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This issue of The
Enterprise Newsletter discusses the second edition of
"Enterprise Architecture for Integration: Rapid Delivery Methods
and Technologies" by Clive Finkelstein in PDF, as well as a
new IES Online Store capability and Data Modeling Self-Study
Certification courses.
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This issue of
The Enterprise Newsletter discusses the recording of “Rapid
Delivery Workshop for Enterprise Architecture” and “Web
Applications Services and Technologies” as video courses in
the USA, to train over 1 million University students in
Enterprise Architecture. It also announces two public courses on
EA to be presented in Canberra and Melbourne in February, 2010.
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TEN#44:
Release of
HR-XML 3.0 by HR-XML Consortium published on IES Web
Site Sep 2009
This issue of The Enterprise Newsletter (TEN) reports the 3.0
release of the HR-XML standards from the HR-XML Consortium. This
release represents a major advancement for HR data and knowledge
transfer and in the ability of HR applications to
“interoperate”. It is published in TEN#44 with permission from
the Media Relations Dept of the HR-XML Consortium.
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TEN#43:
FREE Online
Video Course on
Deriving Project Plans from Data Models by Clive
Finkelstein. Published on IES Web Site March 2009.
This issue of The Enterprise
Newsletter (TEN) provides FREE online video courses on
deriving project plans from data models. The video
shows how a Strategic Model is developed from
Strategic Business Plans. It then describes how to identify
business activities and processes from the resulting data
model, so management can decide on the priority processes to
be delivered early into production as systems. Finally it
shows how project plans are derived of the required data
bases and systems - for delivery into production in
3-month increments.
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TEN#42: 2008 Pearcey Awards and
Enterprise Convergence in Our Lifetime by Clive Finkelstein. and
Stan Locke Published on
IES
Web Site September 2008.
This issue of The Enterprise
Newsletter (TEN) reports on the announcement of the 2008
Pearcey Awards in Sydney on September 11, 2008. It includes
an article,
contributed by Stan Locke, Managing Director of Zachman
Framework Associates in Toronto, Canada,
on the recent V2.01 extension of the Zachman Enterprise
Framework.
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TEN#41:
ROI of Enterprise Architecture and Technology
Courses by Clive Finkelstein. Published on
IES
Web Site June 2008.
This issue expands on the
courses introduced in
TEN40. It discusses the Course Groups that are
available, and the Return on Investment (ROI) of
Enterprise Architecture (EA) and Technology courses
developed by Clive Finkelstein of Information Engineering
Services Pty Ltd (IES).
The financial details of these
courses are provided in the Course ROI document, which can
be made available to Education and Consulting companies, and
to Software companies, on email request to
clive.finkelstein@ies.aust.com.
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TEN#40:
Enterprise Architecture and Technology
Course Copyrights for Sale
by Clive Finkelstein. Published on
IES
Web Site March 2008.
In this issue, we
celebrate the 10th year of publication of "The Enterprise
Newsletter" (TEN). From the first issue in March 1998, we
have published TEN world-wide on a quarterly basis.
Click here to review all past issues.
Because of
my planned retirement in Oct 2008, we also announce in this issue that
we will
offer the copyrights in our Education Courses for sale by
Tender to companies that provide Education and/or Consulting
services in the fields of Enterprise Architecture (EA) and
Technology. This copyright is
currently held by Information Engineering Services Pty Ltd (IES). These courses will also be of
interest to Software companies that want to offer Education
and/or Consulting services in these fields. This issue of
TEN provides further details of each of the courses whose
copyright are offered for sale.
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TEN#39: "Review of Enterprise Architect" by Clive Finkelstein. Published on
IES
Web Site Jan 2008.
This issue reviews a modeling tool for Enterprise
Architecture from Sparx Systems Pty Ltd, an Australian
company. This product is titled: "Enterprise Architect" (EA). I outline my plans for retirement later this year.
I
refer you also to an earlier TEN issue describing
online
webcast video courses covering the "Rapid Delivery of
Enterprise Architecture", as well as the self-study
course: "Certified Business Data Modeler (CBDM)".
These were discussed in TEN37.
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TEN#37:
"TEN#37:
Online Webcast Courses and Self-Study Certified Business
Data Modeler (CBDM) Course" by Clive Finkelstein. Published on
IES
Web Site June 2007.
This issue of TEN highlights newly released online webcast
video courses covering the "Rapid Delivery of Enterprise
Architecture". It also discusses the self-study course:
Certified Business Data Modeler (CBDM).
