This article discusses Enterprise Architectures as they relate to the broad decisions that must be made by an organization as it creates its organizational information support system. The discussion is framed within the concept of Strategic Capabilities Architecture which we describe as the guiding architecture for the design and development...
In this paper, one distills the essentials of the Meta-architecture phase of the Visual Architecting Process. The meta-architecture collects together decisions relating to the architecture strategy. It sets direction for the architecture effort, with high-level decisions that will shape the architecture and guide the architects. These include architecture principles, statements...
In this article general business process architecture is presented, which is based on the Architecture of Integrated Information Systems ARIS and which is composed of the four levels of process engineering, process planning and control, workflow control and application systems. The ARIS-House of Business Engineering encompasses the whole life-cycle range:...
When change is desired or necessary, the enterprise's information architecture provides a means for determining the impact of the change and a blueprint for speedy implementation of change. An enterprise's information architecture encompasses data and technology. This paper describes the constancy of change, effective change management practices, an infrastructure that...
If the applications software supporting the services and essential business systems, or the software in the products, is becoming bigger and messier, it is time to consider whether software architecture ought to be a core competency of the business. So, it is fair to ask ?What is software architecture?? This...
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--BUSINESS WIRE--March 27, 1995--Verity Inc., the leading developer of information management software products, Monday announced Topic Architecture -- the first client/server-based information retrieval system to provide users with ubiquitous access to electronic information from across the enterprise and the Internet.
A large telecommunications company found itself wrestling with several significant data and information technology issues - data redundancy, multiple point-to-point interfaces and antiquated information systems. The challenge was to evaluate the company's enterprise information architecture in terms of organization, processes and infrastructure. Deloitte offered an enterprise data warehouse architecture to...
BOSTON -- OASIS, the international e-business standards consortium, today announced that its members have approved the Darwin Information Typing Architecture DITA version 1.0 as an OASIS Standard, a status that signifies the highest level of ratification. DITA defines an XML architecture for designing, writing, managing, and publishing many kinds of...
EDISON, N.J.--BUSINESS WIRE--Feb. 8, 1995--Holistic Systems, the world leader in advanced information management software architecture, Wednesday announced that Subaru of America Inc. (Cherry Hill, N.J.) and Wawa Inc. (Media, Pa.) have selected HOLOS 4.0 to address their executive and management information and reporting requirements.
Hanley Wood, LLC, the leading business-to-business media and information company serving the housing and construction industries, announced today the purchase of ARCHITECTURE and ARCHITECTURAL LIGHTING from VNU Business Media, Inc. ARCHITECTURE will immediately be merged into Hanley Wood's newest launch, ARCHITECT, which debuts in October.
In any organization, there exists a set of interrelated consequences that affect the control of human behavior. Some of these consequences are embodied in formal policies, programs, or procedures, but many are an unwritten part of the culture. The interrelated set of consequences is what IRI terms its Human Resource...
This paper gives a description of architecture for internet mediated simulation games. A Java based implementation of the services which span the architecture resulted in a "ready to use" design of a simulation core and multiple remote user interfaces. The architecture presented in this paper shows the various possibilities for...
HOPKINTON, Mass. -- EMC Corporation, the world leader in information management and storage, today introduced a breakthrough in midrange storage performance, scalability and economics with its new EMCR CLARiiONR UltraScaleTM architecture and CX3 series of networked storage systems. The new CLARiiON CX3 UltraScale series is designed from the ground up...
In the new millennium, enterprise architecture is playing an increasingly important role in plans to improve management in the US Federal government. The advancement of enterprise architecture has been remarkably rapid, despite the fact that this concept is highly complex and multidimensional. The article explains all about enterprise architecture, recent...
This white paper provides an overview of the business philosophies and methodology behind Persuasion Architecture. Within this paper you will: Learn why selling with buying go hand-in-hand, and how Persuasion Architecture facilitates merging the two processes; Learn the architectural metaphors for Persuasion Architecture; Learn the true nature of conversion as...
This paper introduces a concept called architecture challenges and describes why it plays a crucial important role in the process of formulating a software architecture for a system. The first half of the paper describes what architecture challenges are, why they are important, how to identify them, and how to...
MALMO, Sweden and IRVINE, California -- Telelogic (Stockholm Exchange: TLOG), the leading provider of software solutions that align advanced systems and software development with business objectives, today announced that SYSTEM ARCHITECT, its leading enterprise architecture and business process analysis tool set, has added support for the NATO Architecture Framework NAF,...
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