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Agility as a Goal, not as Means

December 14, 2010

Agile. Within the Software Development business we look at the principle mostly as a way to deliver functional solutions to the business. Agile Software Development. But rarely we look at the solution itself to be agile. Is this the right way to look at our business? Isn’t the solution itself the highest goal? (Which, in [...]

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The Role of SOA within Enterprise Architecture

September 22, 2010

One of the most intriguing sessions this tuesday of Oracle OpenWorld 2010 was the one about ‘The role of SOA in Enterprise Architecture’. Service Oriented Architecture is, in my point of view, simply a technology that offers us the possibility to combine business processes and system integration, but one thing it’s not: Enterprise Architecture. It’s [...]

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The Oracle Enterprise Architecture Executive Summit

September 21, 2010

Today I was proud to be a part of the Oracle Enterprise Architecture Executive Summit 2010. Held during the Oracle OpenWorld conference it was a large and interesting group of people talking about the ‘next big thing’ in IT after the invention of the keyboard. During the opening it was stated that, and I’m glad, [...]

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ExaLogic: is this really the cloud inside your walls?

September 21, 2010

Yesterday, during the keynote session at Oracle OpenWorld 2010, Larry Ellison released the Oracle ExaLogic machine into the wild. After talking a lot about ‘The Cloud’ Larry announced that the machine is the ‘Elastic Cloud’ that you can put inside your own firewall. Sounds great, but is it really? No. It actually is a brilliant [...]

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Is Enterprise Architecture the Solution to Business / IT Misfits?

September 10, 2010

If you believe a lot of marketing around Enterprise Architecture it is. But in the practice the overkill of EA strategies and implementation really brings a lot to mind when it comes to solutions on Business and IT misfits. IT doesn’t support Business as much as it should. IT doesn’t push Business as hard as [...]

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Is Business Architecture really the Basis of it All?

August 10, 2010

In most Enterprise Architecture frameworks the Business Architecture drives the Information Architecture. But is this completely accurate? Didn’t we gain some new insights over the past few years. Information, and especially technology (or IT) Architecture can drive the Business Architecture, creating new and previously unimagined possibilities for organizations. Modern IT isn’t anymore about offering the [...]

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