Information Engineering
Services Pty Ltd (IES) presents both online video course segments and
certification courses
based on its public and inhouse courses presented throughout the
world. These provide training in rapid delivery methods and certified data
modeling self-study training for
Enterprise Architecture (EA) and Enterprise Integration.
The
EA courses apply to the
Zachman Framework for Enterprise Architecture, the Federal Enterprise Architecture Framework (FEAF),
the Department of Defense (DoD) Architecture Frameworks (C4ISR and DoDAF) and many other
frameworks. These courses result in rapid
delivery into production of priority business activities and processes.
The CBDM self-study course has been used
throughout the world to train and certify both business
experts and IT staff in Business Data Modeling concepts. It
covers Business Data Mapping Concepts and Business
Normalization Concepts, with a real-life Data Modeling Case
Study Workshop that tests the student's understanding of the
principles that they have learned. Their solution to this
case study becomes their Exam Solution for CBDM Assessment.
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This issue of TEN discusses the implications of
The Four Stages of Enterprise Architecture
Maturity. This explains some of the reasons why organizations
struggle through the problems of redundant data versions with
business silos, and the difficulty of evolving to achieve the full
benefits of Enterprise Architecture (EA) and Service-Oriented
Architecture (SOA).
We also follow-up on
the
announcement in the previous issue of TEN of the availability of a
series of online webcast courses covering methods for the Rapid
Delivery of Enterprise Architecture.
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This issue of TEN announces the initial availability of a series
of online webcast courses covering methods for the Rapid
Delivery of Enterprise Architecture. These online courses are
based on the public and inhouse courses that are presented
throughout the world. They are drawn from the book:
"Enterprise
Architecture for integration: Rapid Delivery Methods and
Technologies",
by Clive Finkelstein
which was published by Artech House, Norwood, MA on March 31, 2006.
You can
read the review
of the book by Karen Lopez of InfoAdvisors, Inc in Toronto, Canada
in the April 2006 issue of TEN. This was published as:
TEN#32.
Links are also provided in that review so you can order the book
online direct from the publisher now, if you wish.
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This issue
of TEN covers directions and products to address the problems of
inflexibility that have previously been associated with Enterprise
Resource Planning (ERP), Customer Relationship Management (CRM),
Supply Chain Management (SCM), Human Resource (HR) and Supplier
Relationship Management (SRM) product suites from vendors such as
SAP. We will examine the capabilities of SAP NetWeaver in this
issue, for transformation of the SAP product suites into highly
flexible application support environments.
It
announces the availability of the EA Blog so that people can ask me questions more
easily, following their purchase of the book, or related to
White Papers or past Issues of TEN.
It
also announces a series of four Enterprise Architecture articles
to be published by BEye Network in the USA..
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TEN#33:
"Review of CA AllFusion® Gen" by Clive Finkelstein Now Available.
Published on IES Web Site. July 2006.
This issue of TEN follows the
announcement of availability of my latest book: "Enterprise
Architecture for integration: Rapid Delivery Methods and
Technologies", which was published by Artech House, Norwood, MA
on March 31, 2006. You can
read the review of the book by Karen Lopez of InfoAdvisors, Inc
of Toronto, Canada in the last issue:
TEN#32. Links are also provided in the review so you can order
the book online now, if you wish.
Many previous issues of TEN have been
based on extracts from the first edition of the book. This issue
starts a new focus of TEN. I will use TEN to provide you with early
availability of material that will eventually be published in the
second edition of the book. This will enable you to keep updated on
the latest methodology developments, products and technologies
relating to Enterprise Architecture, Modeling Tools, Web Services,
SOA and BPM.
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TEN#32:
Book:
"Enterprise Architecture for Integration: Rapid Delivery Methods
and Technologies" by Clive Finkelstein Now Available.
Published on IES Web Site. April 2006.
This issue of TEN announces the availability of the book:
"Enterprise
Architecture for integration: Rapid Delivery Methods and
Technologies", which was published by Artech House, Norwood, MA
on March 31, 2006.
Many previous issues of TEN have been
based on extracts from this book. This issue of TEN includes
a complete review of the book by Karen Lopez,
principal of InfoAdvisors. Links are also provided so you can order
the book online now, if you wish. .
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This
issue of TEN continues from TEN27, which covered the concepts of
Business Process Management (BPM) languages for SOA, such as
Business Process Execution Language (BPEL), Business Process
Modeling Language (BPML) and Business Process Specification
Schema (BPSS) - and the various BPM products and vendors which I
covered in TEN29. These issues were based on extracts from
Chapter 14 of the forthcoming book by Clive Finkelstein: "Enterprise Architecture for Integration: Rapid Delivery Methods
and Technologies", Artech House, Norwood, MA (March 2006).
