Pragmatic Enterprise Architecture

Author : James Luisi
Publisher : Morgan Kaufmann
ISBN 13 : 0128005025
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pragmatic Enterprise Architecture written by James Luisi and published by Morgan Kaufmann. This book was released on 2014-03-15 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pragmatic Enterprise Architecture is a practical hands-on instruction manual for enterprise architects. This book prepares you to better engage IT, management, and business users by equipping you with the tools and knowledge you need to address the most common enterprise architecture challenges. You will come away with a pragmatic understanding of and approach to enterprise architecture and actionable ideas to transform your enterprise. Experienced enterprise architect James V. Luisi generously shares life cycle architectures, transaction path analysis frameworks, and more so you can save time, energy, and resources on your next big project. As an enterprise architect, you must have relatable frameworks and excellent communication skills to do your job. You must actively engage and support a large enterprise involving a hundred architectural disciplines with a modest number of subject matter experts across business, information systems, control systems, and operations architecture. They must achieve their mission using the influence of ideas and business benefits expressed in simple terms so that any audience can understand what to do and why. Pragmatic Enterprise Architecture gives you the tools to accomplish your goals in less time with fewer resources. Expand your Enterprise Architecture skills so you can do more in less time with less money with the priceless tips presented Understand the cost of creating new Enterprise Architecture disciplines and contrast those costs to letting them go unmanaged Includes 10 life cycle architectures so that you can properly assess the ROI of performing activities such as outsourcing, insourcing, restructuring, mergers and acquisitions, and more Complete appendix of eight transaction path analysis frameworks provide DBA guidelines for proper physical database design

Author : Kevin L. Smith
Publisher : Pragmatic EC Limited
ISBN 13 : 9781908424013
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.1X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Introduction to Peaf written by Kevin L. Smith and published by Pragmatic EC Limited. This book was released on 2011-05-01 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reference provides a practical introduction to PEAF (pragmatic enterprise architecture framework) and its use in enterprise-architecture practice for those who want to explore how to get an enterprise on track with EA.

Author : Kevin Lee Smith
Publisher : Anchor Books
ISBN 13 : 9781908424006
Total Pages : 105 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Introduction to PEAF written by Kevin Lee Smith and published by Anchor Books. This book was released on 2011 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Stefan Bente
Publisher : Newnes
ISBN 13 : 0124159893
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Collaborative Enterprise Architecture written by Stefan Bente and published by Newnes. This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever-changing business needs have prompted large companies to rethink their enterprise IT. Today, businesses must allow interaction with their customers, partners, and employees at more touch points and at a depth never thought previously. At the same time, rapid advances in information technologies, like business digitization, cloud computing, and Web 2.0, demand fundamental changes in the enterprises’ management practices. These changes have a drastic effect not only on IT and business, but also on policies, processes, and people. Many companies therefore embark on enterprise-wide transformation initiatives. The role of Enterprise Architecture (EA) is to architect and supervise this transformational journey.Unfortunately, today’s EA is often a ponderous and detached exercise, with most of the EA initiatives failing to create visible impact. The enterprises need an EA that is agile and responsive to business dynamics. Collaborative Enterprise Architecture provides the innovative solutions today’s enterprises require, informed by real-world experiences and experts’ insights. This book, in its first part, provides a systematic compendium of the current best practices in EA, analyzes current ways of doing EA, and identifies its constraints and shortcomings. In the second part, it leaves the beaten tracks of EA by introducing Lean, Agile, and Enterprise 2.0 concepts to the traditional EA methods. This blended approach to EA focuses on practical aspects, with recommendations derived from real-world experiences. A truly thought provoking and pragmatic guide to manage EA, Collaborative Enterprise Architecture effectively merges the long-term oriented top-down approach with pragmatic bottom-up thinking, and that way offers real solutions to businesses undergoing enterprise-wide change. Covers the latest emerging technologies affecting business practice, including digitization, cloud computing, agile software development, and Web 2.0 Focuses on the practical implementation of EAM rather than theory, with recommendations based on real-world case studies Addresses changing business demands and practices, including Enterprise 2.0, open source, global sourcing, and more Takes an innovative approach to EAM, merging standard top-down and pragmatic, bottom-up strategies, offering real solutions to businesses undergoing enterprise-wide changes

Author : Kevin Lee Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781908424105
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Enterprise Architecture - A Pragmatic Approach Using PEAF written by Kevin Lee Smith and published by . This book was released on 2014-09-01 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PEAF inherits and builds on POET (ISBN:978-1-908424-07-5) therefore reading and understanding PEAF requires that you have previously read and understood POET. PEAF is also available as a POET+PEAF Box Set. (ISBN: 978-1-908424-28-0). PEAF does not tell you how to be a CxO, Executive, Strategic Planner, Enterprise Architect, Business Architect, Solution Architect, Portfolio Planner, Portfolio Manager, etc, etc, etc. What PEAF does do is expose a holistic environment and context of Methods, Artefacts, Culture and Environment that all of those people exist within. The glue that brings all the parts together into a choreographed whole which makes the whole so much more than just the summation of its parts. PEAF asserts that people working within the Strategising and Roadmapping phases of Transformation already know how to do what they do. The problem is not them. The problem is the context (Methods, Artefacts, Cultural and Environmental things) that they are forced to work within. PEAF aims to increase the maturity (effectiveness and efficiency) of that context, enabling people to achieve their full potential. Increasing the maturity of the context they work within, to one that supports, enables and makes their work easier rather than one which hinders, impedes and makes their work more difficult. PEAF places its emphasis on the one practical issue that causes the most problems for EA efforts: how to get started and keep going, delivering real and verifiable results within the constraints and complex, challenging realities of any large Enterprise. In a sense, PEAF was born out of failure - out of identifying all the myriad of ways in which EA efforts fail in real business practice, and then devising ways to prevent these sources of failure from occurring.

