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The Enterprise Architect (EA) diary - Day 25-32 (Modeling & decentralized organization) by nattYGUR

The Enterprise Architect (EA) diary - Day 25-32 (Modeling & decentralized organization) Working for company with different business units locating in different places around the world requires me to pay visits to our offices. In the last 6 days I...

The Enterprise Architect (EA) diary - day 22 (from business processes to implemented applications) by nattYGUR

After spending time on keeping our repository up to date (add new ETRM application and related data flows as well as changing databases to DB clusters), collecting more data for the root cause analysis and spending time for writing proposal to creating...

It's not SOA it's IT 2.0 by nattYGUR

When you’re coming to implement SOA for the first time you probably focused on the application and technology aspects, but as you drill deeper and deeper into it you’ll found out that going through SOA is actually changing every aspect that your IT department...

Are your IT vehicles based on one chassis? by nattYGUR

One of the most common tasks of IT departments is to move information between different roles in the enterprise and to enable them to view and manipulate the information as well as get insights out of them. Each one of those roles wants the data to be...

Business capabilities or business processes by nattYGUR

Business processes are used commonly for a long time. Most of the architecture community is using different notations for describing business processes. It doesn’t matter if it’s a known standard such as BPMN or custom notation, we are all...

The Data-Centric Enterprise: A Blueprint for Enterprise Architectures by nattYGUR

In the upcoming EA summit 2006 (Key Biscayne) http://www.ftponline.com/conferences/eas/2006/strategy.aspx#datacentric I will speak about EA patterns. Patterns have been in use for quite some time to work with system architecture and software design. Currently...

The Information Technician by nattYGUR

While attending a social event of enterprise architects I was asked (after being introduced) by a respectful CEO "so Natty, what exactly are you doing for living ?" usually I'm explaining about EA, EA domains and how I help to align IT to business, but...

Introducing NAAF. by nattYGUR

For quite a long time I'm using an evolving version of TOGAF that I'm calling NAAF. This is an agile, SOA oriented, real life framework which based on my experience. The following presentation introduce basic concepts of that framework. http://www.theeagroup...

Enterprise architecture is the dentistry of the IT world. by nattYGUR

Enterprise architecture is the dentistry of the IT world! Yes, like people who tend not to pay a visit to the dentist until they can't stand the pain. IT organization tend not to take seriously (or even to ignore) enterprise architecture until it really...

How EA should work in parallel with other architecture efforts. by nattYGUR

As I already posted I'm engaged with two different EA processes those days. Those processes differ one from each other in many ways. There's one difference that I want to deal with and that's absents or existence of other architecture efforts. Full post...
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