This
current issue of TEN is a further extract from Chapter 14 of the
book. It covers Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN), which
has emerged as a standard approach for business process
diagramming to bridge from process models defined by modeling
tools for automatic generation of executable XMLbased code in
BPEL, BPML or BPSS.
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This issue of TEN differs from
other issues. I am pleased we have a guest contributor,
Natty Gur.
He has written an excellent article on the 10 common myths of
Enterprise Architecture. Enjoy his comments and observations. By
Natty Gur.
Published on IES Web Site, Sep 2005
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- TEN#29: SOA Business Process Management (BPM) Products
by Clive Finkelstein, Information Engineering Services Pty Ltd.
Published on IES Web Site, May 2005
In TEN#27 we discussed three Business Process Management (BPM)
languages. These were: Business Process Execution Language (BPEL);
Business Process Modeling Language (BPML); and Business Process
Specification Schema (BPSS) for ebXML. This issue of TEN covers
major BPM software vendors and their products. Products are
discussed from Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, SAP and Intalio.
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TEN#28: Rapid Delivery Methods and Technologies for Enterprise
Architecture
by Clive Finkelstein, Information Engineering Services Pty Ltd.
Published on IES Web Site, Feb 2005
We
have upgraded the IES web site with material relating to rapid
delivery methods and technologies for Enterprise Architecture.
These enable enterprises to achieve rapid business change.
Business agility is a vital capability today.
This issue reviews the resources that are now available to you.
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TEN#27: Service-Oriented
Architecture (SOA) by Clive Finkelstein, Information Engineering Services Pty Ltd.
Published on IES Web Site, Oct 2004
Previous issues of TEN have
discussed
Enterprise Architecture methods, as well as technologies for rapid
delivery into production of priority business processes. These
technologies have included XML, Enterprise Portals and Web
Services. This issue covers the concepts of rapid delivery
technologies based on Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and
Business Process Management (BPM). It discusses a number of
XML-based BPM languages: BPEL4WS (Business Process Execution
Language for Web Services); Business Process Modeling Language (BPML);
and Business Process Specification Schema (BPSS) for ebXML.
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TEN#26: Governance Analysis
using Enterprise Architecture by Clive Finkelstein, Information Engineering Services Pty Ltd.
Published on IES Web Site, July 2004
This White Paper describes a practical approach
for rapid enterprise compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley driven IT and
business governance requirements. It shows how internal controls
can be established by senior management using a Governance
Analysis Framework (GAF). This is used to document the
relationships within an enterprise that support financial and
other reporting requirements. It is based on a comprehensive
organizing framework using the Zachman Framework for Enterprise
Architecture, as well as proven Enterprise Architecture methods
and tools for the documentation and management of the GAF. It
ensures that senior management is able to comply with the internal
control reporting requirements of Section 404 of the
Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.
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TEN#25: Strategic Business Transformation Enablement
by Clive Finkelstein, Information Engineering Services Pty Ltd.
Published on IES Web Site, March 2004
Enterprise Architecture has been
considered by business managers as a technical discipline that is
used by IT staff to build more flexible systems. But it is much
more than that. It is also a business discipline that can be used
by executives and business managers to achieve rapid Strategic
Business Transformation. This issue shows how methods
of Enterprise Architecture can be used to define and build a
transformed enterprise that can respond to business change
precisely and rapidly, with transformed business processes and
systems that can be delivered in 3-month increments.
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TEN#24: Systems Development
Strategies for 21st Century Enterprises
by Clive Finkelstein, Information Engineering Services Pty Ltd.
Published on IES Web Site, December 2003
Traditional systems development
strategies have been based on automating the operational business
processes that are used by an enterprise. However this approach
does not work well in a period of rapid change, such as
experienced today as a result of changes brought about by the
Internet. This issue addresses systems development strategies that
are based on the strategic plans set by management for the future.
These result in systems that can be implemented and changed
rapidly. These systems are based on XML, Web Services and on
Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) Business Process Management (BPM)
XML-based executable languages that are generated automatically
from Workflow Diagrams.
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TEN#23: Enterprise Architecture
for Enterprise Integration
by Clive Finkelstein, Information Engineering Services Pty Ltd.
