Semantic Technology Is Not Only For Data Geeks

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You can’t bring up semantics without someone inserting an apology for the geekiness of the discussion. If you’re a data person like me, geek away! But for everyone else, it’s a topic best left alone. Well, like every geek, the semantic geeks now have their day — and may just rule the data world.

It begins with a seemingly innocent set of questions:

“Is there a better way to master my data?”

“Is there a better way to understand the data I have?”

“Is there a better way to bring data and content together?”

“Is there a better way to personalize data and insight to be relevant?”

Semantics discussions today are born out of the data chaos that our traditional data management and governance capabilities are struggling under. They’re born out of the fact that even with the best big data technology and analytics being adopted, business stakeholder satisfaction with analytics has decreased by 21% from 2014 to 2015, according to Forrester’s Global Business Technographics® Data And Analytics Survey, 2015. Innovative data architects and vendors realize that semantics is the key to bringing context and meaning to our information so we can extract those much-needed business insights, at scale, and more importantly, personalized.

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The Open Group Edinburgh 2015 Highlights

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By Loren K. Baynes, Director, Global Marketing Communications, The Open Group On Monday October 19, Allen Brown, President and CEO of The Open Group, welcomed over 230 attendees from 26 countries to the Edinburgh International Conference Center located in the … Continue reading →

Opening up the Mendix model specification & tools ecosystem

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There is something interesting going on in our industry. From the inception of the first programming language we always have been uncovering new ways to program computers. New ways triggered by new hardware architectures and new ways triggered by developers wanting languages that are easier to grasp and are more productive. We have made major steps from machine code to today’s higher-level modern languages. However, over the last decade it.

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Information

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I am sure if you are familiar with Faraday’s dilemma. Faraday who was a great scientist observed that when you drop a piece of normal steel into concentrated nitric acid nothing happen, but if you drop it in diluted nitric acid or dilute the concentrated nitric acid tell will dissolve itself over time. The reason … Continue reading Information →

The Idea Card

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Whatever business you are in innovation is the name of the game. Today it’s even more important than ever that you innovate fast and somewhat accurate. This little card is designed to help you go fast by staying small and keeping it nimble. When you should use this Whenever you need to innovate When you […]

Balancing Complexity and Continuous Improvements – A Case Study from the Automotive Industry

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By The Open Group Background The automotive industry is currently facing massive challenges. For the past 30-40 years, automakers have faced stiff competition in the marketplace, as well as constant pressure to make more innovative and efficient vehicles while reducing … Continue reading →

ArchiMate Modeling in Practice – Gap Analysis

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With the pressure on, the team has the feeling that they are “working around the clock”. Surely, the target model keeps growing fast, also because the reference models provide a good starting point. Still, the team has clearly stated that they had hoped to have more concrete results. This is probably due to the fact that a lot of people in the organization want to get started in realizing the architecture, rather than continually fleshing it out in more detail. Here, Brenda realizes she must strike a balance between getting a complete picture of the target architecture in ArchiMate® and giving her team what they want and need.

FEAC Annual EA Awards

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The FEAC Annual Enterprise Architecture Awards

 

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in partnership with:

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Since 2002, The FEAC Institute has partnered with 1105Media to bring the EA community the annual Enterprise Architecture event and awards ceremony in Washington DC: The GovEA Conference.

The GoveEA Conference is the premier educational forum for enterprise architects and project managers to convene and learn from expert practitioners in EA on the latest methods, frameworks and policies impacting the EA community. For example, the 2013 event  focused on how EA is making the mission possible today; topics included cutting-edge EA methodologies to increase efficiencies, fostering innovation, using EA as a medium for restructuring and more.

Every year includes pre-conference workshops, conference sessions in different information-packed tracks. Keynot presentations by EA leaders, a technology roundtable luncheon, a networking reception, digital downloads, availabel CEUs and the annual EA awards ceremony.

Each year, the FEAC Institute hosts the Annual Excellence in Enterprise Architecture Awards, recognizing the impacts of Enterprise Architecture best practices on achieving efficiencies, greater effectiveness, transparency, increased collaboration or innovation in solutions to government mission outcomes. Nominations are encouraged from all types of enterprises in industry and all levels of government, including U.S. federal, state, and local government organizations, education, as well as successful industry, government and education programs outside the United States.

Seven awards are given each year:

  1. Leadership in Enterprise Architecture Driven Results – Government Project, Civilian
  2. Leadership in Enterprise Architecture Driven Results – Government Project, Defense
  3. Leadership in Government Transformation using EA – Government Project, Civilian
  4. Leadership in Government Transformation using EA – Government Project, Defense
  5. Leadership in Enterprise Architecture Driven Results – Industry
  6. Leadership in Enterprise Transformation using EA – Industry
  7. EA Hall of Fame – Individual Leadership in EA Practice, Promotion and Professionalization (open to industry, as well as current and former Government employees)

 

 

Enterprise Architecture Inquiry

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I’ve had this outline of a book project laying dormant on Google drive for a couple of years. The working title was “The Art of Documenting Enterprise Architecture”. I’m not to fond of that title since I wasn’t aiming to document an architecture, rather capture and think through questions one would need answered to get […]