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EAdirections will be participating with some of our fellow IT Ally experts in a panel discussion Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2018 at 9:30 entitled “Future Proofing Your Business” at the Manor House in Mason, OH. We will be discussing several aspec…
Business Agility. What does that mean? From our perspective, it means your business has the ability to change quickly when competitive pressures, new opportunities or other factors demand it. Business agility speaks to your company’s ability to…
Reposted from Michael Fillios of IT Ally with permission: While on vacation in South Carolina visiting family and friends in Myrtle Beach and Hilton Head last week, I decided to pack my clubs and enjoy a few rounds of golf. Our first stop was Myrtle Be…
Financial services firms are on the hunt. They’re hunting unicorns. As firms like Revolut and TransferWise attain valuations of $1 billion or more, the pressure to find the Stripes of this world before their value skyrockets has never been strong…
The Open Group will explore Enterprise Architecture (EA) best practices and open standards for business transformation at the event in Lima, Peru, on October 4 and 5, 2018. More detailed information can be found here.
The business environment is evolving. Changes to regulations, new customer demands and the increased use of information technologies and mobile devices are just some of the trends putting pressure on organizations to prioritize innovation and efficiency in order to remain competitive.
We’ve just published “The Forrester Wave™: B2B Commerce Suites, Q3 2018,” and B2B companies, you’re in luck — you now have a viable list of options with a focus on B2B. We battle-tested the 12 most significant vendors — Apttus, …
– Marc Lankhorst, Fabian Aulkemeier In a previous blog post on the features of our collaboration platform, we have explained how you can support people in working together on architectures and other models via structured workflows. In that post, …
This is the third in a series of articles that decomposes some of the latest research into architecture in useful bite size pieces. Thinking about giving up on the whole architecture deal, have a clean out and sack the whole lot and get some news ones in! Well before you do, there’s some interesting new […]
Our discipline has long been working with the concept of ‘technical debt’. Generally, technical debt is a (often hidden, but not always) defect of some substantial scale. There is substantial effort involved in repairing the debt, otherwise…
In today’s fast-paced world, you’d be hard-pressed to find an IT shop that isn’t at least experimenting with Agile. The pressure for IT to accelerate and innovate faster than ever before is real. But it’s not just IT that is fee…
In the previous story, Agile teaches us the true meaning of Architecture, I introduced a ‘new’ definition of Architecture: the design decisions that are hard to completely remove from implementations (or in short: that what is hard to chang…
Including the time dimension in Enterprise Architecture models enables the modeler to depict the interaction of the events, tasks, and actors depicted in the model in a way that indicates the order of the interactions. There are many diagrams or modeling options to chose from to illustrate timing of events within a system or process. A few favorites that are helpful in […]