Published on IES Web Site, August 2003
This issue is not technical. Earlier
issues of TEN have separately addressed concepts of Enterprise
Architecture and also of XML and Web Services for Enterprise
Integration (see
http://www.ies.aust.com/articles.htm#TEN). This
quarter’s issue bridges these topics; it discusses use of
Enterprise Architecture for Business Integration with various
technologies for Technology Integration.
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TEN#22: Web
Services for Remote Portals (WSRP)
by Clive Finkelstein, Information Engineering Services Pty Ltd.
Published on IES Web Site, June 2003
Earlier issues
of TEN have separately addressed concepts of Enterprise Portals
and also of Web Services (see below). This issue bridges both
topics and discusses the use of Web Services within Enterprise
Portals through specification of Web Services for Remote Portals (WSRP).
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TEN#21: Availability of Enterprise
Architecture Books
by Clive Finkelstein, Information Engineering Services Pty Ltd.
Published on IES Web Site, March 2003
This month we
discuss the availability of two books on Enterprise Architecture:
as introduced in TEN#20. The first book was written by John Zachman. It will
shortly be released in
e-Book format and will eagerly be read by Enterprise Architecture
practitioners. The second book was written by Carol
O'Rourke, Neal Fishman, and Warren Selkow. It teaches Enterprise
Architecture as a way of thinking about complex problems. This book is
also outstanding; it is a "must-read". It will be
available for shipment as a hard-copy book from April 10, 2003.
This issue of TEN provides links to several online book stores so
you can order it online.
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TEN#20: New Enterprise
Architecture Books by Clive Finkelstein, Information Engineering Services Pty Ltd.
Published on IES Web Site, October 2002
This month we feature two important
books on Enterprise Architecture: the first will be published
towards the end of 2002; the second will be published around March
2003. While TEN does not usually include book reviews, because of
the interest that TEN readers have shown in Enterprise
Architecture I thought it was important to draw these two books to
your attention. The first book was written by John Zachman. This
alone is unique. While John has written many articles on
Enterprise Architecture, this is the first complete book written
by the originator of the Zachman Framework. It will be released in
e-Book format and will eagerly be read by Enterprise Architecture
practitioners. It is described briefly in this TEN issue, with
more detail in a special issue of TEN when the book is formally
released later in 2002. The second book was written by Carol
O'Rourke, Neal Fishman, and Warren Selkow. It teaches Enterprise
Architecture as a way of thinking about complex problems. I was
invited to write the Foreword to the second book. This book is
also outstanding; it is a "must-read", as you will see from my
comments.
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TEN#19:
Web Services Vendors by Clive Finkelstein, Information Engineering Services Pty Ltd.
Published on IES Web Site, July 2002
This issue of TEN discusses a
number of Integrated Development Environment (IDE) Web Services
IDE product vendors, including Microsoft, IBM, Software AG, HP,
Sun, Oracle, ERP Vendors, Borland and others. It indicates the
approach that each has taken in supporting the automatic
generation of SOAP, WSDL and UDDI specifications for Web Services.
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TEN#18:
Web Services - Part 2 by Clive Finkelstein, Information Engineering Services Pty Ltd.
Published on IES Web Site, Feb, 2002
This issue of TEN discusses the
evolution of Web Services for real-time Enterprise
Integration. It discusses their evolution from 2001 - 2005 and
beyond, using SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol), WSDL (Web
Services Description Language) and UDDI (Universal Description,
Discovery and Integration).
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TEN#17:
Web Services - Part 1 by Clive Finkelstein, Information Engineering Services Pty Ltd.
Published on IES Web Site, Nov, 2001
This issue of TEN introduces the
Concepts and Components of Web Services, for real-time Enterprise
Integration. It discusses SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol),
WSDL (Web Services Description Language) and UDDI (Universal
Description, Discovery and Integration). It provides links to
Resources and Vendors where further information can be found.
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TEN#16:
Portal Excellence Awards - Part 2 by Clive Finkelstein, Information Engineering Services Pty Ltd.
Published on IES Web Site, July, 2001
This issue of TEN announces the
Internal Corporate Portal winner of the Portal Excellence Awards,
sponsored by Digital Consulting Institute, Imaging and Document Solutions, and Intelligent
Enterprise Magazine. This award was won
by Ford Motor Company, using the Enterprise Portal solution
from Plumtree. A complete description of
the Ford Internal Corporate Portal is provided, with a free
PowerPoint presentation provided by Ford for free
download.
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TEN#15:
Portal Excellence Awards - Part 1 by Clive Finkelstein, Information Engineering Services Pty Ltd.
