The Integrated Enterprise: Why Architecture Must Connect Product, Data, Execution, and Experience
By Steven Else Ph.D. Executive Summary The modern enterprise is…
digital business
The Four EA Archetypes: A Story Of How EA Finds Its True Place
In nearly every EA leadership conversation I’ve had this year, the same tension surfaces: the practice is doing real work, but stakeholders can’t describe what it delivers. Expectations have surged, roles have expanded, and transformation p…
Beyond the Digital Workplace Summit: Architecting the Enterprise as a System of Systems
By Steven Else Ph.D. Introduction The Gartner Digital Workplace Summit…
The Map Neither Summit Drew
Two Gartner conferences. Two communities. One enterprise they cannot yet…
Architects Must Go Where Value Flows and Make Process-Outcomes The Center Of EA
Customer journeys, value streams, and day-to-day processes are where value is created, or lost. Yet most EA teams still optimize IT systems in isolation, invisible to the business outcomes they’re supposed to enable. GenAI is now automating decis…
Architects Demonstrate Value By Showcasing Business Outcomes
Enterprise architecture teams must take action to demonstrate their value to the overall business — read this blog for some key best practices and activities that EA professionals can undertake.
Introducing The Forrester Wave™: Workday Services, Q2 2024
In our 25-criterion evaluation of Workday services providers, we identified the most significant ones and researched, analyzed, and scored them. This blog introduces you to the report on how each provider measures up and helps enterprise technology lea…
SAP shares reached a record high; restructures 8000 jobs and lures customers with Cloud ERP migration discounts.
Existing SAP ECC customer or recent on-prem SAP S/4HANA customer? Take advantage of the new RISE migration discounts in 2024.
Banking Functionality Doesn’t Differentiate Banking Software Anymore, But Technology And Ecosystems Do
Functionality in retail and corporate banking is not highly differentiating anymore. In the future, only those that can support partner solutions in their ecosystem seamlessly can fully cope with banking industry’s expanding requirements.
How to Use Microservices: A Guide for Enterprise Architects
Many organizations have started to break up a portion of their monolith applications and systems, transitioning to sets of smaller, interconnected microservices.
A recent survey by TechRepublic, found that organizations who used microservices were reaping clear benefits: 69% were experiencing faster deployment of services, 61% had greater flexibility to respond to changing conditions, and 56% benefited more from rapidly scaling up new features into large applications.
The Open Group ‘Digital-First’ Virtual Event October 26 – 29, 2020 – Highlights Blog
In the ongoing transition to Digital-First, an increasing number of technology executives, managers, and practitioners are looking for new approaches that will help them to make sense of the evolving business landscape and deliver digital products and services.
As an organization that is known for solving business issues through global industry collaboration, The Open Group hosted its third virtual event October 26-29, 2020, which provided over 3,300 registrants with the opportunity to discover the critical digital standards that enable a smooth transition to a Digital-First enterprise.
The Open Group ‘Digital First’ Virtual Event – April 27-29, 2020 – Highlights Blog
This week marked a first for The Open Group. While our physical conferences and Member Meetings have become the world-class events for which we are known, the health and safety of our staff, Members, and event attendees take priority during these unprecedented times.
As an organization that prides itself on bringing people together globally, this week we hosted our first ever virtual event, #ogVIRTUAL. In the face of adversity, it was fantastic to see over 2,000 attendees from 85 countries across the world come together virtually to explore the topic of ‘Digital First’.