Earlier in the year I posted about how EA and BPM are merging in both the practioner and tools space. This was also highlighted by evidence from reports by Gartner and Forrester.
Gartner has released their latest analysis of the Enterprise Architecture vendor market.
Their overall assessment is favourable and in summary states the following:
EA tools adoption has increased despite economic challenges
Tools vendors have increased the richness of the features and... Read Full Story
In the recent Worldwide Business Process Management (BPM) Market Opportunities Strategies, and Forecasts, 2009 to 2015 , WinterGreen predict that:
Business process management (BPM) and services oriented architecture engine markets at $1.8 billion for licenses, maintenance, and services in 2008 are expected to reach $6.2 billion by 2015. Products have a dashboard that supports ease of use for business analysts. The automation of process is what drives profitability for the enterprise... Read Full Story
List of Return Codes
I wrote earlier about the idea of using consistent error codes for reusable assets. As a follow up, here is a document with a list of reusable return codes that can be used when building service capabilities as part of SOA initiatives. They are categorized into:
request processing
data processing
dependency access
transactions
This isn’t an exhaustive list by any means but can get you started in terms of achieving consistency across services and projects... Read Full Story
While researching BPM Process Modeling tools recently ( see post here ), I also came across a few Enterprise Architecture tools that I thought I would share with readers.
interaplan, the Essentials Project and the Togaf Customiser are all Open Source initiatives and are briefly summarised below:
interaplan
Claimed to be the first open source tool for enterprise architecture management (EAM), iteraplan is based on the IT landscape modelling method developed by the consulting company... Read Full Story
This coming Tuesday evening I'm going to be delivering my "Case Studies of Enterprise Architecture" presentation in Manchester, at a meeting hosted by the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) Manchester Network and jointly with the BCS Manchester branch .
For more information the event is advertised both with the IET and BCS . The core details are: Date: 17 March 2009 (iCalendar Entry) Time: 18:00 Refreshments / 18:30 Start Location: Conference Room 6, The Manchester... Read Full Story
Towards the end of 2008, Dave Linthicum issued his predictions for the year ahead in service oriented architecture. They are summarised below:
The interest in cloud computing (or WOA, Web 2.0, or insert current Webby buzzword here) will drive many enterprises toward SOA
The explosion in PaaS (platform as a service) will leave many enterprise architects and CIOs scratching their heads
The economy will recover, but most enterprises out there will focus on cost reduction
There will be... Read Full Story
What happens when you combine the thinking of enterprise architecture with partial adoption of SCRUM, you get something along the lines of making chocolate chip cookies but without the chocolate chips... I was talking to an architect down the road and realized that the buzzword of SCRUM is the latest word to be abused in large enterprises. When folks are talking about SCRUM, they are talking about socialization constructs and not necessarily management practices. All of the agile methods... Read Full Story
In a recent article from CBR it states that research shows evidence that many organisations are focussing their modernisation initiatives around BPM and SOA technologies and approaches.
CIOs are abandoning the rip-and-replace culture in favour of modernising existing systems, research from Software AG has revealed.
The research, which quizzed over 150 IT directors, revealed an appetite for implementation of BPM and SOA initiatives as organisations try to cut costs and improve service... Read Full Story
Here are ten resolutions that every participant in enterprise architecture should strive to achieve... 1. Start building an alumni network. In case you haven't been paying attention, Indian outsourcing firms are now the biggest risk. We caught Satyam lying and the employees are bailing leaving your outsourced portfolio exposed. You are aware of how long knowledge transfer takes and therefore the smart option would be keeping in context with all those employees the enterprise was stupid enough... Read Full Story
I am continually faced with Organistaional and IT related complexity of customers I work with on a daily basis.
As most readers would know, the fundamental purpose of an EA Framework (and associated method(s)) is to manage complexity through visibility, abstraction and governanace and therefore it is important that the framework and method are not overly complex.
Following up on from a previous post about the new Pragmatic Enterprise Aritecture Framework (PeaF), I thought that... Read Full Story
