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Enterprise Archaeologist vs Enterprise Architect

Enterprise Architect or Enterprise Archaeologist?

July 6, 2014 by Rajeev Bhardwaj

Do you sometimes feel like an Enterprise Archaeologist instead of Enterprise Architect? :-)Please indulge me as I talk IT for a second. Age old legacy systems, thousands of shadow applications, complex dependencies and inability to respond to changing …

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Enterprise Architect or Enterprise Archaeologist?

July 6, 2014 by Rajeev Bhardwaj

Do you sometimes feel like an Enterprise Archaeologist instead of Enterprise Architect? :-)Please indulge me as I talk IT for a second. Age old legacy systems, thousands of shadow applications, complex dependencies and inability to respond to changing …

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