PASSME
- Performance
- Availability
- Scalability
- Security
- Maintainability
- Extensibility
I took some time today to gather some Enterprise Architecture links:
http://jfdeclercq.biz/en/entarch-links/
If you know some other interesting links let me know. Comment or Tweet @jfdeclercq_biz.
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IBM’s Software Portfolio contains Business Process Management Tools. When and how you should use a BPM platform such as WebSphere Business Process Manager depends on the type of Business Process that you want to automate.
I classify 4 types of Business Processes in a 2 dimensional table – 1 is not enough and 3 is too much for marketing :-).
The horizontal axis is the differentiation axis:
The vertical axis is the “core business” axis:
For two cases, it really makes sense to master a BPM platform in house :
For the two other cases, it’s less obvious why you’d need a BPM platform. However:
It depends. You can jump into the “Winning the Customer Battle” by providing better services but you can also cut down prices and/or increase margins by optimizing . IBM wants to help companies to Innovate by becoming the Innovator’s Innovator (Seehttp://www.ibm.com/innovation/guide/conclusion.shtml) and after all optimization sometimes requires innovation….
Next question : How does processes stability play a role ?
I had to search more than 2 minutes for this, so I post it.
The question is how to escape special characters in the SPARX EA search.
Answer : You need to escape the ? using square braquets: [?]
Since the wildcard is ‘*’, the SQL is
SELECT Name FROM t_object where NAME like ‘*[?]*’
Useful links:
…“SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) doesn’t clean the shit (in your IT landscape). It isolates the shit. After isolating you can clean it if you wish…”
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Structuring and graphically representing requirements can be challenging for large projects. Today I figured out how to draw the equivalent of several pages in excel into one single archimate diagram.
The requirements are structured in 3 columns : requirement family, description and concerned stakeholders.
Using archimate I drew actors corresponding to stakeholders vertically, as a kind of first column. Then I drew all requirements families at the top as a kind of first line by using xxx of the archimate motivation extension.
Requirements can then be represented as a kind of cell in the actors/ family table.
In order to simplify the drawing and trace the requirements dependencies I used a simple association between actor and requirement and an aggregation relationship between requirement family and requirement. Actors can link to any requirement.
The result looks like this :
This needs to be done in several phases: after some modeling, clusters of requirements can be identified and the drawing can be reorganized by reordering actors and requirements to improve readability.
The next step will be to map requirements to the solution processes, functions and components.…
In a 1958 article, IBM researcher Hans Peter Luhn used the term business intelligence. He employed the Webster’s dictionary definition of intelligence: “the ability to apprehend the interrelationships of presented facts in such a way as to guide action towards a desired goal.”