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African Sun Shines on the New Silos

Mon, 14 May 2012 06:27:00 EDT

I am sitting in the african sunshine supposedly having a month off work. However I suppose looking after grandchildren was never going to be a cakewalk! But one of the real benefits of taking time away, even if it's not a vacation as such

Standardization is a 15 Letter Word

Thu, 05 Apr 2012 12:21:00 EDT

My old friend Dan French penned an interesting blog last month. He was thinking about how the

Reach for the Maturity Model NOT the Sky!

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:42:00 EST

Last week Facebook announced its plans for IPO and it certainly made me stop and think, would I invest my money in a company that has a socialist manifesto epitomized by “the Hacker Way”. Sure lots of people will make a lot of money,

Understanding Agility the Hard Way!

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 06:23:00 EST

Agility is one of those words beloved by software industry marketing people. Over time it has become almost embarrassing and meaningless. Yet if you are in doubt I suggest asking Eastman Kodak, RIM, Palm, Yahoo or Nortel what they think the term means.

Let's Kill the Confusion About Capabilities for Once and All!

Wed, 26 Oct 2011 05:09:00 EDT

I note in the Business Process Trends Advisor Paul Harmon is confused about what is a capability. What Harmon is missing is that capabilities are not just another modelling device

Business Design for the Service-Oriented Enterprise

Fri, 14 Oct 2011 07:00:00 EDT

Business design is set to undergo a dramatic transformation. The convergence of ecosystem automation and autonomics, architecture for continuously evolving business, together with the merger of consumer and business IT will have a profound impact on conventional business models, which will in turn affect business modeling techniques and enterprise architecture. In this article we provide an outline of what we believe will become de facto best practice using some new and not so new patterns to guide the design process. The original SOA vision of the enterprise as a network of services is now attainable by many enterprises. But the route to the Service Oriented Enterprise is not so direct; it must evolve and integrate with an ecosystem of services that reflects business reality.

The Service Oriented Enterprise

Thu, 13 Oct 2011 08:43:00 EDT

It’s now fourteen years since CBDI was formed. In the early days our mission was, as a think tank, to evangelize new ideas of modularity, separation, contract based and service orientation. <

Mission Impossible? Or how to achieve the SOA vision.

Tue, 04 Oct 2011 11:31:00 EDT

When I am asked about the state of SOA, I sometimes comment that anything involving architectural change is bound to take a little time. But my more considered response would be

… so you should do a SOA Certification! But which one? And how?

Thu, 11 Aug 2011 09:56:00 EDT

After a near death experience SOA is alive and well. After mixed early learning experiences, most enterprises are seeing SOA in a fresh light. Just the other day one company was discussing with me their "SOA Reboot" project! They are in good company

Cloudburst - Coordinating Vectors for Business Transformation

Fri, 08 Jul 2011 06:34:00 EDT

I note Tom Graves, Robert Phipps and read more

Integrating Strategic Planning for Cloud and SOA

Wed, 29 Jun 2011 07:45:00 EDT

Moving to Cloud Computing at any level, private, public or hybrid, represents a major challenge and opportunity for enterprises. But for an enterprise getting beyond the experimentation, niche and commodity applications to actually deliver the expected cost benefits with minimum risk is always harder than anticipated. Full blown Cloud adoption implies mature and sophisticated SOA implementation and impacts many business processes and requires coordination of multiple, disparate disciplines. Experience tells us such an adoption process requires integrated business driven strategic planning.

Service Oriented Cloud (SOC)

Thu, 23 Jun 2011 13:08:00 EDT

I am almost shocked by the vast volume of tweets hitting #Cloud. Of course it’s a reflection of the frenetic level of interest in the subject. But it’s also because Cloud Computing is such a huge, complex domain.

Integrating Strategic Planning for Cloud and SOA

Wed, 15 Jun 2011 11:13:00 EDT

In October 2010 Gartner Group assessed that Cloud is at the top of the Hype Curve, the peak point of inflated expectations. But no one really needs this authoritative

Cloud-SOA Meta Model L1

Mon, 06 Jun 2011 09:53:00 EDT

There's a lot of loose talk about Cloud and SOA. From what I see most SaaS today is not SOA. In fact it's mostly multi-tenanted Web applications with a browser interface. This "may" be satisfactory for SMEs but for larger enterprises this likely to be

Industry Cloud models are all very hazy!

