Click to learn more about author Tony Bishop. Data is the output of society and everything we do — and the enterprise is fast becoming the world’s data steward. Digital-enabled interactions are becoming the norm, increasing enterprise data exchange volumes. In fact, it’s estimated that by 2024, Global 2000 Enterprises will create data at a […]
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 […]
What Enterprise Architecture Does for Organizations
Enterprise Architecture helps growing businesses and corporations to realize their strategic goals. It applies architectural principles to help large or growing organizations to navigate the changes that influence business, information, and technology in the modern world. Enterprise Architecture supports businesses in creating competitive advantages, reducing risk, and promoting cost-efficiency and scalability. Enterprise Architecture (EA) came […]
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 […]
Data Modeling vs. Data Architecture
In the second edition of the Data Management Book of Knowledge (DMBOK 2): “Data Architecture defines the blueprint for managing data assets by aligning with organizational strategy to establish strategic data requirements and designs to meet these requirements.” Another way to look at it, according to Donna Burbank, Managing Director at Global Data Strategy: “Data […]
Building the Pillars of Data Modeling and Enterprise Architecture
Ron Huizenga believes it’s possible for an organization to reach an enlightened state where users can “understand the journey of their data through the entire organization.” That entails knowing when the data was created, the processes that use it, being aware of how it’s transformed on its way through the organization, and ultimately, knowing when […]
Smart Availability Enhances Enterprise Architecture Success
Smart Availability enables a workload to always be run from the best execution environment. Smart Availability uses the central idea of high availability (dedicated resources between systems preventing downtime) and develops it into the maximizing of a competitive advantage. Smart Availability allows clients and staff to shift workloads between servers, operating systems, and virtual and […]
Five Essentials to Multi-Data Lake Management: Finalizing the Vision
Click to learn more about author John Felahi. In this second blog of a two-part series on Multi-Data Lake Management, we continue to best answer the question of: “How can I make everything work together today?” In Part One on this subject, “Five Essentials to Multi-Data Lake Management: Synchronizing Everything Together” we discussed coordinating all […]
It’s Time for Data Governance 2.0 with erwin DG
The erwin, Inc. premiere of erwin DG at the DATAVERSITY® Data Architecture Summit 2017 marks a new approach to tackling the practice of discovering, understanding, governing and socializing data. That strategy, dubbed Data Governance 2.0, puts the focus on making Data Governance everyone’s business, in order to fully leverage data for strategic advantage and remove […]
Five Essentials to Multi-Data Lake Management: Synchronizing Everything Together
Click to learn more about author John Felahi. Data is the New OS “From a technology perspective, every employee should have access to the data that matters most to their jobs and should be empowered to share it with others across a business.” Multi-Data Lake Management is at the top of many minds at numerous […]