Enterprise architecture in a world of automated change
I posted the other day on the Enterprise CIO blog an entry about the CIO’s role and the self-driving business that got me thinking about the Enterprise architect and the processes (e.g., TOGAF). There seems to be a lack of any real automation thread. Do you see one? This clearly needs to be addressed. One […]
7 Questions to Help Look Strategically at IoT
There are still many people who view the Internet of Things as focused on ‘the things’ and not the data they provide. Granted there are definitely some issues with the thing itself, but there are also concerns for enterprise, like the need to monitor the flow of information coming from these things, especially as we […]
The Digital Agility Layer: Time To Get Intentionally Digital
Wolfram Jost, CTO of Software AG, started us off on the first full day of Innovation World with a keynote on innovations for the digital enterprise. As I mentioned yesterday, the use of the term “digital enterprise” (and even more, “digitization”) is a bit strange, since pretty much everything is digital these days, it’s just […]
Enterprise Social Networks – 2013 Part 1
Enterprise social networks (ESN) are one of the oldest enterprise social technologies and have evolved into an important backbone of enterprise social activities. While some of the current ESN vendors, generally ones that started in some adjacent markets like blogs and wikis, have been around for over 10 years, the current set of key functions […]
Integrating BPM and Enterprise Architecture
Michael zur Muehlen presented this morning on integrating BPM and enterprise architecture, based on work that he’s done with the US Department of Defense. Although they use the DoDAF architecture framework in particular, the concepts are applicable to other similar EA frameworks. Like the Zachman framework, DoDAF prescribes the perspectives that are required, but doesn’t […]
Bridging Process Modeling and IT Solutions Design at adidas
Eduardo Gonzalez of the adidas Group talked about how they are implementing BPM within their organization, particularly the transition from business process models to designing a solution, which ties in nicely with the roundtable that I moderated yesterday. The key issue is that process models are created for the purpose of modeling the existing and […]
Metastorm M3 Demonstration
I had a briefing on Metastorm’s M3 collaborative modeling and Smart Business Workspace two weeks ago, and last week we had a follow-up demo. This is the start of a push towards a full BPM suite in the cloud, providing collaborative process modeling and the end user runtime hosted on Azure, but Microsoft still needs […]
