Enterprise Architecture

Insights from OpenText: What Metastorm Brings to the Company

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OpenText announced Friday the completion of the Metastorm acquisition. We do many acquisitions at OpenText but this particular acquisition is very interesting for a multitude of reasons. Metastorm is the leader in business process management (BPM) which is a discipline quite related to enterprise content management (ECM). In fact, enterprise content management has long included […]

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Cloud Computing & Enterprise Architecture

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We have moved from monolithic systems to client-server to tiered architectures. With SOA comes the truly distributed architecture. And with Cloud Computing and SaaS, we are moving to “Globally Decentralized/Distributed Architecture”.
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Design Goals

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It is always a good idea to express our stated design goals right up front – and use these to guide the inevitable trade-offs and decisions that will need to be made along this journey. So let’s get started with a few design goals in our space based architecture model that combines and integrates distributed caching, content-based distributed messaging, and parallel processing into a powerful architecture within a grid computing framework.

When effort estimations feel like buying showroom kitchens

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Purchasing a showroom kitchen can be an unpleasant experience, especially if you’re not sure of the value of what you are buying. Kitchen showrooms tend to have the atmosphere of a prestigious car dealership, perhaps because the price tag of a well-designed kitchen is similar to a mid-sized car. If you happen to linger at […]

Enterprise Architecture is Misplaced and Other News from MIT Research

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Several interesting points that deserve their own blog posts, so this is just a conversation starter:- EA should not be inside of IT, and it’s usual placement hampers both IT and its effectiveness. – EA maturity is directly related to organizational pe…