From Last Week’s Open Group Conference: Always-On Services for Consumer Web, Mobile and the Internet of Things
How can organizations create the back-end services used by applications…
#eavoices
From Last Week’s Open Group Conference: Effective Strategy Execution with Capability-Based Planning, Enterprise Architecture, and Portfolio Management
Executing a great strategy requires a careful look at the current state of an organization and the changes in structure, motivation and function required for strategy execution. Once architects characterize
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Newly Updated: Using the TOGAF 9.1 Framework with the ArchiMate Modeling Language
Drive strategic change with the predominant EA framework and visual modeling language. This Open Group White Paper has just been updated to reflect the latest standards. EAPJ Editor Iver Band
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Abstraction: Achieving Alignment At 10,000 Feet
Have you ever attempted to align two ‘high level’ models? Sure there are likely to be features they both have in common – but then there is likely to be the rest of the model […]
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Think A Data Lake Is THE Answer? Think Again. Here Comes Elastic Analytics
Enterprise architects, are you mired in a tangled web of data marts while your business pursues customer engagement without you? If you think a Hadoop-centric architecture is going to save the day, you may need to rethink. Your customers expect you to create systems of insight to deliver win-win engagement in real time. I’m seeing a new class of digital predators leverage the cloud to do just this. For example, Netflix designs cover graphics for its series based on subscriber viewing habits. They know their customers that well.
I call their technology approach an Elastic Analytics Platform in my recently published report. I formally define it as:
“A combination of data storage and middleware technology that allows the creation and dissolution of analytics components on demand, while provisioning these with data from one, or a few, distributed, virtualized data sources.”
That’s a mouthful. So here’s a rough picture:
Firms like Netflix, Stitch Fix (who? read the linked KDnuggets blog post), and LinkedIn are sourcing all their data, and I mean everything, into a few data stores in the cloud. Next, they are exploiting cloud to create analytic workloads on demand. This gives them elasticity two ways. First, they get scale-out storage; second, they get on-demand analytics components. For example, Netflix can spin up Hadoop, Spark, or Kafka clusters as they need them and provision these from Kafka or S3. They also have Teradata on Amazon. This gives them enormous flexibility to create as much of what they need when they need it.
Pervasives and the VSM algedonic link
How do we keep on track to enterprise purpose? Perhaps more to the point, how can we know when we’re falling off-track, in time to recover? To me, one of the keys here is the perhaps least-known part of the…
Abductive Reasoning
If you have worked like me in architecture for some time you will know that not all is based on the good old deductive logic. Often many stakeholders will use guessing as their form of expression that often turns out to be plainly wrong and usually follows the pattern that if A is right B … Continue reading Abductive Reasoning →
What does IoT need to define first?
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What is a Thing, though? Could it be a natural object that changes when submitted to an electric or magnetic field? Could it be a pet dotted with a tag? An IoT Thing could be anything in the end, natural or man made, alive …
Internationalization, Currency, etc.
As we think more globally, co companies that have only previously allowed transactions in a single currency realize that they may have to support many. That generally speaking pervades everything. From the user experiences (How do we choose which curre…
Internationalization, Currency, etc.
As we think more globally, co companies that have only previously allowed transactions in a single currency realize that they may have to support many. That generally speaking pervades everything. From the user experiences (How do we choose which curre…
Forrester’s Annual ECM Panel Survey, 2015. Call for Participation — Deadline July 31, 2015
Forrester’s survey for ECM decision-makers is open, and we’re looking for your participation! Take this opportunity to provide your perspectives on the key vendors, the challenges, and the opportunities you see in this technology market. This survey is intended for ECM decision-makers or influencers in end user organizations. This is not for ECM vendors or systems integrators . . . but vendors and consultants — we would love it if you could share this survey invitation with your customers. The survey will remain open until end of day Friday, July 31, 2015.
Why is your input important? Forrester uses this data to:
- Keep our Content Management Playbook fresh and relevant. Clients who are embarking on a new or updated content initiative rely on these interconnected reports to understand the landscape and market direction and build out the business cases, continuous improvement plans, and the org charts to succeed.
- Track the trends and emerging use cases for ECM — for both business and transactional content services. Where are investments being made? How is cloud shaping your road map? What are the top challenges facing your programs today?
- Educate clients and nonclients alike via research, blog posts, webinars, and industry presentations. This survey data helps us validate and verify where ECM markets are evolving and aid you in making better investment decisions.
Please take this survey if you are a practitioner inside the private or public sector and make or influence decisions around ECM and/or archiving platforms. Survey participants will be provided with the survey results summary slide deck, if desired.
Forrester’s Annual ECM Panel Survey, 2015. Call for Participation — Deadline July 31, 2015
Forrester’s survey for ECM decision-makers is open, and we’re looking for your participation! Take this opportunity to provide your perspectives on the key vendors, the challenges, and the opportunities you see in this technology market. This survey is intended for ECM decision-makers or influencers in end user organizations. This is not for ECM vendors or systems integrators . . . but vendors and consultants — we would love it if you could share this survey invitation with your customers. The survey will remain open until end of day Friday, July 31, 2015.
Why is your input important? Forrester uses this data to:
- Keep our Content Management Playbook fresh and relevant. Clients who are embarking on a new or updated content initiative rely on these interconnected reports to understand the landscape and market direction and build out the business cases, continuous improvement plans, and the org charts to succeed.
- Track the trends and emerging use cases for ECM — for both business and transactional content services. Where are investments being made? How is cloud shaping your road map? What are the top challenges facing your programs today?
- Educate clients and nonclients alike via research, blog posts, webinars, and industry presentations. This survey data helps us validate and verify where ECM markets are evolving and aid you in making better investment decisions.
Please take this survey if you are a practitioner inside the private or public sector and make or influence decisions around ECM and/or archiving platforms. Survey participants will be provided with the survey results summary slide deck, if desired.