Tuesday, December 9, 2008

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How to bring TOGAF to life: How to develop a complete picture of an organization's baseline architecture for TOGAF - How to bring TOGAF to life The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF) is a useful vehicle that Enterprise Architects can use to understand a business, envision a solution and govern its implementation. Even experienced users can find it cumbersome and the available tools seem to exaggerate the effort it demands, for insufficient return. This blog aims to give architects a chance to discuss some of the ways to bring TOGAF to life while developing enterprise-wide solutions for multi-national organizations. How to develop a complete picture of an organization's baseline architecture for TOGAF. more...
(tags: TOGAF architecture EA)

Wednesday, December 3, 2008

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SOA Design Patterns - In cooperation with experts and practitioners throughout the SOA community, best-selling author Thomas Erl brings together the de facto catalog of design patterns for SOA and service-orientation. more...
(tags: soa architecture patterns)

Service Oriented Achitecture, beyond the hype - Extensive whitepaper about SOA more...
(tags: archimate architecture soa)

Modelling architectures with Archimate
(tags: archimate architecture togaf)

Sunday, November 23, 2008

The Cloud

After you read this article you get a feeling like returning back to the past in the supercomputers era of mainframes. That is what The Cloud is. A "thing" which lives on the internet, and where all the IT infrastructure lives and it is remote and you connect to it via the internet.

No more hardware and server rooms in the office, just smart PCs with browsers and the browser actually becoming the operating system, full of internet based applications for you to work with.

Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Sunday, November 9, 2008

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Services - Windows Azure | Azure Services Platform - Windows® Azure is a cloud services operating system that serves as the development, service hosting and service management environment for the Azure Services Platform. Windows Azure provides developers with on-demand compute and storage to host, scale, and manage Web applications on the Internet through Microsoft® data centers. more...
(tags: architecture azure cloud microsoft windows)

Thursday, August 14, 2008

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Service Orientatie en ICT - Dik Bijl
(tags: ict SOA architecture)

Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, ToC, TPM, RCM, WCM, POLCA:  Welke methode past het beste bij mijn bedrijf? - www.procesverbeteren.nl is het enige volledig onafhankelijke (!) kennisplatform over bedrijfsproces-verbetermethodes zoals Lean, Six Sigma, TOC, QRM, TPM, RCM & WCM. Initiatiefnemer is business-journalist Dr Ir Jaap van Ede. Uniek is, dat bijna alle informatie bestaat uit (objectieve) vakbladartikelen en praktijkvoorbeelden! more...
(tags: BPM architecture)

Microsoft Executive Circle - Service Oriented Architecture (SOA): Deel 1 - Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) Van business-strategie tot technologie more...
(tags: SOA architecture)

Wednesday, August 13, 2008

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SAP Enterprise Services Architecture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - SAP Enterprise Service Oriented Architecture (Enterprise SOA) has been defined by SAP as "an open architecture for adaptive business solutions". Enterprise SOA is enabled by the SAP NetWeaver platform, and builds on the benefits of Web services. SAP has positioned Enterprise SOA to deliver the benefits offered by service-oriented architecture, including enabling both flexibility and business efficiency. SAP state that Enterprise SOA provides companies with a "cost-effective blueprint for composing innovative new applications by extending existing systems, while maintaining a level of flexibility that makes future process changes cost-effective"[ more...
(tags: architecture ESA SOA)

Tuesday, August 12, 2008

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IVC Software Factory for ACORD Standards - Home - The IVC Software Factory for ACORD Standards is a set of development tools and assets that utilize the Microsoft .NET Framework to aid insurance firms and software vendors in the integration of existing applications and business logic with ACORD web servi more...
(tags: architecture insurance ACORD)

IBM Insurance Application Architecture - Are you looking to speed deployment of insurance applications? In an effort to reduce the time needed for companies to develop viable enterprise-wide software solutions, IBM developed the Insurance Application Architecture (IAA). more...
(tags: architecture framework)

Monday, August 11, 2008

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SOA Governance Success Stories - Insights and examples from companies who have gone down the SOA Governance path more...
(tags: SOA governance architecture)

The Architecture of Services
(tags: SOA architecture)

