Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
Gerben Wierda Moving IT support for your business to the cloud means ‘our’ IT being hosted in a fragmented landscape of data centers. That only looks like a silver bullet if you are short sighted. [This article originally appeared on InfoWorld in……
June 22, I posted another ArchiMate quiz question: ArchiMate Quiz: A Common Cause. It’s been a while, but here is the discussion of the ‘solution’. The quiz started with the following two ArchiMate snippets (in Mastering ArchiMate col…
It’s been a while (busy, busy) but I though this one would be a good candidate for another ArchiMate quiz. This time not “What is wrong with this picture’, but more, “This is grammatically correct, but why? And what does……
With the increase in regulations governing the privacy of personal…
With the increase in regulations governing the privacy of personal information, such as GDPR which came into effect last week, organisations of all types and sizes must now consider how they gather and use customer data. Some organisations are being&#x…
Nobody can deny that artificial intelligence (or machine learning, deep…
Nobody can deny that artificial intelligence (or machine learning, deep learning, or cognitive computing) is booming these days. And — as before, as this is in fact the second round for AI — the hype is almost unlimited. But there… Read More Som…
Agile and DevOps are on the rise. Hardly anyone these…
Agile and DevOps are on the rise. Hardly anyone these days defends up-front design approaches or project-based over product-based change. It seems to many that ‘agile’ is seen as a free pass for unlimited change. This is an illusion. Workin…
Recently, I visited a few conferences and I noticed a somewhat hidden theme. While a lot of attention was being paid to moving to a (hybrid) cloud-based architecture and what you need for that (such as cloud management platforms), a… Read More T…
In the world of real enterprises, enterprise architecture is a weak discipline. It doesn’t play a role of any real substance in most medium-large enterprises, which are exactly the enterprises that can profit most from its goals: the management o…
I’ll be visiting Gartner IT Infrastructure, Operations Management & Data Center Summit in London at the InterContinental London – The O2 hotel on Monday 27 November and Tuesday 28 November. Just visiting, not speaking. See you there? (I…