IASA World Summit has been scheduled on Dec 6th and 7th.
Core Topics include following :
Get more information here :
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.
CIO.com @CIOonline
Meeting the Challenges of Hybrid Cloud Computing Infrastructures http://trib.al/z2kVrv
StrategyArchitecture @strategyarch
Banks are becoming more Innovation friendly http://bit.ly/Szbqoj
StrategyArchitecture @strategyarch
Download Gartner Magic Quadrant for Web Content Management http://bit.ly/SwvffK
Gartner @Gartner_inc
Gartner Says Worldwide Enterprise IT Spending is Forecast to Grow 2.5 Percent in 2013 http://gtnr.it/W9VC1k
StrategyArchitecture @strategyarch
Free eBook : Agile for Dummies http://bit.ly/ZDgcWE
Forrester Research @forrester
An improved, superior #CustExp can equal BILLIONS in incremental revenue. That's billions, with a B. #outsidein
Nilofer Merchant @nilofer
5 of 5 stars to HBR Guide to Persuasive Presentations by Nancy Duarte http://bit.ly/QGJ0xj
Highlights from the Infosys and EFMA innovation in retail banking report 2012. The study of 300 banks across Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Asia-Pacific region, and the Americas found that online and mobile channels are growing rapidly, with banks focused on areas of innovation that will attract new customers and grow revenues.
Get the full report from here :
http://www.infosys.com/finacle/resources/industry-reports/Pages/index.aspx
Few days back, Gartner released its Magic Quadrant for Horizontal Portals. Here is a quick description of scope of this MQ.
Gartner defines a portal as "a Web software infrastructure that provides interaction with relevant information assets (for example, information/content, applications and business processes), knowledge assets and human assets by select targeted audiences, delivered in a highly personalized manner." Enterprise portals may face different audiences, including:
Of course, the public-sector corollaries to these three high-level audience types are also considered applicable. A portal product is a packaged software application that is used to create and maintain enterprise portals. These products can be used to design vertical or horizontal portals:
Oracle being one of the leaders is providing the reprint of this MQ as free download. Grab it from here.
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
Microsoft Asia Pacific is hosting a virtual event on November 21, 2012 to offer participants a unique opportunity to learn about Microsoft vision for Enterprise Social and discuss the implications to their own organization.
Speakers
Register for the event here:
http://www.microsoft.com/enterprise/en-au/events/ms-vision-ent-social.aspx#fbid=AfIkbYtLX2f
Each one of us have few things on our ‘TO-DO’ list which we hate to do but we know that they need to be done. HBR shares few practical career tips on how to motivate yourself to do this task.
The one which I liked most is this one -
Pay yourself. Set up an account – a savings account, a gift card, an iTunes account – and pay into it every time you complete an especially challenging project. Set different dollar amounts depending on the size and unpleasantness of the task.
Read rest here :
http://hbr.org/tip/2012/11/01/reward-yourself-for-doing-the-tasks-you-hate
Gartner @Gartner_inc
Couldn’t make it to Barcelona for #GartnerSYM? Sign in or Sign up to access free keynotes and 3 session credits: http://gtnr.it/SFs0n3
The S&A Group @thesandagroup
I'm hiring! Global Head of Enterprise Architecture at The Strategy & Architectur - United Kingdom #jobs http://lnkd.in/7rFe9S
Ovum ICT @OvumICT
Mobile and social application integration is different in nature from cloud and enterprise application integration http://bit.ly/TwHVVi
CIO.com @CIOonline
Gartner Upbeat on Big Data Jobs http://trib.al/XDtwXQ
Microsoft Enterprise @MSFTenterprise
Personal branding advice and cautions for executives using Twitter and other social media outlets http://bit.ly/Vqj3Dc
TOGAF(R) @togaf_r
Learn about TOGAF 9 Certification, now aligned with TOGAF 9.1. Practice tests, white papers, templates etc http://ow.ly/bX9TI
TheNextWeb.com offers some tips on how to manage your time and efforts between your work and urge to work on new ideas. While the context of article is mainly about starting something of your own, its equally relevant in day to day work life where your interest in working on a topic is much higher than a task/topic you are supposed to work today. The more your work domain is different from your interest domain, the higher the challenges.
Here are the tips:
Read tnw article here :
Windows 8 is New. Windows 8 is different. Dell.com is distributing free eBook on Windows 8.
Grab it now before it goes away.
Latest edition of Microsoft Security Intelligence Report is out.
Volume 13 of the Microsoft® Security Intelligence Report (SIRv13) provides in-depth perspectives on software vulnerabilities and exploits, malicious code threats, and potentially unwanted software in Microsoft and third-party software. Microsoft developed these perspectives based on detailed trend analyses over the past several years, with a focus on the first half of 2012.
HTML/Javascript continues to top the list when it comes to being platform for exploits.