Author : Kevin Lee Smith
Publisher : Pragmatic EC Limited
ISBN 13 : 9781908424549
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Enterprise Architecture Tools written by Kevin Lee Smith and published by Pragmatic EC Limited. This book was released on 2017-05 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Having witnessed many failures, this book sets out the Methods, Artefacts and Environment required to effectively choose and operate an EA Modelling Tool. It covers the key things that must be done to effectively and efficiently; choose a tool, and then to operate it in a sustainable way.

Author : Tiko Iyamu
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1000551849
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Enterprise Architecture for Strategic Management of Modern IT Solutions written by Tiko Iyamu and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2022-03-16 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The popularity of enterprise architecture (EA) has increased in the last two decades, in both business and academic domains. Despite the cumulative interest from all sectors, the implementation and practice of EA have been entangled with numerous challenges and complexities. Consequently, some organisations continue to theorise the concept, which has ramifications on practice and return on investment (ROI). This has led to many studies that have been conducted, to understand the complexities impacting the implementation and practice of EA in organisations. Yet, the trajectory of some convolutions remains mystery in many quarters. This attributes to the struggle to articulate the value of EA in many environments. Hence many organisations find it difficult to apply EA for strategic management of modern information technology (IT) solutions. Enterprise Architecture for Strategic Management of Modern IT Solutions provides guidance on how to employ EA in deploying and managing IT solutions from pragmatic and implementable strategies’ perspectives. Until now, implementation and practice of EA have been slow, despite its growing popularity and interest from all sectors. The author employs sociotechnical theories such as actor-network theory (ANT) and structuration theory (ST) as lenses to examine and explain why and how challenges and complexities exist and derail the implementation or practice of EA in organisations. By doing so, this serves to enable practitioners and readers to gain fresh insights on why the challenges exist and how they can be addressed in creating collaborative capabilities for business enhancement, sustainability, and competitiveness. The book provides detailed insights on how to apply EA for organisational purposes, from three main fronts. First, it explains the implications that lack of understanding of EA have on organisational activities and processes. Second, it examines the challenges and complexities that hinder the implementation and practice of EA in organisations. Third, it proposes models and frameworks on how EA can be applied for strategic management of modern IT solutions in organisations. Written for postgraduates, researchers, academics, and professionals in the fields of EA, IT, and information systems, this book provides a valuable resource that will enable and enhance implementation and practice of EA including future studies.

Author : Jeanne W. Ross
Publisher : Harvard Business Press
ISBN 13 : 1591398398
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Enterprise Architecture as Strategy written by Jeanne W. Ross and published by Harvard Business Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enterprise architecture defines a firm's needs for standardized tasks, job roles, systems, infrastructure, and data in core business processes. This book explains enterprise architecture's vital role in enabling - or constraining - the execution of business strategy. It provides frameworks, case examples, and more.

Author : Pethuru Raj
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1466502320
Total Pages : 531 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cloud Enterprise Architecture written by Pethuru Raj and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2012-10-24 with total page 531 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cloud Enterprise Architecture examines enterprise architecture (EA) in the context of the surging popularity of Cloud computing. It explains the different kinds of desired transformations the architectural blocks of EA undergo in light of this strategically significant convergence. Chapters cover each of the contributing architectures of EA—business, information, application, integration, security, and technology—illustrating the current and impending implications of the Cloud on each. Discussing the implications of the Cloud paradigm on EA, the book details the perceptible and positive changes that will affect EA design, governance, strategy, management, and sustenance. The author ties these topics together with chapters on Cloud integration and composition architecture. He also examines the Enterprise Cloud, Federated Clouds, and the vision to establish the InterCloud. Laying out a comprehensive strategy for planning and executing Cloud-inspired transformations, the book: Explains how the Cloud changes and affects enterprise architecture design, governance, strategy, management, and sustenance Presents helpful information on next-generation Cloud computing Describes additional architectural types such as enterprise-scale integration, security, management, and governance architectures This book is an ideal resource for enterprise architects, Cloud evangelists and enthusiasts, and Cloud application and service architects. Cloud center administrators, Cloud business executives, managers, and analysts will also find the book helpful and inspirational while formulating appropriate mechanisms and schemes for sound modernization and migration of traditional applications to Cloud infrastructures and platforms.

Author : Martin van den Berg
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1402056060
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Building an Enterprise Architecture Practice written by Martin van den Berg and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-01-15 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides practical advice on how to develop an enterprise architecture practice. The authors developed different tools and models to support organizations in implementing and professionalizing an enterprise architecture function. Coverage applies these tools and models to a number of different organizations and, as a result, will help readers avoid potential pitfalls and achieve success with enterprise architecture.