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What’s needed now is a new connection between the potential of Cloud technologies and the vision of the Internet, the growth of social graph associations and wider communities and ecosystems are emerging in the movement’s wake.
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#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? 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 […]
Greg Milligan, National Technology Strategist, Microsoft Canada Dynamic IT in Education IT deliverables on campus today – supporting users, providing services and governance Higher Education IT Challenges – cost containment, security, relia…
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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John Weigelt, National Technology Officer, Microsoft Canada Data Sovereignty and Privacy John’s job is to avoid “those unintended consequences” around technology adoption. Discussion about what constitutes cloud computing especially being clear about the context. SaaS, PaaS and IaaS all have different contexts and require different approaches when considering data security and privacy. Microsoft Infrastructure Investment – data […]
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One of the practical problems of the innovator’s lifestyle is that, by definition, we tend to work a long way away (metaphorically speaking) from the mainstream. It’s true that there are some real advantages to playing the Outsider role – for example, it’s one of the few ways to bypass the ‘groupthink’ trap. Yet the […]
Enterprise Architecture Patrick Hoverstadt started the lecture by saying that he had never heard of Enterprise Architecture before he ran into John Gotze but of what he has learned it is about making sense of the organization and creating a … Continue reading →