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Doing Enterprise Architecture, Part 1: New Tools

Posted October 5, 2006 | Technology |

Each time IT explores a new domain or business area, it is inevitable that we have to develop a new set of tools to support that methodology. For example, relational database development spurred the development of entity-relational diagrams (ERDs) and object-oriented design spurred the development of object-class diagrams. Each of these environments required the development of new tools appropriate to the job at hand. But while new domains ultimately require new tools, our first instinct is to reuse existing tools and adapt them for the new domain.

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Ken Orr
Ken Orr was a Fellow of the Cutter Business Technology Council and a Senior Consultant with Cutter Consortium's Data Analytics & Digital Technologies, Business Technology & Digital Transformation Strategies, and Business & Enterprise Architecture practices. He was also a regular speaker at Cutter Summits and symposia. Mr. Orr was an internationally recognized expert on enterprise architecture, data warehousing, knowledge management… Read More
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