Published on IES Web Site, April, 2001
This issue of TEN announces the
e-Business Portal winner of the Portal Excellence Awards,
sponsored by Digital Consulting Institute, Imaging and Document Solutions, and Intelligent
Enterprise Magazine. This award was won
by Herman Miller, using the Enterprise Integration Portal solution
from TopTier Software. A complete description of
the Herman Miller e-Business Portal is provided, with a free
PowerPoint presentation provided by Herman Miller for free
download.
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TEN#14:
Enterprise Architecture for Senior Managers - Part 2
by Clive Finkelstein, Information Engineering Services Pty Ltd.
Published on IES Web Site, November, 2000
This issue of TEN discusses the
concepts of Enterprise Architecture. It is Part
2 of a two-part series that addresses Enterprise Architecture from
a senior management perspective. This issue of TEN also includes easy
reference to a
Glossary
of Terms.
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TEN#13:
Enterprise Architecture for Senior Managers - Part 1
by Clive Finkelstein, Information Engineering Services Pty Ltd.
Published on IES Web Site, October, 2000
This issue of TEN discusses the
concepts of Enterprise Architecture. It is Part
1 of a two-part series that addresses Enterprise Architecture from
a senior management perspective. This issue of TEN also includes easy
reference to a
Glossary
of Terms.
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TEN#12:
Technologies for Enterprise Application Integration
by Clive Finkelstein, Information Engineering Services Pty Ltd.
Published on IES Web Site, September, 2000
This issue of TEN discusses new
technologies for
Enterprise
Application Integration (EAI). It introduces
Data
Content Analysis, deriving third normal form (3NF) data
models directly from live data content of databases. It discusses
Inter-Enterprise
Data Integration to extract XML data structure, data content
and business rules from databases. It covers
HyperRelational
Analysis for development of
Enterprise
Integration Portals. This issue of TEN also includes easy
reference to a
Glossary
of Terms.
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TEN#11:
XML Online Webcast Seminar by Clive Finkelstein, Information Engineering Services Pty Ltd.
Published on IES Web Site, July, 2000
The
eleventh issue of TEN announces an XML Online Webcast
Seminar presented by Clive Finkelstein in Melbourne,
Australia on September 11-12, 2000. He will present the seminar:
"XML for 21st Century e-Business", which
will be simultaneously webcast live worldwide as an interactive
seminar. This event will also be archived so that it can be
viewed after the event. The issue also discusses that XML is not
a silver bullet, but indicates how it can be used to deliver the
greatest benefits. It also announces
upcoming
conferences and seminars.
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TEN#10:
The Role of e-Business in the Information Economy by Clive Finkelstein, Information Engineering Services Pty Ltd.
Published on IES Web Site, June, 2000
The tenth issue of TEN discusses the
difference between e-Commerce and e-Business, and addresses the
role of XML for Enterprise Application Integration (EAI). It
continues the discussion of Trading Communities by examining their
growth through EAI. It considers the purpose of Corporate Portals.
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TEN#9:
XML for Business to Business e-Commerce by Clive Finkelstein, Information Engineering Services Pty Ltd.
Published on IES Web Site, March, 2000
The
ninth issue of TEN discusses the use of XML by trading
communities for B2B e-Commerce. It discusses Microsoft BizTalk,
and new versions of modeling tools such as Visible Advantage and
Visible Analyst that can automatically generate XML data files,
Document Type Definition (DTD) files and Document Content
Description (DCD) files for XML databases such as eXcelon. Recently released
XML and Enterprise Portal Workshops are also described.
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TEN#8:
Products and Strategies for Enterprise Architecture and
Enterprise Portals
by Clive Finkelstein, Information Engineering Services Pty Ltd.
Published on IES Web Site, December, 1999
The
eighth issue of TEN discusses products that have recently become
available to support the development of an Enterprise
Architecture. It discusses other products for the development and
operation of high performance, XML applications and databases -
such as used with Enterprise Portals. Recently released Overview
Workshops and Project Workshops are also described ... for
Enterprise Architecture projects and for Enterprise Portal
projects.
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TEN#7
- Issue No. 7 : ENTERPRISE
ARCHITECTURE AND ENTERPRISE PORTALS
by Clive Finkelstein, Information Engineering Services Pty Ltd.
Published on IES Web Site, September, 1999
The
seventh issue of TEN discusses the importance of Enterprise
Architecture for the design, development and deployment of Enterprise Portals.
