Architecture, Data and Intelligence

In many organizations there is a growing awareness of the need for data governance. This is often driven by a perception that something is l...

Although ethical principles have been put forward by philosophers through the ages, the first person to articulate ethical principles for ...

Google has been hoist by its own petard: it seems obliged to ban its own browser from its own search engine for infringing its strict rules....

# entarch people seem to spend a lot of time defining the building blocks of architecture, and insisting on the correct definition. Some of...

What are the problems of large complex sociotechnical systems? How far do SOA and enterprise architecture help to address this problem space...

One of the key challenges with shared data and shared services is the question of data quality. Who is responsible for mistakes? @ tonyrco...

@tetradian has an interesting post on Big EA, Little EA and Personal EA ., based loosely on Patti Ancram's classification of knowledge m...

Following my post Does Britain Need Smaller Banks? Fred Fickling objected to my point that large banks are more difficult to regulate. ...

In his piece Flashlights not Bailouts , Phil Gilbert describes the classic CBD/SOA argument: standardization/rationalization/reuse. "On...

In a discussion on the CBDI Forum Linked-In Group , Dave Ruzius proposes an SOA Bank. 'Did anyone ever consider a "SOA Bank...

One of the problems with a network of services is that the responsibilities and costs and risks are often in the wrong place. In this post...

Nick Malik asks Should SOA be Top Down or Bottom Up . He suggests that architects need to pay attention to the big pieces and can ignore the...

There are several enterprise architecture approaches (TOGAF, DoDAF, MoDAF) based on the work of John Zachman and his Kiplingesque sextet: ...

I've just received a preparation pack for the SPARK workshop , including a new copy of Christopher Alexander's book Timeless Way of ...

Twin-track development involves a management separation between the development of components and services, and the development of larger ar...

In my previous post on SOA Chaos 2 , I discussed Jeff Schneider's view that Stupid People Shouldn't Do SOA .  I've now been look...

Philip Boxer and I have two papers in the Microsoft Architecture Journal. Metropolis and SOA Governance: Towards the Agile Metropolis (Ar...

In many activities, there is a highly variable relationship between the quantity of input and the quantity of output. For example, Naba Bar...

Lots of edge thinking in the web services world at the moment. Peter Cousins (Iona) has been talking about Integration at the Edge . Good ...

One of the key problems faced by planning (in IT and elsewhere) has been the dilemma – top-down or bottom-up. Top-down methods produce gran...