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http://www.sda-asia.com/sda/specialcolumn/psecom,archive,1,,,id,39,nodeid,39,_language,Singapore.html
30 articles by Soumen Chatterjee where he endeavors to investigate the maturity of the current crop of MDA tools available, the MDA roadmap, and the effects of MDA within enterprise architecture. The MDA Radar will also detect and provide directive guidelines towards MDA adoption.
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http://www.cioindex.com/portal/Default.aspx?id=224&tabid=201
Lise Urbaczewski and Stevan Mrdalj, 2006: An Enterprise Architecture Framework (EAF) maps all of the software development processes within the enterprise and how they relate and interact to fulfill the enterprise’s mission. It provides organizations with the ability to understand and analyze
weaknesses or inconsistencies to be identified and addressed. There are a number of already established EAF in use today; some of these frameworks were developed for very specific areas, whereas others have broader functionality. This study
provides a comparison of several frameworks that can then be used for guidance in the selection of an EAF that meets the needed criteria. (Registration required)
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http://www.whatpc.co.uk/computing/analysis/2223858/pit-stop-q-enterprise
Peter Child asks the pIT stop panel: Is the concept of enterprise architecture a route to bridging the IT-business divide? If so, how do you sell this to business decision-makers? The pIT stop panel's replies: If I had a polo mint for every time I heard that a technology or approach would provide 'alignment' between IT and the business I would walk around with permanently fresh breath. From architecture to ITIL, 4GL to BPM, agile to Zachman, the list is near endless; sadly the reality is more prosaic - there are no silver bullets that will help businesses to better communicate their requirements, and IT to meet these needs. Beware consultants bearing architecture diagrams - here be dragons. James Governor, co-founder and principal analyst, RedMonk: So what do we mean by enterprise architecture? At a high level it is quite straightforward - a series of products that have certain features targeted at an enterprise user, for example a server that has great remote access service (RAS) capabilities, processors that are consummate in handling virtualised workloads, and so on. So far, so good, but there can be issues with this, in that there are so many features that soon it can become harder to differentiate which of those features are the ones that will address the business needs. Despite the illusion of apparent commoditisation, today’s IT hardware and software offer more and more choice, more and more features, more and more capabilities. What is more, they are sold on the basis of these features, as they offer a means for making a choice of one product over another.
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http://www.thecontenteconomy.com/2008/08/demystifying-enterprise-architecture.html
Oscar Berg: You might think that it sounds quite pretentious for someone to call oneself Enterprise Architect (at least if you don't see yourself as one of them). Well, I don't blame you if you do. The term Enterprise Architect easily leads one's thoughts to someone who architects an entire enterprise from scratch or who orchestrates every wink and turn of an enterprise as a sort of puppy master. Such a conception is course wrong. The Enterprise Architects are cogs in the enterprise wheel just as all others - they are only different in the sense that they have been assigned the responsibility to observe the complete machinery and keep track of the different parts and how they relate to each other. But also to envision how new or changing requirements and constraints - big or small, few or many, dramatic or subtle - will need to change the enterprise and its different but yet often very tightly related parts.
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The Enterprise Architecture Reference Cube provides guidance to enterprise architects for concepts used in modeling architecture. The Cube faces represent the dimensions to consider in enterprise architectures - the architectural concepts and their relationships to each other. These relationships are
defined between the Cube faces and visually presented in three dimensions. This Cube is the result of the work of the INCOSE ISO/TC184/SC5 liaison team to update the ISO 15704:2000 standard. Registration required.
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http://semantic-integration.blogspot.com/2008/08/semantic-integration-enterprise.html
Stephen Lahanas: In many ways, Enterprise Architecture (EA) is as misunderstood as Semantics. Although EA has been practiced across a much wider community of IT professionals for a longer period of time, it still suffers from an identity crisis. Is EA the mandatory precursor for model driven development, or is it part of a bigger picture and if so, what is that picture? It is my contention that the reason Enterprise Architecture is still misunderstood in many quarters and often unsuccessful in practice is precisely because it does exist within the context of a larger picture. All too often, that larger picture is simply ignored leaving those executing EA projects somewhat perplexed as to find meaningful ways to make their efforts relevant to the organization sponsoring their efforts.
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http://www.keystonesandrivets.com/kar/2007/09/the-models-and-.html
Paul Wallis about pros, cons and limitations of the traditional frameworks used in Enterprise Architecture (EA). This isn't a comprehensive review but I'm going to briefly discuss three frameworks and their limitations in this blog, before I talk a little about OBASHI - my company's own framework for capturing Business and IT related information. Each framework details how information can be categorised, organised and presented to form the basis for governance and change.
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http://www.opengroup.org/architecture/togaf8-doc/arch/chap30.html
This TOGAF chapter provides a set of role, skill, and experience norms for staff undertaking enterprise architecture work. Skills frameworks provide a view of the competency levels required for specific roles. They define the roles within a work area, the skills required by each role, and the depth of knowledge required to fulfil the role successfully. They are relatively common for defining the skills required for a consultancy and/or project management assignment, to deliver a specific project or work package. They are also widely used by recruitment and search agencies to match candidates and roles. Their value derives from their ability to provide a means of rapidly identifying skill matches and gaps. Successfully applied, they can ensure that candidates are fit for the jobs assigned to them. Their value in the context of enterprise architecture arises from the immaturity of the enterprise architecture discipline, and the problems that arise from this.
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https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/weblogs?blog=/pub/wlg/10490
Paul Centen, SAP: Over the last couple of weeks, I was engaged in a widespread of discussions related to business architecture and other related domains. Typical for those discussions was the usage of specific words, which, in the course of the discussions, required adjacent explanations and adjustments regarding their specific meaning. It was strange, but also remarkable why this so happened.
