Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
The Open Group recently published a whitepaper, An Architectural View Of Security For Cloud,which is the first in a series being produced by the Security For The Cloud and SOA project. In this whitepaper we introduce a method that helps organizations t…
There has been a great deal of momentum with the Open Group over the past few weeks (Microsoft Solutions Framework (MSF) recognized by The Open Group as valid Architecture Framework). I am happy to announce today that for the first…
Some of you have asked about what I am doing these days at Microsoft. So I thought I would let you all know. I joined the Enterprise Strategy and Architecture Team back in November of last year to build a…
Guest post by John Sviokla Why innovate? Because the growth of your business ― and, ultimately, its success and sustainability ― demands it. In the past two decades over a billion new customers have entered the market economy, mostly in the parts of the world we now refer to as “emerging markets”. In the eyes of today’s CEO ― regardless of his or her home market ― that’s where the action is: it’s among the […]
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Business Rules and Process FlowIn a recent post, A Model of an Organization’s Control Function using IDEF0 Model, The OODA Loop, and Enterprise Architecture, I briefly described the Governance and the Policy Management processes within the context of t…
Depending on the scenario, enterprise architecture projects can be led by different people and groups within an organization. In the first of our three-part series published last week, we discussed a customer case study where enterprise architects drove the need for implementing an EA solution, but this is just one example. With a powerful enterprise […]
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I’m proud to share that Esther Schindler, a real writer and editor, invited me to contribute to her latest project, the Input | Output site, which is sponsored by HP. On Input | Output, you’ll find me in the community section, writing about one of my favorite topics: Active Information.
Active Information is the term I use to describe accelerating the transformation of data to value. From a technology perspective, Active Information covers a lot of ground, including (but not limited to) sensor/instrumentation (smart stuff), event-processing, data science, analytics, data visualization, data processing innovations and enterprise data management practices.
My first two posts are up:
McKinsey Global Institute: Big Data = Big Opportunity
Give ’em a read. Check out the full site.
[Disclosure: This is a for-pay gig. However, I’m under no obligation to write about HP, its products or services.]
The fast adoption of TOGAF 9 and demand for its certification program by architecture professionals and their employers is indicative of the value to be gained from trusted, globally accepted standards supported through certification. Continue reading …
I used to get a ton of voicemails, dozens everyday; so many that even after I had responded to all of them and gone home, by the next morning there would be another three waiting. But, not any more. At first, I was worried. Was I no longer in the…
I used to get a ton of voicemails, dozens everyday; so many that even after I had responded to all of them and gone home, by the next morning there would be another three waiting. But, not any more. At first, I was worried. Was I no longer in the…
There’s a lot of loose talk about Cloud and SOA. From what I see most SaaS today is not SOA. In fact it’s mostly multi-tenanted Web applications with a browser interface. This “may” be satisfactory for SMEs but for larger enterprises this likely to be …