Data Access Technologies
(tags: SOA architecture)

Friday, August 8, 2008

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Service-oriented modeling and architecture - This article discusses the highlights of service-oriented modeling and architecture more...
(tags: SOA architecture webservices)

Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Tuesday, July 29, 2008

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PDF/A Competence Center [pdfa.org] - Welcome to the homepage of the PDF/A Competence Center, a cooperation between numerous world-leading companies and experts in PDF technology. The aim of the PDF/A Competence Center is to promote the exchange of information and experience in the area of lo more...
(tags: PDF/A outputmanagement archiving architecture standards)

Monday, July 28, 2008

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Output Service API Quick Starts - http://livedocs.adobe.com/livecycle/es/sdkHelp/programmer/sdkHelp/wwhelp/wwhimpl/common/html/wwhelp.htm?context=sdkHelp&file=quickStarts_Output.12.1.html more...
(tags: architecture webservices outputmanagement)

Thoughts and experiences of an enterprise architect
(tags: architecture EA)

Sunday, July 20, 2008

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Web Services in de Praktijk - Web Services in de Praktijk Casus Invoering in de Gezondheidszorg more...
(tags: architecture wsdl soap webservice standards)

Saturday, July 19, 2008

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thinktecture - WSCF - Web Services Contract First - There has been a lot of buzz around contract-first Web Services design & development lately. A number of people think that it is a good thing and that we finally should reach a state where we all can live and breath it. But most people have been complaini more...
(tags: webservice architecture WSCF WSDL tool)

WSCF - WSDL Wizard Quickstart: Create data and message schema, generate WSDL interface contract and generate code from WSDL - WSCF - Web services Contract-First, for real Create data and message schema, design WSDL interface contract and generate code from WSDL more...
(tags: WSDL architecture visual studio)

open-esb: Home - Project Open ESB implements an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) runtime using Java Business Integration as the foundation. This allows easy integration of web services to create loosely coupled enterprise class composite applications. more...
(tags: architecture ea ESB opensource)

Friday, July 18, 2008

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Web Services Interface Design, Proven Techniques - jSoup Software - Web Services interface design can seem deceptively simple. Many tools for building Web services can automatically generate a service from existing application code. While code generation accelerates development, taking design shortcuts by directly exposin more...
(tags: architecture webservice standards naming conventions)

Welcome to the WS-I Organization's Web site
(tags: architecture webservice standards naming conventions)

Enterprise Abstraction
(tags: EA architecture)

Enterprise Abstraction: Service naming standards
(tags: webservice naming conventions architecture SOA)

Friday, June 27, 2008

Requirements Management and Architecture

  1. Software Requirements Specification (SRS). The Software Requirements Specification is a high-level technical paper consumable by non-technical people. It is typically created by a business analyst or analysts and reviewed by a team of piers. After a satisfactory review, the SRS is passed to a Program Manager and Development Team.
  2. Software Architecture Document (SAD). This is a well-known template from the arsenal of the Rational Unified Process. The Software Architecture Document is created by the development team under the direction of the Program Manager while consulting the Software Requirements Specification.

Wednesday, June 25, 2008

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Overheidsservicebus: OSB - Ontwikkelingen binnen de elektronische overheid zitten in een stroomversnelling. De dienstverlening naar burgers en bedrijven neemt sterk toe. Hierdoor groeit de noodzaak van samenwerking tussen overheidsinstellingen en vindt er steeds meer informatie-uit more...
(tags: architecture)

Saturday, June 21, 2008

SOA Governance

The purpose of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) governance is to ensure that the investments in SOA deployments made by the organization deliver the anticipated benefits both in the short term and throughout their entire lifetime. SOA is intended to be a long-term architecture, so it is reasonable to expect that some of the resources being deployed now will be in use for decades.

SOA governance therefore entails design-time procedures and best practices that deliver services with the best business fit, and with due consideration to the reuse of services by subsequent projects.

Key issues:

  • SOA cannot be planned and implemented by IT on its own, but must be a collaborative effort between business and IT.
  • Technology-driven SOA projects are unlikely to enjoy the degree of reuse that SOA should enable, due to the lack of emphasis on designing services around business fit.
  • Although supporting technologies will be needed, it is more important to put in place the organizational structure and to ensure the right people are put in the right roles.
  • The resources dedicated to SOA governance need to be kept proportionate to the extent of the SOA deployment, the rate of change experienced, and the degree of risk to which it is exposed.

Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Sunday, May 25, 2008

Saturday, May 17, 2008

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IASA - Home - The International Association of Software Architects (IASA) is the premier association focused on the architecture profession through the advancement of best practices and education while delivering programs and services to IT architects of all levels aro more...
(tags: architecture)

Monday, May 12, 2008

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Enterprise architecture framework en methodology
(tags: architecture EA framework)

ReferenceArchitecture - SOA-RM Wiki - This is the public Wiki page for the OASIS Reference Architecture for Service Oriented Architecture (SOA-RA). more...
(tags: SOA-RA SOA OASIS architecture)

Reference Model for Service Oriented Architecture v1.0
(tags: architecture OASIS SOA-RM)

integration reference architecture example
(tags: SOA-RM architecture OASIS)

Conceptual integration reference architecture example
(tags: soa architecture)

The SOA Architect - To understand the role of the architect for SOA first consider the ANSI/IEEE definition that "Architecture is defined by the recommended practice as the fundamental organization of a system, embodied in its components, their relationships to each other an more...
(tags: SOA architecture)

Tuesday, April 29, 2008

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Download details: Architecture Journal Reader (Beta) - We're proud to announce a new offline experience for the Journal, called the "Architecture Journal Reader." Demonstrating many of the UX principles highlighted in recent issues, this new reader is a locally installed application that enables you to ta more...
(tags: tools microsoft architecture)

Sunday, April 27, 2008

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Access Control Concepts - This section provides general background information about Access Control: • Access control overview • Understanding Access Control • Using Access Control • Access Control Resources more...
(tags: microsoft security access control architecture)

Writing Good Use Cases
(tags: usecases UML modelling architecture)

The Power of Enterprise Architecture - ArchiMate is an open and independent modelling language for enterprise architecture, supported by different tool vendors and consulting firms. ArchiMate provides instruments to support enterprise architects in describing, analyzing and visualizing the rel more...
(tags: archimate framework EA architecture enterprise)

Monday, April 14, 2008

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Microsoft België & Luxemburg - MSDN - LEAP - LEAP (Lead Enterprise Architect Program) is meant at complementing the existing skills and experience of aspiring architects with specific architect-level information about Microsoft technology. The acquired knowledge will help the aspiring architect in t more...
(tags: architecture microsoft)

Lead Enterprise Architect Program (LEAP) - Master Class 3 - Infrastructure and Management - Ruud de Jonge
(tags: microsoft architecture)

Wednesday, April 9, 2008

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Enterprise Architecture - Learn how to establish a decision framework that enables the various parts of an organization to articulate how information and technology can be used in the context of business strategy. Gartner will help you understand how to deploy an enterprise archit more... (tags: EA architecture enterprisearchitecture)

NIH Enterprise Architecture - About - The NIH Enterprise Architecture is the design for how information technology (IT) supports the mission and business of all of NIH. The NIH enterprise architecture program consists of the set of processes that create, update, and manage the NIH Enterprise more... (tags: EA enterprisearchitecture architecture)

Tuesday, April 8, 2008

Friday, April 4, 2008

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Design extranet farm topology (Office SharePoint Server) - An extranet environment is a private network that is securely extended to share part of an organization's information or processes with remote employees, external partners, or customers. By using an extranet, you can share any type of content that is host more... (tags: sharepoint architecture)

Sunday, March 30, 2008

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openArchitectureWare.org - Official openArchitectureWare Homepage - openArchitectureWare (oAW) is a modular MDA/MDD generator framework implemented in Java(TM). It supports parsing of arbitrary models, and a language family to check and transform models as well as generate code based on them. Supporting editors are based more... (tags: tools architecture model opensource eclips)

Architectural Blueprintsâ€"The “4+1” View Model of Software Architecture (tags: architecture 4+1 view blueprint)

4+1 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 4+1 is a view model designed by Philippe Kruchten for describing the architecture of software-intensive systems, based on the use of multiple, concurrent views. The views are used to describe the system in the viewpoint of different stakeholders, such as more... (tags: 4+1 architecture view)

Saturday, March 22, 2008

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Selecting the best tools for your software system design - So many tools, and so little time! If you're an IT architect, it can be a daunting task to select the right design tools when architecting your software system. Explore a survey of tools to help determine which ones are best suited to each phase of the pr (tags: architecture tools)

Sunday, March 16, 2008

Dear Mr Architect

I got the following off the Net, but without an attribution.

