Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
If a song would count as my own signature song it would be Double Nature by my favorite Swedish band Mustasch. And isn’t that nice that it matches so well with what I feel about enterprise architecture! On one side you have business strategy and on the other side technology details. A true double-natured creature… I […]
The movie "Up in the Air" stars George Clooney, who plays the part of a professional "Displacement Manager", i.e. he is hired to fire people – and he’s very good at it. Clooney’s character also has a side-job – as the world’s worst motivational speaker. How he ever lands an engagement is one of those Hollywood riddles that you just have to accept. Kind of like the last Star Trek movie when
The movie "Up in the Air" stars George Clooney, who plays the part of a professional "Displacement Manager", i.e. he is hired to fire people – and he’s very good at it. Clooney’s character also has a side-job – as the world’s worst motivational speaker. How he ever lands an engagement is one of those Hollywood riddles that you just have to accept. Kind of like the last Star Trek movie when
A couple of months ago I blogged about our Mobile Strategy development here at the University http://enterprisearchitect.blogs.ilrt.org/2011/11/18/our-mobile-strategy-at-bristol/. Since then, several conversations have taken place with the CMS project, the Student Portal service, and with the TEL advisors network, with a view to planning our next steps in line with both systems architecture plans and the […]
For those that are attending the Open Group conference in San Francisco here in the next few weeks from now I wanted to let you know that I will be presenting. My presentation is within the Cloud Strategy and SOA…
It’s nice (and humbling) to know that people read one’s blog. I got a note from a reader that said:
“I understand that SOA is more concerned with business services integration and EA is concerned with dealing with enterprise-level infrastructur…
Who or what is ‘I’? How do others recognise that ‘I’? How does that ‘I’ express itself? – with what voice does that ‘I’ speak? And how do others recognise that voice? Yeah, I know, sounds like philosophy and stuff – woefully abstract, deep and pointless. Yawn. But those ‘pointless’ questions are the core – the […]
My PwC colleagues studying consumer intelligence recently conducted a survey of 3,283 smartphone users to find out how they plan to use their devices in the next couple of years. In many ways, smartphone users will grow increasingly reliant on their devices, but their concerns over privacy, security and convenience will keep them from ditching their desktops all together. “The Speed of Life” dives deep into the data to surface the next wave of trends […]
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Setting up an Enterprise Architecture (EA) function in an organisation requires a structured approach which delivers results. The most used framework worldwide to implement EA in organisations is TOGAF. You can read other posts on this blog to get an…
It’s nice (and humbling) to know that people read one’s blog. I got a note from a reader that said:
“I understand that SOA is more concerned with business services integration and EA is concerned with dealing with enterprise-level infrastructure and business components.
If you could, would you be able to provide a brief definition of them both in your own words that clearly distinguish the differences? (that’s different from my one?)”
Good question. SOA, I’ll give it a try (forgive the pun). This is strictly off the cuff, my cuff, recognizing that there are plenty of places to dig up various definitions of the two.
Enterprise Architecture – The documenting and mapping of corporate strategic initiatives and strategies to the technological underpinnings that need to be in place to optimally deliver on those strategies. What makes EA more than an intellectual or academic exercise is that it provides the governance scaffolding to ensure that the required work gets done to plan and deliver on required/key IT products/services/capabilities. Importantly, EA is not focused on any one technology or technology bucket in isolation, but how they work in consort to ultimately provide business capabilities.
Service Oriented Architecture – An architectural approach to creating software applications and system integrations which focuses on the notion of Services; reusable software components that leverage open standards. This provides a vehicle for companies to create applications more rapidly than ever before through composite service assembly/orchestration. Because they are Service-based, they are, at the same time, more flexible. Though SOA itself has nothing to do with any specific technology (it is architecture and an approach), Service creation/assembly/orchestration is often enabled through technologies such as Java, XML, and Web services.
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