Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
Continuing my series of posts from my travels across India, here is the next one which highlights the Mergers and Acquisitions Spree, Cloud Technology Adoption and the Partnerships to deliver ambitious Unique Identification Cards program of the Govt of…
A collection of Enterprise Architecture terms and definitions from a variety of sources: EA3 Cube, Introduction to Enterprise Architecture, The Common Approach to Federal Enterprise Architecture (FEAF-II), ISO 42010:2011 and TOGAF 9. 00
Writing a practical guide to enterprise architecture means leaving a lot out. Here’s what didn’t make it in—and the reasons behind those choices
When talking to customers and prospects, I hear great ambitions for digitization. But I also hear about pains when they describe their IT landscape. Customers have often grown a complex IT landscape and lack transparency about their costs, or functional redundancy occurs, especially after mergers and acquisitions. Information about their IT landscape sometimes resides in…
I once did some data architecture and modelling for NHS Blood and Transplant. This is a UK-wide agency responsible for blood, organs and other body parts, managing transfers from donors to recipients.One of the interesting challenges for this kind of o…
I once did some data architecture and modelling for NHS Blood and Transplant. This is a UK-wide agency responsible for blood, organs and other body parts, managing transfers from donors to recipients.One of the interesting challenges for this kind of o…
Regulatory compliance is a core business fact of life for the financial services industry today. Compliance is not only about combating financial crimes such as money laundering, fraud, and tax evasion. But also about operating in a prudent and responsible manner and being able to prove that you have the policies, procedures and processes in…
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@shoshanazuboff’s latest book was published at the end of January. 700 pages of detailed research and analysis, and I’ve been trying to read as much as possible before everyone else. Meanwhile I have seen display copies everywhere – not just at the ICA…
It’s no secret that the art of delivering exceptional service to customers—whether they’re consumers or business buyers—is undergoing dramatic change. Customers routinely expect highly personalized experiences across all touchpo…
A lot has been going on in the industry and at Oracle, and the pace is only getting faster! The Oracle Cloud Platform has evolved to a point that is so vastly different, deeper and differentiated (how’s that for alliteration) that someone, who has not been consistently watching, would be shocked to see how things look now. Like Rip Van Winkle waking up to a different world, you’d be surprised at what has changed and wonder how these changes passed you by. The problem is that the rate of change is now so fast that, if you are not carefully watching on a monthly basis, you could feel “Rip Van Winkled” after just a few short months. It can happen that fast!
Recently, Oracle has announced some really amazing new capabilities such as the Autonomous Database, Blockchain, support for Robotic Process Automation, and the new Serverless platform–Fn (see this great blog for more information: here).
Here are just some of the capabilities that one should really have their eye on as sweeping architecture trends. Each of them hold tremendous promise to help you drive differentiation and innovation in your company or agency.
The 6th point in that list is very important from a strategic standpoint. Oracle just released 2 major new services (DIPC and OIC). If you don’t have your Oracle Acronym Decoder Ring© available, those stand for the Data Integration Platform Cloud and the Oracle Integration Cloud, respectively. What is important about these service, at the highest level, is that they both take what were delivered as stand-alone cloud services, and combines them into 2 integrated platforms where you don’t spend time worrying about which tool to use, you simply start with what you want to do.
In the past, you would say “Oh, I need to build an integration to SalesForce, guess I’d better use ICS.” Likewise you might say, “I need to create a better, and automated, Employee on-boarding process, guess I should use PCS.” Or you might say “I need to create a real-time data replication link between my on-prem database and a Cloud instance for reporting, guess I need Golden Gate.” We have all been there, that is how we solved problems in the past.
f(x) = y; I need to do this (x), so I use that (y).
Now you change your focus drastically away from a tool-focus to a focus on creating business value. Because both new platforms (OIC and DIPC) abstract away many of the details (such as selecting and deploying a new Cloud Service), you get immediate results and value from your efforts. That means you have more time to do what needs to be done — but also start thinking of new ways to innovate on top of that. “What if instead of simply automating this process, we also enhanced the data reporting so business could get real-time reporting on Employee data across our geographically separate subsidiaries from a centralized ‘source of truth’!”
As an example, here are some of the things you can do with OIC:
This platform/capabilities approach is a huge step forward for Enterprise Architects who look, in ever increasing amounts, to technology to be in direct of support business needs and can’t afford to be “Rip Van Winkled” by these recent trends wondering, “how did I miss this one?!?!”
For more information, take a look at:
Services serve the needs of someone. Disservices purport to serve the needs of someone, but don’t – they either don’t work at all, or they serve someone else’s needs. Or desires. Or something of that kind, anyway. And therein lie…
Services serve the needs of someone. Disservices purport to serve the needs of someone, but don’t – they either don’t work at all, or they serve someone else’s needs. Or desires. Or something of that kind, anyway. And therein lie…