http://www.enterprisearchitecturecenter.com com_fireboard en-us Sun, 05 Sep 2010 00:52:31 -0700 http://www.enterprisearchitecturecenter.com/components/com_fireboard/template/default/images/english/emoticons/fb_rsspower.gif http://www.enterprisearchitecturecenter.com 88 http://www.enterprisearchitecturecenter.com/-fireboard/view/25/14.html I know this post is old, but in the interests of getting a discussion going, here is one approach: I have found that there must be a compelling reason to build instead of buy - namely the capability you are building is a core competence and/or market differentiator. But buying should start with an architecture framework - you should ONLY consider products that fit in with your enterprise architecture: How do they separate concerns? How is monitoring managed? Are there components that can be used in... http://www.enterprisearchitecturecenter.com/-fireboard/view/24/14.html I'm curious how you guys would approach an EA program for a corporation that predominately buys software, rather than builds it. Most of the "frameworks" out there, FEA, TOGAF, even Zachman tend to focus far more on the software development lifecycle and a degree of detail and customization that isn't always possible when you buy rather than build your software environment. How do you guys do it? How does it work? Have you had luck integrating frameworks, taxonomies, artifact development processes, ... http://www.enterprisearchitecturecenter.com/-fireboard/view/23/14.html I am launching an Enterprise Architecture Framework. You are getting a sneak preview of this as it is only 70% published but will be 100% by the end of December (Mince pies and sherry permitting!) It is called PEAF (Pragmatic Enterprise Architecture Framework) www.PragmaticEA.com and it is Free to use! PEAF has been formulated over a large number of years by seeing what works and what does not work in organisations in a pragmatic sense. It provides the artefacts necessary to begin an Enterprise ... http://www.enterprisearchitecturecenter.com/-fireboard/view/22/2.html I'm not entirely sure I agree that Business Intelligence and Master data management are similar. The following statements I use, albeit crude, demonstrate where I believe the differences to be; BI is the vehicle through which we gain understanding of the business data. MDM is the vehicle through which we organise our business data. I would agree that an architecture that has a well thought through implementation of MDM would be better placed to carry out BI tasks especially when we consider th... http://www.enterprisearchitecturecenter.com/-fireboard/view/21/14.html [...] an Enterprise Architect is one who starts by analyzing the business goals of an organization, and then building the technology plan to support those goals. This is by far the best definition of Enterprise Architect I have seen. This definition includes the processes, the people and most importantly: the strategy.... http://www.enterprisearchitecturecenter.com/-fireboard/view/20/13.html One of the main challenge for an architect role is influencing business to change. Often in larger corporations where there is sensitive political landscape and culture evangelizing enterprise architecture concepts and business benefits is tough. What is your strategy for enabling change management? What challenges that in real time you had and how did you managed business to change. Please share your comments and experience. Sam... http://www.enterprisearchitecturecenter.com/-fireboard/view/19/5.html Hi Sam, Thanks for the insight. I think that SOA is an opportunity for vendors to build re-usable software services into products which then can be composed/customized/etc. for customers and hence fit better into their Service Oriented Enterprise and it will give vendors the opportunity to diversify, i.e. make different products, for different markets and use techniques from Software Product Lines (http://www.lero.ie/splc2008/home.html). In effect the way SAP seems to do it with their Enterprise Service ... http://www.enterprisearchitecturecenter.com/-fireboard/view/18/5.html hi Richard, Let me try to answer some of your question(s). I have worked with multiple fortune 500 clients to enable their SOA initiative, MDM, ERP as well as EA initiatives. I would say my recent 4 clients experience over the last year, all have adopted the SOA paradigm to align their information management strategies. All of them had SOA initiatives, at least two of them wrapped SOA/MDM framework as their main EA goal. Two had much more broader initiative SOA/MDM/ERP and content management. All had ... http://www.enterprisearchitecturecenter.com/-fireboard/view/17/5.html Although I believe that SOA is in the wrong category of "Enterprise Architecture Technology" I will ask my question in this part of the forum. Do Enterprise Architects out there have experience with creating enterprise architectures which are embracing the service oriented paradigm? From which industry are you? How did you go about translating the business services to reusable software services adhering to SOA principles? SOA Governance, yes, but how did you achieve the cultural change within the org... http://www.enterprisearchitecturecenter.com/-fireboard/view/16/4.html Brad, That's even much better. Oracle, IBM, Sun, CA, Novell, BMC (BEA is now Oracle) are leaders in identity management offerings both on Gartner and Forrester. I would welcome other open source IdM solutions that anyone has experience with. Sam...