Gartner Research defined enterprise architecture as the process of translating business vision and strategy into effective enterprise change by creating, communicating and improving the key principles and models that describe the enterprise’s future state and enable its evolution (Anne Lapkin, 2009)
More universities and colleges are identifying enterprise architecture as an important instrument to help it to manage its strategic ICT development. JISC supported pilots in applying Enterprise Architecture (EA) in HE have established a workable approach to EA with a strong emphasis on the strategy and institutional governance and a pragmatic ambition in respect of the depth to which EA can be applied across an institution.
Recent discussion during the Open Group’s Seattle conference shows that we’re still not done debating the place of Enterprise Architecture (EA) in an organisation.
For one thing, EA is still a bit of a minority sport, as Tim Westbrock reminded everyone: 99+% of organisations don’t do EA, or, at least, not consciously. Nonetheless, impressive, linear, multi-digit [...]
Enterprise Architecture
data.gov.uk - a portal for UK governmental open data - is clearly a fantastic idea, and has the makings of a real treasure trove. But estimating how far it is in practice, means picking up a stick and poking the beast.
Which data
What it’s all about. To my unscientific eyeballing, the existence of most every dataset [...]
Metadata
Cloud Computing
Semantic Technologies
Resource Description and Discovery
Enterprise Architecture
Repositories
There was plenty of practical advice on offer at the Paradox of the agile institution: Enterprise Architectures as a strategic enabler of change session at the annual JISC conference this week [1]. The session heard from a number of speakers from institutions now using enterprise architecture (EA) and service oriented approaches (SOA) in practice.
Service Oriented Approaches
Enterprise Architecture