As Enterprises are starting to adopt Services-Oriented Architecture, they are currently in the process of transforming both their Business and IT organizations. In this context there has been a discussion on the topic of Business Architecture with a basic consensus that Business architecture is the link between business and technology (or IT) but there isn’t any clear definition of the roles and responsibilities of this position. Nor is there clear descriptions of the practical aspects of what exactly are the Business Architect’s activities and how should enterprises get started with this function. The objective of this paper to help clarify these points from a practitioner’s point of view as well as help organization kick-start the Business Architecture function.
Table of Contents:
Industry Context
Enterprise Value Discipline
How Organizations Learn
Introduction to Business Architecture
Business Architecture Defined
Business Architecture Responsibilities
Getting Started with Business Architecture
Adopting Services-Oriented Architecture
Business Driven SOA Planning Framework
Business Architecture Governance
Enterprise Architecture Governance
Enterprise Architecture Organization Structure
Proven Approach to Business Architecture Blueprinting
Developing the Business Architecture Blueprint
Conclusion
Integration
(in-te-gra-tion)
a combination of parts or objects that work well together
Site Visits
The IT and Business Diplomat - Posts tagged with "Business"
SOA and Business Alignment
Integration Consortium
SOA Practitioners Opinion on Business Architecture
Tags: Business Agility, Architecture, SOA, SOA best practices
Update from the SOA Consortium meeting
The two day SOA Consortium meeting for 2007 was held at Burlingame, CA last week and following are the links to some of the blogs on this meeting
- Ground Floor SOA - Recap for 2007 (by Surekha)
- Keynote by Sandy Carter, VP IBM (Presentation)
- Keynote by Amit Sinha, VP Portfolio Marketing, SAP (plus 2nd day discussions)
- Live from SOA Consortium - Sandy Carter of IBM (by James Taylor)
- Live from SOA Consortum - CIO SOA Concerns (by James Taylor)
- Sandy Carter's Blog about the SOA Consortium meeting
Tags: SOA Consortium, Business Agility, EA 2010, networks, Key notes
Defining and measuring Business Agility
Please click here to read more about the Business Agility Domain Model.
Tags: BPM, Business Agility, Architecture, Intution, IT Flexibility, SOA
Challenges in implementing BAM - drawing a relationship between business processes and operational system exceptions
Surekha just blogged about this here.
Tags: Challenges in implementing BAM - drawing a Relationship between Business processes and operational system exceptions
Semantics and its' role in Business Services
Role and importance of semantics in the context of services and SOA:Semantics refer to interpretation of information and not the literal definition of information/ data. Applying semantics to information turns it into “knowledge”. Semantics is the act of applying references and drawing conclusions given a set of more scientific informational constructs. Typically semantics are derived using the context in which information is presented. Transposition on the other hand allows applies the rule of inference where in one can draw conclusions on the implication of truth based on some set of facts.
Read more about this at Surekha Durvasula's blog here.
Tags: Business Services, Enterprise Semantics, SOA
SAP buys Business Objects
So, SAP is buying Business Objects. But what does it all mean? And will it result in IBM going after Cognos? Read Dr. Ronan Bradley's thoughts on the subject at Lustratus Litebytes.
Tags: SAP Business Objects BI Intelligence
Defining Business Agility
There has and continues to be a lot of discussion around Business Agility and read my definition here.
More intuitive business collaboration insight
Along the lines of my last post on collaboration and tools 101 I recently came across a blog that linked to the below PowerPoint presentation on Slide Share. Meet Charlie - what is Enterprise 2.0 is one of the best and simplest overviews on the value of business collaboration and the associated tools that can be used.
Reply to the blog and let me know what you think or if you have come across any other examples of delivering the web 2.0 / enterprise 2.0 / business collaboration message to a business audience.
Cheers,
Michael
Tags: Enterprise 2.0 Business Collaboration | 1 comment
Proving the value of technology/business alignment
An oft-quoted benefit of SOA is to achieve improved alignment between technology and business. Does this alignment really produce enhanced business value and effectvieness?
Tags: SOA Business Transformation
Transitioning your business model
The world is changing rapidly for vendors of software, and as they scramble to deliver acceptable business performance, new business models are becoming tempting such as OSS and SaaS. But what should they do?
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