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“Dead Letter Office” is a lovely and hearty shiraz sourced from the McLaren Vale and Padthaway wine regions of South Australia. While drinking a bottle of Dead Letter Office recently i started to sketch this post about asynchronous message-based integration architectures. The dead-letter-office concept is an important form of exception-handling, though it contributes to complexity […]
Enterprise Architecture (EA) starts out being misunderstood, like an adolescent suffering an identity crisis. In the last article, we discussed what EA is, and how organizations can it as an effective tool to create a blueprint for a business aligned &…
Continuing from Part One of this series, this blog post includes more examples of what an enterprise cannot achieve without Enterprise Architecture. Continue reading →
When introducing Enterprise Architecture as a program or initiative, it is regularly done from an IT perspective rarely considering what the costs will be and if there will be any return on investment. This presents a particular challenge to Enterprise…
A typical modern organization depends on Information Technology (IT) to keep track of its customers and transactions, automate processes and disseminate information to its stakeholders. This implies that a growing organization necessitates an ever-in…
While I have not yet embarked on writing another book, I have been published in a second book. The publisher of my book on SOA Governance, Packt Publishing, has released their first compendium title called, “Do more with SOA Integration: Best of Packt.” It features content from several of their SOA books and authors, including […]
Here’s one of my favorite pictures of bad architecture that I use frequently in my presentations to non-architects. These pictures are from an elevator at Terminal 3 at JFK. Clearly there are at least three departments at JFK, each with … Continue reading →
My projects and architecture activities center around health care (care providers and health insurers) and state/federal government agencies. With health care reform is still in place at this moment in the US, there is plenty of architecture and implementation work…
My projects and architecture activities center around health care (care providers and health insurers) and state/federal government agencies. With health care reform is still in place at this moment in the US, there is plenty of architecture and implementation work…
Print PDF A few years ago, a consumer products company I’m familiar with committed to outsourcing its infrastructure and as much of its application portfolio as possible. Its strategic application decisions were heavily influenced by outsourced and SaaS offering, placing its CRM and several customer community sites in the cloud. With a stable set of hosted, cloud and SaaS apps, they were shocked to find that they didn’t talk to one another to provide a […]
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