The Open Group Testifies before Congress on the Supply Chain Landscape
Recap of The Open Group Trusted Technology Forum to the House Energy and Commerce Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee on March 27, 2012. Continue reading →
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Enterprise Transformation, Innovation, Emergence and the Sewers of Vienna
The key to successful enterprise transformation lies in understanding the infrastructure of complete ecosystems. Drivers of change, goals of transformation, and factors of influence – these are only a few components essential to innovative (even emerge…
The SOA RA Provides a Way to Assess or Design your SOA
By Dr. Ali Arsanjani, IBM The Standard in Summary The SOA Reference Architecture (SOA RA) published by The Open Group provides a prescriptive means of assessment or creation of a service-oriented architecture (SOA) solution, including the architecture …
Part 3 of 3: Building an Enterprise Architecture Value Proposition Using TOGAF® 9.1. and ArchiMate® 2.0
Value management through TOGAF 9.1 and ArchiMate 2.0. Continue reading →
Part 2 of 3: Building an Enterprise Architecture Value Proposition Using TOGAF® 9.1. and ArchiMate® 2.0
Continuing from Part One of this series, this blog post includes more examples of what an enterprise cannot achieve without Enterprise Architecture. Continue reading →
Part 1 of 3: Building an Enterprise Architecture Value Proposition Using TOGAF® 9.1. and ArchiMate® 2.0
When introducing Enterprise Architecture as a program or initiative, it is regularly done from an IT perspective rarely considering what the costs will be and if there will be any return on investment. This presents a particular challenge to Enterprise…
OTTF Releases Snapshot of Developing Standard
By Sally Long, The Open Group Globalization has transformed the supply chain forever. While it has brought benefits to large Commercial Off-the-Shelf (COTS) Information and Communication Technology (ICT), it has also brought considerable risk. Although…
When Was Your Last Enterprise Architecture Maturity Assessment
Every company should plan regular architecture capability maturity assessments using a model. These should provide a framework that represents the key components of a productive enterprise architecture process. A model provides an evolutionary way to i…
Enterprise Architecture and Enterprise Transformation: Related But Distinct Concepts That Can Change the World
Open Group experts discuss relationship of enterprise architecture to enterprise transformation. Do you need EA to succeed in transforming your business or do you risk conflating two distinct concepts? Continue reading →
Architecture and Change
By Leonard Fehskens, The Open Group The enterprise transformation theme of The Open Group’s San Francisco conference reminded me of the common assertion that architecture is about change, and the implication that Enterprise Architecture is thus abou…
Top 5 Tell-tale Signs of SOA Evolving to the Cloud
By E.G. Nadhan, HP Enterprise Services Rewind two decades and visualize what a forward-thinking prediction would have looked like then — IT is headed towards a technology agnostic, service-based applications and infrastructure environment, con…
Open Group Security Gurus Dissect the Cloud: Higher of Lower Risk
By Dana Gardner, Interarbor Solutions For some, any move to the Cloud — at least the public Cloud — means a higher risk for security. For others, relying more on a public Cloud provider means better security. There’s more of a concentrated a…