For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

What's Next For The IT-To-BT Transformation: The Contractualization Trend

by Henry Peyret, October 14, 2009

The combination of the current economic climate and business globalization is accelerating the evolution of business models toward a networked model, where businesses focus on their core competencies to add value and engage with other external and internal . . .

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Integrate EA With Project Portfolio Management Governance

Organizations Should Use EA Archetypes To Align Expectations With Deliverables

by Henry Peyret, September 18, 2009

Project portfolio governance is often the entry point for EA governance: EA teams are involved to validate projects' design and architecture fit with standards. A recent survey suggests that current EA involvement in project portfolio governance suboptimizes . . .

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Integrate Enterprise Architecture With Application Portfolio Governance

by Henry Peyret, August 24, 2009

IT organizations that are seeking to drive down operating costs while delivering business projects on time and on budget find they must manage their application portfolios to provide an optimal foundation for execution. Application portfolio management . . .

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EA: Incorporate Enterprise Role Management Into Your Architecture Strategy

by Henry Peyret, July 15, 2009

Adoption of enterprise role management tools is increasing dramatically as a result of compliance and cost pressures. Enterprise role management tools simplify the provisioning and deprovisioning of employee and contractor access to resources, enabling . . .

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Use EA Assessment And Maturity Models To Guide Your EA Program Next Steps

by Henry Peyret, July 2, 2009

A recent survey revealed that a minority of enterprise architects perform regular EA assessments. While a wide range of assessment methodologies are available to EA organizations, none of them are widely recognized or complete in scope — which is why . . .

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Use TOGAF 9 As Your Next EA Framework

TOGAF V9 Complements Your Existing EA Framework With Methodology And Templates

by Henry Peyret, July 1, 2009

An enterprise architecture (EA) framework describes the deliverables an EA function should produce as well as how to create these deliverables. A framework helps EA leaders organize their efforts as they work with their teams to fulfill the EA objectives . . .

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Enterprise Architects — Get A Handle On Open Source Software

by Henry Peyret, May 19, 2009

Forrester's Enterprise And SMB Software Survey, North America And Europe, Q4 2008 revealed that software development teams are planning on pursuing and using open source software (OSS) and that cost-cutting is one of the driving forces behind this choice. . . .

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Pharmaceutical Industry Trends Drive EA

The Impact Of Consolidation, Cost Pressures, And Networked Business Models On Pharma IT Means EA Practices Must Change

by Henry Peyret, April 28, 2009

The pharmaceutical industry faces enormous challenges — from changes in how pharmaceutical companies develop and source products, to pricing pressures, to increasingly stringent regulatory environments. These business changes are driving IT to both reduce . . .

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Enterprise Architecture Tool Trends: Slow Adoption But Expanding Usage

by Henry Peyret, April 7, 2009

The December 2008 Global EA Toolbox Online Survey shows slow progress of enterprise architecture (EA) tools adoption. Given the growth of EA as a practice, the slow adoption belies a change in how these tools are used. While the perception that EA tools . . .

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The Enterprise Architecture Books Being Read By Enterprise Architects

by Henry Peyret, April 7, 2009

We surveyed 180 enterprise architects about which books on enterprise architecture (EA) they have read for professional development. They responded with both recently published books such as Enterprise Architecture as Strategy, and classics from 10 or . . .

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The Down Economy Is Accelerating The Adoption Of Key Agility Indicators

by Henry Peyret, January 12, 2009

When Forrester first published research about agility assessment, the chief concern for companies was the ability to keep pace with innovation. But the current financial uncertainty also reinforces the need to establish measurable key agility indicators . . .

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The Forrester Wave™: Business Process Analysis, EA Tools, And IT Planning, Q1 2009

IDS Scheer, Casewise, MEGA, Metastorm, And Troux Technologies Lead The EA Tools Category

by Henry Peyret, January 7, 2009

In this second release of Forrester's assessment of enterprise architecture and business process analysis (BPA) tools, Forrester assessed nine leading vendors in a 93-criteria evaluation. We found that IDS Scheer, Casewise, MEGA, Metastorm, and Troux . . .

