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The roadblock to Software As A Service
Prediction for 2007: The market for Software as a Service is going to peak soon, and then fall off. In a year, existing players will stabilize and consolodate and one or two players will be...
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Internet-wide Services Integration Architecture needed now!
As I mentioned in a prior blog entry, the lack of a single consensus mechanism for different Software-as-a-Service apps to integrate with each other and with enterprise-oriented software applications...
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IFaP : Middle Out Architecture
There is some discussion these days about "middle out" architecture. The key idea in "middle out" is that it is neither top down nor bottom up. So what does that mean?Top down architecture means to...
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Web 2.0 vs. the IT department
Michael Platt posted a set of observations recently that offered up some troubling conclusions. In his post, which you should read, he noted that most of the folks interested in creating Web 2.0 sites...
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What is the REST high-order bit?
Harry Pierson asks a great question in his post on REST (A REST Question). I'll summarize his excellent post this way: what makes something RESTful? Is it the protocol or is it the constraints in the...
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The Unimportant SOA Catalog
Have you ever woke up in the morning with an idea in your head that you simply have to write down? I just did. Here's the idea: Everyone talks about how important the catalog (or repository) is to...
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How do I fix the broken stuff?
No organization is perfect. We each can look around and say "stuff is broken here."So, how to fix things?First off, why fix things? After all, if I am a lowly programmer, it is not up to me to fix...
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Focusing on Customer 2.0
There's been talk, for years now, about concepts like Enterprise 2.0 and Web 2.0. We are all so enamored with technology, we sometimes forget that it is about the customer. There is a Customer 2.0 in...
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The battle for the net-top heats up
Sometimes, in a long struggle, a goal that was strategic one day, becomes unimportant later. This happens when some underlying assumption is challenged, when some previously secure resource becomes...
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Standardization works with a limited, and rational, scope
I've been on a roll lately, calling for the creating of a standardized approach to the partitioning of Line-of-Business apps. One reader commented that we are a long way from "plug and play"...
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Want the Software Quality Attributes of a service? -- ask the customer!
Nilesh starts blogging, and his first post is of such high quality that I have to rave about it here. Nilesh Bhide, a trusted colleague of mine and a terrific architect, brings forth a tidbit of...
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Should IT run “like a business” or “like a non-profit?”
Why is it so hard to run IT like a business? Because, I can choose to be a customer of a business, and I can choose not to be a customer. Businesses don’t mind because there are usually lots of...
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Azure – Practitioners Guides
I think that this post by Bill Zack is pretty useful. The post lists resources for everyone who wants to learn more about Azure and the Microsoft “Platform as a Service” strategy. Please feel free to...
View ArticleBeing Forgotten in the Internet of Things
We all know that Google lost a landmark legal case recently. As of now, a citizen of Europe has the “right to be forgotten” on the Internet. As of now, a citizen of Europe can ask Google to “forget”...
View ArticleCall to survey – Is your EA program valuable?
This is the first time I’ve done this, so I’m hoping that my friends will contribute your opinions: I’ve created a survey asking a few basic questions about how your Enterprise Architecture program is...
View ArticleWhen does EA start to care about sociocultural influences?
Organizations do not work, in real life, like they work on paper. On paper, there are departments (all shaped like a neat rectangle) and business processes with neat inflows and outflows of...
View ArticleThe Architecture Manager – the Forgotten Enterprise Architecture Role
I’ve met many Architecture Managers over the years. Sometimes they go by the title of “Chief Enterprise Architect” or “Chief IT Architect” and other times, the title is “Vice President of Architecture...
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Do you perform Information Architecture or a Data Architecture?
So, full disclosure, I care about Wikipedia. Call me dumb, I know. Wikipedia has been described, alternatively, as the best platform ever invented for fostering useless arguments among ignorant...
View ArticleMoving Towards a Theory of Enterprise Architecture
I’ve been asked a number of times over the years if I can explain the theory of Enterprise Architecture. I decided recently to reopen that idea. It’s not a new discussion. I refer to Tom Graves post...
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How brand-thinking can kill you, and capability thinking can save you
I guess it shouldn’t surprise me that business strategy work is often about constrained thinking. Thinking “inside the box” is nearly always rewarded well. After all, the person giving the rewards...
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