SOA Provides Needed Support for Enterprise Architecture in Cloud, Mobile, Big Data, Says Open Group Panel

October 18, 2012, 2:28 pm

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There's been a resurgent role for service-oriented architecture (SOA) as a practical and relevant ingredient for effective design and use of Cloud, mobile, and big-data technologies. To find out why, The Open Group recently gathered an international panel of experts to explore the concept. Continue reading →

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Different Words Mean Different Things, Part 2

December 6, 2012, 5:00 am

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This is a three-part series that discusses how our vocabulary affects the way we conceptualize Enterprise Architecture, Business Architecture and their relationship. This second installment will examine the effect of our definition of enterprise on how we think about EA. Continue reading →

Different Words Meant Different Things, Part 3

December 7, 2012, 5:00 am

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This is the final installment of a three-part series that discusses how our vocabulary affects the way we conceptualize Enterprise Architecture, Business Architecture and their relationship. To close, The Open Group's Leonard Fehskens will consider the implications of a more inclusive concept of enterprise on the future of Enterprise Architecture. Continue reading →

Creating Reference Architecture: The Center of Excellence

December 26, 2012, 5:00 am

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This is the second blog posting of a three-part series discussing how to implement Services-Oriented Architecture through TOGAF® 9.1. Continue reading →

The Center of Excellence: Relating Everything Back to Business Objectives

December 28, 2012, 5:00 am

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This is the third and final blog posting of a three-part series discussing how to implement Service-Oriented Architecture through TOGAF® 9.1. Continue reading →

Successful Enterprise Architecture using the TOGAF® and ArchiMate® Standards

January 24, 2013, 5:00 am

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The discipline of Enterprise Architecture was developed in the 1980s with a strong focus on the information systems landscape of organizations. Since those days, the scope of the discipline has slowly widened to include more and more aspects of the enterprise as a whole. Architects, especially at the strategic level, attempt to answer the question “How should we organize ourselves in order to be successful?” Continue reading →

Three Best Practices for Successful Implementation of Enterprise Architecture Using the TOGAF® Framework and the ArchiMate® Modeling Language

February 8, 2013, 5:00 am

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How should we organize ourselves in order to be successful? An architecture framework is a foundational structure for developing a broad range of architectures and consists of a process and a modeling component. The TOGAF® framework and the ArchiMate® modeling language are two leading and widely adopted standards in this field. Continue reading →

On Demand Broadcasts from Day One at The Open Group Conference in Newport Beach

February 14, 2013, 5:00 am

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Since not everyone could make the trip to The Open Group Conference in Newport Beach, we’ve put together a recap of day one’s plenary speakers. Stay tuned for more recaps coming soon! Continue reading →

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What are Words Worth?

February 28, 2013, 5:00 am

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In the professional world, inhabited by pretty much anyone likely to be reading this, we tend to borrow words from natural language to describe very specific concepts. Sometimes the usage is often a form of metaphor or analogy, but with familiarization that fact becomes forgotten and it becomes just another word we take for granted. Continue reading →

Complexity from Big Data and Cloud Trends Makes Architecture Tools like ArchiMate and TOGAF More Powerful, Says Expert Panel

March 1, 2013, 2:04 pm

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We recently assembled a panel of Enterprise Architecture (EA) experts to explain how such simultaneous and complex trends as big data, Cloud Computing, security, and overall IT transformation can be helped by the combined strengths of The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF®) and the ArchiMate® modeling language. Continue reading →

Questions for the Upcoming Business Architecture Tweet Jam – March 19

March 14, 2013, 5:00 am

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Earlier this week, we announced our upcoming tweet jam on Tuesday, March 19 at 2:00 p.m. PT/9:00 p.m. GMT/ Wednesday, March 20, 2013, 8:00 a.m. DST, which will examine the way in which Business Architecture is impacting enterprises and businesses of all sizes. The discussion will be guided by these six questions... Continue reading →

#ogChat Summary – Business Architecture

March 20, 2013, 12:18 pm

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The Open Group hosted a tweet jam (#ogChat) to discuss the evolution of Business Architecture and its role in enterprise transformation. In case you missed the conversation, here is a recap of the event. Continue reading →

Join us for The Open Group Conference in Sydney – April 15-18

March 26, 2013, 5:00 am

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The Open Group is busy gearing up for the Sydney conference, which will take place on April 15-18, 2013. With over 2,000 Associate of Enterprise Architects (AEA) members in Australia, Sydney is an ideal setting for industry experts from around the world to gather and discuss the evolution of Enterprise Architecture and its role in transforming the enterprise. Be sure to register today! Continue reading →

The Open Group Conference in Sydney Plenary Sessions Preview

April 4, 2013, 5:00 am

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Taking place April 15-18, 2013, The Open Group Conference in Sydney will bring together industry experts to discuss the evolving role of Enterprise Architecture and how it transforms the enterprise. As the conference quickly approaches, let’s take a deeper look into the plenary sessions that kick-off day one and two. Continue reading →

Flexibility, Agility and Open Standards

April 16, 2013, 5:00 am

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Flexibility and agility are terms used almost interchangeably these days as attributes of IT architectures designed to cope with rapidly changing business requirements. Did you ever wonder if they are actually the same? Don’t you have the feeling that these terms remain abstract and without a concrete link to the design of an IT architecture? Continue reading →

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The Open Group Certified Architect (Open CA) Program Transformed My Career

May 15, 2013, 9:45 am

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By Bala Prasad Peddigari, Tata Consultancy Services Limited Learning has been a continuous journey for me throughout my career, but certification in TOGAF® truly benchmarked my knowledge and Open CA qualified my capability as a practitioner. Open CA not only … Continue reading →

Why should your business care about Platform 3.0™? A Tweet Jam

May 30, 2013, 10:05 am

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By Patty Donovan, The Open Group On Thursday, June 6, The Open Group will host a tweet jam examining Platform 3.0™ and why businesses require it to remain relevant in today’s fast paced internet enabled business environment. Over recent years … Continue reading →

Questions for the Upcoming Platform 3.0™ Tweet Jam

June 3, 2013, 12:24 pm

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By Patty Donovan, The Open Group Last week, we announced our upcoming tweet jam on Thursday, June 6 at 9:00 a.m. PT/12:00 p.m. ET/5:00 p.m. BST, which will examine how convergent technologies such as Big Data, Social, Mobile and The Internet of … Continue reading →

Enterprise Architecture in China: Who uses this stuff?

June 24, 2013, 9:24 am

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by Chris Forde, GM APAC and VP Enterprise Architecture, The Open Group Since moving to China in March 2010 I have consistently heard a similar set of statements and questions, something like this…. “EA? That’s fine for Europe and America, … Continue reading →

Redefining traceability in Enterprise Architecture and implementing the concept with TOGAF 9.1 and/or ArchiMate 2.0

September 12, 2013, 7:32 am

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By Serge Thorn, Architecting the Enterprise One of the responsibilities of an Enterprise Architect is to provide complete traceability from requirements analysis and design artefacts, through to implementation and deployment. Along the years, I have found out that the term … Continue reading →