Enterprise architecture

Tue, March 20, 2012 - Big Data is coming, but for most organizations it's three-to-five years away. That doesn't mean you shouldn't prepare now. Analyzing Big Data will require reference information like that provided by a semantic data model. And once you mine the data, you need to secure it.

Fri, March 16, 2012 - Business customers and users are demanding ever-better performance from websites and applications. However, the majority of CIOs are uncertain they can meet those expectations. Next-generation application performance management (APM) tools can provide the visibility necessary to proactively identify bottlenecks and performance issues before they affect users.

Fri, December 01, 2006 - How it was discovered and mapped.

Wed, November 01, 2006 - Take off your CIO hat for a moment and imagine you’re in charge of building a new housing development. The first thing you’d do is hire an architectural firm to create a master plan. Then you’d bring in the builders. They’d take the blueprint and build your development, hewing to the architectural vision. Now, put your CIO hat back on. ...

Mon, January 23, 2006 - The White House’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has released its second version of the Enterprise Architecture (EA) Assessment Framework.

Sun, January 15, 2006 - If you get pulled over for speeding in Los Angeles, you won’t have to cool your heels for too long waiting for your ticket. Early this year, the Los Angeles Police Department is scheduled to roll out a system for issuing speeding citations electronically from handheld devices.The system aims to reduce the time-consuming and error-prone process of writing and processing ...

Tue, November 01, 2005 - Computers can’t think for themselves; humans need to tell them exactly what to do and when. In a bid to help systems—especially manufacturing systems—work more autonomously, the National Institute of Standards and Technology has released new process specification language (PSL) software that allows users to more precisely define a business process."PSL lets you express, using precise and powerful means, exactly ...

Sat, October 15, 2005 - All those computers, sitting on desks throughout your office, most of the time doing—nothing. Grid computing proponents have long promised to tap those machines, providing a new and low-cost source of processing power. But thus far, the applications for grid have mostly benefited scientists, derivatives analysts and people trying to extract alien messages from galactic background noise. Now one of ...

Mon, August 15, 2005 - Savvy CIOs can find ROI opportunities in connecting disparate HR systems into a cohesive whole

Sun, June 15, 2003 - Larry Downes, coauthor of Unleashing the Killer App, deconstructs the new-order IT architecture that will connect tomorrow’s information supply chain.