Examining the Current State of EA 2011

Today the Open Group has released their yearly state of enterprise architecture on their blog (http://blog.opengroup.org/2011/02/16/podcast-examining-the-state-of-ea-and-findings-of-recent-survey ). The panel discussion led by Dana Gardner with Interabor Solutions was recorded at the Open Group conference last week in San Diego. The…

TOGAF Architecture Development Method

The TOGAF Architecture Development Method (ADM) provides complete guidance for implementing and executing an organization’s enterprise architecture. The process consists of multiple, consecutive phases enclosed in a closed loop
The purpose…

Journal of Enterprise Architecture February 2011

Journal of Enterprise Architecture
February 2011 – Volume 7, Number 2
Editor’s Corner: John Gøtze
Architect in the Spotlight: Philip Allega
Articles
A conceptual framework for architecture principles
Erik Proper and Danny Greefhorst
A Process Driven Approach to Modelling Leadership
David Tuffley […]

Tweets from Open Group conference, San Diego

The following a selected subset of the Tweets and links sent out by attendees and other from the Open Group (TOGAF) conference on enterprise-architecture, IT-security and cloud-computing. Given my own interests, I’ve emphasised enterprise-architecture, but I’ve included many of the others as well. (If you want to see the full set, follow the ‘#ogsdg‘ hashtag […]

The golden thread of interoperability

The main themes at this week’s Conference are Cybersecurity, Enterprise Architecture, SOA and Cloud Computing. But there are a number of common threads running through it all relating to value delivered to IT customers through open systems; one of those threads is Interoperability. Continue reading

What is an EA vendor?

#entarch I just asked an innocent question about enterprise architecture vendors on Twitter, partly to find out which companies identified themselves as such.

Some industry analysts focus on vendors selling software tools for use by architects. For ex…

Why vision?

Why vision? Whose vision? What do we mean by ‘enterprise vision’, anyway? And who’s responsible for it? – who should create it?
This enquiry arose from a great multi-way Twitter-conversation following my previous post ‘Yes and No‘:

tetradian: [post] Yes and no:  a question of commitment http://bit.ly/fJUqcA #entarch #culture #responsibility
MartinHowitt: @tetradian if an explicit vision does not […]

Why We Need Cloud Integration Architecture

Print PDF A few years ago, a consumer products company I’m familiar with committed to outsourcing its infrastructure and as much of its application portfolio as possible. Its strategic application decisions were heavily influenced by outsourced and SaaS offering, placing its CRM and several customer community sites in the cloud. With a stable set of hosted, cloud and SaaS apps, they were shocked to find that they didn’t talk to one another to provide a […]

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