Cloud is About More than Just Technology

Moving to the cloud Deciding to move to the cloud and using it wisely will require the creation of architectures of the enterprise, both its current and future desired states. This is known as a strategic enterprise architecture (SEA). An SEA is a story of what the organization is trying to accomplish and how. It…

Cloud is About More than Just Technology

by Faisal Hoque of BTM Corporation It’s nearly impossible to pick up a technology magazine or sit through a strategy meeting without encountering a reference to what some consider the next and greatest wave in enterprise computing: “The Cloud.” “Cloud” is a fitting term for something shrouded in mystery and hard to grasp. We’re not…

Delivering Business Value via EA

by Madeline Weiss, Society for Information Management’s Advanced Practices Council Although the number of non-IT business executives who can describe the value of their firms’ enterprise architecture (EA) is probably quite small, Chubb Insurance executives are not in that group. Chubb’s 10-year journey towards comprehensive EA that enables the firm to move confidently into a…

EA is the Road Map to Enterprise Transformation

Editor’s Note: This is an excerpt from the book The SIM Guide to Enterprise Architecture published by Society for Information Management and edited by Leon Kappelman. Those who study advances in health care and other fields find a “generation” lag of about 20 years before discoveries are adopted haphazardly into standard practice. And three or…

The Architecture of Architecture, Part IV

Last time, I suggested that the obvious analogy between IT architecture and real building architecture was potentially flawed, because of the dramatic differences in their medium of expression, and that another analogy (with music) might be more appropriate in some ways. The real lesson, though, is that all such analogies have serious limitations. While these…

The Architecture of Architecture, Part II

“You Say Po-tay-to, I say Po-tah-to.” In my last article, I argued that because we really don’t have a much needed, shared vocabulary for “our kind” of architecture, there is justified skepticism about the legitimacy and value of the discipline. In this article, I’ll try to support that assertion by surveying the diversity of opinion…