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I am really excited about the new release of ArchiMate. The reason I am so excited is that for the first time ArchiMate complements TOGAF with a compelling, versatile and unambiguous visual modeling language that covers the end to end…
Along side the release of the ArchiMate 2.0 specification, a new certification for the ArchiMate has been released this week. ArchiMate, an Open Group Standard, is an open and independent modelling language for enterprise architecture that is supported by different…
First and foremost, a big thank you to the attendees of my session. We filled the room! All the interaction and questions were top notch. I really enjoyed presenting to all of you. In my session, Why EA’s Must Drive…
Day 1 of the Open Group Conference was kicked off with a bang. Jeanne Ross, whom I refer to as our EA Rock Star started the day with some fresh thinking about how we approach EA. For al the presentations…
For those that are attending the Open Group conference in San Francisco here in the next few weeks from now I wanted to let you know that I will be presenting. My presentation is within the Cloud Strategy and SOA…
Today, The Open Group announced three new industry standards to enable businesses to effectively integrate elements of SOA and Cloud Computing into a solution or enterprise architecture. The new standards are: SOA Reference Architecture Service-Oriented Cloud Computing Infrastructure Framework Open…
The Open Group announced last month the release of the TOGAF & SABSA Integration Whitepaper, a new guide developed in collaboration with The SABSA Institute to enable enterprise and security architects to integrate security and risk management approaches into enterprise-level…
In my last post I announced that I received my Open CA certification with a brief description on it, along with the differentiation between Open CA and TOGAF certification. This post actually sprung a series of questions from folks wanting…
As some of you may have noticed on my twitter feed, I have been activity doing research the Open CA certification. Through the research and it’s reputation, I decided that I would take it based on my findings. I am…
The second morning at the Open Group Conference changed themes a bit. The focus shifted from Enterprise Architecture and Business Architecture to Security and Cloud. A topic that is very near and dear to my heart. There was quite a…
What a great first day at the Open Group conference in Austin. The big theme for today was the transformation of Enterprise Architecture to be business focused along with the corresponding Business Architecture practices. The sessions ranged from visionary, key…
For all of you out there that use or embrace the Microsoft Solutions Framework (MSF) there is some good news for you. Today The Open Group officially confirmed that the MSF meets all criteria to be recognized as a valid…