Light Bulb Effect - Modern Enterprise Architect

tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59437387121028027002012-01-31T19:16:54.941+11:00Light Bulb Effect - Modern Enterprise ArchitectThe light bulb is most often thought of as Thomas Edison's greatest invention, however the bulb was little more than a parlor trick without a system of electric power generation and transmission to make it truly useful. (source HBR June 2008) Like Edison, the role of Enterprise Architecture is to create the ecosystem required to meet broader business and technology outcomes and objectives.Marc Caltabianohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07663364553001765695noreply@blogger.comBlogger171100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5943738712102802700.post-11070776970237288802009-12-22T11:30:00.001+11:002009-12-22T11:30:09.966+11:00Database Consolidation - Oracle as a Service (OaaS)

Over the last few years my team has helped a number of key and strategic customers with how organisations with widely deploy stand-alone Oracle database environments find a more cost effective and efficient solution for the delivery of database services. More and more we see each corporate initiative or project acquires its own hardware & software and establishes separate hosting & support

Marc Caltabianohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07663364553001765695noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5943738712102802700.post-21992779926816515402009-10-06T16:12:00.011+11:002009-10-06T17:43:07.921+11:00Australian Architecture Forum - Enterprise Architecture and Cloud Computing

There has been alot of traffic and discussion regarding cloud computing over the recent months, and at the Australian Architecture Forum (AAF) event in August - Tim Rubin facilitated an Open Space Workshop that aimed to cover some of the main discussion areas:Impact of the Cloud on EA AgendaWhat is Cloud Computing?Why should Enterprise Architecture care? Cloud Computing is often characterized

Marc Caltabianohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07663364553001765695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5943738712102802700.post-7903846923032395482009-09-18T15:11:00.004+10:002009-09-18T15:32:33.148+10:00Australian Architecture Forum - Pragmatic Enterprise Architecture

In August, Tim Rubin and I ran a couple of the open space breakout sessions as Part of the Australian Architecture Forum in both Melbourne and Sydney. The first being around Pragmatic Enterprise Architect, the second regarding Cloud Computing. Not surprising the interest and the inter-relationship between the 2 topics gathered alot of interest and open discussion.In Pragmatic Enterprise

Marc Caltabianohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07663364553001765695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5943738712102802700.post-71498664130736623432009-05-15T11:27:00.001+10:002009-05-15T11:27:30.356+10:00Light Bulb Interview - David Preiss - Part 3

Welcome to the part 3/3 of the Light Bulb Effect interview with David Preiss - Head of IT Strategy & Architecture for Superpartners . In this series I will be interviewing a number of influential Enterprise Architect's and IT strategists focused around 3 key areas: Major Trends in EA Posted 29-April-2009Working in the New Business Climate Posted 11- May-2009Hot Topics for EAPart 3- Hot Topics

Marc Caltabianohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07663364553001765695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5943738712102802700.post-51692179468372307262009-05-11T22:08:00.004+10:002009-05-11T22:23:37.517+10:00Light Bulb Interview - David Preiss - Part 2

Welcome to the latest Light Bulb Effect interview with David Preiss - Head of IT Strategy & Architecture for Superpartners . In this series I will be interviewing a number of influential Enterprise Architect's and IT strategists focused around 3 key areas: Major Trends in EA Posted 29-April-2009Working in the New Business ClimateHot Topics for EAPart 2 - Working in the New Business ClimateMC:

Marc Caltabianohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07663364553001765695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5943738712102802700.post-77338551130790550032009-04-29T22:11:00.007+10:002009-04-29T22:31:51.114+10:00Light Bulb Interview - David Preiss - Part 1

Welcome to the latest Light Bulb Effect interview. In this series I will be interviewing a number of influential Enterprise Architect's and IT strategists focused around 3 key areas: Major Trends in EAWorking in the New Business ClimateHot Topics for EAThis interview is with David Preiss - Head of IT Strategy & Architecture for Superpartners. David is a well respected member of the

Marc Caltabianohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07663364553001765695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5943738712102802700.post-45316111104503325082009-03-20T12:01:00.009+11:002009-03-20T12:28:51.536+11:00Light Bulb Interview Series - Jeff Kennedy - Part 3

Welcome to Part 3 of the the interview with Jeff Kennedy - from the University of Auckland. The 2009 Light Bulb Effect interview series will cover a number of influential Enterprise Architect's focused around 3 key areas:Major Trends in EA - Posted 11-MarchWorking in the New Business Climate - Posted 16-MarchHot Topics for EA MC: There has been a lot of discussion around common 'Hot Topics'. What

Marc Caltabianohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07663364553001765695noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5943738712102802700.post-59939620585293582432009-03-16T08:03:00.011+11:002009-03-16T08:37:01.486+11:00Light Bulb Interview Series - Jeff Kennedy - Part 2