You can download the full detailed report from here.
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=34955
Recently came across this interesting video on how to improve customer interaction experience by influencing the productivity on customer side also. The author in this video talks about how Starbucks took a disruptive approach which may not be as customer friendly but improves overall service experience for both sides.
After watching this I realized, how much I have been practicing the same approach for many years during my career with my clients. I as a consultant mostly work with large enterprises which have many people to spend lot of time on long calls which can be done quickly. So to improve mine and their productivity, I mostly end up influencing their work style. What is your experience ?
Video : http://blogs.hbr.org/video/2012/05/how-starbucks-trains-customers.html
Now that Mr. Obama has been elected President for another 4 years, what is our wish list for him related to Technology ?
We have in 4 areas.
Education : Encourage and Promote STEM education.
Skills : Facilitate importing of skills which are in shortage.
Government : Create policies which facilitate technology adoption and let Government agencies be the leaders in adoption.
Research : Fund and Promote research in areas where Sustainability is the core interest.
As part of its ongoing symposium, Gartner today published its point of view on what future holds for IT organizations and CIO. They have identified following four futures for CIOs.
While Gartner sees them as four dominant futures, I see them more as four stages of their journey. My view goes like this:
Read more about Gartner’s press release here :
Thanks to Open Group, They are broadcasting Live, their Big Data conference from Barcelona.
The Open Group will be running a series of live broadcasts from its meeting: Big Data - The Next Frontier in the Enterprise. This will provide a valuable opportunity to get involved in this event which will address the Enterprise Architecture challenges and solutions in the context of the growth of Big Data. Broadcast sessions are:
How Companies Extract Insight and Foresight from Big Data - Plenary presentation by Scott Radeztsky, CTO, Deloitte Analytics Innovation Centres - October 22, 8.50am (CET)
Boardroom Business Architecture - What Executives Want to Know About Big Data and Analytics - Plenary presentation by Peter Haviland, Head of Business Architecture, Ernst and Young & Mick Adams, Chief Business Architect, Ernst & Young - October 22, 9.50am (CET)
Enterprise Information Management - An Architect's Guide to Big Data - Plenary presentation by Helen Sun, Senior Director of Enterprise Architecture, Oracle - October 22, 11.10am (CET)
Big Data Needs Big Architecture - An Architectural Approach to Business Information - Plenary presentation by Ron Tolido, CTO, Application Services in Europe, Capgemini & Manuel Sevilla, CTO, Global Business Information Management TLI, Capgemini - October 22, 12.00pm (CET)
Delivering Enterprise Architecture with TOGAF® and ArchiMate® - Presentation by Henry Franken, CEO, BiZZdesign - October 22, 2.00pm (CET)
Future Airborne Capability Environment (FACE™) Ask the Experts - Get your questions answered by members of the FACE Consortium and find out about their future plans and deliverables -
October 24, 4.00pm (CET)
To participate in these live broadcasts or view the recordings, please register at: https://new.livestream.com/opengroup/
Open Group has released TOGAF 9.1 web documentation which has been optimized for mobile and Tablet devices. The documentation is available free for public.
This is the next post in the series for ‘Content Curation’ :
With so much digital action happening in consumer world, digital curation is becoming utmost important. From individuals to marketing professionals, everyone wants perfect digital curation tools. Amongst all this, there is a question if traditional journalism and newspaper still delivers value.
The answer to this is absolute ‘YES’.
If you apply the Theory of Need and Want to digital curation world, you know that while digital curation tools address mostly the ‘Want’ part, the traditional journalism addresses mostly ‘Need’ part.
My recommendation, enterprises apart from adopting digital curation tools should also have a traditional journalism group within to help employees know what they need to know.
Few days back I discussed Kotter’s 8 steps for leading Change Management program in context to Enterprise Architecture Program.
Rolf Smith’s 7 levels of change shows how to execute the change in terms of from simple to complex steps and increasing impact.
Have you ever designed your Change Management Program using any of these models ?
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:
These will be followed by learning opportunities, including tutorials and case studies, within tracks, such as:
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.
Register for The Open Group Conference in Cannes, France. April 23-27, 2012
Explore exhibition and sponsorship opportunities
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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.
The message :
We are pleased to announce a new membership opportunity for individuals to join and contribute to The Green Grid’s valuable work! The Green Grid provides a great way for you to get to know and work with industry experts on IT, facilities, and operation of efficient computing infrastructures.
Individual membership is open to individuals who are passionate about resource efficiency in business computing, saving money, and saving resources. Employees of a TGG member company are already eligible to receive membership rights through their companies so they are not eligible for Individual Memberships. You can check the Members List to see if your company is a member. To learn more, read the press release and visit the Become a Member page to watch the Executive Director’s short video about this new level of membership!
