Articles in the IT Architecture Category

Gartner Webinar: Selling Key Stakeholders on Enterprise Architecture Gartner Webinar: Selling Key Stakeholders on Enterprise Architecture
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 [...]

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 [...]

EDUCAUSE Live event recording has been posted EDUCAUSE Live event recording has been posted
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.

Digital Neighborhoods - Guiding design Digital Neighborhoods - Guiding design
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. [...]

Eat your vegis or Have A Little Green Tree - getting EA into the Enterprise Eat your vegis or Have A Little Green Tree - getting EA into the Enterprise
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 [...]

EA in Academia Presentation EA in Academia Presentation
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