The Intervista Journal is another find in the hunt for more blogs about Enterprise Architecture. Here are the goals
I'm checking out their list of books to put together a reading list for our folks interested in EA. I'm also noticing they haven't updated the blog since May 2004 (3 months ago). There's got to be some stuff happening since May, even if you use the blog as a 'whats new' at Intervista Institute.
Portals and KM: Workspace Portal Realized: SAP NetWeaver
"They offer these tools within a framework that will make strategy consultants proud - People Integration: Portal/Collaboration, Information Integration: Business Intelligence/Knowledge Management, Process Integration: Integration Broker/Business Process Management, Application Platform: J2EE, ABAP, OB and OS Abstraction. See their developer network site for a more comprehensive coverage of the components and this Forrestor commentary for implementation suggestions.
This combination seems to offer a way to more fully achieve the "workspace portal" concept discussed in an earlier posting. I wish we had the NetWeaver tool set when were trying to the implement process-oriented KM described in this posting."
Funny how this would pop into my radar after spending a couple days last week in an SAP workshop, mostly focused on the financial's side of SAP in a Government Professional Services business, but also just touching on the Knowledge Management capabilities in SAP Netweaver, arguably one the least mature parts of the still young Netweaver but good to see there. We've got a mySAP CRM implementation starting up, so that may be the first area where Netweaver's Knowledge Management capabilities may put to use. Bill's got some other analysis in this workspace portal area that I'll have to find time to get into.
Oh, and Bill's got some music to get into it with!
Mike Ricciuti : Stumbling over SP2 | Perspectives | CNET News.com
Did Microsoft bungle SP2's debut? With my columnist hat on, I can give you an unqualified yes. That's a shame, because by all accounts, SP2 is a fine update to Windows XP, which was already the best-ever version of Windows. And rest assured that Microsoft will work out the kinks--it has to.
SAIC's Center for Enterprise Architecture gets a nice write-up in Washington Technology's article today, "Enterprise architecture: Where do we go from here?",
"We had to come up with a description of the 'as-is' components of 22 agencies coming into the department, an initial 'to-be' architecture, and a technology and project transition plan," said Lee Holcomb, chief technology officer at DHS. "In terms of applications alone, we discovered more than 2,000 that we needed to better manage at the department level."DHS hired Science Applications International Corp. of San Diego to help create its architecture. SAIC experts, who had worked with several of the department's legacy agencies, analyzed IT systems across DHS' more than 700 disparate computing systems and identified several areas for consolidation.
SAIC found, for example, that DHS had at least eight programs to manage ports of entry and 14 for issuing credentials.
DHS completed the first version of its architecture in September 2003 in what Holcomb called "record time." To put that in perspective, it took a year to develop one portion of the Defense Department's business enterprise architecture.