Let's Talk Enterprise Architecture

The short answer is... Yes. But why do they? Aren't they just supplying shrink wrapped applications. Why should they care about EA? Over...

If you are planning on attending the Federal Government Architect Forum, British Columbia Architect Forum or the Financial Services...

Without seeing the actual content from Gartner it is hard to agree or not agree with the prediction. I would say that by 2012 EA...

According to CIO magazine the Enterprise Architect is the next "hot job". The article in the Sept. 2007 issue walks you though why you...

I was talking to a colleague two nights ago and he asked me how I describe Enterprise Architecture. Immediately I have memories rushing...

We launched the Capital Markets Architecture Centerlast week with loads of great articles. Stevan Vidich was critical to the success of...

This is a great starter article for folks wanting to evaluate EA tooling. I have blogged and spoke about this at conferences in the past...

shown above are practical and realistic metrics you can use to quantify and qualify your EA efforts. Even though we didn't focus on the business directly, they benefits can be articulated in business terms as well. Once they see the successes you have achieved in IT, then and only then will you be a trusted partner to aid them directly on their efforts.

I read a recent survey from InfoSys where they surveyed a number of EA organizations. I was surprised by the outcomes. Check out the...

the key to success with obtaining the right EA metrics is to have a clearly defined process to obtain the metrics, the tools to get the information and understand what are the right metrics you should obtain.

I was just talking about this today on a thread internally here at MS where we were talking about EA challenges. One person commented...

A colleague of mine Gianpaolo asked me about what is the role of EA in a heavily SaaS oriented enterprise. The hypothetical case would be...

Yesterday I had a conference call with Roger Sessions at ObjectWatch, Inc. to fill us in on the new methodology he created called Simple...

ISO has published ISO/IEC 42010:2007, Systems and software engineering — Recommended practice for architectural description of...

I will be presenting at this years Microsoft SOA and Business Process Management conference. The conference is held on the Microsoft...

I recently saw a post from Brandon Satrom as he was asking for feedback on his interpretation of composite applications and the value...

I am happy to say we have finally released the Business Data Catalog Editor. Currently, writing an application definition to connect the...

My visit to Australia had many surprises. One was a new OBA that was developed by one of our partners Dataract. This is truly a "Diamond...

In last weeks session I was asked about governance and OBAs (at least from a server side perspective). I am happy to report that the...

As you can see from my previous post I was asked if you could build an OBA to address CM concerns. This is actually a great idea. If you...