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How to retire (respectfully) legacy systems Information Architecture - The bridge between Business and IT Business Capabilities and Business Strategy Consolidation of CRM solutions Creating IT strategy (with a little help from enterprise architecture...
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How to retire (respectfully) legacy systems by nattYGUR

They served us for a long period of time, but (for different reasons that I wont cover in this post) now the time to say good bye and to retire them. Legacy systems exist in each and every enterprise and we all have the experience of retire them. The...
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Using Hungarian Cube to demonstrate enterprise architecture by nattYGUR

Those days I'm helping a bank in Thailand to start an enterprise architecture team and practice. As usual I found very technical group that was assigned to do the work. One of the first thing that I tried to do, is to explain them the different between...
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Information Architecture - The bridge between Business and IT by nattYGUR

Information is truly the bridge between business and IT. While collecting and modeling business capabilities and business processes we are using information as inputs and outputs for business capabilities and processes. Information architecture is also...
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Business Capabilities and Business Strategy by nattYGUR

Every time that I'm writing about business capabilities I'm receiving replays that capabilities won't help me to get business strategy and without business strategy I cant defined the business to-be architecture. In this post I'll try to explain how I...
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Using captured EA assets to generate estimated project plan by nattYGUR

One of the tasks while doing EA is to collect relations between different enterprise assets (Roles, Units, Goals, Objectives, Business Capabilities, Information Objects, Entities, Applications, Products, Databases, Technologies, etc'). If the data already...
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Consolidation of CRM solutions by nattYGUR

Introduction This white paper demonstrates and discusses solution for fragmented IT, which known as one of the classic IT problems. For demonstrating the problem and solution I chose to use a real life scenario of pharmaceutical IT department. After several...
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Creating IT strategy (with a little help from enterprise architecture) by nattYGUR

Creating IT strategy is one of the complicated task that I know. To create a good IT strategy, you have to use many ingredients from different types and sources. Those ingredients should be used in unique combination that can be cooked and then be served...
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Enterprise Architecture Meta-model, size doesn't matter by nattYGUR

Part of the enterprise architecture work is to define a meta-model. Meta-model depict what are the architecture building blocks that we need to do our work, and their relations. Usually meta-model is one of the first task that we'll address in enterprise...
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Enterprise architecture frameworks are dead, long live real-life practice ! by nattYGUR

I can remember the first time that I read TOGAF. I was really amazed from what I read. After spending time to understand Zachman framework, TOGAF looks like a mature and practical EA framework. Each paragraph that I read had a lot of sense and it looks...
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