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Announcing the availability of free, new reference architecture assets from Oracle. IT Strategies from Oracle is an authorized library of guidelines and reference architectures that will help you better plan, execute, and manage your enterprise architecture and IT initiatives. The…
I recently picked up a copy of Troux Enterprise Architecture Solutions by Richard Reese. I have worked with Troux in a variety of capacities in the past along with stacking them up with the other large Enterprise Architecture Tool vendors….
Announcing the availability of free, new reference architecture assets from Oracle. IT Strategies from Oracle is an authorized library of guidelines and reference architectures that will help you better plan, execute, and manage your enterprise archite…
Funny to observe how much effort has been spend lately in counter-arguing the arguments for having an all-embracing succinct definition of enterprise architecture. The message is that it is “not worth the effort” as there is no succinct definitio…
I’ve often heard “soft” metaphors used when discussing Enterprise Architects. Some compare EA to the grease in a machine… necessary for the machine to run but we don’t provide the energy for progress so much as we reduce the friction.&#…
So how will you describe the relationship between Social Networking and E-Mail? Marriage made truly in heaven or this is one of those affairs which were always destined to be short-lived? If analysts at Gartner are to be believed then the Social-Networ…
What does Business and IT alignment mean? #iCMG Architecture World – Linkedin Group discussion http://ow.ly/39LVW Above, is a link to a very long Linkedin discussion about: Rajiv What does Business and IT alignment mean? The objective of this discussion is 1) Define what does IT alignment with business means? 2) Define process needed to […]
There is no question that businesses need Business Architects. There is no question that business architecture in an important set of activities. The question is, really, where do we get them? I’ve seen no lack of interest in this field….
If you are an Enterprise Architect and want to be successful, you will need to escape the straight jacket of technology. It is imperative that you get out of IT, establish relationships with the business leaders in your organisation, and start to apply your energies and skills where the real decisions are made. To do […]
In his post Hire An Architect, Seth Godin thinks of the organizational architect as a kind of fixer.
“Organizational architects know how to find suppliers, use the cloud (of people, of data, of resources), identify freelancers, tie together disparate …
This is an interesting question, and it depends on a lot of different kinds of answers. The business architecture team here in Microsoft IT has developed a set of services that they will offer to various customers, both within IT and in the busin…
I recently completed reading the book Troux Enterprise Architecture Solutions by Richard Reese. First, the disclosure: this book was provided to me by Packt Publishing for the explicit purpose of this review. In addition, Packt is also the publisher of my own book, SOA Governance. I have no relationship with Troux, however, I have had […]