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Enterprise Architecture and the Role of Technology: Delivering Value to Stakeholders

whitepaper Enterprise Architecture (EA) function is often equated with processes, metrics, and governance, but these elements are only peripheral. Enterprise architecture is a broad term, involving the creation and execution of IT strategy based on an...

Tags: software engineering

[11 May 2008]

TOGAF or Not TOGAF: Extending Enterprise Architecture Beyond RUP

whitepaper This paper contrasts the disciplines of enterprise architecture, solution architecture, and business architecture; compares these disciplines to the IBM Rational Unified Process (RUP) and suggests ways to combine them; and advocates applying The...

Tags: software engineering

[11 May 2008]

Introducing the Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF), Part 3: Create an Enterprise Architecture With TOGAF

whitepaper When considering the implementation of an enterprise architecture, one can begin to feel overwhelmed with all the pieces. This paper walks through how to begin that process by leveraging an existing architectural model like The Open Group...

Tags: enterprise architecture

[11 May 2008]

Introducing the Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF), Part 2: Explore an Industry Standard for Defining an Enterprise Architecture

whitepaper The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF) provides architects a methodology for gaining control over enterprise architecture and IT. TOGAF is a complete package for creating an enterprise architecture.

Tags: software engineering

[11 May 2008]

Let's Talk: Build Your Enterprise Architecture Using Communication and the Right Framework

whitepaper These tools range from comprehensive frameworks describing the architecture to common-sense documents that describe how to implement it. Whichever tools one uses, make sure one also applies a strong dose of communications to cement the...

Tags: software engineering

[11 May 2008]

Exploring IT Architecture Disciplines, Part 1: Build an Enterprise Architecture - Creating Your Organization's IT Blueprint

whitepaper Organizations rely on Enterprise Architecture (EA) to fulfill their business requirements with IT tools and services. Through these architectures, an organization can better understand its needs as they interact with others in the market and gain...

Tags: enterprise architecture

[11 May 2008]

Introducing the WebSphere Integration Reference Architecture: A Service-Based Foundation for Enterprise-Level Business Integration

whitepaper The ability to coordinate the challenges of enterprise-level integration necessitates an architecture to facilitate the modeling and managing of services spanning information, applications, and people.

Tags: web services

[11 May 2008]

Information Architecture 101: A Crash Course for the Enterprise Architect - Synergies, Alignment, and the Relationship Between SOA and Infrastructure Virtualization

whitepaper What is information architecture? The Asilomar Institute for Information Architecture (AlfIA), an Information Architecture (IA) industry body of practitioners, states that IA is ".the design of shared information environments," especially as it...

Tags: software engineering

[11 May 2008]

Next Generation Federal Data Center Architectures

whitepaper The United States Government's E-Gov initiative established the Federal Enterprise Architecture (FEA) Program to build a business-driven Information Technology (IT) blueprint for the federal government.

Tags: data center

[11 May 2008]

Exploring IT Architecture Disciplines, Part 6: Build the Integration Architecture - Putting It All Together

whitepaper A key aspect of any enterprise architecture is the integration of all the parts and pieces. Designing this architecture is the sixth step in the enterprise architecture process, the step where everything comes together.

Tags: software engineering

[11 May 2008]

Exploring IT Architecture Disciplines, Part 2: Begin With the Business Architecture - You Are What You Know

whitepaper While building an enterprise architecture, one must start at the beginning - that is, with a full understanding of the nature of one's business. The best way to do that is to map the business itself to an architecture of its own, then use that map...

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[11 May 2008]

Exploring IT Architecture Disciplines, Part 3: Move on to the Information Architecture - Store, Protect, and Manage Your Organization's Data

whitepaper As one progress toward the design of the enterprise architecture, one must supplement the new business architecture with an information architecture - an architecture that outlines mission-critical information and how to store it, protect it, and...

Tags: software engineering

[11 May 2008]

Bobby Woolf: A Quick Intro to WebSphere Business Process Management

whitepaper IBM WebSphere Business Process Management is a solution for modeling, assembling, deploying, and managing applications that embody a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and are integrated using an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB).

Tags: business management

[11 May 2008]

UML, RUP, and the Zachman Framework: Better Together

whitepaper Since RUP dictates UML as a notation, it probably makes sense to standardize on UML for enterprise architecture as well, since there are generally no drawbacks to this. This is primarily because RUP is a process, while Zachman is a framework, but...

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[11 May 2008]

SOA Governance for Developers and Architects: Find Out How It Affects You and Your Job Today

whitepaper Enterprise IT groups and CIOs are creating new governance policies around SOA, enterprise architecture, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), and more. SOA governance is becoming a big issue. Learn about governance from a developer's perspective...

Tags: software engineering

[11 May 2008]

Facility Considerations for the Data Center

whitepaper The Cisco Enterprise Data Center Architecture - a comprehensive, adaptive network architecture designed by Cisco Systems for agile Information Technology (IT) support of business needs - critically depends upon underlying physical facilities to...

Tags: data center

[11 May 2008]

Exploring the Enterprise Service Bus, Part 1: Discover How an ESB Can Help You Meet the Requirements for Your SOA Solution

whitepaper This paper is first in a series that describes and defines the Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) pattern called the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB). In this series, discover how the ESB fits within the IBM SOA Foundation and how other parts of the...

Tags: web services

[11 May 2008]

Cisco Data Center Network Architecture and Solutions Overview

whitepaper The Cisco Data Center Network Architecture, based on Cisco's enterprise-wide Service Oriented Network Architecture (SONA) provides a cohesive foundation for IT executives to better align data center resources with business priorities.

Tags: data center

[11 May 2008]

Exploring IT Architecture Disciplines, Part 4: Update Your Infrastructure Architecture to Serve and Protect Your Enterprise

whitepaper Traditional enterprise architecture designs tend to focus on the creation of the solutions, or development, architecture before the creation or design of the infrastructure architecture, but because most organizations today already have an...

Tags: software engineering

[11 May 2008]

Requirements Process for SOA Projects, Part 3: Gathering Requirements for Ongoing SOA Services Usage

whitepaper When the enterprise has a collection of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) services, the requirements-gathering process can be challenging. The first paper in this series discusses the technical requirements for Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA...

Tags: web services

[11 May 2008]

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