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I’m in Chris Venable’s session. Chris is a Senior Solution Architect at Walmart and runs in the #entarch crowd on Twitter. Chris promises me an architecture heavy, product light talk. Chris is lead architect on Walmart’s SOA competency center.
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I’m in the Cloud Mini Tent now. It’s packed with customers, analysts and press. IBMers are only being admitted after all interested customers are seated. It’s that big of a deal.
Hosting the session is Robert LeBlanc, Senior VP, Software Middlew…
It’s Day 2 of Impact, back in the “main tent” for the opening sessions. Opening today’s session is Katie Linendoll. Katie is telling us how she was slaughtered by Watson in Jeopardy. Her take: $2. Watson’s: significantly more.
Yesterday, wa…
This week, I’m at the IBM Impact 2011 conference in Vegas. Impact is IBM’s Websphere focused conference. I expect to hear a lot about BPM, SOA and Cloud, Cloud, Cloud.
Rocking opening band, including some iPad playing “strings”. The conference them…
The emergence of service platforms and services enabled by the Cloud and its pervasiveness into social media and social networks underpinned by Cloud infrastructure and data centers; platforms enabling or launching other platforms. What does the future…
Panel discussion. Panelists: Eric Christian, Director of Global Architecture Security at Cummins Sandy McCoy, Executive Director, Business Architecture, Kaiser Permanente Michael Balay, AVP, Technology & Operations, Enterprise Architecture, MetLife Moderator: George Paras Q: Inspiring an EA team is a challenging activity. If you had one bit of advice to an aspiring EA leader, what would […]
Speaker: Michael Pemberton, Enterprise Architect and USAA USAA has had an enterprise architecture practice on the technology side and is now establishing a business architecture practice. First point: Why did USAA take the journey? They realized that without a business-driven, integrated enterprise architecture, it would be like driving without a map. Their challenge was that […]
This was a continuation of the previous panel discussion. Speakers were: Sean Dwyer, Northwestern Mutual Jennifer Pfaff, Jacobs Engineering J-P Renaud, Jacobs Engineering Eivind Nilson, Liberty Mutual Moderator: Chuck Keffer, Troux Q: Where are you in rolling out your current effort? Sean: They are trying to roll out the ability to do assessments of infrastructure, […]
This was a panel discussion, consisting of: Sean Dwyer, Northwestern Mutual Jennifer Pfaff, Jacobs Engineering J-P Renaud, Jacobs Engineering Eivind Nilson, Liberty Mutual Moderator: Chuck Keffer, Troux Context: Today’s reality for the global 2000 CIO. The average tenure is 18 months. They need to get started fast and work fast. They face shrinking budgets, rising […]
This presentation was given by Angela Yochem, a Business Information Executive with Dell. Some trends: Reduction in size of IT. Move from centralized, global IT to a more decentralized model. Successful response to these trends require a strong, empowered EA team. Many companies are going through business transformations, yet we are still in a state […]
In discussing how enterprise architecture supports merger, acquisition, partnership, and other evaluation opportunities with some attendees at the Troux 2011 conference this morning, I used two terms: fit and fitness. Fit is how well things align between the two companies/products. for example, what do the capability maps look like? Did things get sliced up in […]
Moderator: George Paras, A&G Editor-in-chief Panelists: Mike J. Walker, Principal Architect with Microsoft Aleks Buterman, Founder, SenseAgility Tim Westbrock, Managing Director EAdirections Paul Preiss, CEO, IASA This was a certainly a lively panel, and I don’t envy George’s task of trying to keep it on track. Here’s what I captured. Q: What does top performing […]