Architecture, Data and Intelligence

A long time ago, I did some work for a client that had an out-of-date and inflexible billing system. The software would send invoices and mo...

A friend of mine shares an email thread from his organization discussing the definition of CUSTOMER, disagreeing as to which categories of s...

I once did some data architecture and modelling for NHS Blood and Transplant . This is a UK-wide agency responsible for blood, organs and ot...

Data sharing and collaboration between different specialist areas requires agreement and transparency about the structure and meaning of the...

In many contexts (such as healthcare) interoperability is considered to be a Good Thing. Johns and Stead argue that "we have ...

Last year, Facebook changed its mission statement, from "Making The World More Open And Connected" to "Bringing The World Clo...

Once upon a time, people thought of an information model as defining the structure of the stuff you want to remember. Nowadays, this def...

By popular demand, many companies are shifting ownership of elements of corporate infrastructure onto their employees. This is known as BYOC...

At an architecture workshop in Vienna last week, I put together a few slides to address some questions about interfaces. I promised to post ...

A customary way of modelling an enterprise is as a collection of purposeful behaviours - functions or processes or capabilities or whatever....

Starbucks is changing its business model. Or as CEO Howard Schultz tells the Huffington Post, Staying Real in an Instant . Starbucks will be...

What lies in store? Complex Event Processing (CEP) guru David Luckham asks What are your predictions for 2009? What challenges? Prediction i...

When I wrote my piece on Post-Before-Processing , I wasn't thinking about how it might apply to the design process. So when I read Saul ...

Nick Malik asks whether a common vocabulary is a blessing or curse . Who benefits from a common vocabulary - whose agenda is it? IT architec...

There really is something on the Internet for everyone. While my son was laughing his head off at the singing kittens on RatherGood.com , I ...

Just been reading an excellent blog post by Tim Berners-Lee about the Giant Global Graph, telling a familiar story in a powerful and elegan...

As technological interoperability improves, so we are faced with interoperability problems at a higher level. The latest illustration of thi...

Seth Godin reports an interesting juxtaposition . Pain reliever recalled after metal found in pills. Google finds a matching image to illust...

In a recent post, Semantic Coupling, the Elephant in the SOA Room , Rocky Lhotka identified semantic coupling as one of the challenges of SO...

There is an urban myth that Americans in Europe always complain about the showers and the plumbing. My fellow Brit Phil Wainewright, current...