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Enterprise Architecture in China: Who uses this stuff?

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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

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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

IT Technology Trends – a Risky Business?

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By Patty Donovan, The Open Group On Wednesday, September 25, The Open Group will host a tweet jam looking at a multitude of emerging/converging technology trends and the risks they present to organizations who have already adopted or are looking … Continue reading

Leading Business Disruption Strategy with Enterprise Architecture

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By Patty Donovan, The Open Group On Wednesday, October 2nd, The Open Group and Enterprise Architects will host a tweet jam which discusses how organisations can lead business disruption with Enterprise Architecture (EA). Today, businesses are being forced to come … Continue reading

The Open Group London 2013 – Day One Highlights

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By Loren K. Baynes, Director, Global Marketing Communications On Monday October 21st, The Open Group kicked off the first day of our Business Transformation conference in London!  Over 275 guests attended many engaging presentations by subject matter experts in finance, … Continue reading

What the C-Suite Needs to Prepare for in the Era of BYO Technology

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By Allen Brown, President and CEO, The Open Group IT today is increasingly being driven by end-users. This phenomenon, known as the “consumerization of IT,” is a result of how pervasive technology has become in daily life. Years ago, IT … Continue reading

Discussing Enterprise Decision-Making with Penelope Everall Gordon

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By The Open Group Most enterprises today are in the process of jumping onto the Big Data bandwagon. The promise of Big Data, as we’re told, is that if every company collects as much data as they can—about everything from … Continue reading

Now is the Time for Third Generation Enterprise Architecture Methods

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By Erwin Oord, Principal Consultant Enterprise Architecture and Managing Partner at Netherlands-based ArchiXL Consultancy Common methods for Enterprise Architecture used at present have been around for ages already. Although these methods have made a strong contribution to the development of … Continue reading

Enterprise Architecture: A Practitioner View

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By Prasad Palli and Dr. Gopala Krishna Behara, Wipro Overview of Enterprise Architecture IT organizations as usual are always ready to take challenges and start the journey in defining/refining their IT strategies and aligning with business strategies. During this journey, … Continue reading

A Historical Look at Enterprise Architecture with John Zachman

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By The Open Group John Zachman’s Zachman Framework is widely recognized as the foundation and historical basis for Enterprise Architecture. On Tuesday, Feb. 3, during The Open Group’s San Diego 2015 event, Zachman will be giving the morning’s keynote address … Continue reading

Professional Training Trends (Part One): A Q&A with Chris Armstrong, Armstrong Process Group

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By The Open Group This is part one in a two part series. Professional development and training is a perpetually hot topic within the technology industry. After all, who doesn’t want to succeed at their job and perform better? Ongoing … Continue reading

Professional Training Trends (Part Two): A Q&A with Chris Armstrong, Armstrong Process Group

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By The Open Group This is part two in a two part series. Professional development and training is a perpetually hot topic within the technology industry. After all, who doesn’t want to succeed at their job and perform better? Ongoing … Continue reading

The Open Group San Diego 2015 – Day Two Highlights

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By Loren K. Baynes, Director, Global Marketing Communications, The Open Group Day two, February 3, kicked off with a presentation by Allen Brown, President and CEO of The Open Group, “What I Don’t Need from Business Architecture… and What I … Continue reading

“Lean” Enterprise Architecture powered by TOGAF® 9.1

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By Krish Ayyar, Managing Principal, Martin-McDougall Technologies Enterprise Architecture is there to solve Enterprise level problems. A typical problem scenario could be something like “A large Mining and Resources company uses many sensors to collect and feed engineering data back … Continue reading

Using the ArchiMate® Language to Model TOGAF® Architectures

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By William Estrem, President, Metaplexity Associates LLC, Serge Thorn, Associate, Metaplexity Associates LLC, and Sonia Gonzalez, Architecture and ArchiMate® Forums Director, The Open Group If you are using the TOGAF® standard in your organization to guide the process of developing … Continue reading

The Open Group San Diego Panel Explores Synergy Among Major Frameworks in Enterprise Architecture

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Following is a transcript of part of the proceedings from The Open Group San Diego event in February – a panel discussion on The Synergy of Enterprise Architecture frameworks. The following panel, which examines the synergy among the major Enterprise … Continue reading

The Open Group Madrid Summit 2015 – An Interview with Steve Nunn

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By The Open Group The Open Group will be hosting its Spring 2015 summit in Madrid from April 20-23. Focused on Enabling Boundaryless Information Flow™, the summit will explore the increasing digitalization of business today and how Enterprise Architecture will … Continue reading

