Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
Digitalization forces you to transform your approach to innovation. For the last 20 years, our economies have been moving from “atoms” to “bits,” to use Nicholas Negroponte’s definition of “being digital”. In this digital environment, traditional R&…
Event-driven architecture will become an essential skill in supporting digital business transformation by 2018
Presently, we have all these diagrams stored in various places in the enterprise but no two are linked together or consistent. They do not employ the same components, connections, notations or tool.
Yet, we need to assemble all models in an EA, th…
To avoid the ever debate on Enterprise Architecture scope, i.e. IT versus the whole enterprise business, technology and people, I call the enterprise wide architecture Enterprise Model (EM), rather than Enterprise Architecture (EA), and …
Large enterprise software vendors seem to be enamoured with using the names of historical figures or literary characters as brand names. Unfortunately, this is really confusing for the buyers, since the vendors apply these branding names differently. F…
The FFLV Enterprise Architecture Framework
The rapid pace of technology innovation in today’s digital economy means that businesses require a level of agility and responsiveness that cannot be delivered by conventional business strategies and operating models.
This event focused on how Enterprise Architecture and the use of standards from The Open Group, such as TOGAF®, ArchiMate® and IT4IT™ (for managing the business of IT), are empowering companies to build better systems by architecting for digital business strategies.
Topics included: EA and Business Transformation; EA in Government; EA in Healthcare; Internet of Things (IoT) and Smart Cities; Risk Management and Cybersecurity; Process Automation; and IT Management.
I attended AdExchanger’s semi-annual Programmatic I/O conference last week to absorb the latest in industry talk and get a pulse check on the health and wellness of the programmatic ecosystem. This show was illuminating in that I found signs of both en…
Cutter Senior Consultant Roger Evernden has developed a comprehensive and integrated set of online modules and courses intended to help you develop your enterprise architecture knowledge and skills.
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Employee Experience is not a new concept, but more and more CX professionals are dedicating their careers to it. We spoke to CX professionals who either report to HR leaders or who have a joint Customer-HR remit as part of new research to decipher wher…
Building AI applications is hard work, but cloud vendors are making it easy by exposing simple-to-call, pay-as-you-use APIs. Want to add real-time speech recognition to your app? There’s an API for that. Want to recognize faces in an image? There…
A lot has been going on in the industry and at Oracle, and the pace is only getting faster! The Oracle Cloud Platform has evolved to a point that is so vastly different, deeper and differentiated (how’s that for alliteration) that someone, who has not been consistently watching, would be shocked to see how things look now. Like Rip Van Winkle waking up to a different world, you’d be surprised at what has changed and wonder how these changes passed you by. The problem is that the rate of change is now so fast that, if you are not carefully watching on a monthly basis, you could feel “Rip Van Winkled” after just a few short months. It can happen that fast!
Recently, Oracle has announced some really amazing new capabilities such as the Autonomous Database, Blockchain, support for Robotic Process Automation, and the new Serverless platform–Fn (see this great blog for more information: here).
Here are just some of the capabilities that one should really have their eye on as sweeping architecture trends. Each of them hold tremendous promise to help you drive differentiation and innovation in your company or agency.
The 6th point in that list is very important from a strategic standpoint. Oracle just released 2 major new services (DIPC and OIC). If you don’t have your Oracle Acronym Decoder Ring© available, those stand for the Data Integration Platform Cloud and the Oracle Integration Cloud, respectively. What is important about these service, at the highest level, is that they both take what were delivered as stand-alone cloud services, and combines them into 2 integrated platforms where you don’t spend time worrying about which tool to use, you simply start with what you want to do.
In the past, you would say “Oh, I need to build an integration to SalesForce, guess I’d better use ICS.” Likewise you might say, “I need to create a better, and automated, Employee on-boarding process, guess I should use PCS.” Or you might say “I need to create a real-time data replication link between my on-prem database and a Cloud instance for reporting, guess I need Golden Gate.” We have all been there, that is how we solved problems in the past.
f(x) = y; I need to do this (x), so I use that (y).
Now you change your focus drastically away from a tool-focus to a focus on creating business value. Because both new platforms (OIC and DIPC) abstract away many of the details (such as selecting and deploying a new Cloud Service), you get immediate results and value from your efforts. That means you have more time to do what needs to be done — but also start thinking of new ways to innovate on top of that. “What if instead of simply automating this process, we also enhanced the data reporting so business could get real-time reporting on Employee data across our geographically separate subsidiaries from a centralized ‘source of truth’!”
As an example, here are some of the things you can do with OIC:
This platform/capabilities approach is a huge step forward for Enterprise Architects who look, in ever increasing amounts, to technology to be in direct of support business needs and can’t afford to be “Rip Van Winkled” by these recent trends wondering, “how did I miss this one?!?!”
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