Articles in the IT Architecture Category
Posted in Enterprise Architecture, IT Architecture, Work on 15 October 2008
Robert Handler of Gartner is presenting.
This is one of seven Key Initiatives for Enterprise Architecture.
“Failure to… change the behavior of others leads to failure itself”. You must understand the people aspects and you must sell EA to succeed.
They had 600+ clients take a maturity survey to see where they are at in the area of [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Posted in Enterprise Architecture, IT Architecture, ITANA, JimPhelps, Presentations, Work on 16 May 2008
The recording of my EDUCAUSE Live presentation is now available on the EDUCAUSE site. EDUCAUSE Live! IT/EA in Academia recording.
Posted in Enterprise Architecture, Featured, Headline, IT Architecture, ITANA, JimPhelps, Work, software on 18 April 2008
Digital neighborhoods seem like a powerful tool for discussing technology and its impact on users (students, staff, researchers, etc) and the concept adds interesting new requirements to projects. Getting a good understanding of your users’ digital neighborhoods can guide design and deployment of new technologies and help predict impacts on the users themselves. [...]
Posted in Enterprise Architecture, Featured, Headline, IT Architecture, ITANA, JimPhelps, Work on 17 April 2008
I was thinking about how, when I try to get buy-in for doing Enterprise Architecture as a holistic thing, I tend not get very far with the campus. But, when I parse out little EA bits, they catch on. I was thinking about this in terms of the metaphor: Getting Kids To Eat [...]
Posted in Enterprise Architecture, Featured, IT Architecture, ITANA, JimPhelps, Presentations, TOGAF, The Open Group, Work on 16 April 2008
Below is a repackaged copy of my “Enterprise Architecture in Academic Environments” presentation that I gave at EDUCAUSE Mid-West Regional Conference 2008. It is packaged as a Quicktime Movie.
Enterprise Architecture in Academic Environments
