One of my favourite parables that I enjoyed as a child was the story of David and Goliath from the Old Testament’s Book of Samuel. Whether or not you had a religious upbringing I am […]
The Open Group, the vendor-neutral technology consortium, announced last week the OSDU Data Platform Mercury Release. Developed by The Open Group OSDU™ Forum, the OSDU Data Platform is an Open Source, standards-based and technology-agnostic data platform for the […]
A previous version of this article had an incorrect number of Black Hawk helicopters, referring to total production versus total fielding. By John T. Stough, Chief Architecture Officer, JHNA, supporting US Army PEO Aviation MOSA Transformation Office […]
The remarkable Herbert Simon won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1978 and the Turing Medal in 1975. Reading about his life gives me a panic attack when I consider how little I have achieved […]
Sponsored Scaled agile frameworks such as SAFe help organizations apply lean and agile principles to a large enterprise. SAFe describes Enterprise Architecture as a key element to “foster adaptive design, and engineering practices, and drive […]
By now, most business leaders will identify information technology as a strategic function. No longer relegated to the background as a cost-center or necessary part of doing business, IT is taking its rightful place at […]
The enterprise graph is one of the most strategic data assets to enable IT departments to improve data governance. With companies like Microsoft, LinkedIn, and Box making strides with their respective enterprise graph technology, it’s […]
In a recent interview, A&G Managing Editor Holt Hackney interviewed erwin, Inc.’s CEO Adam Famularo about why business process (BP) and enterprise architecture (EA) have become the foundation for good data governance. Q: erwin has […]
In an interview with A&G, Terence Blevins, a fellow of The Open Group as well as a director of The Open Group Governing Board, discusses how enterprise architects can expand their role to become better […]
Too many business leaders dismiss architectures because they’re too complicated and/or appear too focused on information technology. Our challenge is to create understandable architectures with the right balance of business and technology focused on delivering […]