Government

DATA Act IT Infrastructure – Platform Consolidation, Virtualization & Collaborative Governance as Change Enablers

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Momentum and activity regarding the Data Act is gathering steam, and off to a great start. Reaching the 2017/2018 milestones, however, will require IT infrastructure change.
Some change may be simple or take advantage of existing modernization
efforts; much change will be very difficult, complex and/or costly.
Strategies to prepare for this change, and catalyze it, are not yet part
of the government-led discussion – but they are now part of the
industry-led discussion, per this new Executive Report from ACT-IAC, co-authored by Oracle: “The DATA Act – IT Infrastructure Guidance Change Facilitation for IT Departments”.

European Interoperability Reference Architecture

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European Interoperability Reference Architecture The European Interoperability Reference Architecture (EIRA) is an architecture content metamodel defining the most salient architectural building blocks (ABBs) needed to build interoperable e-Government systems. On 8 June 2015, release 0.9.0 beta of the EIRA entered an eight-week public review period. Stakeholders working for public administrations in the field of architecture […]

Global Cooperation and Cybersecurity: A Q&A with Bruce McConnell

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By The Open Group Cyber threats are becoming an increasingly critical issue for both companies and governments. The recent disclosure that the U.S. Office of Personnel Management had been hacked is proof that it’s not just private industry that is … Continue reading →

The Annual Digitalization Reunion

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QualiWare Center of Excellence has Booth 1 at the annual Danish Government Digitalization Conference (#offdig) in Aarhus on 24-25 March. Rune Brodersen and John Gøtze will be available at the booth both days, so feel free to drop by for a chat. Or for a demo of some of our new offerings: Archimate OIOEA Capability models Business Model […]

US Regional, Metropolitan Area Public Sector “Open Data” Synergies, Opportunities, Challenges

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Current dialogue among the leadership and constituents of the Federal, Washington
DC, Maryland and Virginia (DMV) regional “Open Data” government
community have shed new light on the challenges and opportunities that
individual jurisdictions face (not just around DC), in establishing Open
Data capabilities and services – both public-facing, and as part of the
inward-facing “information sharing” context within their own agencies. 
Open Data is also a very different conversation, when held at a purely
local level, vs. statewide or across an entire metropolitan region.

Webinar Series on Enterprise Design

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At the recent Gartner EA Summit in London, John Gøtze made a presentation on Architecting for Business Outcomes: Enterprise Design Meets Enterprise Architecture. QualiWare arranges a series of webinars on the themes of that talk: A demonstration of QualiWare solutions Presented by Kuno Brodersen Date: 10th of June Time: 13:30 CET Architecting for Business Outcomes: Enterprise Design […]

How the Open Trusted Technology Provider Standard (O-TTPS) and Accreditation Will Help Lower Cyber Risk

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By Andras Szakal, Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, IBM U.S. Federal Changing business dynamics and enabling technologies In 2008, IBM introduced the concept of a “Smarter Planet.” The Smarter Planet initiative focused, in part, on the evolution of globalization … Continue reading →

Public Sector Open Data via Information Sharing and Enterprise Architecture

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Recent government policies and public demand for open data is rapidly exposing both opportunities and challenges within government information-sharing environments, behind the firewall – in turn a fantastic opportunity and challenge for the Enterprise Architects and Data Management organizations.

OIOEA and QualiWare

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The Danish government’s OIOEA framework and method is the de facto standard for the Danish state’s enterprise architecture practitioners. The OIO framework is today widely adopted across all tiers and levels of the Danish government. Various parts of the framework are also used outside government in private business sectors including the financial sector. The framework […]

Launching an Enterprise Architecture Program within State, Local, Municipal Organizations

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When
launching a formal EA program, Government organizations often begin by
socializing the overall benefits of EA and developing an EA Charter and
Plan.  However, while both of these are valuable, they are more useful
as part of after-the-fact documentation and communication plans.  Having
worked with a broad spectrum of state, local and municipal government organizations across the US and Canada, our team, Oracle’s Public Sector Enterprise Strategy Team (EST), has found
that the first and primary focus in launching an EA program should be
on how to meaningfully engage top business leaders and other
stakeholders to discover their needs, identify what would bring the most
value to the organization, and obtain their buy-in and support for EA
as a key enabler in helping the organization achieve its mission
objectives.