Pat Shepherd

  Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud is the world’s first and only integrated cloud machine—hardware and software engineered together to provide a "cloud in a box". Exalogic is designed to revolutionize data center consolidation, enabling e…

  In a recent blog post, Joe McKendrick poses the question that I have been playing around with for a while regarding where and how SOA fits into EA.  He mentions that: Dave Linthicum predicted a couple of years back that SOA would be absorbe…

The TOGAF specification has a single sentence in chapter 22 that is the best definition of EA I have ever seen.  It goes as follows: “Enterprise architecture is the application of architectural discipline to the end-to-end enterprise, treating the…

  I am in the middle of reading two books on EA, including the TOGAF 9 specification.  The other book, the one shown below, is proving to be an interesting and very useful read for anyone who wants to get some ideas about how to map EA and SOA. …

I was just thinking a bit about some of the tasks that an EA can “time slice” between to help ensure success.  So, this is just some thinking-out-loud thoughts I had: Make a list of contacts in your organization that you have not spent time wi…

As EA’s, we use communication as one of our main tools.  I am always on the lookout for information and tips on how to present (in fact, how to *communicate* – bidirectionality is important).  So before you take one on the chin and are ‘bout to…

In a recently posted article by by Mike Blackmore, Hamza Jahangir, Harish Gaur, and Basheer Khan – an interesting and useful view of how EA can help structure the blueprint for creating adaptable applications predicated on reusable services (weather …

I have (surprisingly) gotten a lot of comments over the last post about using OmniGraffle as an interactive EA tool.  The news flash/update is that it now supports VGA output.  I had sent a note to the developers and they responded that this was a hi…