Enterprise Architecture

Take A Better Look At Cloud Risks

If you have ever had a debate about whether your organisation should use cloud computing  then a discussion of the risks of cloud computing will have been a significant part of it. In doing so, we often fall into a simple logical…

Services, customers and citizens

If we provide a service that is a monopoly or natural-monopoly, how should we relate with those who use our services? What’s the most appropriate metaphor to use, to guide our decision-making? I’ve been thinking hard about this for quite a while…

1.0, 2.0, 3.0 and Other Baseline Monikers

When configuration management is well addressed in software engineering, baseline monikers are absolutely great. If you consistently adhere to the ROCK SOLID principle that once created a baseline MUST be immutable, there cannot ever exist any ambiguity about what, for example, represents 1.0. Unfortunately the conventional scheme of … Continue…

Five Cs of Enterprise Architecture

A complete Enterprise Architecture that effectively supports the business cannot be purchased as a fully realisable off-the-shelf commodity. This statement should of course be qualified by at least considering the possibility of acquiring a hypothetical ‘business-in-a-box’ with everything already defined and requiring…

The Interconnectedness of All Things

Cloud, SOA, Enterprise Mobility, Social Media/Enterprise/Business, The Internet of Things, Big Data (you name it) - each in its own way is part of an overall tendency. The general trend is for enterprises to become increasingly involved in increasingly broad ecosystems. ……

What Are You Doing To Get Off XP?

In case you haven’t heard Microsoft is ending support for Windows XP and Office 2003 in April of 2014. What this means is that Microsoft will no longer patch security vulnerabilities discovered in XP or Office 2003, and therefore there will be…

Requisite-fuzziness

How should we respond to inherent-uncertainty in qualitative-requirements, for enterprise-architecture and the like? Yes, we can reduce every qualitative-requirement to some sort of metric, but is that always a wise thing to do? And if not, how can we tell whether it is…

Enterprise Architecture – Creating Order out of Chaos!!

All businesses capture and store information, in some form, about: What they are doing How they are doing it and Why This information may be structured but often is not. Information abounds that relates specifically to individual projects or activities that have…

Enterprise Architecture – why have one?

An Enterprise Architecture is an integrated, living and ever evolving business artifact that is both informed and informs other parts of the business. It takes a holistic view of both ‘business’ and ‘IT’ with business being the driver and IT an enabler.…
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