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By Mike Rosen January 2013 In a recent conversation with a client, I was reviewing the activities that their architects were performing. As you can imagine, those activities ranged from following procedures, organizing meeting, investigating issues or technologies, performing reviews, writing documents, creating models, mapping strategies, and so on. One of the challenges with defining […]

by Rick van der Lans December 2012 The biggest challenge facing the business intelligence industry today is how to develop business intelligence systems that have an agility level that matches the speed with which the business evolves.If the industry fails in this, current business intelligence systems will slowly become obsolete and will weaken the organization’s

by James Robertson October 2012 The Best Medium?You have ideas for a new design for your garden and you want to communicate the details to your partner. The Best Medium?You have ideas for a new design for your garden and you want to communicate the details to your partner. Keep in mind that a garden

by Larissa Moss September 2012 There is unanimous agreement among Agile authors, experts, and practitioners that Agile software development methodologies work for small stand-alone systems with self-motivated developers and a participating user. However, there is considerable disagreement among the same experts whether Agile can work for any and all types of projects. What about extremely

by Barry Devlin August 2012 According to some interpretations, the end of the Mayan Calendar on 21 December, 2012 signifies the end of the world. Or, at least, a major transformation in consciousness. Whether this is true or not remains to be seen. However, if the past few years are any guide, we can certainly

by Randy Rice June 2012 Large, complex and undocumented systems are the computing foundation for many organizations. While the perception is that much of the investment in organizations is for new technology, there is still a lot of time and money spent to maintain older systems.The problem is that these systems are often “organic,” having

by Chris Potts May 2012 A ‘perfect storm’ is happening in the world of IT. On the one hand, the IT market has consumerized and, on the other, IT suppliers are pursuing cloud-based delivery. Enterprises, their strategies and business models float in the middle of it all. How should IT leaders best treat these developments

by Shaku Atre April 2012 Today’s business world is increasingly a data-driven one. Organizations in all industries are striving to turn their volumes of data into information they can use to make insightful, profitable decisions.But it is not enough to simply provide people with information; in today’s highly competitive world, businesses need not just “information”

by Larissa Moss February 2012 Traditional project teams depend on the project manager to coordinate and assign tasks to individual project team members and to track and report the progress of the project.The project manager also reviews the work deliverables and makes project-related decisions. The individual project team members are responsible for their own task

By Colin White January 2012 Global digital content created will increase some 30 times over the next ten years – to 35 zettabytes Big data is a popular, but poorly defined marketing buzzword. One way of looking at big data is that it represents the large and rapidly growing volume of information that is mostly