Master Data Management
Posted by Sam Chakkanat on Monday, May 2, 2011 under Enterprise Architecture Strategy
"Master Data Management (MDM) is the collection of policies, processes, framework and tools to enable the management of the master data in an organization. MDM is not a technology, rather it is the processes ...
Enterprise Architecture Program and Practice
Posted by Sam Chakkanat on Friday, April 29, 2011 under Enterprise Architecture Program
Enterprise Architecture has earned enough awareness and strength these days that it has become a strategic and most critical part of any major business or technology transformation and modernization programs. However, there are still questions and confusion about an Enterprise ...
Starting Enterprise Architecture Program
Posted by Sam Chakkanat on Sunday, April 24, 2011 under Enterprise Architecture Program
Enterprise Architecture Program continued... Once you have chosen a business area where you can start with, you could potentially conduct application portfolio analysis on that particular business domain. Within this portfolio analysis, you should be able to ...
Enterprise Information Management
Posted by Sam Chakkanat on Tuesday, April 12, 2011 under Enterprise Architecture Strategy
Enterprise information management is the process of managing organization assets of information, optimally and efficiently to support the quality, accuracy and timely availability of data for executive and strategic business decision making process.
Data is the most valuable asset of your ...
Solution Architecture and Application Architecture
Posted by Sam Chakkanat on Friday, April 8, 2011 under Enterprise Architecture Strategy
Is Enterprise Application Architecture = Solution Architecture?
Steve Armstrong • Enterprise Architects frequently refer to different domains such as Business, Data, Technology, Solution, and occasionally Application. I’d like some input on the differences between an Application domain and a Solution domain. ...
Application Modernization
Posted by Sam Chakkanat on Monday, April 4, 2011 under Enterprise Architecture Strategy
Business agility and cost reduction are two fundamental factors that drive modernization. Added to this are the growing technology obsolescence. According to Gartner, by year-end 2010, more than one-third of all application projects will be driven by the need to ...
Enterprise Architecture KPI
Posted by Sam Chakkanat on Sunday, April 3, 2011 under Enterprise Architecture Strategy
Enterprise Architecture is understood to benefit business in multiple ways. It helps business to rationalize its processes and applications and establish an enterprise architecture governance, technology standards, processes and best practices. A modern and standard based technology architecture ...
Enterprise Architecture Governance Framework
Posted by Sam Chakkanat on Sunday, April 3, 2011 under Enterprise Architecture Governance
From the early IBM system journal article in 1982, which defined "enterprise architecture" there have been many enterprise architecture framework evolutions such as Zachman, OpenGroup TOGAF in mid 1990's, and lately Gartner enterprise architecture framework in ...
Enterprise Architecture Organizational Readiness and Change Management
Posted by Sam Chakkanat on Sunday, April 3, 2011 under Organizational Change Management
For a successful enterprise architecture program it is absolutely necessary that you prepare your organization for the long journey. Organizational readiness include not only making sure that everyone is aware about enterprise architecture program, ...
Enterprise Architecture Center of Excellence (COE)
Posted by Sam Chakkanat on Sunday, April 3, 2011 under Enterprise Architecture Center
Enterprise architecture governance, enterprise architecture change management and enterprise architecture framework are three core areas of establishing an enterprise architecture practice at your organization. Creating an enterprise architecture center of excellence (COE) at your organization is one ...
