Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
It is almost a week since I left balmy Bangalore of 25 Degrees and landed at Heathrow to be welcomed by 8 Degree and a few showers. As I settled into routine over the last week, I started to piece together sights, sounds, mental notes, observations. Du…
OpenText announced Friday the completion of the Metastorm acquisition. We do many acquisitions at OpenText but this particular acquisition is very interesting for a multitude of reasons. Metastorm is the leader in business process management (BPM) which is a discipline quite related to enterprise content management (ECM). In fact, enterprise content management has long included […]
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We have moved from monolithic systems to client-server to tiered architectures. With SOA comes the truly distributed architecture. And with Cloud Computing and SaaS, we are moving to “Globally Decentralized/Distributed Architecture”.
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The Developer: “Let’s start coding. We don’t have time for solution design.” The Designer: “No, we should design first. It’s not a waste of time. It will reduce rework.” The Analyst: “Guys, please! How to start designing, if we don’t know what is the problem to be solved?” The Tool-lover: “But how to diagnose the […]
Enterprise Architect Xavier Ruvilly had no doubt what his CEO expected of him when Alstom Power launched its Decommissioning Task Force in early 2010: shave 20 percent a year from the IT budget at the global giant in power generation.With the ever-ris…
Enterprise Architect Xavier Ruvilly had no doubt what his CEO expected of him when Alstom Power launched its Decommissioning Task Force in early 2010: shave 20 percent a year from the IT budget at the global giant in power generation.With the ever-ris…
We are looking for more problem definitions and solutions to drive a collective global mindset forward to ensure that IT delivers benefits across the entire value chain. If we agree on what the problems are, prioritize and work on them in a wholly coll…
The Cult of Done Manifesto
There are three states of being. Not knowing, action and completion.
Accept that everything is a draft. It helps to get it done.
There is no editing stage.
Pretending you know what you’re doing is almost the s…
Three word definition of Enterprise Architecture: Reduce Unnecessary Effort – Inside Architecture – Site Home – MSDN Blogs
More wisdom from Nick Malik: “I explained that I am an Enterprise Architect, he asked what that is. I got my chance to use my ne…
It is always a good idea to express our stated design goals right up front – and use these to guide the inevitable trade-offs and decisions that will need to be made along this journey. So let’s get started with a few design goals in our space based architecture model that combines and integrates distributed caching, content-based distributed messaging, and parallel processing into a powerful architecture within a grid computing framework. 
Purchasing a showroom kitchen can be an unpleasant experience, especially if you’re not sure of the value of what you are buying. Kitchen showrooms tend to have the atmosphere of a prestigious car dealership, perhaps because the price tag of a well-designed kitchen is similar to a mid-sized car. If you happen to linger at […]
Several interesting points that deserve their own blog posts, so this is just a conversation starter:- EA should not be inside of IT, and it’s usual placement hampers both IT and its effectiveness. – EA maturity is directly related to organizational pe…