Introduction to Enterprise Architecture, part 2. Architect: Enterprise Architecture by Gabriel Bechara Archived Article - Originally published on BEA Arch2Arch March 2006 Pages: 1, 2, 3 Applications and implementation plan As mentioned, services offered by the functional building blocks are ideal candidates for SOA building blocks. Services implementation on the applications plan will depend on the type of services and the relation to the different SOA layers—those layers being the presentation and composition layer, the orchestration layer, the business services layer, and the data access layer or connectivity layer. The correct product for implementing those blocks should be considered carefully.
The organization's reference architecture should be defined providing the best practices and blueprint on how to implement each of the building blocks, depending of the layer the service belongs to. Figure 2. The reference architecture should also promote best practices, guidelines, and design principles defined by the governance team. Mainframe Skills Shortage Worsening - Insurance Networking News. Joe McKendrick Insurance Experts' Forum, March 9, 2012 The world has become enamored with the wonders of new technologies and approaches that make it faster and easier to communicate and do business – smartphones, tablets, cloud and social networking are the rage. However, as any insurance company IT manager or professional knows, the engines that power data and applications behind the scenes are more often than not mainframes.
The problem is, specialized skills—from COBOL to CICS to application servers to system administration—are increasingly in short supply. And there aren't enough graduating students or entry-level employees coming into the workforce with these skills. This isn’t an issue that looms as the economy eventually reaches its full-growth potential—it's a problem right now. More than seven out of 10 CIOs are worried about finding enough qualified people to run their mainframes, a new survey, sponsored by Compuware Corporation, finds.
For the Desktop, Think Centralization, Not Virtualization | Interviews. Desktop Virtualization and the Death of the PC It may simply be a question of "when" not "if" a range of mobile computing devices displaces the PC. Arthur Cole spoke with Barry Phillips, CMO, Wanova. Is it possible that we have been approaching desktop virtualization all wrong? Many organizations have implemented VDI as a means to reduce infrastructure and improve manageability. However, Barry Phillips, chief marketing officer at Wanova, says virtualization should be seen as one benefit of an overall centralization effort, not the other way around. Cole: It seems Wanova has been de-emphasizing the notion of desktop virtualization in favor of desktop centralization. While single-image management of Windows and applications makes PCs easier to manage, centralized images and layering of those images provide a game-changing increase in IT simplicity and efficiency by aggregating many separate siloed desktop functions into one streamlined offering.
Enterprise Architecture Alignment Heuristics. Pedro Sousa Carla Marques Pereira Jose Alves Marques Link Consulting, SA January 2005 Summary: The alignment between Business Processes (BP) and Information Technologies (IT) is a major issue in most organizations, as it directly impacts on the organization's agility and flexibility to change according to business needs. The concepts upon which alignment is perceived are addressed in what is called today the "Enterprise Architecture," gathering business and IT together. The focus of this paper is to show how alignment between Business and IT can be stated in terms of the components found in most Enterprise Architectures. (11 printed pages) Contents IntroductionEnterprise Architecture FrameworksIdentifying Enterprise Architecture Components from an Alignment PerspectiveAlignment HeuristicsFinal RemarksReferencesAbout the Authors Introduction The focus of this paper is to show how alignment between Business and IT can be stated in terms of the components found in most Enterprise Architectures.
Enterprise Architecture – Economic Model – System Dynamics « Ingine – Enterprise Transformation. August 22, 2007 by Srinidhi Boray By Srinidhi Boray Enterprise Architecture Assists in Understanding Enterprise’s Unique Economic Model Remember : With Increasing Complexity Degree of Freedom Reduces When System Strives for Extreme Commoditization – Individual Should Strive for Specialized & Unique Competencies On 26th Feb’ 2009 CNN Reports – Reason for GM failure blamed on steep Fixed Cost.
However one may attempt to distort reality, in the end one cannot play with numbers, as numbers are mere numbers. Gartner has begun to endorse the view proposed in this article. As an anti-thesis – this is also said of Maths by Albert Einstein “as far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.“ This is where Enterprise Architecture improves upon on by providing better abstraction and logical reasoning by introducing structure derived from ontology that is intrinsically ‘architecture’.
Like this: Like Loading... Free Growth Model Software Strategy Framework Model Downloads. Enterprise Architecture and the Zachman Framework. My experience and research indicates that high-performance businesses view IT as a strategic asset—a source of both operational excellence and competitive advantage.
So as an IT leander how do I help top management adopt that mindset and achieve greater business value from IT. My objecttive: IT is not merely a cost center but a critical contributor to the business, focused on improving business value and performance. First things is to get together a plan we can all see and understand. Typically this has been called an Enterprise Architecture plan. Enterprise architecture defines the vision, principles, standards and roadmap that guide the selection, deployment, operation, and refreshment of technologies within an organization.
On Wikipedia, it is stated that this is the definition that comes from the MIT Center for Information Systems Research: A little more reading will take you to dozens of Enterprise Architecture Frameworks with a dizzying array of acronyms. Classification.