Andy (אברהם נפתלי) Blumenthal Leadership, Technology, Life, and Faith ✡

So I learned that Metrology is the science of measurement.  And measurement is the foundation of scientific research and creating stand...

Christopher Mims in the Wall Street Journal  makes the case for letting employees go rogue with IT purchases. It's cheaper, it...

The best article I have seen on the subject of Electronic Health Records (EHR) was in Bloomberg BusinessWeek (21 June 2012) called ...

Interesting book review in the Wall Street Journal (18 January 2012) on Standards: Recipes for Reality by Lawrence Busch. Standards ...

In the computer world, free is often the architecture and economic model of choice or is it? We have various operating systems like Linux, C...

See video on Department of Defense (DoD) vision for Net-Centricity: Source: Department of Defense

Setting standards help us to reduce complexity, contain costs, build interoperability, and secure the enterprise. T he Air Force is leadin...

Burton Group released a report entitled “ Establishing and Maintaining Enterprise Architecture Momentum ” on 8 August 2008. Some key point...

Information is central to the Department of Defense’s arsenal for fighting and defeating our enemies and the ability to share information ac...

“Occam's razor (sometimes spelled Ockham's razor ) is a principle attributed to the 14th-century English logician and Franciscan fr...

Ever wonder what happened to the old Polaroid cameras—you know point, click, shoot, and out pops your photo? Very cool technology for a soci...

This week Microsoft said they had a big announcement, and that it wasn’t about Yahoo! It turns out that Microsoft decided to reveal some of ...

Enterprise architecture seeks to simplify organizational complexity through both business processes reengineering and technology enablement....

While User-centric EA seeks to provide useful and useable products and services to the end-user, the heavy customization of major applicatio...

Zune has been playing catch up with iPod in the music player business, but from an User-centric enterprise architecture standpoint, they’ve ...

Microsoft —with 79,000 employees in 102 countries and global annual revenue of $51.12 billion as of 2007— is the company every consumer love...

Data architecture done right provides for the discovery and exchange of data assets between producers and consumers of data. Data discovery ...