Thu, 02 Jun 2011 09:44:00 EDT

I am currently working on extending the CBDI-SAE meta model for Cloud. I started this exercise by making some specific assumptions:

1. I am interested in the larger enterprise

SOA was yesterday’s issue?

Tue, 31 May 2011 05:57:00 EDT

Don’t you believe it! For many larger organizations SOA is only now becoming central to key business strategies. Whilst SOA has been around for almost a decade, few companies have achieved real

Beware gurus promoting their new book on SOA Governance

Thu, 19 May 2011 07:15:00 EDT

SearchSOA.com interviewed co-authors Thomas Erl and Anne Thomas Manes to discuss their recently published book, SOA Governance: Governing Shared Services On-Premise and in the Cloud (Prentice Hall,

Version 3.0 of the CBDI-SAE UML Profile for SOA

Wed, 11 May 2011 06:02:00 EDT

Everware-CBDI has announced the immediate availability of the CBDI-SAE UML Profile for SOA V3 (SAE Profile). The SAE Profile makes Model Driven Architecture (MDA) for SOA practical for everyone. Whilst introducing a

Microsoft buys Skype!

Tue, 10 May 2011 10:44:00 EDT

So Microsoft is to become the new owner of Skype! This is big news for us that run our business and personal communications on the platform. I suspect we were

Parallel Universe Syndrome?

Tue, 19 Apr 2011 10:46:00 EDT

I have become increasingly concerned that in the typical enterprise the major business improvement disciplines operate to some extent as silos. EA is often disconnected from Business Architecture. BPM is frequently not well connected

So Nobody is Doing EA Eh!

Fri, 08 Apr 2011 05:30:00 EDT

I get rather tired of the “Enterprise Architecture doesn’t work” debate. The latest comment from ZapThink is predicated solely on the fact that “architecture must

Silos, what silos?

Thu, 24 Mar 2011 08:55:00 EDT

Following on from my blog on "Beware the new silos!" today I was

Beware the new silos!

Fri, 18 Mar 2011 13:06:00 EDT

Coordinating EA, SOA, Business Design, BPM, Business Capability Management and SOAM.

Bridging the gap between abstract SOA models and reality

Thu, 17 Feb 2011 04:33:00 EST

Many organizations tell us they are classifying SOA as mainstream – that is the architectural pattern and associated technologies are mandated for all projects and programs and

Beyond IaaS - the Business Service Network

Tue, 15 Feb 2011 07:26:00 EST

I note Joe McKendrick at ZDnet asks "read more

Head in the Clouds?

Fri, 28 Jan 2011 05:43:00 EST

Cloud is confusing, period!

Defining Cloud

Mon, 20 Dec 2010 16:02:00 EST

I observe considerable confusion over "what is the Cloud?" The absence of industry standards in this space is clearly a concern. In the early stages of any new trend there is a confusion

Cloud Maturity Model

Mon, 29 Nov 2010 05:46:00 EST

Over 7 years ago CBDI published its SOA maturity model and roadmap methodology

Minimum Set of SOA Standards?

Fri, 19 Nov 2010 05:23:00 EST

This following is my reply to one of our customers that asked me to review an SOA standards document. For obvious reasons the client must remain confidential, but I am

Searching for Goldilocks

Wed, 17 Nov 2010 12:22:00 EST

Found on a ZapThink email:

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Application Overhaul

Wed, 17 Nov 2010 09:28:00 EST

Get ready for a stream of well worn ideas given a makeover as read more

Lazarus or Thomas Effect

Wed, 03 Nov 2010 10:06:00 EDT
I note the Burton Group has published a paper titled the Lazarus Effect: SOA Returns. Key message is after a troubled time SOA is
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Dealing with search complexity

Tue, 28 Sep 2010 06:53:00 EDT
We live in a complex world. One way to deal with that is through Views. A search engine is actually a View generator, but I suspect we all feel that search engines, however good, are still blunt
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Happenings at CBDI

Mon, 27 Sep 2010 09:51:00 EDT
This month we are making some big changes to the way we work at CBDI. We are announcing tread more

When Policy Should be Mandatory

Thu, 12 Aug 2010 10:46:00 EDT
I was asked the question today, "when is point to point architecture justified?" Or conversely, "when is it not necessary to use the ESB?"
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Cyberwarfare – a real threat or an over reaction?

Tue, 20 Jul 2010 16:05:00 EDT

There’s been a flurry of resurgent interest in cyberwarfare in the last couple of months. It’s clearly a topic that
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