Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
Recently I was contacted by a CIO of a company in UAE who I know for many years. He asked me to review some system architecture, as they had some problems. It turned out to be a very standard architecture with a GUI layer for data entry and a message hub transporting the entry message … Continue reading The importance of open-mindness in architecture. →
IoT is enabled by the progress of the Digital technology and it relies upon other digitally enabled technologies that can be controlled digitally as such.
Dear TOG, I hope this letter finds you well. As the shepherd of the ArchiMate standard, you are currently working on its next iteration. As I am not part of the ArchiMate Forum, I am going to send you a … Continue reading →
Two words: auftragstaktik and fingerspitzengefühl. To an English speaker, they might look kinda weird, but they’re key to getting an enterprise to work well… The terms originate from the German military, from around the early-19thC and mid-20thC respectively. They would translate approximately…
Many organizations with large legacy application landscapes can no longer postpone a major overhaul of their IT. But how do you avoid creating tomorrow’s legacy today all over again? And how do you spend your IT budget in the most sensible way? Next to appropriate design and development practices (e.g. enterprise architecture, agile and DevOps, as we addressed in our previous blog) you need to manage your application portfolio as a whole, to decide where it is most important to invest.
IoT regulation must be specified at this stage… Someone, not some Thing, must be ultimately accountable.
By Loren K. Baynes, Director, Global Marketing Communications, The Open Group The Open Group Baltimore 2015, Enabling Boundaryless Information Flow™, July 20-23, was held at the beautiful Hyatt Regency Inner Harbor. Over 300 attendees from 16 countries, including China, Japan, … Continue reading →
When work on the business function model / capability map is well underway, Brenda is confident that she can promise management a first product to be delivered in a few weeks’ time. She has organized weekly meetings with the team for updates and reviews and things seem to move along at a slow, albeit steady pace. This frees up her hands for the next topic to be addressed: where are we going?
How can organizations create the back-end services used by applications that consumers expect to work all the time when the underlying systems of record are not designed for consumer-facing availability,
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How can organizations create the back-end services used by applications…
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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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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