INSIGHT

The Play’s the Thing: What Online Gaming Can Teach Us about Enterprise Architecture

The cloud is at the center of many companies’ future strategies, and enterprise architects can get up to speed on guiding the build-out of services and applications for it by leveraging the knowledge of their peers in the online gaming industry, one of the primary early adopters of cloud computing.
 

AGILITY

Agile Business Begins with a Formal EA Program

A strong EA function with the related inherent processes and practices creates the foundation for an agile organization. Gain insight into how to promote and achieve a formal enterprise architecture program in your own enterprise.
 

BUSINESS VALUE

How Does Your Enterprise Architecture Measure Up?

How can enterprise architects express the value they bring to the business in metrics that make sense to senior business leaders? It can be challenging, but it is possible to draw more explicit lines between their work and how it helps the organization in so many ways, such as lowering operating costs without compromising long-term ability to compete.
 

STRATEGY

The Art of Speaking with the C-Team

As most enterprise architects have discovered, their job is as much about crafting models that align business processes with technology and information infrastructures as it is about communicating with top executives. Discover how to build consensus on your efforts with your C-level peers.
 

TRANSFORMATION

Cloud and Mobile Computing: Better Together

Enterprise architects must figure out how to leverage the proliferation of end-user computing devices, smartphones and tablets in particular, and exploit their natural synergy with the cloud for long-term business advantage. But first, they need to nail down their mobile and cloud strategies.
 

ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE

Strategize Before You Modernize

If your goal is to enable business dynamism – and why wouldn't it be? – you need to start with a strategic review. That sets the stage for modernizing your IT portfolio -- and for boosting enterprise efficiency and agility.