The Architecture Questions I Ask Before an Initiative Starts
A practical enterprise architecture question for early initiatives: reveal scope, dependencies, and impact before solution design moves too far.
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Ardoq’s New Agentic AI Workforce: Your Virtual Architects On Demand For Spring 2026
EA Teams Are Spending Too Much Time on the Wrong Things
Here’s what we hear consistently from EA leaders: their teams are brilliant, strategic people who are stuck doing work that shouldn’t require them.
Manually populating application data …
A Semantic Layer
Abstract:
A semantic layer is a system of technologies and techniques that organizes and maintains a consistent and unified representation of data from various sources that is interpretable by humans and machines. MIT CISR research indicates that lead…
The Case for a Semantic Layer
Abstract:
A semantic layer is a system of technologies and techniques that organizes and maintains a consistent and unified representation of data from various sources that is interpretable by humans and machines. MIT CISR research indicates that lead…
The Case for a Semantic Layer
Abstract:
A semantic layer is a system of technologies and techniques that organizes and maintains a consistent and unified representation of data from various sources that is interpretable by humans and machines. MIT CISR research indicates that lead…
SAP Is Targeting The AI Data Control Plane
As enterprises move from copilots to agentic AI, they are no longer constrained by model selection; rather, they are limited by governed activation of business data. SAP’s planned acquisitions of Dremio and Prior Labs signal an effort to position SAP B…
The Strategic Portfolio Management Bar Has Moved. Here’s What Clears It.
Most large organizations have a timing problem. Data and dashboards sprawl across the enterprise. But insight rarely arrives fast enough to change outcomes. Forrester’s report, The Strategic Portfolio Management Tools Landscape, Q4 2025, spans more than 20 vendors and ten distinct use cases, reflecting just how complex the planning ecosystem has become. As organizations connect…
Should You Sell Enterprise Architecture to Leadership as a Framework?
Why leadership rarely cares about TOGAF, EDGY, or other architecture frameworks—and cares much more about better decisions, coordination, and change execution.
Where Enterprise Architecture Adds the Most Value
Where enterprise architecture creates the most value: strategy execution, major change, coordination, long-term decisions, and complexity.
Product Managers Are the Cool Kids Now
Key takeaways: Something has changed in how serious software organizations operate, and it isn’t getting enough airtime. The decisions that shape what ships, what gets killed, and what gets pushed are moving from project managers to product managers. As Planview’s Chief Product Officer, Louise Allen, put it at Pendomonium recently: “Product managers are the cool…
Architecture Work or Architecture Theater?
Why some enterprise architecture practices create activity without impact—and how to recognize when architecture work does not influence real decisions.
When Personal Tools Become Enterprise Systems
How enterprise architecture helps manage shadow IT and low-code solutions as local tools evolve into shared systems with structural impact.