The Integrated Enterprise: Why Architecture Must Connect Product, Data, Execution, and Experience
By Steven Else Ph.D. Executive Summary The modern enterprise is…
Data Architecture
Beyond the Digital Workplace Summit: Architecting the Enterprise as a System of Systems
By Steven Else Ph.D. Introduction The Gartner Digital Workplace Summit…
From Blueprint to Nervous System
From Blueprint to Nervous System: The New Mandate for Data…
The future role of the Data Architect
The Diplomat of Data: The Data Architect’s New Role on…
Quick Wins: 5 Tips to Make Enterprise Architecture User-Friendly
“Providing Enterprise Architecture services to your enterprise can be a challenge,” notes Dorene Dickman, Senior Consultant at Avolution Software, during a recent webinar co-hosted with the Association of Enterprise Architects. Drawing on extensive exp…
GenAI Intrinsic in both the Supply and Demand of Architecture Products and Services
The data and analytics landscape is undergoing a profound transformation,…
Who needs Data Architecture anyway!
Okay, so it’s a deliberately provocative title, but this came…
What Makes a Monolith Monolithic?
It seems like everybody throws around the term “monolith”, but what do we mean by that? Sam Newman started the ball rolling yesterday with this tweet: My first response was a (semi) joke: I say semi joke because, in truth, semantics (i.e. meaning) is critical. The English language has a horrible tendency to overload […]
Microservices, Monoliths, and Modularity
There are very valid reasons for considering a microservice architecture (MSA) when building/evolving an application. In my opinion, however, forcing modularity isn’t one of those very valid reasons. Just the other day, I saw tweet from Simon Brown saying this same thing: I still like his comment from two years back: “I’ll keep saying […]
Monolithic Applications and Enterprise Gravel
It’s been almost a year since I’ve written anything about microservices, and while a lot has been said on that subject, it’s one I still monitor to see what new pops up. The opening of a blog post that I read last week caught my attention: Coined by Melvin Conway in 1968, Conway’s Law states: […]
EAdirections Tenth Anniversary Observations
Through ten years of working with dozens of companies, we have seen a lot of good and some not so good developments related to Enterprise Architecture. In recognition of those 10 years, those dozens of companies, and continued success, we would like t…
EAdirections Tenth Anniversary Observations
Through ten years of working with dozens of companies, we have seen a lot of good and some not so good developments related to Enterprise Architecture. In recognition of those 10 years, those dozens of companies, and continued success, we would like t…