Announcing The Forrester Enterprise Architecture Award Semifinalists For North America
Find out which firms have made the cut and what the next steps are in naming the finalists.
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Data Estimation – Stockpile Reports
My attention has been drawn to a company called Stockpile Reports, which provides a data estimation service for piles of material. As I understand it, the calculations are based on visual images of a pile of material, possibly obtained using either a d…
Data Estimation – Stockpile Reports
My attention has been drawn to a company called Stockpile Reports, which provides a data estimation service for piles of material. As I understand it, the calculations are based on visual images of a pile of material, possibly obtained using either a d…
Data Governance Overview
In many organizations there is a growing awareness of the need for data governance. This is often driven by a perception that something is lacking – perhaps related to data quality or accountability. So this leads to a solution based on data ownership,…
Data Governance Overview
In many organizations there is a growing awareness of the need for data governance. This is often driven by a perception that something is lacking – perhaps related to data quality or accountability. So this leads to a solution based on data ownership,…
It is life, Jim. But not as we know it.
Blake Lemoine, a Google engineer, has claimed the LaMDA language neural net chatbot is sentient, is alive. Nonsense on stilts, according to one critic.
A musing about the meaning of ‘life’. And abortion. And doubt. And the point Lemoine has but doesn…
New View Templates: Kickstart Your Architecture Views
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Let’s bury NIST’s outdated definition of Cloud Computing
The NIST definition of Cloud Computing from 2011 has now become so much an oversimplification that it is more often than not unhelpful, e.g. when trying to base your policies on it. Cloud or not-cloud was important when we had no clue what we were deal…
The Open FAIR™ Body of Knowledge: Gaining Awareness and Adoption Internationally
By Jim Hietala, VP of Security and Business Development, The Open Group and John Linford, Forum Director, Security and Open Trusted Technology Forums, The Open Group.
Open FAIR has seen rapid and extensive adoption in the US, where it has become the defacto standard for quantifying cybersecurity risk. We at The Open Group are encouraged that Open FAIR awareness and adoption are also increasing globally, and we’ve also seen some increased usage outside of the traditional IT risk quantification area. Some interesting recent developments on increased Open FAIR use and adoption outside of the US, and outside of the IT area include:
Everything you need to know about business capabilities
At a time when the digitization of the business has accelerated, when every business project is an IT project, there’s pressure on IT to enable and support business transformation. By defining what the organization does, business capabilities are a ke…
ZiRA, the Dutch Hospital Reference Architecture, a Tool to Address a Worldwide Need
By James Griffith (NTT DATA Services), Jason Lee (The Open Group), Gerda Meijboom (Nicitz), Michael van der Zell (Groningen University Medical Center)
What comes to mind when you think of the Netherlands? For many it may be a field of vividly colorful tulips. Others may conjure images of historic windmills. An appreciator of the arts may recall the elegant line work and beautiful paintings of Rembrandt Van Rijn. Others may think of the capital city, Amsterdam, or the food and beer exported worldwide. Perhaps in time, some will come to associate innovative healthcare with the Netherlands.