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Jacki Johnson, CEO of the Buzz (IAG’s new online-only insurer) spoke at the FST financial services conference about engaging with your customers online 24×7. I liked her comment about how the 160...
View ArticleYASS (Yet another SOA Survey)
Some of the questions in this one made me think about gaps in our governance. Take it here – eBizq’s SOA survey.
View ArticleSome open-source gotchas
The increasing use of open-source is a reality in our environments. Regardless of what you have defined as your SOE, your technical teams are constantly playing with new tools and coming up with new...
View ArticleConvergence of EAI /ESB tools and DI tools
In recent times I have encountered 3 or 4 debates (both at work and on the web) on whether you need an ETL tool when you already have an ESB (or EAI tool?). The reason this comes up is that if you...
View ArticleOn IT EAs and Business Architects
Notes from a recent EA roundtable that I attended: Success factors for business architecture: business architecture focusses on the what, and why rather than the how initiative-driven, i.e. do it in...
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Avatar – made with Glassfish?
I’m very excited about the l-o-n-g-awaited launch of Glassfish 3.1, as it seems to have a very similar “shape” to WebLogic which is an app server I’ve been using for a long time. (“shape” = Admin...
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On the EA identity crisis ..
The Open Group have an interesting post on Enterprise Architecture’s Quest for its Identity… I think it’s time for EITAs to give up the EA label in favour of something that clearly reflects their...
View ArticleSolution mode
After a few years of pushing into enterprise architecture I have taken a break and gone back to a solution/delivery focussed role. This was a move made with some trepidation but 5-6 weeks in, I have to...
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the who, why, what, how and where of architecture
Have you ever been in a meeting where you ask ‘how’ something works and you only get an answer about what it does? Or .. you get an answer that is so detailed that you make a mental note never to...
View ArticleBackward compatibilty and Transformation Avoidance
A recent post on LinkedIn got me thinking about my use of namespaces to signify that two XML structures are compatible, and how I manage schema compatibility in general. A common practice (and my...
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