Wayne Horkan's weblog: eclectic

Date:Thursday Sep 17, 2009

John Zachman, father of Enterprise Architecture, to present at the next BCS Enterprise Architecture Speciality Group event on Tuesday the 6th of October, 2009 • Wow!- The BCS Enterprise Architecture Speciality Group has secured John Zachman, the de facto father of Enterprise Architecture, and creator of the "Zachman Framework for Enterprise Architecture" (ZFEA), to speak at it's next event on Tuesday the 6th of October: Talk about a major coup. • ..... View Comments

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Date / Time: / 01:33 GMT

Category: Tech

Date:Thursday Jul 16, 2009

Hosting a BCS Enterprise Architecture event on EA Tools tomorrow in Manchester • Tomorrow evening I'm going to be hosting a BCS Enterprise Architecture (EA) speciality group (SG) event looking at EA tools in Manchester. • ..... View Comments

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Date / Time: / 18:58 GMT

Category: Tech

Date:Thursday May 07, 2009

Enterprise Architecture Case Studies presentation on Friday the 8th of May in Aberystwyth • This Friday I'll be presenting on the topic of 'Enterprise Architecture Case Studies' in Aberystwyth, in an event organised and hosted by the South Wales branch of the BCS. • ..... View Comments

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Date / Time: / 02:08 GMT

Category: Tech

Alan Mather's 2003 'Enterprise Architecture in Government' white paper available online • Alan Mather has just released his excellent "Enterprise Architecture in Government" white paper from 2003. • ..... View Comments

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Date / Time: / 01:34 GMT

Category: Tech

Date:Tuesday Apr 28, 2009

Is syndication and responses a measure of blogging success? • Given that today marks the 5th year of http://blogs.sun.com (or just "bsc" to us Sun bloggers), and that it was this month two years ago that I published my first blog article (entitled " And finally ", an opinion piece on Gartner's top ten predictions from 2007), I thought it would be nice to. • ..... View Comments

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Date / Time: / 00:38 GMT

Category: Blog

Date:Wednesday Mar 18, 2009

Yesterday's Enterprise Architecture Case Studies Presentation • I'm putting it down to Saint Patrick because yesterdays "Case Studies of Enterprise Architecture" presentation went down even better than Monday's Futurology lecture ; something I really thought could not happen! • ..... View Comments

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Date / Time: / 23:38 GMT

Category: Tech

Date:Saturday Mar 14, 2009

Presenting 'Enterprise Architecture Case Studies' in Manchester on Tuesday the 17th of March, 2009 • This coming Tuesday evening I'm going to be delivering my "Case Studies of Enterprise Architecture" presentation in Manchester, at a meeting hosted by the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) Manchester Network and jointly with the BCS Manchester branch . • ..... View Comments

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Date / Time: / 19:41 GMT

Category: Tech

Date:Thursday Mar 12, 2009

Response to the Capgemini CTO Blog article on the release of TOGAF 9 • About five weeks ago, on the 3rd of February (2008), I celebrated the launch of the Open Group's TOGAF version 9, with a short review of the new Enterprise Architecture (EA) Framework standard. • ..... View Comments 1 Trackback

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Date / Time: / 14:37 GMT

Category: Tech

Date:Tuesday Feb 03, 2009

The Open Group release TOGAF 9 • Today the Open Group released the latest version of their Enterprise Architecture (EA) Framework " TOGAF 9 " (The Open Group Architecture Framework version 9). • ..... View Comments 1 Trackback

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Date / Time: / 00:34 GMT

Category: Tech

Date:Saturday Jan 31, 2009

Simon Freeman, ex Chief Architect of the Government Gateway, responds to "Evolution of UK Government Messaging Systems" • About eighteen months ago I wrote up an overview of government to government (G2G) systems in the UK , followed by a high level comparison of the three most utilised , and a look at the potential evolution of the G2G systems across the UK . • ..... View Comments

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Date / Time: / 23:40 GMT

Category: Tech

Date:Tuesday Dec 02, 2008

links for 2008-12-02 • A Framework for Enterprise Architectures - Archi-TECH Documents the Open Groups struggle to get TOGAF more widely adopted in the US. • ..... View Comments

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Date / Time: / 21:02 GMT

Category: Link

Date:Tuesday Apr 22, 2008

Presenting at the Open Groups "Enterprise Architecture Practitioners Conference 2008" tomorrow in Glasgow • I'll be presenting tomorrow at the "Enterprise Architecture Practitioners Conference 2008". • ..... View Comments

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Date / Time: / 10:35 GMT

Category: Tech

Date:Thursday Mar 20, 2008

Welcome to the 'blogosphere Peter... • A big welcome to the blogosphere to Peter Hoots , Enterprise Architect extraordinaire at Sun, who starts his Sun blog , as I'm sure he means to go on, with a post about EA Framework 'Completeness' . • ..... View Comments

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Date / Time: / 21:06 GMT

Category: Work

Date:Thursday Feb 28, 2008

Case Studies of Enterprise Architecture - Event Update • Just a short post re: the "Case Studies of Enterprise Architecture" event I presented at last week for the Birmingham Branch of the BCS. • ..... View Comments

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Date / Time: / 04:53 GMT

Category: Tech

Date:Thursday Feb 14, 2008

Case Studies of Enterprise Architecture event this coming Monday • I'll be presenting three Enterprise Architecture case studies on Monday at a joint Birmingham BCS Branch and Professional Institute Network West Midlands (PIN WM) event called "Case Studies of Enterprise Architecture". • ..... View Comments 3 Trackbacks

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Date / Time: / 15:28 GMT

Category: Tech

Date:Friday Aug 24, 2007

Enterprise Architecture @ Sun Microsystems • As I mentioned in this post Enterprise Architecture Practitioners Conference 2007 here is my presentation in full from that event - along with the speakers notes. • ..... View Comments 1 Trackback

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Date / Time: / 07:06 GMT

Category: Tech

Date:Thursday Aug 23, 2007

Enterprise Architecture Practitioners Conference, 2007 • I've finally prepared my slides from when I presented at the Enterprise Architecture Practitioners Conference, 2007, so just thought I'd finalise by covering the day and getting the slides online... • ..... View Comments 3 Trackbacks

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Date / Time: / 20:48 GMT

Category: Tech

Date:Monday Jul 16, 2007

UK G2G revisited • Some advice from Ian Dunmore over at Public Sector Forums regarding the article I produced looking at UK G2G systems and there possible evolution. • ..... View Comments

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Date / Time: / 12:11 GMT

Category: Tech

Date:Friday Jul 06, 2007

UK G2G at the Public Sector Forums • Just to announce that we will be posting some recommendations regarding the evolution and strategic management of the UK G2G systems documented on this site over that last week or so. • ..... View Comments

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Date / Time: / 11:40 GMT

Category: Tech

Date:Friday Jun 29, 2007

Evolution of UK Government Messaging Systems • This is the third part of a three part overview of UK Government G2G Messaging Sub-Systems . • ..... View Comments 7 Trackbacks