Articles Archive for June 2008

Advanced CAMP - Part 3
Posted in Enterprise Architecture, IT Architecture, JimPhelps, Work on 20 June 2008

Merri Beth Lavagnino - Privacy and Policy
Policy and privacy are really consideration of the human aspects and impacts of technology.  Policies are: strategic direction and operating philosophy (which are usually informal and cultural), Public and Institutional policies (these are both documented and usually legal documents).
Institutional policy - a statement that reflect the philosophies and [...]

Advanced CAMP - Part 2
Posted in Academia, Enterprise Architecture, IT Architecture, SOA, Work on 19 June 2008

Dave Gimpl:  Computing as a Service
Infrastructure for vaporware.  They are working on the infrastructure that enables cloud-computing.
Challenges in the data center:  rising costs of the operations, the explosion of data, the difficulty of deploying new application and services, the difficulty in managing complex virtual machine systems.  When you map the business processes, they map [...]

Advanced CAMP - Registering, Discovering and Using Distributed Services Part1
Posted in Academia, Enterprise Architecture, IT Architecture, JimPhelps, SOA, Work on 19 June 2008

R.L. Bob doing the introduction: 
Advanced CAMP could mean to some people the advanced topics beyond just the basics.  Bob likes to think of it as the Advance Camp out in the wilderness where you are more likely to get caught in a blizzard, get shot and generally face the wilderness.
The theme that came out [...]

ITANA Face 2 Face - Security Architecture
Posted in Enterprise Architecture, IT Architecture, ITANA, JimPhelps, Work on 18 June 2008

Indiana University
Completed a 10 year Strategic Plan which worked because they connected money to it.  You couldn’t get funding unless you showed how your project connected to one of the 71 strategic initiatives.  Completed a 10 year tactical Telecom Plan.  Instead of replacing 1/4 of the switches every year for four years, they [...]

ITANA Face 2 Face: Data Management
Posted in Enterprise Architecture, IT Architecture, ITANA, JimPhelps, Work on 18 June 2008

Data Management  Discussion:
Key Issues:

Data Architecture, Analysis and Design
Data Security Management  - data access and security
Reference and Master Data Management  - making data available rather than copying data
Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence Management - normalizing the data across the data warehouse
Document, Record and Content Management -
Meta Data Management -

The difference between Structured Data (data in authoritative [...]

ITANA Face 2 Face Case Studies
Posted in Enterprise Architecture, ITANA, JimPhelps, Work on 18 June 2008

Duke University
http://oit.duke.edu/tag/
Tech Architecture group at Duke is charged:

to track emerging technology and raise issues for the CIO’s consideration
review major decisions
integrate into the project management lifecyle
pay attention and champion certain solutions

Developed small set of principles - few enough that they could remember them around four areas:

Data
Infrastructure
Services
Support

Each of these areas are highlighted in each principle’s page (http://oit.duke.edu/tag/principles/p-robust-systems.html)
The [...]

ITANA Face2Face Tools of Trade
Posted in Enterprise Architecture, ITANA, Work on 18 June 2008

UC Davis
http://vpiet.ucdavis.edu/
Created an Administrative Services Map with eight domains. Each domain has a Domain Convener. All the Domain Conveners gather on a single governance board.

Academic Personnel Adminstration
Enterprise Asset Management and Planning
Student and Curriculum Support
Finance
Information Technology
Alumni and University Relations
Research
Payroll and HR

Just bringing this fruition.
Currently moving to Kuali Financials - this is a “big rock” [...]

Spring in Wisconsin - weather runs amok Spring in Wisconsin - weather runs amok
Posted in Featured, Life in Madison, random stuff on 13 June 2008

UPDATE: June 25th. We now have 28 counties declared as disaster areas by FEMA.

When we get serious Spring weather, we get weather sites that look like this:

7 Warnings, Watches and Statements on the Weather.gov forecast
A weather map that is covered, jigsaw like, with areas of watches and warnings across the surrounding 25 counties. [...]