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6 years, 6 months ago

From Software-Defined to Metadata-Driven

by Johan den Haan

Software is eating the world! Every company is becoming a software company. If companies don’t, they cease to exist. Just imagine: you are a thermostat maker and suddenly you have Google as a competitor (via its Nest acquisition). This is just one of the many recent examples. Interestingly a lot of the innovations in the software industry are fuelled by abstraction and automation, concepts that are well-known in the Model-Driven.

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Categories mdd, metadata, model_driven, Presentation, software engineering Tags PaaS
6 years, 9 months ago

Information is at the Heart of ALL Architecture Disciplines

by Chris Bradley

WHITE PAPER What is a Customer? “In our division any internal unit we cross charge services to is called a Customer” “Marketing call Customers Clients”  “Sales refer to Prospects and Suspects, but to me they […]

The post Information is at the Heart of ALL Architecture Disciplines appeared first on Enterprise Architects.

Categories Data Model, Expert opinion, information architecture, information management, Master Data, metadata, Technology strategy, issues and trends
9 years, 11 months ago

The toolset-ecosystem

by Tom Graves

This one extends the models-for-enterprise-architecture theme from the previous post. Although for me this theme goes back a long way, the start-point here was a Tweet from Dutch EA consultant Martin van den Berg (@bergmart) that triggered off a veritable flurry of replies:

bergmart: I’m more and more convinced that it should be forbidden to show […]

Categories Archimate, business, Business Architecture, complexity, Complexity / Structure, effectiveness, enterprise, Enterprise Architecture, enterprise canvas, Futures, knowledge, meta-methodology, metadata, metametamodel, Metamodel, methodology, models, narrative knowledge, quality, responsibility, taxonomy, togaf, toolset, values Tags bpmn, paradigm, story

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