The role of enterprise architect ranked as Glassdoor’s best job in America in 2022 in terms of salary, job satisfaction, and available positions. Yet enterprise architecture is among the most routinely misunderstood professions in the corporate world, straddling the divide between the business and IT. What does an enterprise architect do every day, and what skills and […]
Promoting Data-Driven Collaboration with an Enhanced Business Model Canvas
The number of organizations undertaking digital transformation initiatives continues to grow as businesses seek to increase profits using digitization and automation. The potential impact of digital transformation can be significant, so the stakes are high, as is the value of available data. According to IDC, $1.8 trillion will be spent on digital transformation in 2022, an increase of nearly […]
Enterprise Architects Can Be Indispensable in the Boardroom
Enterprise architecture (EA) can be a confusing term. To supply a business executive with a working definition, you might list that EA comprises the business functions, capabilities, processes, roles, physical and organizational structure, data stores and flows, applications, platforms, hardware, and communication. You might throw in any number of impressive acronyms and abbreviations: TOGAF, EIM, […]
Data Strategy vs. Data Architecture
“Data Leadership is about understanding the organization’s relationship with data and seeking ways to help the organization meet its goals using whatever tools are available,” said Anthony Algmin, of Algmin Data Leadership in a DATAVERSITY® interview. Within that overall Data Leadership Framework, sit Data Strategy and Data Architecture as individual disciplines. Data Strategy Companies often […]
Articulating the Real Value of Enterprise Architecture
Click to learn more about author Ian Stendera. It’s no secret that many enterprise architects face a challenge when it comes to communicating what exactly they do, why it’s so important to their organizations, and the potential value enterprise architecture can bring to the future of the business. Articulating the value is critical to getting […]
Enterprise Architects are More Than Just Modelers
New opportunities are emerging for enterprise architects (EAs). EAs will work in conjunction with technology innovation leaders to help their organizations select, create, and implement the right business- and technology-based platforms to support their business ecosystems. “By 2021, 40 percent of organizations will use enterprise architecture to help ideate new business innovations made possible by […]