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Semantic Ontologies In EA Tooling

Semantic Web Languages Help Enterprise Architects Manage Data

by Henry Peyret, Katie Smillie, December 9, 2008

There are many sources of enterprise information, and enterprise architects often face an uphill battle to integrate diverse information sources — systems, people, organizations — in the same company. Issues arise at the metadata exchange level, and differing . . .

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Use The Right Set Of Criteria When Selecting An Enterprise Architecture Tool

EA Tool Value Comes From Supporting EA Stakeholders

by Henry Peyret, October 24, 2008

Most enterprise architects are still using criteria such as price, ease of use, or metamodel customization to differentiate enterprise architecture (EA) tools. While these criteria are useful, they are not the ones that will help you show the real value . . .

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Avoid The EA Governance Versus Agility Trap

Altering Your View Of EA Governance Won't Result In Chaos

by Henry Peyret, September 15, 2008

Enterprise architects often encounter resistance to architecture governance from project-focused staff who argue that governance hinders agility. But this argument confuses project-level freedom with organizational agility. True enterprise-level agility . . .

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Are Open Source And Low-Priced Solutions Available For Tooling EA?

by Henry Peyret, July 23, 2008

Justifying an enterprise architecture (EA) tools investment continues to be a problem — particularly when compared with just using Microsoft Visio. So what are the alternatives for inexpensive EA tooling? We investigated five scenarios that can provide . . .

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Some EA And BPA Tools Support Enterprise Quality Initiatives

by Henry Peyret, July 17, 2008

Many commercial organizations first captured business processes as part of enterprisewide quality initiatives. But now that multiple tools — such as business process analysis (BPA) tools as well as business process management (BPM) and enterprise architecture . . .

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Use A Comprehensive Set Of Criteria When Selecting An IC-BPMS Tool

Targeting Products That Support Integration, BPM, And SOA Efforts

by Ken Vollmer, Henry Peyret, June 25, 2008

Integration-centric business process management suites (IC-BPMSes) are the most comprehensive tools available to assist enterprises with their service-oriented-architecture-based (SOA-based) business process management (BPM), business-to-business integration . . .

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Best Practices: Business Activity Monitoring Adoption

by Henry Peyret, April 17, 2008

Business activity monitoring (BAM) remained a separated product niche until five years ago when advanced business process management (BPM) vendors began including BAM capabilities in their product suites. Their objective was to close the loop of continuous . . .

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Case Study: BNP Paribas Improves Service, Reduces Delays With A BAM Center Of Excellence

by Henry Peyret, April 17, 2008

Faced with numerous business changes in its retail bank operations, such as regulatory changes and an increased need for risk assessment, BNP Paribas decided to extend its existing business service management (BSM) center of excellence (COE) to take on . . .

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EA+Requirements Management Increases Enterprise Agility

by Henry Peyret, April 3, 2008

Large enterprises often struggle with managing changes to multiple projects and properly tracking the impact of changes across initiatives. Enterprise architects in such environments find the deck is stacked against them when they want to introduce design . . .

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Tooling EA Road Maps

by Henry Peyret, January 10, 2008

Enterprise architects increasingly use road maps as essential graphics for technology planning and synchronizing business planning with technology strategy. With virtually no option other than the manual construction of road maps, architects are creating . . .

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Five Trends That Will Shape The EA Profession In 2008

by Larry Fulton, Randy Heffner, Jost Hoppermann, Henry Peyret, Jeff Scott, December 14, 2007

In 2008, enterprise architects will find themselves at the center of a struggle to change their organizations into significantly more agile enterprises. As solution delivery morphs from traditional in-house custom development to the integration of an . . .

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Assess Your Enterprise Agility

Agree On Agility Objectives With Your Internal Peers

by Henry Peyret, November 12, 2007

Firms and government organizations are constantly buffeted by changes in their business environment — from changing customer tastes to economic changes affecting raw material prices to government regulations that make hitherto smart business strategies . . .

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Long-Running Transaction Support Is Important To Your BPM And SOA Success

by Henry Peyret, Mike Gilpin, September 28, 2007

The growing enterprise adoption of business process management (BPM) and service-oriented architecture (SOA) is driving increased demand to support the long-running transactions (LRTs) common to the loosely coupled systems that BPM and SOA enable. Doing . . .