Dear Mr Architect,

Please design and build me a house. I am not quite sure of what I need, so you should use your discretion.
My house should have between two and forty-five bedrooms. Just make sure the plans are such that the bedrooms can be easily added or deleted. When you bring the blueprints to me, I will make the final decision of what I want. Also, bring me the cost breakdown for each configuration so that I can arbitrarily pick one.
Keep in mind that the house I ultimately choose must cost less than the one I am currently living in. Make sure, however, that you correct all the deficiencies that exist in my current house (the floor of my kitchen vibrates when I walk across it, and the walls don't have nearly enough insulation in them).
As you design, also keep in mind that I want to keep yearly maintenance costs as low as possible. This should mean the incorporation of extra-cost features like aluminum, vinyl, or composite siding. (If you choose not to specify aluminum, be prepared to explain your decision in detail.)
Please take care that modern design practices and the latest materials are used in construction of the house, as I want it to be a showplace for the most up-to-date ideas and methods. Be alerted, however, that kitchen should be designed to accommodate, among other things, my 1952 Gibson refrigerator.
To insure that you are building the correct house for our entire family, make certain that you contact each of our children, and also our in-laws. My mother-in-law will have very strong feelings about how the house should be designed, since she visits us at least once a year. Make sure that you weigh all of these options carefully and come to the right decision. I, however, retain the right to overrule any choices that you make.
Please don't bother me with small details right now. Your job is to develop the overall plans for the house: get the big picture. At this time, for example, it is not appropriate to be choosing the color of the carpet. However, keep in mind that my wife likes blue.
Also, do not worry at this time about acquiring the resources to build the house itself. Your first priority is to develop detailed plans and specifications. Once I approve these plans, however, I would expect the house to be under roof within 48 hours.
While you are designing this house specifically for me, keep in mind that sooner or later I will have to sell it to someone else. It therefore should have appeal to a wide variety of potential buyers. Please make sure before you finalize the plans that there is a consensus of the population in my area that they like the features this house has.
I advise you to run up and look at my neighbor's house he constructed last year. We like it a great deal. It has many features that we would also like in our new home, particularly the 75-foot swimming pool. With careful engineering, I believe that you can design this into our new house without impacting the final cost.
Please prepare a complete set of blueprints. It is not necessary at this time to do the real design, since they will be used only for construction bids. Be advised, however, that you will be held accountable for any increase of construction costs as a result of later design changes.
You must be thrilled to be working on as an interesting project as this! To be able to use the latest techniques and materials and to be given such freedom in your designs is something that can't happen very often. Contact me as soon as possible with your complete ideas and plans.
PS: My wife has just told me that she disagrees with many of the instructions I've given you in this letter. As architect, it is your responsibility to resolve these differences. I have tried in the past and have been unable to accomplish this. If you can't handle this responsibility, I will have to find another architect.

PS: Perhaps what I need is not a house at all, but a travel trailer. Please advise me as soon as possible if this is the case.

Friday, March 14, 2008

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Web Services Architect : Articles : Web Services and STP - This article discusses the fundamentals of STP, the need for, driving forces behind, and benefits of STP, the current state of technology supporting STP, and the relationship of enterprise and business-to-business application integration and business proc (tags: architecture STP SOA)

Computing SA - News - What is enterprise architecture? (tags: architecture)

Thursday, March 13, 2008

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Determine the impact of anonymously accessible form templates (Office SharePoint Server) - If your organization plans to deploy form templates that can be accessed by unauthenticated users, you need to consider a variety of factors in your planning. Without adequate planning, form templates that can be submitted without user authentication can (tags: sharepoint architecture security authentication)

