November 10, 2010 6:16 PM
Posted by: Jack Vaughan
Enterprise architectureWriter Coleen Frye recently spoke with Grindwork Corp.'s Brian Jones. When he co-founded Grindwork, the thought was “let’s make a declarative language that works with rules and facts and eliminates...
July 26, 2010 4:27 PM
Posted by: Jack Vaughan
Enterprise architecture,
SOA infrastructureSometimes the news is that there is nothing new. We saw an example of that recently.
‘’The exciting thing is that there is nothing new and exciting,’’ said Dr. Chris Harding. With that statement the forum director of the SOA Work Group ironically observed that the hype and ballyhoo of...
February 1, 2010 6:37 PM
Posted by: Jack Vaughan
Enterprise architectureSOA projects suffered at times from the usual project culprits – a fatalistically long ‘long view,’ feature bloat, scope creep and just an overall case of boil-the-ocean ambition. Somewhere along the way BPM stepped up and began seeding a great many smaller projects carefully designed to pay...
June 18, 2009 8:46 PM
Posted by: Jack Vaughan
Enterprise architectureMore than a few people feel UML took a turn with its 2.0 version that helped improve the lot of embedded systems vendors and their customers, but did not improve the lot of rank and file developers. All that was some time ago. Now UML steward
May 19, 2009 2:39 PM
Posted by: Jack Vaughan
Enterprise architecture,
Enterprise mashupsTechnologies rarely evolve neatly in straight lines. Instead they bump into one another, and influence each others’ directions. Think of a rack of billiard balls when the cue ball strikes! As an example, look at the technologies that converged in IBM’s recent
April 27, 2009 6:20 PM
Posted by: Jack Vaughan
Enterprise architectureOver the years, the Federal government has had considerable influence in seeking to define the role of Enterprise Architect. As a new administration gets rolling in Washington, there is some chance that its approach to hiring a new chief federal CIO and CTO will affect future trends in EA. The CIO...
December 16, 2008 3:53 PM
Posted by: Jack Vaughan
Enterprise architectureWe have heard the story of aligning IT and development before, haven’t we? That the story is told over and over does not make it a bad story per se. Some stories bear retelling. If the details change over time, that is helpful.
I mention this while perusing one of the more useful BPM-related...
November 17, 2008 4:26 PM
Posted by: Heather Clancy
Composite applications,
Enterprise architecture,
SOA,
SOA development,
SOA governancePerhaps architects are paying too much attention to the services when they work on service-oriented architecture implementation, writes Neil Ward-Dutton. He suggests that they might focus on "contract-and-policy-oriented architecture (CPOA)."
November 15, 2008 10:10 AM
Posted by: Heather Clancy
.NET,
Enterprise architecture,
Java,
MicrosoftHow will IT organizations maintain the COBOL applications written by the whiz kid programmers of the 1970s? Continued »