As Enterprise Portals (or Corporate Portals) provide a central
gateway to the systems and databases of an enterprise, it is
important that the knowledge associated with these resources be
effectively used. While technologies such as XML can be used to
integrate dissimilar systems for access from the Enterprise
Portal, to try to achieve this integration without consideration
of the integrative role of architecture is foolhardy. As it is
difficult later to change a building that was not designed by an
architect, so also it is difficult to realize the full benefits
of an Enterprise Portal if it is built without an Enterprise
Architecture.
NOTE: This issue of TEN is
also available, translated into Serbo-Croation. It is at:
http://science.webhostinggeeks.com/pojava-i-potencijal.
NOTE: Additionally, the
article "Visible Universal Models" has been
translated into Serbo-Croation at:
http://science.webhostinggeeks.com/vidljivo-univerzalni-model.
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TEN#6
- Issue No. 6 : Corporate
Portals for Business by Clive Finkelstein, Information Engineering Services Pty Ltd.
Published on IES Web Site, June, 1999
The sixth issue of TEN discusses the emergence of Corporate
Portals and Enterprise Portals over the next 2 - 5 years. These
represent the evolution of Data Warehouses and Data Marts into a
single point of entry: via corporate intranets or the Internet.
Managers and staff can subscribe to receive scheduled reports or
exception notification of defined events. These can be delivered
to a workstation, browser or printer, or by email, pager, fax,
PDA, phone or voice mail anywhere in the corporation or the world.
While Data Warehouses provide access to information, Corporate
Portals also provide personalized web pages for easy, secure
access by staff to most systems needed to do their job. These
corporate gateways use XML to integrate access to structured and
unstructured knowledge resources throughout the enterprise or the
world.
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TEN#5 - Issue
No. 5 : METADATA AND XML FOR BUSINESS by Clive Finkelstein, Information Engineering Services Pty Ltd.
Published on IES Web Site, March, 1999
The fifth issue of TEN discusses the importance of metadata and its use with the
Extensible Markup Language (XML) so systems and databases can intercommunicate within and
outside organizations. It provides arguments to convince managers to plan, budget and
apply resources for metadata management to enable their organization to compete
effectively in the coming Competitive Armageddon. It discusses markup vocabularies - common
languages for intercommunication - being developed in different industries. It also
describes how business and IT staff can learn how to work together using business data
modelling methods, to define an enterprise's own metadata for use with the coming XML
development tools.
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TEN#4 -
Issue No. 4 : VIRTUAL REALITY IN BUSINESS by Clive Finkelstein, Information
Engineering Services Pty Ltd. Published on IES Web Site, December, 1998
The fourth issue of TEN introduces Virtual Reality Markup
Language (VRML), used for generating interactive 3D images in a browser. VRML commands
should ideally be generated automatically by CAD tools, CASE tools and Data Warehousing
tools. A number of hypothetical applications using VRML in Business are discussed in each
of these areas - some of which are close to being delivered today. This is the first of
several planned TEN issues to raise the awareness of VRML.
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TEN#3 - Issue
No. 3 : XML AND BUSINESS by Clive Finkelstein, Information Engineering Services
Pty Ltd. Published on IES Web Site, September, 1998
This third issue discusses the three major shifts in the computer
industry that are occurring in the 1990s. The first is the World Wide Web; the second is
Java; the third - just beginning - is XML. The impact of XML on business will be as
significant as the first two shifts. XML promises to transform the integration of
dissimilar systems, within an Intranet or across the Internet. This is the first of
several planned TEN issues to raise the awareness of XML.
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TEN#2 - Issue
No. 2 : THE INTERNET by Clive Finkelstein, Information Engineering Services Pty
Ltd. Published on IES Web Site, June, 1998
This second issue discusses the effect that the Internet
will have on business over the next ten years. It shows how the impact will be
"orders
of magnitude greater than the Year 2000 problem" - as most business processes
and systems will need to be completely redesigned and redeveloped. This is not a technical
problem; it is a management problem. Guidance is offered to managers, to help them prepare
for and take advantage of the coming Competitive Armageddon.
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TEN#1 - Issue
No. 1 : ENTERPRISE EXCELLENCE by Clive Finkelstein, Information Engineering
Services Pty Ltd. Published on IES Web Site, March, 1998
This inaugural issue sets the mission of The Enterprise
Newsletter "to become a key vehicle to communicate innovative applications of
Information Technology to Enterprises". It discusses the Pace of Change of
business today and describes two projects where organisations have acted to turn this
change to their advantage.
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