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

While the Web 1.0 is viewed as an information source, and Web 2.0 as participatory, Web 3.0 is envisioned as Semantic (or the Semantic Web)....

Often I hear business and IT people say that Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is the way ahead to achieve greater interoperability of sys...

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

For CIOs, one of the secrets of the trade for building cost efficiency is consolidation of IT assets, such as data centers and help desks. O...

Enterprise architecture is critical to effective IT governance. EA establishes the baseline and target architectures and the transition pla...

Peer-to-peer ( P2P )—“computer network uses diverse connectivity between participants in a network and the cumulative bandwidth of network ...

Firewalls have traditionally been used to “wall off” the enterprise from computer attack, but now intrusion-prevention systems are augmentin...

Homeland Security Presidential Directive 12, 27 August 2004, is a “Policy for a Common Identification Standard for Federal Employees and Con...

Breakthrough thinking is at the heart of great enterprise architecture. Incremental improvements in the organization are one thing, but dram...

Enterprise architecture is about planning and transitioning from the baseline to the target state. However, as architects, there are times w...

The enterprise architecture for law enforcement and security in the next decade will be focused on using technology to identify the bad guy...

CNET News, 24 January 2008 reports that Bill Gates calls for creative capitalism “in a speech Thursday at the World Economic Forum in Davos,...

The world economy is globalizing, but sales and marketing is still a local activity. How should organizations architect the way forward to a...

User-centric EA uses visualization techniques like mind mapping to brainstorm and develop information products that are useful and useable t...

Enterprise architecture and portfolio management are closely linked activities. EA drives IT investment management (including the IT portfo...

Enterprise architecture develops the organization’s baseline and target architecture and transition plan. EA is an endeavor of change and tr...

Enterprise architecture is all about planning and governance to enable organizational success. But despite all the astute architectural pl...