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Enterprise architects are familiar with patterns. Those in software design have used patterns for decades, and over the last 15 years, they have been established as one of the most important techniques in enterprise architecture (EA). Enterprise patterns are a representation of the EA components that determine how an enterprise forms and operates. An enterprise pattern explains how the architecture either constrains or enables business capabilities and strategies. Every enterprise is unique. Similarly, each business model is unique and we can express a business model as a pattern or, more specifically, a “business pattern,” which describes the essential and unique characteristics of a business model. This Executive Report describes how enterprise architects can use business patterns to inform the work of enterprise architecture.
We are rapidly moving to a world where individuals don’t switch off their technologies, and companies can’t switch off their technologies. Head-up displays, image recognition, wearable technologies, virtual reality, a revolution in manufacturing technologies, the Internet of Things (IoT), super-dense computer memory … the list goes on and on! But what does this mean for the future of enterprise architecture (EA) — as a discipline, as a process, and as it informs the nature of an enterprise? This is the theme for this Executive Update.
In this on-demand webinar, Balaji Prasad explores the potential that lies beyond the edge of your visible architecture.
Mobile security is a complex issue that is growing more difficult as devices multiply within the organization. New devices include new ecosystems and new operating systems, which can conflict with existing security measures as well as adding less understood modes of access to online data. Lack of familiarity creates innumerable vulnerability points that may be exploited by sophisticated hackers, as devices become more widely used in critical applications. We have looked at mobile security before, mainly around the proliferation of smartphones in the office. But the issue is likely to become much more complicated as we enter the era of the Internet of Things (IoT).
In this issue: Quarkitecture -- a cure for architecture's messiness; the data integration analyst's pain point; CFP -- what is the emerging role of enterprise architecture and the enterprise architect?; save on Summit 2016 registration, How Mobile, Cloud and Big Data are Transforming Healthcare and more.
Are your teams delivering products that delight? These are just a few of the things that you can do to help your teams move the dial.
For many enterprise architects, the concept of systems thinking is almost synonymous with EA. But knowing about systems thinking and applying that knowledge in our daily work can be very different things. Is that finally starting to change? Is systems thinking finally hitting mainstream EA?
In this Executive Update, we look at IaaS contracts and the contentious clauses you might expect to see from an IaaS vendor. We focus on a public (unrestricted) example of IaaS because a private one (restricted to your organization) is nearly identical to a typical outsourcing agreement in which you have physical servers hosted at a vendor’s site.