For an annual fee of $400, Individual Members of The Green Grid receive the following benefits:
v One complimentary registration pass for The Green Grid Forum 2012 (a $250 value)
v Admittance to the members-only Web site with exclusive, early access to documents before they are published to the public as well as access to members-only resources at no additional cost
v Participation in committee and work groups, as well as global expansion initiatives
v Participation in all General Meetings of The Green Grid
v Participation in members-only webcasts on technical topics such as technology, market studies, and roadmaps
v Exclusive use of The Green Grid Individual member logo
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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:
Visit www.scoop.it and try for yourself. You will love it.
This is third post in Content Curation series.
You can read the previous two posts here:
There are basically three types of curation engines:
Individual – This is the one which we all do to get best and add our part to it. We use Twitter, facebook, Google Reader, etc to aggregate best of content for our reading. We even share our curated content with others to consume.
Crowd – Yes, the wisdom of crowd. This is what you see on digg or trending topics on twitter.
Software – This is the only automated engine and is becoming more and more popular and efficient. These are the agents which continuously scan the web for popular and highly rated content. Two of the good examples are:
News gadget on iGoogle
Every type of engine has its own pros and cons. While the individuals can do a personalized curation, software based curation helps in discovering new content.
The goal is to create an engine which brings best of all three types.
Do you know of any such engine ?
Continuing to my earlier post on Content Curation in 5 Steps, here is list of some digital content curation tools. The list can be endless and so I have picked few popular ones.
Most of the tools come under one or more of the following categories
Twitter is an example of personal and aggregator content curation.
The Huffington Post is a great example of team of humans doing curation which includes lot of content creation too.
Paper.li works very well with twitter hastags and does create a page automatically.
So, what are the content curation platforms you use in your daily routines ?
Content Curation is the antidote for Information Overload.
Here are the basic steps done during content curation.
Discover
Discover refers to activity where you decide the topic of your content curation. It can be need of yours, organization or community in general.
Research
One you have decided on the topic you start researching it. This includes collecting all the content which has already been published related to this topic. It includes exploring books, blogs, feeds, twitter, journals and even talking to people and publishing surveys.
Filter
After collection all the related content already published, now is the time to select the quality and unique ones. Rest is all discarded or archived.
Synthesize
This step refers to studying and understanding the selected material. Connecting the isolated content published and figuring out the gaps. Filling those gaps by creating the content. Creating something which is useful and unique.
Share
Share refers to publishing or teaching the new content produced in form of blog, book, presentations, podcast, etc.
I welcome comments from all content curators.
Thursday, March 15, 2012 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM CDT
The journey to the cloud can be fraught with problems and detours. Unless of course you know the secret language used by Cloud professionals. A language filled with initials and acronyms like IaaS, PaaS and more. The goal of this webinar is to introduce you to the terms and components of cloud computing. This introduction will arm you with what you need to know as you begin considering cloud solutions.
Register here : https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/474512930
The Banking Industry Architecture Network (BIAN) and The Open Group today announced a partnership to integrate their individual industry frameworks for specific use in the banking industry. Mapping together these frameworks will accelerate project delivery, while dramatically reducing IT integration costs.
BIAN and The Open Group have collaborated to produce a white paper, in which the core elements of the two individual frameworks have been projected onto each other. This is a practical document, which will be used by enterprise architects within banks and the vendor community who wish to reap the benefits of both architecture frameworks. There are clear synergies in using BIAN’s Service Landscape in combination with TOGAF ®. When applying TOGAF®, an Open Group standard, in a banking environment, the BIAN content will speed up the work by providing banking-specific architecture content. On the flip side, TOGAF provides a structured approach and adds value to the BIAN deliverables for the project approach and capability to perform.
The World Economic Forums’ Technology Pioneers 2012 report is out and here are few of the interesting companies featured in Information Technologies and New Media category.
Appirio enables companies to navigate today’s complex cloud computing ecosystem. Provides rapid application development platform over existing cloud platforms.”Appirio was able to build a cloud-based CRM (customer relations management programme) for Starbucks in just four weeks, based on a SalesForce.com software framework”
CloudFlare’s intelligent network accelerates Web traffic over the Internet while deftly dodging abusive bots, crawlers and denial of service attack. The virtual scaled out Web.
DoubleVerify provides tools designed to restore public confidence in business forced to operate in a global net environment increasingly exposed to swindlers, malware and cyber theft.
Dropbox connects the cloud to everyday life. We all know DropBox.
Kickstarter’s innovative crowd-funding platform lets the public in on venture capital funding for imaginative projects.
Living PlanIT develops operating systems for future cities.
Mocana’s responds to the “Internet of Things” with a deviceindependent secure platform for smart communications.
Palantir pioneers an engineering-centred approach to radically change the way data is analysed.
