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The past year has brought much progress for the EMMMv™ Forum and the model, which is being used by global exploration and mining organizations to establish a blueprint for organizations in the natural resources industry to help implement Enterprise A…
Earlier this week, in Paris, The Open Group France held the latest in a series of one-day conferences focused on Enterprise Architecture. As usual, the event delivered high-value content in the form of an excellent keynote presentation and case studies…
I just need to know the metamodel. That is a common request from users for the variety of metamodels deployed out of the box with System Architect. What is your DIV-1 and DIV-2 for DoDAF 2? What is your metamodel for TOGAF 9? What is your metamodel mapping for your SA-DOORS integration? Here’s one that […]
SOA is certainly not the only architectural approach that your enterprise will require. But it can smooth the alignment and adoption of other into an EA framework. So rather than reinvent the wheel, organizations should consider using a well-establishe…
Enterprises are changing and we need to understand them in non-traditional ways. A lot of the best ideas come from unexpected directions, and in the next iteration of TOGAF®, doesn’t it make sense to incorporate them to make EA more adaptable and less…
In many organizations if an application is needed to solve a specific business problem, it is purchased or built. However, more often than not, these purchases happen in an ad-hoc manner within a specific department or business unit, resulting in a business owning hundreds (maybe even thousands) of redundant, overlapping, and ultimately, outdated applications. Maintaining […]
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In the wake of this historic, global economic downturn there is little room for error among financial services companies. Volatile market conditions, impending regulatory requirements, and an intense competitive atmosphere have banking and insurance companies of all sizes rethinking risk, streamlining operations, and seeking new ways to create a more adaptable enterprise. Now, more than […]
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At the Troux Enterprise Architecture Conference in the spring of 2011 I was interviewed after my panel discussion on my perspective regarding where EA is today and where I thought it was going in the future. Similarly as Angela Yochem…
At the Troux Enterprise Architecture Conference in the spring of 2011 Angela Yochem recorded an interview on her views of EA and IT in a broader sense. Like with her presentations, this interview is no different. Her thoughts are always…
In her great song – Universal Soldier (sung here by Donovan), Buffy Sainte-Marie describes an impossible ideal for a soldier. Sometimes I think we enterprise architects have to have a similar set of impossible and conflicting attributes. We have to be …
In her great song – Universal Soldier (sung here by Donovan), Buffy Sainte-Marie describes an impossible ideal for a soldier. Sometimes I think we enterprise architects have to have a similar set of impossible and conflicting attributes. We have to be …
The Open Group set up two informal Twitter polls this week during The Open Group Conference, Austin. If you wondered about the results, or just want to see what our Twitter followers think about some topline issues in the industry in very simple terms,…