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 top 10 benefits - SharePoint Server - Microsoft Office Online (tags: sharepoint architecture)

Tuesday, March 11, 2008

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Herstelverzekerd.nl - Herstelverzekerd - In samenwerking met ABZ hebben AEGON, Fortis ASR en Nationale-Nederlanden onder de noemer HerstelVerzekerd een communicatieplatform gecreëerd. Inmiddels is ook Reaal verzekeringen tot dit innitiatief toegetreden. Hiermee kunnen de partijen onderling en o (tags: insurance claims architecture)

Thursday, March 6, 2008

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Bewotec GmbH - Vera - Vera â€" de optimale aanvulling op Jack Vera is gebaseerd op Jack en is de perfecte uitbreiding speciaal voor kleine touroperators of reisbureaus met een eigen organisatie. Een uitstekende prestatie tegen een gunstige prijs. Allotments, seizoenen, inko (tags: travel solutions architecture applications touroperator)

Bewotec GmbH - Home - Welkom bij Bewotec GmbH - marktleider op het gebied van hoogwaardige reisbureau- en touroperatorsoftware (tags: travel applications architecture solutions jack)

Juga.nl voor alle gebruikers van Jack en Vera. - Welkom op de JUGA site, de site voor en door JACK en VERA gebruikers (tags: travel architecture proces applications)

Sunday, February 24, 2008

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Upgrading the Claims Process through Predictive Modeling - Founded in 1895, the National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies (NAMIC) is a full-service national trade association serving the property/casualty insurance industry with more than 1,400 member companies that underwrite more than 40 percent of the (tags: predictive modeling fraude prevention architecture insurance)

Stichting CIS - Het doel van Stichting Centraal Informatie Systeem voor in Nederland werkzame verzekeringsmaatschappijen (CIS) is het behartigen van de gemeenschappelijke belangen van de deelnemers inzake het voorkomen en bestrijden van verzekeringsfraude alsmede het uit (tags: insurance architecture fish fraude prevention)

Krammer Software - De makers van Facts! - Hét Programma voor de Registratie van Incidenten en Dossiers - Krammer Software is het bedrijf achter Facts! en de VerzekeringsRing. (tags: insurance fraude fish architecture)

Tuesday, February 19, 2008

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About Us | Current Analysis - Current Analysis provides Competitive Response solutions that enable companies to effectively anticipate and counter competitive threats, and win more business. This is achieved through the rapid delivery of tactical, actionable intelligence to help fast- (tags: architecture analysis trends)

Wednesday, February 13, 2008

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What is SOA, really? - The good news is, you probably already know. The bad news is, you probably know too much. This article describes Service Oriented Architecture in a simple and easy to understand way that is devoid of buzzwords and vendor spin. It’s the introduction to S (tags: SOA architecture development service)

Loosely Coupled Thinking : More Thoughts on SOA and the SO Design Tenets - SOA is an architectural approach to creating systems built from autonomous services. With SOA, integration becomes forethought rather than afterthought - the end solution is likely to be composed of services developed in different programming languages, (tags: SOA architecture patterns services)

Sunday, February 3, 2008

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http://soamatters.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/04/webage-soa-roi.pdf - calculating SOA return on investment (ROI). (tags: SOA ROI architecture)

Wednesday, January 9, 2008

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Codestelsels - http://www.nictiz.nl/uploaded/FILES/Declaratiecasus/Eindrapportage%20codestelsels.pdf (tags: architecture)

Tuesday, January 8, 2008

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Scalepoint Nederland (tags: insurance architecture)

Claimshub :: Home - Verzekeraars staan permanent voor de uitdaging de klanttevredenheid te verhogen, producten en diensten sneller in de markt te plaatsen en tegelijkertijd de kosten en risico's onder controle te houden. De afhandeling van schadeclaims, vaak één van de wei (tags: insurance architecture)

Sunday, January 6, 2008

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De valkuilen bij SOA | Archief | Opinie | Computable.nl - De valkuilen bij SOA Een top 10 van methoden om services te identificeren â€" deel 2 Het identificeren van services voor een service oriented architecture is van groot belang voor het functioneren ervan. Het is hierbij belangrijk om systematisch te we (tags: soa EA architecture)