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How to Assess Your Technical Architecture

September 4, 2010
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Print PDF Guest Post by Russ Trpkovki When a new project begins, I am often overwhelmed with the amount of information and number of decisions requiring my attention. I need to identify gaps in the current state architecture as well as think about future state technical capabilities. My analysis and decision making is usually done at a fast pace under high stress and lots of scrutiny from the program leadership. Given the fluid nature of ...

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Who Needs a Current State Technology Architecture?

August 23, 2010
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Print PDF Guest Post by Zach Sachen, Sridhar Karimanal and Rima Safari Collecting information about your current technology architecture is a major pain, so why bother? Is it just a waste of time or is it another enterprise architecture myth? A quick calculation shows that building skills and processes to produce, maintain, and use current state architecture information can save a company a lot of time and money, as well as realize additional benefits along ...

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You Aren’t Using a Cloud Platform

August 11, 2010
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Print PDF I’m pretty sure that in larger companies, aside from the internal use of virtual machines that are mis-labeled as cloud computing, the cloud wave is a wave of talk. Instead of telling us how they are using (or want to use) the cloud, many of our clients are still asking us to help them survey the market so that they can evaluate it as part of their overall sourcing approach and technology architecture. ...

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Revisiting the .NET – J2EE Debate

July 30, 2010
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Guest Post by Jason Carter

There was recently a discussion on one of our internal forums on the relative merits of the .NET and J2EE platforms for enterprise applications. The subject generated a lot of interest since a lot of the readily available comparisons are nearly a decade old. J2EE supporters tout its ability to scale vertically, integrate more naturally with legacy systems, its backward compatibility and platform independence. .NET evangelists referenced a superior IDE, shorter development cycles and horizontal scalability…...

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How To Deliver Enterprise Architecture Value Early

July 13, 2010
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Print PDF Co-authored with David Baker How to demonstrate the value of enterprise architecture is a constant question we get from our clients. In fact, a more basic question might be “what is the business value of EA?” We strongly believe that EA should be the way that a business connects its strategy to its technology investment plan – through the use of business capabilities. As good as that might sound in concept, the hard ...

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16 Enterprise Architecture Strategies Learned The Hard Way

June 30, 2010
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Print PDF Co-authored with David Baker We’ve been spending time thinking through the differences in implementing new or improving existing EA capabilities for smaller, say a few billion in revenue and larger firms in the Fortune 100 or thereabouts.  Because the larger firms tend to have many complex, often unrelated business units, the role of centralized IT functions can also be quite complex, even unclear.  Furthermore, centralized enterprise functions have many challenges in driving standards ...

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Busting 5 Enterprise Architecture Myths

June 8, 2010
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Print PDF First Group CIO Chris Boult and I are speaking today at the CIO Executive Summit in Cincinnati about enterprise architecture. As its adoption continues to challenge many, Chris and I decided to discuss and bust these 5 myths: EA is what IT uses to plan its technology You can’t measure it Architects only pontificate, they don’t work EA doesn’t work with an SDLC If you subscribe to SOA, you don’t need EA Enterprise ...

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Twitter: SOA in Action

April 2, 2009
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Print PDF Talk about incredible innovation – look at the application and service ecosystem around Twitter.  Here are just some examples: On-line Commentary During an Off-line Event – The NY Times developed a beautiful visualization of popular words in Twitter posts during the Super Bowl. Real-time Trends – Twistory streams real-time Twitter posts filtered to let you see what people like, hate, etc. Local Tweeting – Pepsi came out with an impressive app during the ...

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