This is the time of the year when professionals around the globe with interest in Architecture discipline assemble in the Bangalore every year to discuss and share their experience. The occasion is the iCMG annual Enterprise & IT architecture summit, this year it happens to be the sixth edition. Don’t come alone, bring your A team who are critical in shaping the future of your systems and business in the next 12 months.
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iCMG Architecture Awards – 2nd round of evaluation is going to be difficult for jury
Thanks for your overwhelming response for the awards. The second round of evaluation is going to be even more difficult for jury members as most of the nominations involve excellent work.
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This time thundering cloud producing rain of business & IT services – part I
Adoption of Cloud computing is growing year on year. It’s quite evident by looking the nominations in the Cloud category (as part of ICMG Architecture Excellence Awards). The benefits are not just operational efficiency and cost reductions, but also the direct increase in the revenue in several cases. Utilization of cloud infrastructure, virtualization is becoming main-stream [...]
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How do you transform a Business Strategy to an IT implementation artifact?, part II
In the first part of this series, I deliberated on how to define strategy models and the key factors to consider, transformation from strategy models to business models and then transformation from business to system models consisting of application architecture, network distribution,
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Sample System Models which need to be submitted as part of nomination – part III
System models are key to realization of business ideas and processes. It is advisable to provide us with as many sample models (logical models, physical models) related to business logic, distribution network, user interface, information storage, business rules, roles and departments etc.
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Sample Process Models which needs to be submitted as part of nomination – part II
It will be helpful if your nomination includes thedetailed process models. You will agree that modeling the processes enhancesthe understanding. The process model consisting of business activities,business rules, business roles, information sets, message flows,decision gateways, distribution nodes, constraints along with the timelinessare key to successful implementation of business service. As a part of the nomination, [...]
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Sample Strategy Models which needs to be submitted as part of nomination – part I
There are several nominations which lack detailed sample models. These models are important for the jury members to carry out their tasks
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Key observations while going through the nominations for the iCMG Architecture Awards
As the last date of submission is 28 May, we expect these statistics to change and I look forward to update them.
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How do you transform a Business Strategy to an IT implementation artifact? part 1
Is there a connection between business strategy and the software programs?
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June 24, 2011