The Open Group San Francisco 2016 Day One Highlights

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By Loren K. Baynes, Director, Global Communications, The Open Group On Monday, January 25, The Open Group kicked off its first event of 2016, focused on Enabling Boundaryless Information Flow™, at the Marriott Union Square in the city by the … Continue reading

Inaugural User Group Meeting Draws Out New Ways of Seeing TOGAF®

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By The Open Group The Open Group hosted the first TOGAF® User Group meeting on January 25, 2016 in San Francisco. With over 50,000 certified users in more than 120 countries, the intent of the TOGAF User Group was to … Continue reading

Ensuring Successful Enterprise Architecture by Following Kotter’s Eight Stage Journey

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By Stuart Macgregor, CEO, Real IRM Solutions and The Open Group South Africa These industry insights look at John Kotter’s eight stages of change management, and explore his timeless blueprint for effective change leadership. These change management principles can gel … Continue reading

From Solution to Enterprise Architecture with the ArchiMate® Language:  An Interview with Ryan Kennedy

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By Iver Band, Enterprise Architect at Cambia Health Solutions and Vice Chair, The Open Group ArchiMate Forum I recently sat down with my Cambia Health Solutions colleague Ryan Kennedy.  Ryan is an architect with whom I have worked over the … Continue reading

Digital Disruption for Enterprise Architecture

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By Myles F. Suer, Chief Platform Evangelist, Informatica Recently, I got to sit at the font of wisdom which is Jeanne Ross, and get her view into digital disruption and the role of Enterprise Architecture in enabling firms to respond. … Continue reading

The Open Group Paris Event to Take Place in October 2016

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The Open Group, the vendor-neutral IT consortium, is hosting its next global event in Paris, France, between October 24-27, 2016. The event, taking place at the Hyatt Regency Paris Étoile, will focus on e-Government, as well as how to address … Continue reading

The Role of Enterprise Architecture in Platform 3.0 Transformation

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By Stuart Macgregor, CEO, Real IRM and The Open Group South Africa Our transition to the highly-connected realm of Platform 3.0 will radically disrupt the way that we approach Enterprise Architecture (EA). The current architectures and methodologies will simply not … Continue reading

How Architects Can Survive and Thrive in the Digital Era: A Conversation with Peter Beijer

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By The Open Group Peter Beijer believes your job as an Enterprise Architect may be in jeopardy. According to Beijer, Chief Technologist for the Office of the CTO for HP Enterprise and leader of the company’s architecture capabilities in EMEA, … Continue reading

The Present and Future of the ArchiMate® Language – Part 1

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Welcome to the first in a series of blog posts on The Present and Future of the ArchiMate® Language. With the release of the ArchiMate 3.0 Specification last year, we now have a complete enterprise description language that has been adopted by architects worldwide in a wide range of organizations. It is now time for the ArchiMate Forum to reach out to users and better understand how the language is being used and how it should evolve. Therefore, the following post, like all others in this series, reflects the views of its authors, and will benefit from comments and discussion. You may refine, expand upon, or even disagree with elements of the post. Regardless, you will be shaping the future of the ArchiMate language. So please, enjoy and engage!

The Present and Future of the ArchiMate® Language – Part 2

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Welcome to the second in a series of blog posts on The Present and Future of the ArchiMate® Language. With the release of the ArchiMate 3.0 Specification last year, we now have a complete enterprise description language that has been adopted by architects worldwide in a wide range of organizations. It is now time for The Open Group ArchiMate Forum to reach out to users and better understand how the language is being used and how it should evolve. Therefore, the following post, like all others in this series, reflects the views of its authors, and will benefit from comments and discussion. You may refine, expand upon, or even disagree with elements of the post. Regardless, you will be shaping the future of the ArchiMate language. So please, enjoy and engage!

Enduring Misconceptions about Architecture – Part 2

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Tackling some key misconceptions about Enterprise Architecture can ease fear, uncertainty, and doubt about its effectiveness. The following list adds to misconceptions presented in Part 1 of this blog.

Issues Necessitate Change – Evolution of Enterprise Architecture

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Corporations are faced with global competition and they need to become more agile and resilient. Enterprise Architects need to rethink how they deliver value more quickly to keep pace of change in need and change in technology. Builders are employing latest techniques in Agile and Dev-Ops. Architects and builders need to continuously think about risk mitigation.

The Open Certified Data Scientist (Open CDS) – You’ll Want to be a Part of this Group!

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At our Scottsdale event in January this year, we launched the newest profession within The Open Professions Program, the Open Certified Data Scientist (Open CDS). Seven months later, we are very pleased to announce that we have certified the first group of certified Data Scientists – including seven certified at Master level.




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