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Taking an Enterprise Approach to Going Green

 Mike Rosen | Jun 1, 2010  No Responses
Jun 012010
 
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Is your organization going green, whatever that means? Well, that turns out to be a lot more than just server virtualization at the data center. Is the enterprise architecture (EA) team involved? Well, it should be. Let’s take a look. To start, you might ask whether your organization has defined what it means to be green and/or sustainable, and more important, whether it has articulated why it is doing it and how it fits with other enterprise strategies or initiatives. If your enterprise is anything like most, the answer to these questions is probably “No.” This is a perfect opportunity to apply some business architecture to the problem. How about formalizing the goals and strategies …

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Building a Business Empire? Follow the Romans

 Ken Orr | Apr 6, 2010  No Responses
Apr 062010
 
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Occasionally, I will ask my students, “Why is the Roman Coliseum still standing?” The answer that I’m fishing for is, “Because the folks who tried to tear it down in the Middle Ages for building material were not as good engineers as the folks who put it up hundreds of years earlier.” All this was recently brought to mind because I’ve been reading a series of historical novels set in 9th century England based around the struggles between the Saxons and the Danes. In a number of places in these novels, the central character comments about the Roman ruins and how no one in his time could understand how the ancient Romans built the bridges, …

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It’s About “Good Software Architecture” not “SOA”

 Ron Blitstein | Jan 12, 2010  4 Responses
Jan 122010
 
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I was recently involved in a debate with my colleagues on the Cutter Business Technology Council about whether SOA has reached a tipping point. I do not believe that such a point has been reached. SOA isn’t a product, technology, or service. It is just a body of useful techniques for designing shareable, reusable, interoperable Web services. Perhaps the acronym should really be “GSA” or “good software architecture,” as the “debate” is really about the challenge and promise of good software architecture. The term “SOA” has become very confusing and possesses all the clarity of Web 2.0 (another term that drives me to distraction). Successful SOA is really about rearchitecting the application landscape and, as …

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More Predictions

 Anne Mullaney | Dec 24, 2009  3 Responses
Dec 242009
 
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The crystal ball gazing continues. Here are more excerpts from Cutter Senior Consultants’ predictions for 2010 and beyond. Dave Rooney: Agile Software Development will follow the same pattern as two other game-changing trends — Relational Database Management Systems and Object-Oriented Programming over the upcoming decade. Claude Baudoin: Expect contractors and consultants to be in demand, and many of them will be ex-employees who, having found their past employer’s loyalty in short supply, will now be more interested in being their own boss than in rejoining as an employee. Ken Collier: Although Agile adoptions will proliferate, we will see an increase Agile project failures due to misunderstanding, misapplication, and misguided attempts to follow an “agile recipe”. …

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Cutter Experts Predict Trends for 2010 and Beyond

 Anne Mullaney | Dec 23, 2009  2 Responses
Dec 232009
 
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With the new year upon us, we asked Cutter’s Senior Consultants and Fellows for their business technology predictions. Their perspectives — as always — are quite thoughtful, thought-provoking, and varied. Projections cover the changing role of the CIO, what will happen in enterprise architecture, the increasing adoption of agile, the explosion of cloud computing, the impact of green initiatives, and more. We’re posting all the predictions on the Cutter website as they come in. Here are some excerpts: Israel Gat: I expect 2010 to be the first year of a prolonged golden age. San Murugesan: In 2010 and beyond, we will see growing interest and major developments in cloud computing, green IT, and mobile systems …

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 Agile Project Management, Business Intelligence, Business Technology Trends, Business-IT Strategies, Collaboration+Teams, Enterprise Architecture, IT Management, Risk Management, Security+Privacy, Web 2.0  Tagged with: , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

The State of EA in 2010

 Mike Rosen | Dec 15, 2009  6 Responses
Dec 152009
 
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Enterprise architecture (EA) has become a mainstream activity in large or information-intensive organizations. Several years ago, Cutter IT Journal covered the emerging best practices in EA, and since then readers have requested that we check back to explore how things are evolving. What are EA programs focusing on in 2010 and beyond? Well, what has changed since then? In the past few years, the industry has seen a lot of flux: outsourcing, “the cloud,” Enterprise 2.0, Zachman Framework 2.0, TOGAF certification, a maturing definition of business architecture, the financial crisis, and new priorities. How have these affected EA in different organizations? What activities are they focused on now? What are the new issues? Not surprisingly, …

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What’s your perspective on the state of EA today? In the future?

 Mike Rosen | Aug 14, 2009  3 Responses
Aug 142009
 
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Enterprise Architecture has become a mainstream activity in large or information intensive organizations. In the past few years, the industry has seen lots of changes: “the cloud”, Enterprise 2.0, an updated Zachman Framework, unprecedented growth in TOGAF certification, maturing definition of business architecture, financial crisis and new priorities. How have these trends affected EA in different organizations? What activities are they focused on? Have they been able to hire qualified candidates? What are the new issues and challenges being faced by organizations? Several years ago, Cutter IT Journal covered the emerging best practices in EA and since then, readers have requested that we check back to explore how things are evolving. So that’s what we’re …

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Access to the experts Red Sox

 Kim Leonard | Apr 1, 2009  No Responses
Apr 012009
 
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Every year, folks at the Summit ask us Cutter staff people if the Red Sox are in town, and we usually have to break the news that the old towne team is on the road. Well, we’ve arranged for them to be at home at the end of this year’s Summit, and we’re holding a drawing among attendees for a pair of tickets for the Wednesday, May 6 post-Summit game vs. the Cleveland Indians. It’ll be a great time at one of the few remaining classic baseball parks for the lucky Summiteer! The experts attending and participating in this year’s Cutter Summit are an impressive group, and if they weren’t also such nice people, I’d …

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Death By Architecture

 Mike Rosen | Mar 19, 2009  10 Responses
Mar 192009
 
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I told the story, recently, about a large architecture document I received to review. It’s a story that I think is worth retelling … After poring through a few hundred pages of text and drawings, I was impressed by how much work and thought had gone into it yet how utterly useless it was. Now, don’t get me wrong: it’s not that architecture is unimportant; quite the opposite. The classic, big architecture document is just the wrong way to deliver it. I had hoped that the industry had gotten past these kinds of deliverables; apparently I was wrong. Perhaps nothing is more drawn out and aggravating for an IT organization than what I call “death …

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The King (SOA) Is Dead; Long Live the King

 Paul Allen | Feb 9, 2009  1 Response
Feb 092009
 
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A recent blog post by Anne Thomas Manes on the alleged “Death of SOA” has been causing quite a stir. (In fact, my colleague at Cutter, Doug Barry, wrote (The Acronym) SOA is (Perhaps) Dead (at Some Companies) in reaction.) The contention is that the bad economic situation has finally finished the “SOAsaurus” off and that we must now concentrate on services, along with mashups, cloud computing, and software as a service (SaaS) — and not service-oriented architecture (SOA). Knowing full well that SOA is alive — if not always exactly flourishing — in many organizations, my first reaction was that here were some sexy sound bytes designed merely as a marketing ploy. At the …

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