Download complete report from http://www.weforum.org
Under Open Market Data Initiative, Bloomberg has released its market data interfaces as free and open APIs which can be consumed by anyone with no restrictions.
The APIs are available in Java, C, C++ and .NET
Here are some deep links to get started quickly.
http://open.bloomberg.com/pdf/blpapi-developers-guide.pdf
http://open.bloomberg.com/pdf/bloomberg_open_market_data_whitepaper.pdf
On a side thought, they can be a very good reference on how to design high performance public interfaces and APIs.
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.
Few days back I blogged about Green Cloud .. how Cloud Computing is indirectly promoting Green Computing.
Here is an interesting group of influential members which aim to bring energy efficiency to data centers.
The Green Grid is a non-profit, open industry consortium of end-users, policy-makers, technology providers, facility architects, and utility companies collaborating to improve the resource efficiency of data centers and business computing ecosystems. With more than 175 member companies around the world, The Green Grid seeks to unite global industry efforts, create a common set of metrics, and develop technical resources and educational tools to further its goals.
Covers:
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:
More at http://www.businessmodelgeneration.com
How a typical CIO organization will look on this canvas ?
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.
TOGAF is an aid which assist in the field of Enterprise Architecture. It provides guidelines, templates, models, framework, tools, methods, processes, etc which cover the entire lifecycle for Enterprise Architecture, right from setting up EA practice or function within an organization to creating and maintaining Enterprise Architectures.
Lets start with some facts:
First developed in 1995, TOGAF was based on the US Department of Defense Technical Architecture Framework for Information Management (TAFIM)
TOGAF 9.1 can be used for developing a broad range of different enterprise architectures. TOGAF complements, and can be used in conjunction with, other frameworks that are more focused on specific deliverables for particular vertical sectors such as Government, Telecommunications, Manufacturing, Defense, and Finance.
TOGAF assists in creating all four major parts of any Enterprise Architecture:
Overall TOGAF documentation is divided into 6 parts which also indicate the ways it helps as shown in above figure:
The recommended cloud security stack, standards, and operating frameworks have rapidly evolved into a set of production quality best practices for the Enterprise to use to engage each cloud provider. However, as scale is applied, managing 1-n cloud relationships and services across hybrid environments points to a brokered or intermediary model to solve security complexity, aggregate services, & add new value. Intel will present how a Cloud Access Layer & CSA standards managed by IT, Integrators or Provider “brokers” can solve complexity for user and application service interactions with the cloud.
Panel: “Cloud Innovation - The Panel's View on the Next Generation of Cloud Security Devices and Services”
This panel will give attendees insight into next generation cloud security devices and services. This panel will feature experts who will examine the next iteration of innovation in Cloud Security and how these devices and services advance the industry.
Panel: “National and International Security Standards - The Viability of Cross-Jurisdictional Solutions”
Today’s security standards are based on historical, legacy information technologies and don’t necessarily address cloud computing environments in an effective manner. Attempts to update them are an improvement, but will we be able to create a single (or limited) number of standards that will be viable across borders and jurisdictions? This panel discussion will cover the current standards, their applicability and a look into the future of cloud computing standards.
https://cloudsecurityalliance.org/events/csa-summit-rsa-2012/
If you have a passion for User Experience and in particular Visual Design, this article is one of the best written ones.
Microsoft: Design for the time
Apple: Design for timelessness
http://www.theverge.com/2011/12/16/2640050/on-design-the-philosophies-of-apple-and-microsoft
Recently Microsoft released its Privacy principles based on which it provides privacy protections in software products and Internet services.
Here are they at high level:
Loughborough University’s study on ‘Privacy Impact Assessments’ is an important work in this field.
Change Management is an integral part of any Enterprise Architecture program. Infact leading an Enterprise Architecture program as Change Management program can help in addressing lot of issues which are beyond technology and more related to culture and organization dynamics.
What better than Kotter’s 8 steps for leading the Change Management Program.
Have you ever led change management programs ? Have you followed Kotter’s steps ? What has been your success rate ?
While each one of us are well aware of the biggest benefits of Cloud Computing which are Cost efficiency and Agility. There is an increasing consensus that technologies like virtualization, data center and cloud computing helps in efficient use of resources like electricity and in turn helps reducing carbon emissions. In summary helps IT shops becoming greener.
Recent surveys by Gartner show that sustainable business practices will be a top five priority for more than 60 percent of Western European and North American Chief Executive Officers in the year to come.
“Cooling currently accounts for up to 50% of a Datacenter’s power consumption, therefore there needs to be a new focus on how businesses can improve the efficiency in how they deliver their IT services which in turn would lead to reductions in both heat generated and power consumed”
So, what are your thoughts on this ? Beyond hardware consolidation, how can you design greener architectures ?
Calligo has some interesting thoughts on this. http://www.calligo.net
