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We all know that Businesses are needing to change and evolve more and more quickly to keep up with advancements in technology, disruptive business models and so on, but with this change in the world […]
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The current situation There is a huge gap in insight as to what a digital business really is. Today when I hear business leders talk about going digital it’s mainly revolving around four scenarios. The first scenario is to connect all the systems together though some sort of integration. The second scenario is to reach […]
Don’t be scared, level zero in a capability map is just a way to structure the map so that we have a consistent way of communicating. It’s really not that important if all you wish todo is create an excellent set of capabilities for your business. However if you are intent on changing the foundation […]
To avoid the ever debate on the scope of Enterprise Architecture, IT vs the enterprise, I call Enterprise Modelling, rather than Enterprise Architecture (EA), the enterprise wide architecture, that covers business, technology and people.
There is something interesting going on in our industry. From the inception of the first programming language we always have been uncovering new ways to program computers. New ways triggered by new hardware architectures and new ways triggered by developers wanting languages that are easier to grasp and are more productive. We have made major steps from machine code to today’s higher-level modern languages. However, over the last decade it.
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This posting represents highlights of the upcomingpresentations at the annual Oracle ECA Summit, October 27 at Oracle OpenWorld. Talk to your Oracle account manager for aninvitation – Today!
The public cloud has typically been outside of the domain ofenterprise architects. On the surface, it has been considered an external silowhere procurement decisions have been driven by line of business executives. But not anymore. Business processes extend into thecloud. And, the cloud extends into theenterprise.
However, this state of affairs is changing rapidly ascustomers increasingly embrace cloud computing. Enterprise architects arecalled on not only to review public cloud implementations but also tounderstand how best to integrate new cloud offerings with existing on-premisesinformation systems. Most companies will have a combination of assets combiningpublic cloud SaaS, PaaS and IaaS with their existing on-premises systems. Themarketing folks are calling this Hybrid IT. Enterprise architects therefore face a new set of challenges as theyfigure out how to integrate these systems with each other.
Today’s enterprise architects face a shifting set ofcircumstances. In the next two years, a growing number of companies plan tomove key parts of their computing workloads to public clouds to take advantageof lights-out automated software provisioning and management, rapid projectimplementation, elastic scalability, and subscription-based pricing models. Tokeep up with consumer demand, IT has become an external service broker. In somecases IT pros have been forced to support heterogeneous cloud “silos”that may have proprietary methods of security, integration, management, andgovernance. These trends are forcing core IT departments to formalizeenterprise governance and enterprise architecture to mitigate risk.
Oracle ECA Summit Agenda
The Oracle Enterprise Architecture team has helped a numberof large-scale early adopters on their journey to a variety of Hybrid implementations. At this year’s Oracle Enterprise Cloud Architecture Summit, held at Oracle Open World on October 27, 2015, threecustomer architects will speak to their experiences in building these nextgeneration platforms. Seethe full agenda and abstracts here.
As a bonus, Peter Magnusson, SVP Cloud Development, Oraclewill clarify the requirements and plans for Oracle’s enterprise-class and productionworkload cloud services. Last year,Thomas Kurian, President, Development, Oracle also spoke to the landscape of technology cloud services. Youcan read that article here.
To learn more about Hybrid IT and Oracle’s Cloud Services,come to Oracle’s ECA Summit, October 27 at Oracle OpenWorld in SF. Talk to your Oracle account manager for aninvitation – Today!
This posting represents highlights of the upcoming
presentations at the annual Oracle EA Summit, October 27 at Oracle OpenWorld. Talk to your Oracle account manager for an
invitation – Today!
The public cloud has typically been outside of the domain of
enterprise architects. On the surface, it has been considered an external silo
where procurement decisions have been driven by line of business executives. But not anymore. Business processes extend into the
cloud. And, the cloud extends into the
enterprise.
However, this state of affairs is changing rapidly as
customers increasingly embrace cloud computing. Enterprise architects are
called on not only to review public cloud implementations but also to
understand how best to integrate new cloud offerings with existing on-premises
information systems. Most companies will have a combination of assets combining
public cloud SaaS, PaaS and IaaS with their existing on-premises systems. The
marketing folks are calling this Hybrid IT. Enterprise architects therefore face a new set of challenges as they
figure out how to integrate these systems with each other.
Today’s enterprise architects face a shifting set of
circumstances. In the next two years, a growing number of companies plan to
move key parts of their computing workloads to public clouds to take advantage
of lights-out automated software provisioning and management, rapid project
implementation, elastic scalability, and subscription-based pricing models. To
keep up with consumer demand, IT has become an external service broker. In some
cases IT pros have been forced to support heterogeneous cloud “silos”
that may have proprietary methods of security, integration, management, and
governance. These trends are forcing core IT departments to formalize
enterprise governance and enterprise architecture to mitigate risk.
Oracle EA Summit Agenda
The Oracle Enterprise Architecture team has helped a number
of large-scale early adopters on their journey to a variety of Hybrid implementations. At this year’s Oracle Enterprise
Architecture Summit, held at Oracle Open World on September 27, 2015, three
customer architects will speak to their experiences in building these next
generation platforms. See
the full agenda and abstracts here.
As a bonus, Peter Magnusson, SVP Cloud Development, Oracle
will clarify the requirements and plans for Oracle’s enterprise-class and production
workload cloud services. Last year,
Thomas Kurian, President, Development, Oracle also spoke to the landscape of technology cloud services. You
can read that article here.
To learn more about Hybrid IT and Oracle’s Cloud Services,
come to Oracle’s EA Summit, October 27 at Oracle OpenWorld in SF. Talk to your Oracle account manager for an
invitation – Today!
The business model (BM) concept is not defined and represented as a business flow that generates value/profit, as it should. But how better can you discover the BM and calculate the value/profit returned unless it means a business flow?
When work on the business function model / capability map is well underway, Brenda is confident that she can promise management a first product to be delivered in a few weeks’ time. She has organized weekly meetings with the team for updates and reviews and things seem to move along at a slow, albeit steady pace. This frees up her hands for the next topic to be addressed: where are we going?
Digital business requires change across a very wide range of areas. There is an increasing use of storage, vastly expanded networking requirements, and a rise in the virtualization of all equipment. Digital systems deployed on the network can be replicated, modeled, and situated anywhere, so we have seen virtual networks, virtual servers, virtual mobile solutions, Read more
Digital business requires change across a very wide range of areas. There is an increasing use of storage, vastly expanded networking requirements, and a rise in the virtualization of all equipment. Digital systems deployed on the network can be replicated, modeled, and situated anywhere, so we have seen virtual networks, virtual servers, virtual mobile solutions, …
In a previous blog by Marc Lankhorst, the value of reference architectures was highlighted, including the why and how. In this blog, I want to dive a little deeper, focusing on the ‘product’ that we (or some of us) are familiar with – the reference model, using ArchiMate as the language.