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Chris Potts (2008)
fruITion: Creating the Ultimate Corporate Strategy for Information Technology

http://slashdemocracy.org/book/0977140032

Called 'part entertaining novel and part enlightening textbook' by reviewers, FruITion is about Ian the CIO. How will Ian as the CIO react when the management team explores a very different relationship with IT? The strategy that emerges has major implications for the CIO and everyone in the IT department.
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EA-columns by Soumen Chatterjee

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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A Comparison of Enterprise Architecture Frameworks

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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Troux Technologies Gains Momentum in Government Sector With Strategic IT Planning Software

http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/troux-technologies-gains-momentum-government/story.aspx?guid=%7B5A201A4E-351D-47B5-B329-494EEC39D103%7D&dist=hppr

Press Announcement 20 August 2008: Troux Technologies, the acknowledged market leader in Strategic IT Planning, today announced the addition of three significant new accounts to its large roster of government customers. The Department of Homeland Security, the National Nuclear Security Administration and the U.S. Marine Corps join Troux's rapidly growing customer base, which includes government and commercial clients worldwide. In addition to the new customers, the U.S. Treasury Department and the Department of Labor have expanded their investment in Troux's Strategic IT Planning software. The company also announced the promotion of Matthew Gallagher to the role of vice president, federal sales. Bob Daniel, the inspiration behind Troux's ground-breaking eaGov(TM) product, will assume the new position of chief technology officer for government solutions, further underscoring Troux's commitment to providing software for global government agencies.
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Open options for cloud computing

http://www.linux.com/feature/144529

Jack M. Germain: Some cloud computing vendors, such as 3tera and Nirvani, push their own proprietary platforms and tools, which forces adopters to limit their options and work in a restricted or closed architecture. When these established vendors say cloud, they mean their cloud. As a result, Web developers may believe that, in order to use cloud computing, they must accept limitations in the way they write and build their applications. But that view is a misconception; open standards for cloud computing are already in place and are being tweaked.
- Cloud Computing -

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Enterprise Architecture Reference Cube

http://www.cioindex.com/portal/Default.aspx?id=219&tabid=201

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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Can enterprise architecture bridge the IT-business divide?

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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Cloud Computing: Public-Sector Opportunities Emerge

http://www.govtech.com/gt/articles/387269

How cloudy is your IT future looking? Services and activities once done on private computers are now moving "into the cloud," as customers subscribe to computing services hosted by centralized service providers. Although the actual term "cloud computing" came about only late last year, there are already a number of applications, from hardware clouds (where customers rent hardware from a large data center) to software clouds (involving software as a service running on a hardware cloud) and desktop clouds (running word processing or spreadsheet applications from a hardware cloud).
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Demystifying Enterprise Architecture

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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Semantic Integration & Enterprise Architecture

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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Strategy Execution and the Balanced Scorecard

http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5916.html

Q&A with Robert S. Kaplan. Companies often manage strategy in fits and starts. Though executives may formulate an excellent strategy, it easily fades from memory as the organization tackles day-to-day operations issues, doing what HBS professor Robert S. Kaplan calls 'fighting fires.' A new book by Kaplan and David P. Norton aims to make strategy a continual process. The Execution Premium: Linking Strategy to Operations for Competitive Advantage shows managers how to weave organizational principles into a more effective management system that respects the differences between strategy and operations yet integrates them in a powerful way. Kaplan and Norton introduced the Balanced Scorecard, a performance measurement system, in 1992.
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Understanding Enterprise Architecture complexity

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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Telelogic and Rational at IBM RSDC 2008

http://www.redmonk.com/cote/2008/06/12/telelogic-rational-at-ibm-rsdc-2008telelogic-rational-at-ibm-rsdc-2008/

RedMonk TV from RSDC 2008, where Michael Coté and Stephen O'Grady talk with Neeraj Chandra and Ken King (who joins half-way through) on the topic of Telelogic, which IBM recently wrapped up the acquisition process for. Coté: While Telelogic software focuses on the requirements process and supports overall application life-cycle management, its focus on 'system' rather than simply software brings a new domain to Rational. In addition to that general topic, we talk about the future of Telelogic now that it's part of IBM.
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How Cloud And Utility Computing Are Different

http://gigaom.com/2008/02/28/how-cloud-utility-computing-are-different/

Geva Perry: We are witnessing a seismic shift in information technology - the kind that comes around every decade or so. It is so massive that it affects not only business models, but the underlying architecture of how we develop, deploy, run and deliver applications. This shift has given a new relevance to ideas such as cloud computing and utility computing. Not surprisingly, these two different ideas are often lumped together.
- Utility Computing - Cloud Computing -

