1 hour ago: A Busy First Year For all my good intentions, I was unable to restart my blog posts in the last year. My new role as the Senior Manager, Technology planning is not new anymore! The demand of my new job is significant and I worked very… Leo de Sousa
2 hours ago: Understanding costs As an architect you are often part of the company internal circus of budgeting with OPEX, CAPEX, ROI, TCO and similar. So this is why we are quickly being influenced by budgeting when we look a the most cost efficient way of… Cay Hasselmann
Yesterday: Where Will the SDDC Take the Enterprise, and How Quickly? By Arthur Cole Supporting today’s workflows more cheaply and easily is only half the opportunity presented by the SDDC, however. The real gains come from transitioning all data operations to a DevOps model that provides continuous support for applications and services without disrupting… Siena Rose
3 days ago: BiZZdesign Customer South State Bank Wins Enterprise Architecture Award 2016 A big congratulations goes out to our customer South State Bank for being chosen as a winner in this year's Forrester and InfoWorld Enterprise Architecture Awards 2016. BiZZdesign
4 days ago: More on not-retiring This one’s a follow-up on my previous post, from a month ago now, ‘On not retiring‘. What I said back there was that, yeah, fairly obviously, people like me (and you too, I presume) don’t ever really retire – we just shift… Tom Graves
4 days ago: SteelConnect SD-WAN: Riverbed Technology’s Wayne Gretzky Moment Until recently, the emerging notion of ‘software-defined’ has largely been fragmented. In the application development world, taking a software-defined approach to configuring the operational environment to support rapid software deployment is an important enabler of the DevOps movement. Similarly, software-defined networking –… Jason Bloomberg
4 days ago: RBPEA: Opportunities unheeded… Following on from that description of ‘further-futures’ enterprise-architecture, several folks have asked me for a real example of the kind of world that I see, as an outcome of ‘Really-Big-Picture Enterprise-Architecture‘ [RBPEA]. In other words, what would be the outcome of an… Tom Graves
4 days ago: ArchiMate® 3.0 and Value Mapping In several previous blogs, we have outlined how you can use ArchiMate 3 in the context of business architecture and strategy development, such as Capability-Based Planning, and combining it with the Business Motivation Model, the Business Model Canvas and the Balanced Scorecard.… Marc Lankhorst & Wil Janssen
5 days ago: ArchiMate 3.0 Webinar Are you using Archimate 3.0 Specification as your modelling standard? Do your current tools enable you to work with this and other standards as easily as you would like? If not, you may be interested to find an easy-to-use, repository-based tool to… John Gøtze
5 days ago: Vizru: Mobile-First, Omnichannel, Secure Workflow Platform The no-code/low-code platform marketplace is exploding, as numerous vendors flesh out offerings in this white hot segment of the broader PaaS market. As with many emerging markets, these vendors each have a well-differentiated offering, each one bearing little resemblance to the others.… Jason Bloomberg
6 days ago: The Open Group Paris Event to Take Place in October 2016 The Open Group, the vendor-neutral IT consortium, is hosting its next global event in Paris, France, between October 24-27, 2016. The event, taking place at the Hyatt Regency Paris Étoile, will focus on e-Government, as well as how to address … Continue… Open Group
6 days ago: The Power of the Lightning Component Framework My last BrainBlog post on Salesforce Lightning provided a broad introduction to this powerful technology and also made some important recommendations for any organization that is currently leveraging Visualforce for their Salesforce-based web pages. As that article explained, Lighting consists of several… Jason Bloomberg
