For What It’s Worth

We live in a world where the rate of change, the sources of change and the potential impact of change is greater than it ever was before. Strategic decisions have to be taken in the face of a considerable degree of uncertainty, so we have to learn the …

Agility Through New Technologies

Without the capability of linking application development with the infrastructure such as servers, middleware and network your organization will most likely be in more trouble than the decision-makers think. Information technologies have a profound impact on the organization’s ability to reinvent its business model(s) and the products it produces and since organizations in various industries […]

Building Enterprise Architectures with TOGAF 9 – Technical Whitepaper

We wrote up a technical whitepaper that summarizes TOGAF and how you can build, maintain, and gain return on investment on an enterprise architecture with our tooling — System Architect, Focal Point, RAM, and other IBM tools. The technical whitepaper – Building Enterprise Architectures with TOGAF 9 — is available for download for free, here:  http://public.dhe.ibm.com/common/ssi/ecm/en/raw14241usen/RAW14241USEN.PDF […]

Enterprise Architects Will Need To …

Like last year, I focus my predictions on how current trends will impact Enterprise Architecture in 2013. I see three things coming: 1. Make sense of big data. Big data will continue to get a lot of press, and vendors will be keen to show off new tricks with data integration. The enterprise architecture teams need Read more

Enterprise Architects Will Need To …

Like last year, I focus my predictions on how current trends will impact Enterprise Architecture in 2013. I see three things coming: 1. Make sense of big data. Big data will continue to get a lot of press, and vendors will be keen to show off new tricks with data integration. The enterprise architecture teams need Read more

SOA for Profits

If you look for a great book on how to deal with the implementation and adaption of an Service-Oriented Architecture the book SOA for Profits is what you are looking for. The book was published back in 2007 but is still highly relevant. The focus is on handling the needed interaction with stakeholders to collaborate […]

Answering Some Questions on EA

Questions I’ve fielded at least several times in the past few years: a) “What is the ROI on enterprise architecture?”, and b) “Enterprise Architecture is overkill, isn’t it? You don’t really need it.” Here is my answer: Every organization already has an EA in place, whether you like it or not; whether you want it […]

Philosophy of Enterprise Architecture

I attended the summer school dealing with enterprise architecture that took place at IT University of Copenhagen in week 31 of 2012. A lot of interesting presentations and debates took place. I found quite a few interesting topics to think about and one of them dealt with the philosophy of enterprise architecture, which is the […]

Zachman International® Closes Acquisition of the FEAC® Institute

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Zachman International®, Inc. Closes Acquisition of the FEAC® Institute, Inc.

ALEXANDRIA, VA, USA — Apr. 29, 2012 – Zachman International®, Inc., a Colorado Springs, CO, USA based Enterprise Architecture firm with operations in Los Angeles, CA, USA, announced today that it has acquired all shares and interest in FEAC® Institute, Inc., the leading and premier Training and Certification Institution for Professional Enterprise Architects based in Alexandria, Virginia, USA. Terms of the transaction are confidential.