Inside Architecture : Should Enterprise Architecture rock your w In many organizations, EA is a sidelined process or a last thought. It is hard to be effective in that case. In other organizations, EA is a core part of IT planning and delivery. It is difficult to imagine EA having anything less than a pivotal role there. The benefits of an Enterprise Architecture program are clear: Fewer applicationsSimpler applicationsFewer places where the same data was mastered in multiple locations The longer term benefits are the really compelling part: Drop in the cost of ownership (not the cost of development)More rapid development of business capabilitiesBetter business intelligence Sounds good, doesn't it. If your program is established and running, consider a process every 18 months or so to ask the same questions: Is Enterprise Architecture, as it is currently practiced in the organization, producing the benefits that it should produce? Why add this step? Focus on some key areas: Your architects are trained and buy in. What is your impact?
ECM Maturity Model Musings » Creating real business value with Web 2.0 | Enterprise Web 2.0 | ZDNet.com I run into a fair number of people who are skeptical about the actual business value of Web 2.0. Sure, they usually agree it's a terrific new movement There's a whole aspect of Web 2.0 that can drive genuine business value and significant competitive advantage.in online software that encourages social collaboration, two-way use of the Web, services that are open and repurposable, Web-based applications, and more. But can you build and grow a real business with these ideas? Sometimes the trend towards startups in miniature, mashups the size of a feature, open source data sources, and the relentless democratization of content makes it look like everything is becoming free or very inexpensive. Yet the truth could not be more different. To these concerns I point out that this is only one end of a spectrum. But there are many other interesting new success stories. Companies using Web 2.0-style techniques for business advantage NHN's Naver Search Engine.
Technology Architecture & Projects: The Enterprise Architect It's interesting, at least to me, to get a sense for all the different definitions of enterprise architecture out there. So, over time, I will post other people's definitions of enterprise architecture (and their sources) as I run across them in the literature, blogs, and websites. Updated November 5, 2006. Maybe the problem is that the word enterprise is abused. Self-proclaimed "Thought Leader" James McGovern in his blog, November 5, 2006. An enterprise architecture (EA) is a conceptual blueprint that defines the structure and operation of an organization. Microsoft's Michael Platt offers a view of enterprise architecture as containing four points-of-view, called the business perspective, the application perspective, the information perspective, and the technology perspective. SearchCIO.com - CIO Definitions, June 8, 2005. Jeanne W. Institute For Enterprise Architecture Developments (IFEAD), "Trends in Enterprise Architecture 2005: How Are Organizations Progressing?"
Trends: Christening your ECM project It has always surprised me how many firms name their internal ECM applications and systems after the product that it runs on. For example, I have come across many organizations over the years that tell me things like- "Well when I go into LiveLink I...." " I logged my information into Oracle " "We put our documents into WorkSite" It might sound like the ultimate in pedantry (making me the ultimate pedant - though that in itself is probably a little pedantic to point out), but in my experience, naming your application after the technology it runs on usually delivers unexpected consequences. First off, any moans and groans about "the system" are focused on its namesake and over time it becomes easy to believe that "the system" is to blame for all your ills, whether in fact it is or not. If you simply blame the technology and fail to address these issues, then in time you simply end up staggering from one clunky system to another -- basking in the fun of something new, til it too fails.
Full Circle Online Interaction Blog: Blogs and Community – launching a new paradigm for online community? In September, the following article of mine was published on the The Knowledge Tree. I decided I'd like to have a copy on my website, so I'm reproducing it here. I've added a little postcript to the end. Plus I learned yesterday that the paper was nominated for an Edublog award. Just a note to those seeing it as I first put it up, I have some work to do to put the graphics on my site, so it may be funky till I work out the tweaks. For downloads of hard copies (word and pdf, go to the Knowledge Tree site. Abstract Online community has been an important part of the Internet, mainly forming around email lists, bulletin boards and forums. Introduction Until recently, the term ‘online community’ implied a community who interacted online within some bounded set of technologies. Many of us interested in the application of online community to learning and work, ‘grew up’ in this era of bounded communities. Then blog adoption accelerated. The game had changed. Figure 1: Blog Based Communities
my review of SOA for Dummies Summary I am reviewing this book primarily in the context of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) for Libraries, which is a rather dramatically different audience than it is intended for. I recommend the first three chapters of this book, along with the "loosely coupled" section of chapter 5 as a good introduction to this topic. Although the Dummies books proclaim "A Reference for the Rest of Us", this book would really more accurately be titled "SOA for Dummies... To my surprise and dismay, there isn't a single mention of Enterprise Architecture (EA) in this book, whereas I feel that for the scale of organization this book targets, EA is absolutely essential. There is also a very important discussion that needs to be had about agility versus structure. Overall the flow of the book is a bit uneven, both in terms of writing style and in content, and it doesn't present a coherent "SOA story". This book will mostly give you a lot of "why" and "what" about SOA, not a lot of "how". Sidebar 1.
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Into the Blogosphere: Rhetoric, Community, and Culture of Weblogs: Blogs as Virtual Communities: Identifying a Sense of Community in the Julie/Julia Project Anita Blanchard, University of North Carolina at Charlotte Blogs as Virtual Communities: Identifying a Sense of Community Researchers, practitioners, and the media have used the term virtual community to refer to vastly different computer-mediated communication (CMC) groups. To answer this question, we must understand, first, why virtual communities are considered important, and, second, what the characteristics of a virtual community are. Why are Virtual Communities Important? The term "virtual community" is used quite frequently. But why does this overuse exist? More locally, researchers have argued that virtual communities can increase involvement within people's face-to-face communities by increasing democratic participation and other community activism (Bakardjieva & Feenberg, 2002; Blanchard & Horan, 1998; Schuler, 1996). A second, more practical, reason for the importance of virtual communities relates to the CMC group's sustainability. What are Virtual Communities? Results
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Enterprise mashups: save us from the hype Tuesday, March 14, 2006 by admin I know I’m going to come across like the annoying old fella who sits in the corner at any fun event and mumbles to himself about how rubbish things have got since men started wearing their hair long – but in the spirit of my esteemed colleague’s emerging manifesto for industry analysis (he hasn’t forced me to sign up yet but it’s probably only a matter of time) I thought I should at least make a (possibly vain) attempt to push back at some of the unthinking evangelism that’s going on out there concerning Web 2.0 ideas and their application to enterprise IT. In the name of education, not evangelism: let’s scotch the idea of "enterprise mashups". What started it all was reading Phil Wainewright over at InfoWorld on "Enterprise Mashups: a lesson from history". His post makes a lot of sense. Now here at MWD we are solidly with Grady Booch on SOA – SOA is, first and foremost, about the A part of the acronym (architecture).
2008-10-27 IBM Unveils Software to Help Clients Man LAS VEGAS - 27 Oct 2008: IBM today announced new Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solutions that are designed to help organizations achieve greater business agility and workplace effectiveness. Recognizing the need for more nimble, adaptable technology, IBM’s agile ECM portfolio provides improved flexibility to help business users respond faster to changing business requirements. The new solutions will allow customers to optimize content-based operational and compliance processes. Unifying content, process and compliance capabilities in a new composite application framework, IBM’s agile ECM enables clients to quickly solve increasingly complex business problems. Using a flexible, services-oriented environment, clients can now deploy solution applications within days instead of months. Further, IBM’s agile ECM portfolio helps clients realize IBM’s Information On Demand vision. Key enhancements in IBM ECM portfolio include: