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A long time ago, I did some work for a client that had an out-of-date and inflexible billing system.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

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

A serious aviation incident in the news today. A plane took off from Birmingham last year with insufficient fuel, because the weight of the ...

#WorldBank #DataModel I recently went through a data modelling exercise, underlining and classifying the nouns in a set of functional design...

@ JohnIMM (John Owens) trots out a familiar piece of advice about data modelling today. "Want to know what data entities your busine...

cross-posted from SOA Process blog One thing I keep getting asked why the CBDI Service Architecture and Engineering method distinguishes ...

Andrea Westerinen (Microsoft) posts some modelling guidelines, and she was told that some people's heads exploded when reading them. Wha...

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

Marco writes about Event Models - Identity , and points out that there may not be a simple mapping between events and the reporting of event...

Here's a neat little example of semantic ambiguity. The UK supermarket Tesco has bowed to a campaign by grammatical purists, who object ...

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 ...

Adam Shostack ( Is 2,100 breaches of security a lot? ) raises some good questions about the latest security breach. When I hear that HMRC h...

In a recent post on my other blog, Gordon Brown, Enterprise Architect , I pointed out the resemblence between an enterprise architecture and...

Pat Helland regrets ... Pat Helland has resumed blogging, having recently returned to Microsoft from a sojourn at Amazon. In his latest post...

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...

Adam Shostack's latest post reminds us that It Depends What The Meaning of "Credit Report" Is . For what purpose were social...

Sean McGrath (Propylon) thinks purpose-agnosticism to be one of the really useful bits of SOA. He refers to a posting he made to the Yahoo ...

Does it make sense to talk about reusing services, or should we talk instead about repurposing? The word repurpose is largely being pushed...