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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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Agile Enterprise Architecture: Two Way Traffic

July 30, 2010

Yesterday evening, my new Whitebook about Agile Enterprise Architecture (see here, in Dutch) got published. In this Whitebook I pointed out that developing Enterprise Architecture is a Two Way process. And that it should be build Agile. First of all, a Business Case should be leading in the choices that are made in the architecture. [...]

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Enterprise Architecture is the Beginning of any Project

April 23, 2010

I know, tough one. When we take a look at Enterprise Architecture we tend to think of it as a fast and enormous endeavour. An extensive part of IT that only belongs in large organisations and within the service management organisation, not the project. At least, this is what I used to think about it. [...]

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