Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
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 […]
As my readers may know, I published a metamodel for business architecture about 18 months ago in the Microsoft Architecture Journal. Calling it the Enterprise Business Motivation Model, I based my model on a combination of a number of standard an…
Enterprise architecture blog rollI’m going to post my personal list of great enterprise architecture blog sites here.
First three cabs off the rank are Nik Malik, Jeff Scott and Tom Graves. Currently these three guys are the thought leaders in the fie…
Gartner neatly defines the difference between business architecture and business context as:
[E]nterprise business architecture is focused on applying EA practices to the business dimension (people, process, organization and financials) in order to "architect the business."
[B]usiness context is focused on articulating the business strategy, market trends and requirements in order to ensure an
Enterprise architecture blog rollI’m going to post my personal list of great enterprise architecture blog sites here.
First three cabs off the rank are Nik Malik, Jeff Scott and Tom Graves. Currently these three guys are the thought leaders in the fie…