Since the Enterprise Architects number is on the increase, what do they actually do?
Too often the “Enterprise” in the EA term translates into experience in the enterprise IT, while “Architect” into a senior IT employee.
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Too often the “Enterprise” in the EA term translates into experience in the enterprise IT, while “Architect” into a senior IT employee.
The Open Group, the vendor-neutral IT consortium, is hosting its next event in San Francisco January 25-28. The Open Group San Francisco 2016 will focus on how Enterprise Architecture is empowering companies to build better systems by architecting for digital … Continue reading →
One of my routines around New Year is to look back at the books brought to the market in the last year that caught my attention. In this blog post, I will share my thoughts about the ten most notable books of the year. Notable 2015 additions to the enterprise architect’s bookshelf: Business Architecture Management:…
The big issue is though that we don’t know what we don’t know. Hence we don’t know what to do about it.
Data consists of symbols that represent objects, events, and their properties. Information is data that has been made useful. Information answers the questions of who, what, where, when, and how many. Information is helpful in deciding what to do, not how to do it. Knowledge consists of instructions and know-how. Knowledge answers the ‘how’ […]
Maybe it’s a sign. Although I haven’t made New Year’s predictions in the past, this year I took part in a panel discussion with Jeremy Berriault, Steve Tendon, Kim Pries, hosted by Tom Cagley for his SPaMCast podcast (it should be posted this weekend, I’ll link to it when it does). As Tom described it […]
Continuing the series on Nine Easy Steps to Unlock Breakthrough Results, we now assign relative weights to each of the critical capabilities groups for each operating model uncovered earlier. This is done to assign the higher weightings to capability groupings most important to the success of each model. Having the quantified index means we can evaluate each platform or tool for optimization within quickly and produce meaningful results.
How does systems thinking really apply to enterprise architectureOne of the things I like most about the festive season is the chance to reset – there’s space and time to think about what happened in the previous year, what the future might bring, and most of all – time to spend with the special people in your…
Architecting change is a holistic, systemic, big picture approach! It is holistic in the sense that it covers information about everything, including infrastructure, information, process, knowledge, organization design, skills, and resources. This is an ambitious claim, but it is the information that is united through EA, which then makes it easier to manage the…
Such IT failures we learn nothing from, have a debilitating effect on future projects. Organizations are paralysed by the fear of change. Hence things continue to be bad for fear they can get even worse.
Solving the Polyglot Persistence Puzzle
– Using the Oracle Information Characteristics Architecture Method
Polyglot – Knowing or using several languages.
Persistence – A coding technique or technology used to store information.
Polyglot Persistence – Storing information in multiple information management technologies to meet a business requirement.
The Polyglot Persistence Puzzle – Combining multiple information management technologies into comprehensive information architectures to meet business requirements.
Today an information architect has a wide array of information management technologies available to solve business problems. 451 Research published a Data Platform Map in June 2015 that identified 277 information management products in 18 categories.
Three forces have contributed the explosion of information management technologies:
1. The enormous amount and types of information generated on the internet and by connected devices,
2. The reduction in the cost of compute and storage platforms per a unit of processing capability and,
3. The explosion of open source products for specific information management use cases.
Together, these forces have provided the opportunity for information architects to collect data onto low-cost platforms that only a few years ago would have been deemed too high-volume, too low-value and too expensive to capture. Hence we are now in the era of Big Data – high-volume, low-value data that can be cost effectively researched, explored and mined. But experience has shown that the value of Big Data is multiplied many times over of it can be combined with high-value information in existing systems to enhance the quality of decisions made throughout the organization, i.e. solving the Polyglot Persistence Puzzle. This daunting task falls to the Information Architects. It is the Information Architects that must lead the era of Big Data into the era of Polyglot Persistence for organizations to take full advantage new types of information and information management technologies.
But with this new era comes the need for new ways and methodologies to solve the inevitable Polyglot Persistence Puzzle.
