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Zachman Framework for Enterprise Architecture Briefing

MCesino — Mon May 05, 2008 1:02 pm

Author: MCesino

Posted: Mon May 05, 2008 1:02 pm

Visible's relationship with John Zachman goes back to the early 70`s when John and Clive Finkelstein, our Chief Scientist, were with IBM. Clive's belief that data models should be "business event driven" and "model based" paralleled John's belief in the need for a business-driven Enterprise Information Architecture which would provide an organization with an organization-scale blueprint -- or architecture --for their information infrastructure. This strategy briefing describes how Visible tools, training and services help "populate" the cells of the framework.

This strategy briefing and its associated forum postings are designed to help you now in your endeavor to build a more effective Enterprise Architecture more efficiently. Please feel free to learn from other postings and share your experiences through your own postings via the Visible Forum.

Enterprise Portals Lifecycle Briefing

MCesino — Mon May 05, 2008 1:00 pm

Author: MCesino

Posted: Mon May 05, 2008 1:00 pm

The latest "silver bullet" for IT is the Enterprise Portal. It has many names: Enterprise Portal, Enterprise Information Portal, Corporate Portal, Web Portal, and just plain Portal. Whatever it's called, portals promise to provide necessary information from any source to anyone who needs it. This has the potential for significant productivity and competitive gains.

While Enterprise Portals may have this potential, it is not easy to deliver� even with new tools and technologies and single point access to heterogeneous information, in multiple formats, from multiple sources. In order to be truly effective, Enterprise Portals cannot just happen -- they must be "engineered." This strategy briefing provides a simple definition for Enterprise Portals, describes their benefits, and outlines a method and tools for easily and efficiently engineering them.

This strategy briefing and its associated forum postings are designed to help you now in your endeavor to build a more effective Enterprise Architecture more efficiently. Please feel free to learn from other postings and share your experiences through your own postings via the Visible Forum.

Enterprise Architecture Lifecycle Briefing

MCesino — Mon May 05, 2008 12:58 pm

Author: MCesino

Posted: Mon May 05, 2008 12:58 pm

This strategy briefing describes the Enterprise Architecture Lifecycle and the Visible Enterprise Lifecycle "tool set." The Enterprise Lifecycle involves all the activities that organizations ("enterprises") perform to improve productivity, gain and maintain competitive advantage, optimize resources, deliver quality products and services, and meet customer expectations and demand.

The impact of change on the Enterprise requires that systems supporting lifecycle processes must also be changed. This paper details how Visible's Enterprise Lifecycle methodology and tools, not only make effective change management throughout the lifecycle possible, they make it easy.

This strategy briefing and its associated forum postings are designed to help you now in your endeavor to build a more effective Enterprise Architecture more efficiently. Please feel free to learn from other postings and share your experiences through your own postings via the Visible Forum.

Information Technology Critical Success Factors Briefing

MCesino — Mon May 05, 2008 12:56 pm

Author: MCesino

Posted: Mon May 05, 2008 12:56 pm

This strategy briefing describes what your enterprise needs to do to guarantee survival. Your twenty-first century systems need to meet your future information needs. They should be developed using state-of-the-art technologies and languages. They should be designed to allow rapid response to changing requirements. Your in-house development staff should be appropriately skilled and your processes and infrastructure should allow for quality rapid application development.

It's not too late. But you should start now. The longer you wait to begin, the harder (and more expensive) it will be. In any case, it won't be easy. It will take resources and hard work, but it will be worth it. Being able to determine and document your future information needs�and armed with improved processes, skills and infrastructure�you will be ready meet the challenges of the new century.

This strategy briefing and its associated forum postings are designed to help you now in your endeavor to build a more effective Enterprise Architecture more efficiently. Please feel free to learn from other postings and share your experiences through your own postings via the Visible Forum.

Federal IT Management Reform Briefing

MCesino — Mon May 05, 2008 12:48 pm

Author: MCesino

Posted: Mon May 05, 2008 12:48 pm

More than ever, federal agencies are finding it necessary to reform and improve their internal management practices. This paper briefly describes mandated requirements for management reform and explains how e-Engineering methods and best practices can ensure agencies consistency, rigorously, effectively and successfully implement necessary reforms.

This strategy briefing and its associated forum postings are designed to help you now in your endeavor to build a more effective Enterprise Architecture more efficiently. Please feel free to learn from other postings and share your experiences through your own postings via the Visible Forum.

Enterprise Systems Modernization Briefing

MCesino — Mon May 05, 2008 12:42 pm

Author: MCesino

Posted: Mon May 05, 2008 12:42 pm

This strategy briefing describes a permanent solution that reduces maintenance overhead while providing better customer service and quality information systems.

The ultimate results of Enterprise System Modernization are shared, non-redundant data, trusted strategic information, and shared reusable software components.

This strategy briefing and its associated forum postings are designed to help you now in your endeavor to build a more effective Enterprise Architecture more efficiently. Please feel free to learn from other postings and share your experiences through your own postings via the Visible Forum.