Time for IT to Break Out of Enterprise Architecture

It is time for IT to start thinking of itself as a business rather than an IT department; here are several business models and frameworks that CIOs and enterprise architects can apply


For IT organizations imprisoned within the walls of their enterprises, thinking about and executing enterprise architecture can be a seemingly insurmountable challenge. Enterprise architecture starts with the business and ends with the technology.

So where does that leave IT—locked in a room without a key and no way out?

Read more to learn how IT can start thinking of itself as a business rather than an IT department, featured in Software Magazine

Building Corporate IT Systems That Remain Relevant

With Web 3.0 on its way and IT facing an ever-increasing rate of business change, agile development can serve as a change agent to create sustaining value through applications that remain relevant over time. So why is it still so hard to get buy-in from non-IT stakeholders for these types of projects? How can we better communicate agile’s value in order to overcome the obstacles precluding its effective use?

Read more to learn how "Infinite thinking" underscores the effectiveness of agile development, featured in Software Magazine

When You Think Analytics, Think DOMINOES

Wrapping your head around predictive analytics can be a daunting task. The key components, as outlined in the DOMINOES process, will assist you in the adoption and application of analytics to improve your analysis and decision-making capabilities.

Read more on how the DOMINOES analytics process can help you get started today

Velocity is not just for Consultants

In order to win in the marketplace, your enterprise needs to continually move forward. Yet at the same time your enterprise is asking IT to get more done with less. You know you can bring in outside assistance to help in the near term, and your past experience has been that the good consulting firms often get more done than your own teams. But you also know that in the long term it would be more strategic for your own teams to match the success of the outside firm.

"Velocity is not just for Consultants" provides you a few frameworks of things you can do to be more responsive to the needs of your enterprise.

Managing CHAOS in an Agile World

Many IT executives and managers are hearing buzz about the ability of Agile methods to help achieve a greater success rate for project delivery and customer satisfaction. However the use of Agile methods requires its own set of project management tools and practices to mitigate new challenges to project success.

Read more to gain a tactical understanding of how Agile methodologies can help address typical project challenges and how to actually run Agile projects.

Enterprise Intelligence for Free: Microsoft restructures to bring BI to the Masses

Are you faced with the need to do more with less? Are you getting the most out of your data? Following Microsoft’s restructuring of their BI suite, discover the changes that come along with this initiative and learn about Microsoft BI software that you might already own.

Read more to see the impact that this change could have on you and the industry

Why Enterprise Architecure Matters: Surfing the Waves

Why does Enterprise Architecture matter?!

Explore how IT, the Business, and its Customers and Suppliers relate to each other within a value chain! By grouping all of these together in one big “wave of business”, it becomes clear how the IT organization resides within the business and has its own value chain of customers and suppliers.

Read more to see the effect that the “Business of IT” has on this overall “wave” and why enterprise architecture is so valuable to a company’s success