Discussion about technologies and usage
I’ve just read this prediction in the next Gartner summit announcement. I am feeling really desperate since I’ve just discovered that I may lead my customers to wrong decisions. They may find themselves in right to complain saying : you are leading us in bad ways without ROI hopes and worse toward failures. OK. Do Read more about by 2012 40% of today’s enterprise architecture programs will be stopped[…]
When a company would like to join the information revolution, it needs to rely on new breed of professional able align Business and IT Transformation. This is the Enterprise Architect as Allen Brown wrote in the Align Journal. Even if CIO is an important player, it needs to be seconded by an IT City Planner Read more about Processes or Leadership in Enterprise architecture field[…]
Harvard Business School has published a survey which tries to identify what are innovation drivers and what factors quicken its adoption. It appears that managers who trust their suppliers are more reluctant to try new products coming from new suppliers than managers who untrust them. Being trustful with his suppliers may be an advantage when Read more about To trust or to untrust ? A question which drives innovation.[…]
La société D-Wave Systems de l’état de British Columbia, la Silicon Valley canadienne a développé un ordinateur quantique de 16 qbits, soit 216positions. Cet ordinateur dont les registres peuvent manipuler des valeurs jusqu’à 64 Kbits, a été programmé pour :
Cet ordinateur qui est basé sur un dispositif supra-conducteur, les jonctions de Josephson, doit fonctionner juste une fraction de degré au dessus du 0 absolu (-273 °C). Dans ces conditions, pourquoi devrait-il nous étonner ?
All methods of management, either Quality Management, Organization management or engineering management, use extensively the concept of Business Process. In accordance, a lot of companies have spent efforts building Business Process Maps, in most cases, redondant. Why ?
A Business Process is a set of correlated or interactive activities which transforms inputs into outputs (ISO 9000). A BP is a sequence of activities which, from one or several inputs produced an output representing a value for a customer (Hammer and Champy). You may notice that I stop there since authors in management are numerous.
Applying these definitions, we may agree that most companies calls business process what is, in fact, their business activities: design, production, marketing, logistics, support,… Generally, for these companies, a strategic activity is under the responsibility of a cost center or a profit center. Finally, the BP mapping reinforces silos organization : each strategic activity is divided itself into real activities – for example logistics is made of planning, loading, transport, delivery -.
3 years ago, Google was threatened by the Microsoft initiative who tried to mobilize players of IT industry against Google monopoly regarding internet search engine.
New technology was expected to be able to carry out multi-media searches. Europe, wanting to be in the race, launched the Quaero project.
Today, technologies of multi-media searches have proven to be complex to implement, and are not compatible with a use in public search engine business model.
Google reacted, and, realistically put on the tagging, as an intermediate technology, with YouTube purchasing. In the same time, Google affuted its attack capabilities with JotSpot purchasing which joins Google sheet and Google Doc series. These could lead to an office automation Web 2.0 solution for corporations, competing directly with the one of Microsoft.
Microsoft also took account of the deceleration of technological renewal.
Modern information systems rely on increasingly powerful middleware: SOA, ESB, .NET, J2EE. Today, access and use of functions or services can be provided at a place and be distributed everywhere. Internet disaggregated the concept of application and get instead services aggregation.
However, in the back-offices and the middle-offices, users remain attached to applications: They claim their property, assess the value according to the perceived contribution or the impact of troubles, grant budgets in accordance. […]
Is Enterprise Architecture the new buzz ? Everybody is talking about it as a way of providing response to most IT problems. But, what is Enterprise Architecture ? An overview of IT processes show how they are coupled with customer process. The first point of coupling occurs when a solution is acquired and go through acceptance tests. This is a loosely coupling since an event does not directly Read more about What is Enterprise Architecture ?[…]
Before EA come out, software architecture already used modelling to manage software matching of user requirements. Software models break down requirements in functions and associate them with components. Then, one requirement may be in relation with many components as many requirements may be associated with one component. In the case of one requirement relying on more than one component, all them perform a collaborative work Read more about EA models and software models[…]
Google has just reopened the website of writely. It complements Google spreadsheet already in beta test.
We may legitimately wonder about a soon Web 2.0. presentation tool availability. If any, I am sure that Google will be keen to break its wallet.
Anyway, what will be the Net surfers feelings regarding privacy if their personal data (mail, budget,…) are kept by a third party ? I won’t argue further on this, since we may pass lunchtime.
But, within a company, this drawback disappearing, more appealling pros remain.