Join Mike Walker in Minneapolis to Learn How EAs are Essential to Innovate Digital Disruptions

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  IT Leaders Must Leverage EA to Understand the Value and Impacts Please join me at an in Minneapolis for this in person Gartner Local Briefing. The good news is that whether or not you are a Gartner client, a Local Briefing is the perfect venue for gaining the understanding you need efficiently and without […]

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The Open Group London 2014 – Day One Highlights

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By Loren K. Baynes, Director, Global Marketing Communications, The Open Group On a crisp October Monday in London yesterday, The Open Group hosted the first day of its event at Central Methodist Hall, Westminster. Almost 200 attendees from 32 countries … Continue reading →

Moore’s Law Deemed Hazardous

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The advent of digital computers has brought a seemingly unending supply of innovations. Broadband communication to our homes and portable computers ranging from laptops to pocket-sized computers (aka, smartphones) make working anywhere 24/7 viable. This innovation also makes petabytes worth of cat videos available to most of the planet, but that is a topic for […]

Managing the Maturity of the Enterprise.

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Understanding and acknowledging the capability of an enterprise to deliver satisfactorily its portfolio of goods and services to its customers, whether they be internal or external, is absolutely essential. Without sufficient insight, the spectre of over-promising and under-delivering, with all … Continue reading →

EA in Plain English: “Waiter, there’s a fly in my model!”

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In machine-based symbolic processing, ambiguity is the original sin. However, as most legal documents demonstrate, language that tries to remove ambiguity quickly becomes unintelligible to people. Recently I downloaded a copy of Archi, a free tool for drawing architectural diagrams in the ArchiMate visual modelling language. It’s a well built little tool and it allowed […]

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Open FAIR Blog Series – Five Reasons You Should Use the Open FAIR Body of Knowledge

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By Jim Hietala, VP, Security and Andrew Josey, Director of Standards, The Open Group This is the second in our blog series introducing the Open FAIR Body of Knowledge. In this blog, we provide 5 reasons why you should use … Continue reading →

Services and Enterprise Canvas review – 2: Supplier and customer

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What is a service-oriented architecture – particularly at a whole-of-enterprise scope? How do we describe relationships between services – particularly in the main value-flows? What happens within those service-interactions? This is the second in a six-part series on reviewing services…