Posts by: Anders Jensen-Waud

The equivalent of wget in PowerShell

Lately I have been using PowerShell on Windows to script and automate a number of system administration tasks. PowerShell is Microsoft’s next generation replacement for good old CMD.EXE and it borrows a lot of powerful concepts from shells and scripting environments such…

Enterprise Architecture and abstraction layers

I recently read John Gotze’s thoughts on the updated national enterprise architecture framework and its underlying meta-model published by the Danish Government Agency for Digitisation. The framework is named ‘OIO EA’ and has evolved over a number of years into the official…

On the use of the word ‘delivery’

Enterprise architects and consultants often enjoy building specific languages. This is both good and bad. Good jargon allows one to be very specific and concisely articulate observations about a particular specialised field of interest — for instance a domain architecture or a…

Core values of a good enterprise architect

Note: This is an old post from my previous blog, Thinking Enterprise, which I have moved over to this blog. The original blog post is dated July 7 2012. What are the values of a good enterprise architect? Being in a consulting…

Welcome!

This is my the very first post in my new blog hosted on my own server on my own domain. I previously used to blog on Thinking Enterprise. However, I found it more viable to move the blog to a separate domain.…

Back to basics

Whilst I spent most of my working hours in Windows 7 and Outlook, I still return to my favourite operating system OpenBSD when I need to do serious technical work. It is simple, elegant, and secure.Installing OpenBSD/i386 5.2 in VirtualBox under Windows…

Values of a good enterprise architect

What are the values of a good enterprise architect? Being in a consulting practice where I spend the most of my working life collaborating with CIO's, process owners, and senior architects, I often hear that question. Often the question emerges out of…

News in the EA space

Following my last post, I decided to purchase three new books from Amazon: SAP Implementation Unleashed: A Business and Technical Roadmap to Deploying SAP;SAP: A Map of the Minefield; andGary Hamel - What Matters Now: How to Win in a World of…

SAP Systems Architecture

I am currently looking for a book, which can bring me up to date on how to architect and build global SAP systems in complex supply chains. I have been considering this book - Global SAP Systems: Design & Architecture - which…

SAP Systems Architecture

I am currently looking for a book, which can bring me up to date on how to architect and build global SAP systems in complex supply chains. I have been considering this book - Global SAP Systems: Design & Architecture - which…

Don’t buy flowers from ReadyFlowers

I usually don’t blog about my personal shopping experience, but a recent experience forced me to publish this post. I travel a lot for business, so for Valentine’s Day I decided to order a bouquet of flowers for my wife. Well knowing…
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