The Return on Investment for Architecture
I don’t completely agree with the assessment that ROI analysis on EA projects is not possible.
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Strategy and Your Stronger Hand
Regardlessof Industry, age or size, companies have a dominant business model.
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Strategies for Migrating to a Service Oriented Architecture
Simon Robe made a presentation on “Strategies for Migrating to a Service Oriented Architecture” at the recent IPMA forum. His slides are available here.
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What is Software Architecture?
Software Architecture is the design of the major components of complex information systems, and how they interact to form a coherent whole. The identification of what constitutes the “major” components is primarily a matter of scale and scope, but generally starts at the enterprise level and works down through subsidiary levels
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White Paper: Business Vocabularies
Most companies of any size have created an internal Tower of Babel that frustrates all attempts to integrate their disparate systems. The Tower of Babel is the difference in language and data names that spring up from the development of dozens or hundreds of separate but highly interdependent systems.
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A Semantic Enterprise Architecture (SEA)
A first look at what a semantic enterprise architecture might look like.
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Who Needs Software Architecture?
Most firms don’t need a new architecture. They have an architecture and it works fine. If you live in a Tudor house, most of the time you don’t think about architecture, only when you want to make some pretty major changes.
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Software Architecture and the Zachman Framework
Shortly after you start your inquiry about software architecture, or enterprise architecture as it is often called, you will come across the Zachman Framework. As with so many things in this domain, we have an opinion on the Zachman Framework and are more than willing to share it.
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What Does a Software Architect Do?
The Software Architect’s primary job is to help a client understand deeply the architecture they have built, understand clearly what they desire from their information systems, and help them construct a plan to get there.
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How to Select a Software Architect
Selecting a Software Architect is an important decision, as the resulting architecture is going to impact your information systems for a long time. We present a few thoughts for you to keep in mind as you consider your decision.
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Human Scale SW Architecture
Software Architecture can benefit as much as physical architecture from paying attention to human scale concerns.
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Schools of Enterprise Application Architecture
An Enterprise Application Architecture is the coordinating paradigm through which an organization’s IT assets inter-relate to form the computing infrastructure and support the business goals. The choice of architecture impacts a range of issues including the cost of maintenance, the cost of development, security, and the availability of timely information.
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Architecture and Planning
Are architecture and planning the same thing? Can we have one without the other?
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Role Based Security
Role based security is a means of implementing an authorization mechanism which has the potential to substantially reduce administrative cost and reduce vulnerability. Enterprise Role based security addresses the problem of maintaining authorizations within large IT environments; it is perhaps more accurately described as ‘Role Based Access Control,' or RBAC.
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It Isn't Architecture Until It's Built
We’ve been dealing a lot lately with questions about architecture, but somewhere along the line we failed to emphasize perhaps one of the most important points in this business.
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Event Driven Architectures
Event driven architecture is the latest buzzword in the enterprise architecture space. This is exactly what we have been espousing for years.
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