The Business Architect’s Service Portfolio Part Two: Organizational Performance Services

For some time now I have been promoting the idea that the practice of business architecture is not about creating blueprints and models but applying a set of tools and techniques to form broader perspectives, create deeper insight, and solve business problems. If business architecture is a practice then what is its portfolio of services? […]

ArchiMate® 2.0 and Beyond

There are several sessions on ArchiMate™ at the upcoming Open Group Conference in Barcelona. Henry Franken’s “Delivering Enterprise Architecture with TOGAF® and ArchiMate®” session on October 22 at 2:00-2:45 p.m. UTC / 8:00-8:45 a.m. EST will also be livestreamed on The Open Group Website. Continue reading

Technology Vendor Selection – Best of Breed or Suite Based

I asked our teams in the IT Department at the American University of Sharjah to put together a short presentation to help me get to know the team members and to understand what their operational and project responsibilities are. In some cases, the teams worked on an integrated platform (suite) with the majority of the […]

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Cultivate Collisions

A couple of days ago a tweet flew by which deserved closer attention:Questions to ask about any method or approach: Who invented it? What problem one tried to solve? Do I have that problem? In the interaction with the author it became (once again) obvi…

The Open Group is Livestreaming The Open Group Barcelona Conference

With travel budgets tight, we know Barcelona is hard to get to for many of our Open Group members. As such, The Open Group will be Livestreaming some of our sessions on Monday, Oct. 22. Continue reading

SOA Provides Needed Support for Enterprise Architecture in Cloud, Mobile, Big Data, Says Open Group Panel

There’s been a resurgent role for service-oriented architecture (SOA) as a practical and relevant ingredient for effective design and use of Cloud, mobile, and big-data technologies. To find out why, The Open Group recently gathered an international panel of experts to explore the concept. Continue reading

Data wants to flow — active information

Why, oh why, didn’t I come up this point:

“Organizations that capitalize on big data stand apart [because] they pay attention to data flows as opposed to data stocks.”

I highlight this concept, and the source article, in this week’s active information post: Shifting from data stockpiles to flows, thats the… – Input Output.

OpenText in Life Sciences – DIA’s EDM and ERS/eCDT Conference

Last week, OpenText participated in DIA’s EDM and ERS/eCTD conference in Baltimore and what a great event it was! This hybrid conference combined related disciplines to focus holistically on “The Content Continuum from Document Authoring through Submission Delivery” which proved to be highly informative. There were multiple presentations by FDA providing updates on the new […]

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