Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
A few days ago, I blogged about a talk provided by Phil Gilbert at the BPM2010 conference. In that talk, Phil made a compelling case that the smart people who are working on BPM systems and solutions are WORKING ON THE WRONG THINGS. It was …
In a recent blog post, Joe McKendrick poses the question that I have been playing around with for a while regarding where and how SOA fits into EA. He mentions that: Dave Linthicum predicted a couple of years…
In a recent blog post, Joe McKendrick poses the question that I have been playing around with for a while regarding where and how SOA fits into EA. He mentions that: Dave Linthicum predicted a couple of years back that SOA would be absorbe…
Know what doesn’t come up in conversation all that often? The EA Body of Knowledge document, created by MITRE. Perhaps it is because the document really isn’t used in the commercial settings, or perhaps it is viewed as an overlap of TOG…
The field of Business Process Management is not a huge field, but I believe it to be an important one for empowering the transformation of businesses. As an Enterprise Architect, my mission is to accelerate that transformation. Therefore, t…
Introduction to the Tuple Space (Space based Architecture) pattern model that combines and integrates distributed caching (Data Grid), content-based distributed messaging (Messaging Grid), and parallel processing (Processing Grid) into a powerful service oriented architecture built on shared spaces within a grid computing framework. 
While I’m not doing much these days in the BPM space, I did recently have lunch with a friend of mine who works for Genesys Lab. I don’t normally talk about vendor products by name, but the iWD (intelligent Workload Distribution) product had a different enough approach from things I’ve seen that I thought I’d […]
Over the past month, I hit a couple of career milestones. On August 31, 2010, I completed my 18th year of service at British Columbia Institute of Technology. On Sept 4, 2010, I completed 3 years as the Manager, Business Application Services and Ente…
Fitness of complex adaptive systems (CAS) is an area of research that I have been studying over the last few years, specifically how these systems are structured and how they behave.
One of the characteristics of a CAS …
Fitness of complex adaptive systems (CAS) is an area of research that I have been studying over the last few years, specifically how these systems are structured and how they behave.
One of the characteristics of a CAS …
So what we long suspected is now official – Google’s Android is projected to overtake it’s more popular rivals iPhone and Blackberry in coming years. There are more and more exciting phones being launched using Google’s platform – see for instance the …
Information systems have been a fertile domain for academic researchers for more than forty years so it’s somewhat surprising when you discover how little research has been done on actually doing architecture. Now I accept that architecture is not that old and that it is probably best dated from Zachman’s seminal paper A Framework for […]