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Although enterprise architecture consider to be based on four domains (Business, Information, Applications and technology) for me the business and information domains are more important to become succ...
The Enterprise Architect (EA) diary - Day 25-32 (Modeling & decentralized organization)
Working for company with different business units locating in different places around the worl...
After spending time on keeping our repository up to date (add new ETRM application and related data flows as well as changing databases to DB clusters), collecting more data for the root cause analysi...
Were working on IT architecture or more accurate to-be architecture for very long time. After we spend time to model and understand what IT has to offer as well as what the business is doing (and nee...
This time I'm sharing a list of EA values of mature EA practice. This customer is a leading company in the utilities industry with aggressive business strategy of merge and acquisition. as a result th...
After posting three case studies of successful enterprise architecture practices and discussing common EA pitfalls I decided that its the time to present a case study of en enterprise architecture pra...
Doing EA just for the sake of EA: Enterprise architecture is a mean to reach a goal. If you dont know what is your goal and how you'll use enterprise architecture to reach this goal, you fall i...
Collecting, modeling, validating and analyzing data from different domains to create to-be architecture in a form of principles, standards and blueprints are not enough to create successful enterprise...
One of the common tasks that enterprise architects are dealing with on a daily basis is the need to explain complex IT issues to different audience, including non IT audience and CxO level. I can ...
How to retire (respectfully) legacy systems Information Architecture - The bridge between Business and IT Business Capabilities and Business Strategy Consolidation of CRM solutions Creating IT strateg...
They served us for a long period of time, but (for different reasons that I wont cover in this post) now the time to say good bye and to retire them. Legacy systems exist in each and every enter...
As much as I tried to explain it they didnt manage to get it and they staid in low level detailed technology architecture. On one of the knowledge transfer session that we had I got an idea to ...
Information is truly the bridge between business and IT. While
collecting and modeling business capabilities and business processes we are
using information as inputs and outputs for business capabi...
Every time that I'm writing about business capabilities I'm receiving replays that capabilities won't help me to get business strategy and without business strategy I cant defined the business to-be a...
Introduction
This white paper demonstrates and discusses solution for
fragmented IT, which known as one of the classic IT problems. For demonstrating
the problem and solution I chose to use a...
Creating IT strategy is one of the complicated
task that I know. To create a good IT strategy, you have to use many ingredients
from different types and sources. Those ingredientsshould be used
in ...
Part of the enterprise architecture work is to define a meta-model. Meta-model depict what are the architecture building blocks that we need to do our work, and their relations. Usually meta...
I can remember the first time that I read TOGAF. I was really amazed from what I read. After spending time to understand Zachman framework, TOGAF looks like a mature and practical EA framework. Each p...
After discussing how to use enterprise architecture for IT planning, reducing IT costs and M&A
I had several request to share case studies that shows how the theory
(which I already discuss...
After explaining how to use enterprise architecture for IT long term planning and IT cost reduction this post is dedicated to enterprise architecture for merge and acquisitions (M&A). In thi...
In my post about "What
can be done with Enterprise Architecture" I mentioned four main areas
where I'm using successfully enterprise architecture. I already started to touch
IT planning (will ded...
In my enterprise
architecture to create long term IT planning, I argue that business
capabilities are crucial for this work but I didn't explain in details what are
business capabilities...
In my own opinion
enterprise architecture is not just a high level strategic planning of the
enterprise ( well lets face it, the IT in the enterprise). I see enterprise
architecture as a proven, co...
Principles are the
better half of blueprints.
Principles enable enterprise architects to set up the boundaries that
application / solution architects should follow to create their own architecture ...
Draw two identical lines (same length). One (the upper) represents the time invested in applications life cycle and the second (bottom) line the human resources available for your IT orga...
Enterprise architecture team might be the successful CIO
right hand (especially in today economic situation) or a group of people that
you cant really understand what they are doing. A successfu...
One
of the assets that you would expect to find in any enterprise is an
inventory of all of the applications developed/bought by the enterprise
as well as the cross dependencies between those ap...
After understanding what is information architecture (http://www.theeagroup.net/ea/Default.aspx?tabid=1&newsType=ArticleView&articleId=142 ) and what needed to be modelled (http://www.theeagr...
You just entered the meeting room for another meeting. Each one of the people around the table has certain specialization,which everyone recognize.
The DBA has unique knowledge, the ...
I just started new working group around Enterprise Architecture: http://aggreg8.net/blogs/enterprise_architecture/default.aspx. Enterprise architecture, not software/system architecture. My first post...
It didn’t take 9 month, just six, but after 6 long and tedious months of
work for SAP we present a sneak preview of SAP new enterprise architecture
framework at SAP Teched. This framework has th...
Business
processes are used commonly for a long time. Most of the architecture
community is using different notations for describing business
processes. It doesn’t matter if it’s a known s...
In the upcoming EA summit 2006 (Key Biscayne) http://www.ftponline.com/conferences/eas/2006/strategy.aspx#datacentric I will speak about EA patterns. Patterns have been in use for quite some tim...
While attending a social event of enterprise architects I was asked (after being introduced) by a respectful CEO "so Natty, what exactly are you doing for leaving?" usually I'm explaining about EA, ...
For quite a long time I'm using an evolving version of TOGAF that I'm calling NAAF. This is an agile, SOA oriented, real life framework which based on my experience. The following ...
Enterprise architecture is the dentistry of the IT world! Yes, like people who tend not to pay a visit to the dentist until they can't stand the pain. IT organization tend not to take seriously...
As I already posted I'm engaged with two different EA processes those days. Those processes differ one from each other in many ways. There's one difference that I want to deal with and that's absents ...
John Wu's Enterprise Architecture blog: http://www.e-cio.org/...
If you're from Israel amd you want to hear a session about enterprise architecture (mainly about the need and Zachman frameworm) I'll be happy to see you in the upcoming Omnisys convention (it's free,...
This package is the first in series that cover the entire enterprise architecture work. The package breaks the phase into simple steps based on our experience. Each step map to one of the leading ente...
Despise and due to the situation of enterprise architecture situation in the holly land I've decided to start up a user group or a council that will deal with enterprise architecture (enterprise archi...
Here is a simple yet powerful method that Ive been developing and using successfully. This method serves two causes. First it enables to view visually the current state of systems...
I'm running small web site which deals with enterprise architecture. for the first time since I'm runing it I've got more hits from Firefox uses then IE users per month. is that a new trend Is anyo...
We are trying to create a map of all the available enterprise architecture frameworks and the relation between them. you can find more details at: http://www.theeagroup.net/ea/Default.aspxtabid=1&...
The technical differences between the Java world and Microsoft world are minor compared to the conceptual differences between them. While the Microsoft concept is concerned with weve got excellent tec...
As you probably know design patterns are clearly defined and used broadly across the industry. So if this concept works so good for software why shouldnt it be working for enterpris...
As you probably know design patterns are clearly defined and used broadly across the industry. So if this concept works so good for software why shouldnt it be working for enterpris...
It's basically extension to salamnder sample by adding reflection code. Part of the paths in the *.bat files are fixed. you might need to change them. www.theeagroup.net/obfuscation.zip HT...
I just present at the TOGAF convention a proposition of enterprise architecture pattern definition and structure and suggested a new enterprise architecture pattern (the "data-centric enterprise...
Ive published a new article dealing with 10 common myths Enterprise architecture. This article goes through these myths and explains how to avoid them while youre running enterprise architecture proce...
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