Other useful Enterprise Architecture links

Let me know of any other useful links that should be listed here.

Business Transformation Enablement Program - the Canadian Federal Government's GSRM (Governemnt Strategic Reference Model)

Provides a business transformation toolkit to enable rigorous strategic planning and integrated strategic design across governments supporting interoperability and integration. The material is excellent, and could easily be adapted to other projects.

Old News Items

SOA Insights Analysts Discuss Likely Future of SOA at Open Group Conference

Edited transcript of a discussion on the future of SOA and Enterprise Architecture. BriefingsDirect Transcripts - Recorded July 23, 2007

Boots, House of Fraser not renewing IT director posts

Responses to the news that two sizable retailers are not renewing their outgoing IT director posts. Register, UK - 13 August 2007

Horizontal communication among enterprise architects

The Office of Management and Budget wants to make the Core.gov portal more like a community of interest to share concepts, methods, solutions and products that addresse EA challenges. FCW.com, USA - 15 August 2007

SOA and BPM convergence drives acquisitions

Vendors seek to ways to market products in the enterprise architecture space - As the link is forged between services-oriented architecture (SOA) and business process management (BPM) vendors are seeking ways to expand there tool offerings to reach from high level planning and modeling to application development.

Survey Finds Enterprise Architecture Is Driving Organizational Growth and Innovation

According to a recent study by Architecture & Governance Magazine, Enterprise Architecture (EA) is now being used by organizations to fuel business growth, as opposed to simple modeling of the IT environment in years past.

Gartner Enterprise Architecture Summit

Gartner predicts that by 2012 40% of today's enterprise architecture programs will be stopped (0.8 probability).

How to get the business to sell SOA for you

Mike Kavis tells the real life story of how to get the business to bat for you. In another posting Mike lists more articles on The great SOA debate and gives more practical advice.

When EA and SOA Worlds Collide

A great downloadable presentation by SOA expert, David Linthicum discusses how to bring the EA program and SOA projects together to increase the quality, depth and penetration of service-orientation in your enterprise. Also check out Linthicum's blog response to comments on a recent keynote on the same subject. Here is another report on this keynote - Bridging the gulf between SOA and enterprise architecture

Is Enterprise Architecture the Answer?

Roger Sessions - author of the forthcoming book Simple Architectures for Complex Enterprises - argues that traditional EA methodologies have stood still, while the systems companies are trying to build, and the business environment itself, have grown exponentially more complex. You can read more about these views in A Comparison of the Top Four Enterprise-Architecture Methodologies - a paper by Roger Sessions covers a broad introduction to the field of enterprise architecture and an excellent comparison between the TOGAF, Zachman, FEA and Gartner approaches to EA. Finally Partitioned-Iterative more appropriate for EA than Zachman, TOGAF? provides more details on his partitioned-iterative approach to EA.

How CIOs can meet executive expectations

CIOs report the need to transform business process improvement, enterprise architecture, business relationship management and business intelligence roles ... ZDNet - USA Blog commentary: Transforming the role of the Enterprise Architect over the next 3 years

Make the IPv6 transition work for you

Don't let the IPv6 tail wag your agency's enterprise architecture dog. A key way to do that is by applying the Enterprise Architecture Framework and its ... GCN.com - Washington,DC,USA IPv6: The Next Generation Internet

Staying in compliance

Enterprise architecture managers can go into the tool to do discovery and analysis" on system compliance, he said. The tool also has plug-and-play ... GCN.com - Washington,DC,USA

Cool Vendors in Enterprise Architecture, 2007

Two innovative vendors — alfabet and Primavera ProSight (formerly ProSight) — are providing support for project tracking and investment management. Ignoring these crucial concerns will result in ineffectual enterprise architecture (EA) and, at best, haphazard alignment between IT and the business strategy.... Gartner

Getting the right fit

... SOA promises at least as much as all the other enterprise architecture fashion trends, but Michael Barnes, a vice-president of Gartner Research, ...

Square Off: IT Leaders Know Innovation Matters, They Just Can't Execute

In their view, IT's purpose is to destroy barriers to business success, not add more bricks to the enterprise architecture. They've learned that saying no, ... InformationWeek - Manhasset,NY,USA