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Is this Architecture?

One need to ask if what is depicted in the view below is architecture or if it is solution design. Figure 8 BusinessFunctionView The  picture is taken from the ArchiSurance Case Study by the Open Group which has released it under a…

5 Enterprise Architecture Picks

Something for the weekend…   5 Enterprise Architecture picks for the weekend (much more interesting than the launch of the Sun on Sunday!). Title Abstract Notes Mapping the Enterprise Architecture Principles in TOGAF to the Cybernetic Concepts–An Exploratory Study Although principles are…

ArchiMate 2 Tool Certification Available

The Open Group is now accepting applications for ArchiMate 2 Tool Certification. For tooling vendors out there the details are below with a link to the certification site. How to Apply for ArchiMate 2 Tool Certification Read the Architecture Tool Certification Policy,…

ArchiMate 2.0 Highlights

I am really excited about the new release of ArchiMate.  The reason I am so excited is that for the first time ArchiMate complements TOGAF with a compelling, versatile and unambiguous visual modeling language that covers the end to end enterprise architecture…

ArchiMate 2.0 Certification Released

Along side the release of the ArchiMate 2.0 specification, a new certification for the ArchiMate has been released this week. ArchiMate, an Open Group Standard, is an open and independent modelling language for enterprise architecture that is supported by different tool vendors…

IT-centrism, business-centrism and business-architecture

This one continues the recent theme of IT-centrism and why it’s such a problem for enterprise-architecture, but extends it into a slightly different direction, courtesy of a Tweet yesterday by Ron Tolido: rtolido: interesting stuff coming soon around a global Business Architect…

Tweets from Open Group conference, San Francisco (day 3)

A set of Tweets from the third and final main day (01 Feb 2012) of the Open Group conference in San Francisco, collated via the#ogSFO hashtag. (Tweets from Day 1 are here; from Day 2 are here.) Once again, many thanks indeed to all those…
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