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According to United States records, from 2006 cyber attacks
to 2016, (crimes, intelligence gathering, and warfare) have gone up 1300
percent. Other reports identified in
Forbes Magazine indicate that between 2015 and 2016 there was …
Revolutionary Hyperbolic Dirac Net (HDN) based Data Mining Technique in fretting out Rogue Claims – Dr. Barry Robson, Ingine, Inc. DiracSmash, or just SMASH for short, is a Q-UEL application in the sense that it is compatible with QUEL. It extracts probabilistic knowledge from csv files and renders it in the form of Q-UEL tags. […]
With apologies for paraphrasing Mr. Twain, pundits have sounded VMware’s death knell for years. Whether it be the continuous pressure of public cloud offerings, potentially losing the management tools game, or tech professionals evolving past their current offerings, the company faces some very real, critical threats. Even so, VMware continues to succeed. In its most […]
Is curiosity as important as intelligence when it comes to handling complexity? Some new thinking from HBR suggests that it is — especially when handling ambiguity and change. Apparently people with a high curiosity quotient (CQ) are better at producing simple solutions to complex problems. (Hmm. Sounds like a good characteristic for an analyst to have.) It’s a bonus that many […]
On July 1st 2017, India launched its GST. For a country of nearly 1.28 billion people, comprising of 29 states and 7 union territories this is a defining moment. The idea of abolishing all other central and state taxes, and introducing one tax, GST, was mooted 15 years back. It took more than a decade to finally get to a point when consensus was reached and the formal launch (or rather the transition) to GST happened.
Today Vendavo announced its acquisition of Endeavor Commerce. This move brings together Vendavo’s price management and price optimization capabilities with the configuration and quoting capabilities of Endeavor Commerce. You’re probably ready to ask me “John, there have been a lot of acquisitions in the CPQ space in recent years. What makes this one so different?” Well, […]
It’s time for another appearance on Tom Cagley’s Software Process and Measurement (SPaMCast) podcast. This week’s episode, number 450, features Tom’s excellent essay on roadmaps and a Form Follows Function installment based on my post “Holistic Architecture – Keeping the Gears Turning”. Our conversation in this episode continues with the organizations as system concept, this […]
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Why are neither the customers of EA nor the architects happy
In the absence of a clear EA deliverable, no stakeholder in the enterprise really understands what the architects are doing.
The architect then feels obliged to re…
We all know that part of our work is done using semantics (both natural and artificial) and intrinsic processing. This does not only lead to the individual, but also to group intrinsic non semantic processing as we do not only communicate via semantics. These non semantic operations often create a problem for architects and business … Continue reading Hidden operations →
Every day I hear more about the pressure I&O organizations are under to accelerate the delivery of applications and services and the pressure it is placing on the existing resources. As organizations transition, DevOps, formally the purview of unicorns, is now transitioning to mainstream. DevOps, which started as a grassroots approach by development organizations who […]
EA makes all stakeholders unhappy today.
Customers are unhappy because ea deliverables, when any, are not helping them do their jobs better, that is, coordinate their work, align their strategies, lighten decision making, invest more wisely,&nbs…
Flicking through the BMJ again this week, I noticed an editorial on ‘EBM manifesto for better health’ (cite/URL: BMJ 2017;357:j2973), where ‘EBM’ stands for ‘Evidence-Based Medicine’. I’ve often noted that medicine and enterprise-architectures share several key characteristics, in particular an awkward…