposed to data stocks.”

I highlight this concept, and the source article, in this week’s active information post: Shifting from data stockpiles to flows, thats the… – Input Output.

OpenText in Life Sciences – DIA’s EDM and ERS/eCDT Conference

Last week, OpenText participated in DIA’s EDM and ERS/eCTD conference in Baltimore and what a great event it was! This hybrid conference combined related disciplines to focus holistically on “The Content Continuum from Document Authoring through Submission Delivery” which proved to be highly informative. There were multiple presentations by FDA providing updates on the new […]

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Ideal Circumstances for EA Frameworks

Significant touchstones, at least for some people, some of the time, the series of hype cycle devices published annually by Gartner inform and guide industry behaviours, lead and shape the formulation of strategy. Three features of the current enterprise architecture hype cycle1 are noteworthy, or thought-provoking, or self-evident: Whole-of-Government enterprise architecture has been cancelled due […]

Enterprise architects need to be good communicators. Actioning…

Enterprise architects need to be good communicators.

Actioning instead of doing. Impacting instead of affecting. Progress instead of continue. Moving forward and incentivising with respect to the upside.

It is easy to see that the cliches and jargon of today’s office culture are all about giving the impression of mastery, energy and success. 

They don’t.

If you really wish to convey intelligence and competence, speak and write in plain English.