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By: Ben Geller – VP Marketing – Troux

I recently had a conversation with a trusted member of the analyst community. We were reflecting on the current state of Enterprise Architecture and were comparing notes on the many discussions we each had over the past year with the IT executives and EA practitioners.

The good news we quickly concluded was that key takeaways from our collective conversations were largely the same. We took some comfort in the notion that after 25 years of academic framework and modeling discussions, commercial enterprises and government agencies seemed more ready to discuss how EA is practically being used to make better decisions that contribute to top and bottom-line results – focusing on outcomes.

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Optimizing ISO/IEC 27001 Using O-ISM3

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Read more about a recently published Open Group guide titled “Optimizing ISO/IEC 27001 using O-ISM3” that is relevant to organizations using ISO27001/27002 as their Information Security Management System (ISMS). Continue reading →

GLUE Disciplines

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Yesterday I was writing about starting GLUE, or the vision behind GLUE:General Process Framework withLoose Coupling of Process Components using aUnified Approach forEngineering in all fields.I believe there is an underlying pattern in all approach…

Data analysis issue, or data collection issue?

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The research explored in my latest active information post caught the attention of my inner retailer, figuring out why customers do the things they do:

“…Sifting, cleansing and connecting disparate pieces of data to unearth a clue or two to customer behavior. Think click-stream analysis. And in the case of multichannel businesses, follow-on activities to correlate in-store visits, customer service calls and such.

That’s a significant amount of up-front time and effort. Compounding the issue, the shortage of data explorers is well documented. No wonder organizations are focusing on data collection and procrastinating on data discovery.

But perhaps, the big problem of big data isnt one of analyzing the data stockpiles. Rather, the problem is in our data collection techniques and scoping…”

Read the post: Customer behavior data: better collection, better … – Input Output.
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GLUE Vision

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2007 I was asked to support an IT process optimization project. I was in the lucky position to have a very knowledgeable manager who was challenging me well on the information I created. While explaining the potential different process altern…

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Service-Mediation Scenarios

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Enterprise Service Bus and Espresso One of the few really-good boutique coffee-roasters and espresso specialists in Auckland labels its beans “esb”, for “ethically-sourced beans”. It’s something of a stretch, but espresso is important and beneficial in fundamental, foundational ways not dissimilar to the importance and benefits an Enterprise Service Bus can bring to integrated organisations. […]

The demographics of the enterprise

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Have you ever thought of the demographics of the enterprise, how people and applications of technology fluctuate across the timeline, ever close and dependent but never the same. It is as if they where different population groups within the corporate context, struggling for the ultimate right to power. Both entities feeding of the memes that […]

The Open Group Barcelona Conference – Early Bird Registration ends September 21

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Early Bird registration for The Open Group Conference in Barcelona ends September 21. Register now and save! The conference runs October 22-24, 2012. On Monday, October 22, the plenary theme is “Big Data – The Next Frontier in the Enterprise,” an…

Answering Some Questions on EA

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Questions I’ve fielded at least several times in the past few years: a) “What is the ROI on enterprise architecture?”, and b) “Enterprise Architecture is overkill, isn’t it? You don’t really need it.” Here is my answer: Every organization already has an EA in place, whether you like it or not; whether you want it […]