Welcome to Part 2 of the the interview with Jeff Kennedy - from the University of Auckland. The 2009 Light Bulb Effect interview series will cover a number of influential Enterprise Architect's focused around 3 key areas:Major Trends in EA - Posted 11-MarchWorking in the New Business ClimateHot Topics for EALight Bulb Effect InterviewPart 2 - Working in the New Business ClimateMC: A lot has been

Marc Caltabianohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07663364553001765695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5943738712102802700.post-29267570582783166812009-03-11T16:33:00.025+11:002009-03-12T13:54:46.447+11:00Light Bulb Interview Series - Jeff Kennedy - Part 1

Welcome to the first interview in the 2009 Light Bulb Effect interview series. In this series I will be interviewing a number of influential Enterprise Architect's focused around 3 key areas:Major Trends in EAWorking in the New Business ClimateHot Topics for EAThe first interview is with Jeff Kennedy - from the University of Auckland.Jeff has enjoyed a long involvement with information systems,

Marc Caltabianohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07663364553001765695noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5943738712102802700.post-14317590794790703372008-11-28T08:46:00.005+11:002008-11-28T09:49:18.382+11:002008 Renaissance Dinner

Last night I attended the annual Renaissance Dinner at the Graham Hotel in Port Melbourne. This is a tradition started several years ago by Peter Stubbings aimed at getting a number of like minded IT professionals together to share a meal talk about their experiences and generally have a good time. The people in attendance represented a pretty broad cross section of the industry including IBM,

Marc Caltabianohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07663364553001765695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5943738712102802700.post-41860495534538981962008-11-21T15:49:00.006+11:002008-11-21T16:24:34.330+11:00Cloud/Grid/Utility Computing

I was reading Micheal Specht's blog Cloud/Grid/Utility Computing what is it & must you have it? and It got me thinking, it is true that the various buzzwords that the industry offers up can sometimes be confusing, however, maybe it would help if we boil it down to bare essentials. When Micheal and I caught up recently we had a long discussion that centered around these decisions being horses for

Marc Caltabianohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07663364553001765695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5943738712102802700.post-69091791896901545252008-10-24T16:26:00.003+11:002008-10-24T17:42:54.047+11:0010 Strategies for Doing Business in a downturn

I was having a conversation with Michael Counsel (Senior Director, APAC Solution Engineering) regarding what advice he would give organisations in the current economic down turn. The view was first and foremost that organisations need to “stay in business”, but what he highlighted was 10 key areas that every organisation should evaluate in this difficult and uncertain economic climate:

Marc Caltabianohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07663364553001765695noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5943738712102802700.post-26894371799184651922008-10-02T07:18:00.002+10:002008-10-02T07:32:21.657+10:00Actionable Architecture

I read following blog Architecture as diagrams is an anti-pattern where the it is positioned that the creation of diagrams an only a visualisation or representation of architecture. I could not agree more that the key for successful architecture as to assist in the implementation of strategy. As mentioned in the blog, It is the misguided belief that the creation of diagrams is architecture.

Marc Caltabianohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07663364553001765695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5943738712102802700.post-6287639028580635412008-09-02T21:43:00.002+10:002008-09-02T21:49:53.585+10:00Comments on Change Management

In Micheal Specht's blog post Change Management and Technology Implementation he discussed how change management has been one of the most underrated and overlooked components during technology implementationIn my experiences, I have seen organisations time and time again look for short term $$$ savings by cutting project costs through reduced investment in project and change management. This

Marc Caltabianohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07663364553001765695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5943738712102802700.post-64490650080804524872008-08-14T08:30:00.008+10:002008-08-14T09:51:11.954+10:00eDiscovery and Information Lifcycle Management

This week I attended a customer event around the impact of eDiscovery for the legal community. The key note presenter was Dr Bradley Schatz who is the Director of Forensic Technology from VincentseDiscovery extends the current incredibly time consuming and expensive paper based discovery process for litigation used by the legal fraternity. eDiscovery extends this to potentially include all

Marc Caltabianohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07663364553001765695noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5943738712102802700.post-56315673606459082742008-07-01T10:46:00.008+10:002008-07-01T15:20:38.465+10:00Greening the Datacentre - Part 1

The moment Prime Minister Kevin Rudd signed the Kyoto Treaty and soon after establishing the Department of Climate Change, it signaled that all industry in Australia including Information Technology had to do its bit to address global warming challenge.1st July 2008 marks the beginning of mandatory reporting of Greenhouse Gas emissions for corporations that:emit > 125 kilotonnes of greenhouse

Marc Caltabianohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07663364553001765695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5943738712102802700.post-27702269621069816342008-06-26T16:08:00.010+10:002008-06-26T16:50:46.919+10:00What is all the fuss about Enterprise Architecture?

Isn't Enterprise Architecture just business analysis on steroids? This is a question posed to me on quite a few occasions. The best description of the importance of Enterprise Architecture was given to me by the MD of Oracle NZ Peter Idoine when he succinctly described it as follows: “The role of the Enterprise Architect is to intervene for the benefit of mankind” So what does this all mean

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