In this series of blog articles, we will introduce and explain such a new methodology – Oracle Information Characteristics Architecture Method (ICAM). ICAM measures 16 information characteristics and 8 usage patterns to evaluate and value information to assist Information Architects in making the best information management technologies decisions, i.e. the right tools for the right job. ICAM has been developed with input from many Oracle information management thought leaders from around the world. We have also worked with a handful of beta customers to implement and refine ICAM with very positive feedback and results. My colleague, Bill Wimsatt, and I will post several blog articles explaining and walking through the process of implementing ICAM and showing the value of using this methodology.
The next ICAM blog article ‘Why solving the Polyglot Persistence Puzzle is so important today – The Information Value Lifecycle’.
Bill Wimsatt is a Senior Business Technology Professional with a broad background combining business and IT strategy, execution, and program management. He has over 25 years experience in business and IT strategy and business optimization.
Ron Mayfield is the Senior Enterprise Architect specializing in database and information architectures at Oracle. Ron has been a professional in the IT industry for 30 years and an employee of Oracle for the last 26 years.
Bill and Ron will be presenting ICAM at the Open Group Towards Boundaryless Information Flow™ in San Fransisco on Wednesday, January 27, 2016, at 9:00 – 9:45pm. Their presentation is titled ‘Developing Information Architectures via Business Capabilities and Information Characteristics’.
‘Boundaryless Information Flow’ is a trademark of The Open Group.
Solving the Polyglot Persistence Puzzle
– Using the Oracle Information Characteristics Architecture Method
Polyglot – Knowing or using several languages.
Persistence – A coding technique or technology used to store information.
Polyglot Persistence – Storing information in multiple information management technologies to meet a business requirement.
The Polyglot Persistence Puzzle – Combining multiple information management technologies into comprehensive information architectures to meet business requirements.
Today an information architect has a wide array of information management technologies available to solve business problems. 451 Research published a Data Platform Map in June 2015 that identified 277 information management products in 18 categories.
Three forces have contributed the explosion of information management technologies:
1. The enormous amount and types of information generated on the internet and by connected devices,
2. The reduction in the cost of compute and storage platforms per a unit of processing capability and,
3. The explosion of open source products for specific information management use cases.
Together, these forces have provided the opportunity for information architects to collect data onto low-cost platforms that only a few years ago would have been deemed too high-volume, too low-value and too expensive to capture. Hence we are now in the era of Big Data – high-volume, low-value data that can be cost effectively researched, explored and mined. But experience has shown that the value of Big Data is multiplied many times over of it can be combined with high-value information in existing systems to enhance the quality of decisions made throughout the organization, i.e. solving the Polyglot Persistence Puzzle. This daunting task falls to the Information Architects. It is the Information Architects that must lead the era of Big Data into the era of Polyglot Persistence for organizations to take full advantage new types of information and information management technologies.
But with this new era comes the need for new ways and methodologies to solve the inevitable Polyglot Persistence Puzzle.
In this series of blog articles, we will introduce and explain such a new methodology – Oracle Information Characteristics Architecture Method (ICAM). ICAM measures 16 information characteristics and 8 usage patterns to evaluate and value information to assist Information Architects in making the best information management technologies decisions, i.e. the right tools for the right job. ICAM has been developed with input from many Oracle information management thought leaders from around the world. We have also worked with a handful of beta customers to implement and refine ICAM with very positive feedback and results. My colleague, Bill Wimsatt, and I will post several blog articles explaining and walking through the process of implementing ICAM and showing the value of using this methodology.
The next ICAM blog article ‘Why solving the Polyglot Persistence Puzzle is so important today – The Information Value Lifecycle’.
Bill Wimsatt is a Senior Business Technology Professional with a broad background combining business and IT strategy, execution, and program management. He has over 25 years experience in business and IT strategy and business optimization.
Ron Mayfield is the Senior Enterprise Architect specializing in database and information architectures at Oracle. Ron has been a professional in the IT industry for 30 years and an employee of Oracle for the last 26 years.
Bill and Ron will be presenting ICAM at the Open Group Towards Boundaryless Information Flow™ in San Fransisco on Wednesday, January 27, 2016, at 9:00 – 9:45pm. Their presentation is titled ‘Developing Information Architectures via Business Capabilities and Information Characteristics’.
‘Boundaryless Information Flow’ is a trademark of The Open Group.