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https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/weblogs?blog=/pub/wlg/10519
Paul Centen: In the late 70's and begin of the 80's IT in industry was dominantly in-house development on big hardware with limited scope (from today's common sense). It was also the time, where the "iron curtain" influences drove values and attitudes with people in western societies and countries. The defense budget was considerable high and a large number of industries profit from this very specific "custom-built" service offering. Even in automotive industry the standards were at a low level. Japan started to offer packaged solutions for very competitive pricing. Most of the people laugh at that approach and believed the car has to be configured out of a list of more than 300 items (mirror, color, window-opening mechanisms, etc.). This difference was justified by "quality" and "accentuated the trust in domestic production".
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http://earchpal.wordpress.com/2008/08/03/archimate-its-time-has-come/
Sethuraj Nair: Proper representation of Enterprise Architecture has always been quite a challenge. Many times the sheer scope of the canvas required can be the problem, but most of the times it is the question of a proper style and standard of representation that poses issues to the IT architects. While Enterprise Reference Models (TRM or ARM) are normally pulled together as simple 'box of boxes', the lower level representations are vulnerable to subjectivity unless a firm modeling framework has been implemented and governed by the architecture board that controls the IT architecture of the enterprise.
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http://gotze.eu/2008/04/aligning-the-ducks.html
John Gøtze: The keynote speaker at the annual Architecture Conference organised by the Danish government, and held in Århus on 2-3 April, is Gary Doucet, Chief Architect of the Canadian Federal Government. He reports to the federal CIO in the Treasury Board Secretariat. Last week, I caught Gary in between his snow shoveling exercises the other day, and conducted an interview with him. It has now been cleared, so here goes.
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http://ea.typepad.com/enterprise_abstraction/2008/07/my-paper---implementing-soa-at-cisti.html
Anthony, Stephen K. The Serials Librarian, 55(01-02), pp. 235 - 253. As they seek new roles in the digital realm, libraries are finding it increasingly difficult to manage the complexity of technology implementation while continuing to cost-effectively meet their mandates as information providers. Many organizations find themselves dealing with legacy, isolated, duplicated and ineffective information systems. The practices of enterprise architecture and service oriented architecture hold much promise as methodologies to reduce complexity, to encourage and enable collaborations, and finally to rein in the beast of technology. Even libraries under budgetary constraints can benefit from knowledge of enterprise architecture and service oriented architecture best practices.
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http://console-stuff.blogspot.com/2008/07/3-flavors-of-enterprise-architect.html
Jeff Carlson: I work in a very large company and I am the lead architect of one of the divisions. I have had various architecture positions at different companies and I have had this current role for more than a year. I work with some very smart architects who are organized to business domains or disciplines and we are working together very well. There are many other architects and architectural organizations that are not having similar success. We meet sometimes for lunch and sometimes we talk about what it means to be an architect. I realize some of you have just thrown your computers out the window or tried to commit seppuku with some powerpoint printouts, but I continue.
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http://www.theenterprisearchitect.eu/archive/2007/11/22/enterprise_engineering_based_o
Johan den Haan, 22 November 2007: In a lot of enterprises IT is blamed for the lack of business-IT alignment, but why? Isn't IT just a tool to reach the enterprise goals? If we buy a bike to improve our traveling, can we blame it for non-functioning if we just walk next to it? IT should function as part of an Enterprise Architecture, it should be an integral part of the enterprise strategy. The emerging field of Enterprise Engineering takes care of the integral design of an enterprise, but what exactly is Enterprise Engineering and where does it come from?
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http://usercentricea.blogspot.com/2008/07/situational-awareness-and-enterprise.html
Andy Blumenthal: EA is a tool for situational awareness and planning to drive modernization, transformation, and improved results. Enterprise architecture helps us as organizations to be more aware of our business and technology resources, desired outcomes, and ways to link resources/investments to results. As far as mankind can remember, we have always looked to plan ahead to manage change and complexity. In the times of the pharaohs, people looked to the stars for a sign of what was to come. In past centuries, others have looked into the crystal ball to foretell events and plan accordingly. To many, these rudimentary methods were all they had to gain a semblance control over their lives and a world that probably felt very out of control much of the time.
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http://slashdemocracy.org/book/141201607X
Several times in my Enterprise Architecture (EA) practice, people asked me which framework shall I adopt or what are the benefits of the Zachman framework over TOGAF, etc. Others asked me to help them to define their own corporate EA framework. Before answering these types of questions, it is important to know what the differences and commonalities are of these frameworks and standards. This book explains the role of Enterprise Architecture Frameworks and shows the differences between the most popular Enterprise Architecture Frameworks now a day available in the world. Giving an overview of the history of most Enterprise Architecture frameworks as well as their purpose, scope, principles, structure, guidance and compliance, will support you in identifying the usefulness of these Enterprise Architecture frameworks for your own situation. For the in-depth details of the described Enterprise Architecture Frameworks, references to the original sources of information are added in the chapter References & Bibliography. Separate chapters are addressing the most popular Enterprise Architecture tools on the market and their support of existing frameworks. The book compares the 14 most popular Enterprise Architecture Frameworks in the world.
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http://fedtechmagazine.com/article.asp?item_id=267
Scott A. Bernard: The architecture - structure, functions and resources - of an organization exists whether anyone acknowledges it or not. Much of the continuing growth of enterprise architecture as a methodology worth pursuing hinges on the claim that acknowledging and formalizing an EA is helpful to an organization, especially one that’s large, complex and exists in a dynamic and competitive operating environment.
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