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Architecture Skills Framework

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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Clouds and grids - evolution or revolution?

http://news.eu-egee.com/news-detail/article/clouds-v-grid-5.html

This report compares grid and cloud computing services, taking a practical look at implementations of both: namely the Enabling Grids for E-sciencE (EGEE) project for grid and the Amazon Web Service (AWS) for cloud. Taking performance, scale, ease of use, costs, functionality and other aspects into consideration, the report looks at the overall opportunity that converging cloud and grid services can bring to users.
- Utility Computing - Grid Computing - Cloud Computing -

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xmlObjectifier library

http://www.terracoder.com/

Looking for a simple way to convert XML to JSON Object? xmlObjectifier is here to help. In just one method call your XML document is converted into a JavaScript Object and is ready for simple data browsing using a familiar dot notation. xmlObjectifier is written in client-side JavaScript in an object oriented manner to reduce processing overhead and to provide optimal compatibility across various browsers.
- JSON - jQuery - XML -

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NATO supports ODF open document format

http://www.heise-online.co.uk/news/NATO-supports-ODF-open-document-format--/111127

18 July 2008: NATO has included the International Standardization Organization's (ISO) certified Open Document Format (ODF) in its list of mandatory standards to promote interoperability. NATO's standards list includes Rich Text Format (RTF), extensible markup language (XML) and Office XP formats as requirements for the sharing of data. The list does not include Office Open XML (OOXML), Microsoft's direct competitor to ODF, which is currently undergoing a controversial ISO certification process. Observers say that the Dutch Defence Ministry threw its weight behind ODF. The public sector in the Netherlands expressly supports open standards and open source. Jan Wildeboer, open source evangelist at Red Hat in Europe, told heise online that NATO support for ODF is an "good sign" and a "further step towards a truly open market, where proprietary solutions and open source software compete on equal terms". Open standards are the only feasible way to provide interoperability and avoid dependence on individual vendors. Wildeboer welcomed the European Commission's new proposal for a European Interoperability Framework (EIF) to promote the use of open standards that are not subject to patent license fees in the public sector.
- OpenDocument - Document Formats - Interoperability -

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Balanced Scorecard in Action

http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5964.html

Introduced by Harvard Business School professor Robert Kaplan and colleague David Norton, the Balanced Scorecard has been used by thousands of organizations to align business activities with the strategy. In this Sharpening Your Skills series of articles, by Norton and Kaplan answer questions such as: How does the Balanced Scorecard (BSC) improve corporate governance? Does customer profitability increase using the BSC? Can BSC measures reduce the gap between strategy and execution? Does the BSC work in testing strategy?
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Business architecture (1): likeness

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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Business Architecture (2): IT-industrialization of the industries

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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Achieving Model Traceability: Finding the Traceability Critical Path

http://blogs.msdn.com/gabriel_morgan/archive/2008/08/02/achieving-model-traceability-finding-the-traceability-critical-path.aspx

Gabriel Morgan: We all agree now that Adoption is key for Enterprise Architects. And the trick to adoption is resonating with those that make change and influence them to make the change that is best for the enterprise. In a previous blog post, I introduced the Solution Model concept. In this post, I want to talk about the concept of the Traceability Critical Path, which is the portion of the Solution Model necessary to trace from Strategy to Code.
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Enterprise Architecture, BPM, SOA and Master Data Management (MDM)

http://entarch.blogspot.com/2008/08/enterprise-architecture-bpm-soa-and.html

Yogish Pai: One of the best practices for Enterprise Architecture teams to redo the enterprise road map on a periodic basis. It is typically reviewed and updated during the yearly budgeting cycle and my preference is to perform this activity every 18 months. The best practices (and the traditional approach) is to first document the as-is, next develop the target or future state (architecture) and finally develop a short term (6 months), mid term (12 months) and long term (18 months) road map. Preferable an actionable road map that ties back to the business initiatives.
- Business Process Management - Service-Oriented Architecture - Enterprise Architecture -

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ArchiMate : Its Time Has Come?

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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Mastering JSON (JavaScript Object Notation)

http://www.hunlock.com/blogs/Mastering_JSON_(_JavaScript_Object_Notation_)

Patrick Hunlock: Widely hailed as the successor to XML in the browser, JSON aspires to be nothing more than a simple, and elegant data format for the exchange of information between the browser and server; and in doing this simple task it will usher in the next version of the World Wide Web itself.
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