The New Architecture Mandate: Insights from Gartner IOC 2025
How Enterprise, Business, Solutions, Applications, and Technology Architects Must Unite…
Solution Architecture
New Frontier for EA: Ardoq + Lucidchart Integration & AI Importer
For decades, a fundamental disconnect has challenged Enterprise Architecture and architects: dynamic data is never accurately represented in static diagrams. These visuals, crucial for planning and collaboration, too frequently become outdated…
Building an Enterprise-Level View of IT Estate Using the C4 Model
I’ve often heard Enterprise Architecture teams complain that they are continuously fighting a losing battle. They’ve been asked by the CIO to build a model of the IT estate — documenting applications, how they are deployed, what technolo…
Enterprise and Solutions Architecture: Dichotomy or Continuum?
Based on job descriptions posted on recruiting websites, it is…
Enterprise Architecture vs. Solution Architecture: A Comparison | Ardoq
Just as physical buildings follow carefully designed architectural blueprints, conceiving stable, safe structures and hopefully pleasing to the eye, every business needs to map out their unseen data into a ‘blueprint’ that encompasses their en…
Agile Enterprise Solution Architecture
Enterprise Architecture (EA) as an enterprise planning framework has its place and merits, yet it often falls short of real-world IT expectations. The traditional EA approach defines the to-be state architecture that may exist for a while but does not last long.
Should Security Architecture remain separate from other Architecture disciplines?
In my travels, I have come to observe that many organizations separate out security architecture from other architectures. Does this make sense? Large organizations often have governance practices such as an Architecture Review Board (ARB) yet defer the system quality attribute of security to another entity. Does this beg the question of whether security professionals […]
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Should Security Architecture remain separate from other Architecture disciplines?
In my travels, I have come to observe that many organizations separate out security architecture from other architectures. Does this make sense? Large organizations often have governance practices such as an Architecture Review Board (ARB) yet defer the system quality attribute of security to another entity. Does this beg the question of whether security professionals […]
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Revisiting Defense in Depth…
Today, I want to question the sage wisdom of Security Architecture Professionals. The notion of defense-in-depth may need to be revisited. More security doesn’t necessarily mean better security. In fact, the current strategy of most organizations—layering on many different technologies—is not only proving ineffective, it is overly complex and expensive. This notion needs better enterprise […]
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Revisiting Defense in Depth…
Today, I want to question the sage wisdom of Security Architecture Professionals. The notion of defense-in-depth may need to be revisited. More security doesn’t necessarily mean better security. In fact, the current strategy of most organizations—layering on many different technologies—is not only proving ineffective, it is overly complex and expensive. This notion needs better enterprise […]
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Looking for Case Studies on Polyglotism
As a Gartner analyst, I have the opportunity to interact with many enterprise architecture teams looking to improve their approach to architecture governance. The one software development trend I am seeing grow without an accompanying architecture viewpoint is the rise of polygotism. In any software development lifecycle, time to develop software is a dominant factor […]
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Can Document Review Inquiry help improve Enterprise Architecture Outcomes?
Do you know what a Document Review Inquiry is? Sadly, I didn’t know what one was until I joined Gartner. After interacting with Gartner analysts over dozens of years while working at various Fortune 100 enterprises, I never came to appreciate how much more effective I could have been if I only had known about […]
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