Gartner MQ for Application Performance Monitoring 2012

Gartner MQ for APM is available for download free courtesy Quest (part of Dell now). Grab it before it goes away from here

Download The Forrester Wave™: EA Management Suites, Q2 2013

Forrester’s EA Management Suites report is out and you can download it free as Software AG is providing it complimentary.

You can download it from here http://www.softwareag.com/corporate/rc/rc_perma.asp?id=tcm:16-108162

Free Event : Delivering Enterprise Architecture with TOGAF and ArchiMate

 

Date and time:
Thursday, November 29, 2012 11:00 am
Eastern Standard Time (New York, GMT-05:00)

Panelist(s) Info:

Bas van Gils, PhD (EA Consultant, BiZZdesign)

Duration:
1 hour

Description:

The Open Group standards for enterprise architecture – TOGAF® and ArchiMate® – are increasingly adopted on a global scale. As these standards converge, more and more organizations use them in conjunction to build an effective EA practice. As with many things: the proof of the pudding is in the eating. In this webinar we will therefore zoom in on the value add of the combination of TOGAF and ArchiMate. In order to cater for a broad audience, we will start with a high-level overview of both standards and then show with practical examples how the standards can be used in conjunction to deliver business value.

https://opengroupevents.webex.com/ec0606l/eventcenter/enroll/join.do?confViewID=1003076185&theAction=detail&confId=1003076185&path=program_detail&siteurl=opengroupevents

Download Gartner MQ for Enterprise Architecture Tools 2012

Gartner has published Magic Quadrant 2012 for Enterprise Architecture Tools. EA tools are an important asset while executing the vision of Enterprise Architecture. Every EA should be proficient in atleast one the tools. The members and positions in leaders quadrant remain almost same as compared to last year.

Troux is offering free reprint of the report for download. You can download it from here:

http://resources.troux.com/gartnermq?utm_campaign=Gartner-MQ-Homepage-Banner

The Open Group Conference - Cannes, France. April 201

As technologies such as Cloud Computing, mobile, social, and big data/analytics mature (the four pillars), organizations will increasingly look to implement them as part of their Enterprise Transformation projects.  The Open Group Conference in Cannes will provide an opportunity for delegates to:

• Further investigate the use of the four pillars based on real-life experiences and best practices
• Learn how they can be utilized to best affect as part of a standards-based Enterprise Architecture (EA) strategy
• Understand how organizations move from an IT-centric to an enterprise-centric position that includes a more complete view of the business and not just IT?

These will be followed by learning opportunities, including tutorials and case studies, within tracks, such as:

• EA and Enterprise Transformation
• EA Professional Development
• Trusted Technology
• Agile Enterprise Architecture
• Cyber and Cloud Security.

On a lighter note, The Open Group Conference in Cannes will also play host to the third Open Cannes Awards, a fun evening amongst the serious side of the Conference!  Find out more about the Awards and how you can get involved.

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Register for The Open Group Conference in Cannes, France. April 23-27, 2012
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Security Development Conference

EVOLVING FROM PRINCIPLES TO PRACTICES

Industry and government decision makers are increasingly aware that operational security protections and regulatory compliance are insufficient in protecting global applications and infrastructures. Organizations are realizing the value of Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) practices and seek to accelerate adoption and articulate this value to management.

The inaugural Security Development Conference 2012 (SDC 2012) will bring together industry professionals to network and learn from security experts about Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) practices. SDC 2012 will include information for leaders in software engineering, process and business management who are responsible for accelerating the adoption and effectiveness of SDL practices in their organizations.

https://www.securitydevelopmentconference.com/main.aspx

Scoop.it : All in one Curation Engine

This is NOT a sponsored post.

Recently I got a chance to use the free version of Scoop.it and I must admit, it came very close to my model of Curation Engine.

You can read more about previous posts on Curation Engine model here:

• Content Curation in 5 Steps
• Content Curation Tools and examples
• Content Curation Types

Visit www.scoop.it and try for yourself. You will love it.

Secure your Data in Cloud

Microsoft has released a new SDK and Management called “Microsoft Codename Trust Services SDK and Management Tool” to encrypt the data before storing it in the cloud.

Microsoft Codename Trust Services is an application-level end to end encryption-based framework that can be used to encrypt stored content. Data publishers can use Trust Services to encrypt data before it is stored in Windows Azure storage or SQL Azure, and authorized subscribers of data can decrypt data after it is read from storage. Using Trust Services encrypts the data, and helps reduce concerns about unauthorized access to data by Windows Azure administrators and/or unauthorized third parties. Using Trust Services helps address data security, privacy, and sovereignty issues that might block or limit typical scenarios, such as distributing data to branch offices, making data accessible to mobile employees or customers, sharing data across businesses, and leveraging cloud scale for computation and analytics.

Download SDK

Checklist for Application Architecture and Design

• Architecture and Design Checklist
• Communication Guidelines Checklist
• Presentation Layer Checklist
• Business Layer Checklist
• Data Access Layer Checklist
• Service Layer Checklist
• Web Application Checklist
• Rich Internet Application (RIA) Checklist
• Rich Client Application Checklist
• Service Archetype Checklist
• Mobile Application Checklist

The Business Model Canvas

The Business Model Canvas is an interesting quick semi-formal modelling tool to create a public facing view of an enterprise or an organization.

It kind of covers why the business exists in first place and how it is related to other parties in its ecosystem.

Covers following areas of concerns:

• Key Partners
• Key Activities
• Value Propositions
• Customer Relationships
• Customer Segments
• Key Resources
• Channels
• Cost Structure
• Revenue Streams

More at http://www.businessmodelgeneration.com

How a typical CIO organization will look on this canvas ?

Analyze your connections using NodeXL free

NodeXL is a free, open-source template for Microsoft® Excel® 2007 and 2010 that makes it easy to explore network graphs.  With NodeXL, you can enter a network edge list in a worksheet, click a button and see your graph, all in the familiar environment of the Excel® window.

You can connect the NodeXL directly to your twitter, flickr or youtube accounts and analyze the connections.

http://nodexl.codeplex.com/