Business-Driven Architect

Last Business-Driven Architect Post @ ebizQ

brendamichelson — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 09:13:24 -0500

As the post title states, this is the end-of-the line for my Business-Driven Architect blog at ebizQ. I’ve enjoyed my time here and appreciate the platform that Les and the ebizQ team provided for the last several years. What’s next? Glad you asked. After a quiet period, I emerged with an “ah-ha�? that connected the dots of my varied research interests, real-world experiences, published research and whiteboard doodles. I’m pretty excited about this idea and will focus my non-client time on related research, development and writing. Given this [thing] is central to my on-going business and brand, I’ll be writing...

Forrester's IT Forum: The Business Technology Transformation

brendamichelson — Wed, 26 May 2010 09:10:54 -0500

For the next few days, I'll be at Forrester's IT Forum in Las Vegas (of course). The conference is centered on Forrester's Business Technology agenda: "...a time for some soul searching in IT, a time to learn from past lessons and create a better way. Forrester calls this new mandate business technology (BT), where every business activity is enabled by technology and every technology decision hinges on a business need." The goal of the conference is to enable a real-world transformation to Business Technology. Forrester breaks this transformation into five interrelated efforts: "Connect people more fluidly to drive innovation. You...

Enterprise Architects: Thought for the day from George Bernard Shaw

brendamichelson — Mon, 24 May 2010 09:48:58 -0500

“The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.�? - George Bernard Shaw Are you communicating the vision, business value and delivery capabilities of enterprise architecture? Or just talking at people?...

New BEI Podcast: Faisal Hoque on the Power of Business-IT Convergence

brendamichelson — Sun, 23 May 2010 11:24:41 -0500

Faisal Hoque, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, BTM Corporation, spoke on The Power of Convergence: Why Bringing Business and Technology Together Matters, at the March 2010 Business Ecology Initiative Symposium in Jacksonville FL. Hoque set the stage with the startling fact that only 74 of the original 500 firms remain in the S&P index just 40 years later. The frenetic pace of business has reduced the enterprise life expectancy. The response has been a call for agility. Referencing research of the BTM Institute, Hoque stated that agility is achieved through repeatable management processes. The components of agility are flexible organizational...

@ MIT CIO Symposium: The Internet of Things

brendamichelson — Wed, 19 May 2010 16:32:10 -0500

I’m at the MIT CIO Symposium today. Currently, I’m in the Internet of Things Panel. Moderator: Dr. Michael Chui, Sr. Fellow McKinsey Global Institute Panelists: Mr. Robert LeFort, CEO Ember Prof. Sanjay Sarma, Professor and Former Chairman of Research and Co-Founder of The Auto-ID Center at MIT Mr. Bob Metcalfe, Partner Polaris Mr. Mark Roberti, Editor RFID Journal Sanjay Sarma – Started in 1998, vision similar to Internet of Things today. Given early stage of internet, ambition was to replace barcodes with RFID. Problem was price point. Barcode is a few cents. RFID target was 5 cents. Brought cost of...

@ Tibco TUCON: PepsiCo: Real-Time Business Decision Support (Manage with Events)

brendamichelson — Tue, 11 May 2010 20:31:16 -0500

This case is co-presented by PepsiCo and Infosys. The business scenario is transportation management. Transportation and logistics is a common use case for real-time information. The challenge was to more efficiently manage the dedicated fleet. The cost of carrying the dedicated fleet during the downturn was exorbitant. However, the cost (and risk) of not having a dedicated fleet during good economic times in untenable. Showing a manual, labor intensive, decision making process to decide how to allocate shipment to either dedicated fleet or company fleet. PepsiCo needed a way to communicate automatically with dedicated and company fleet carriers. Needed a...

@ Tibco TUCON: Orient Overseas Container Line (OOCL) Track & Trace for Automatic Adaption

brendamichelson — Tue, 11 May 2010 19:28:12 -0500

Matt Rosen, Director of Application Development, OOCL, opens with some company background. OOCL is a container shipping company. Of the 6000 employees at OOCL, 1000 are IT! Known as IT leader in shipping. OOCL has been a Tibco customer since 2006. Rosen is walking us through the Container Shipment Lifecycle. OOCL tracks milestones throughout the lifecycle. Associates rules with those milestones to articulate when milestones (and therefore events) are relevant, or when milestones (and therefore events) are unimportant. In addition to milestones, events and rules, other key OOCL constructs are activities and business scorecards. Bringing the concepts together, OOCL has...

@ Tibco TUCON: Real-time Retail, Using Information to Improve Customer Satisfaction

brendamichelson — Tue, 11 May 2010 18:04:22 -0500

I’m at a CIO Innovations session. Randy G. Burdick, EVP and CIO of OfficeMax, is going to present on real-time retail. As a former retailer, who introduced real-time, event-driven architecture to the organization, I’m extremely interested to learn what OfficeMax has done. According to the session abstract, OfficeMax’s “2-second advantage�? story involves inventory levels, fulfillment processes, shipping, customer notification and customer loyalty. OfficeMax is the combined entities of OfficeMax retail and Boise Cascade Office Supplies business. Burdick opened with some background on OfficeMax and the challenges of the current retail environment. These include declining sales & margins, changes in shopping...

@ Tibco TUCON: Opening Keynote Sessions: Vivek Ranadive, Interpol and Deutsche Bank

brendamichelson — Tue, 11 May 2010 13:09:54 -0500

After a brief video highlighting the “2 second advantage�?, Vivek Ranadive, Founder and CEO of Tibco, starts us off with his vision for the future IT. Vivek begins by telling us the 21st century is just starting now. Not in 2000, but now, 2010. According to Vivek, the 21st century needs 21st century IT solutions. These solutions are event-based. [That’s right, another indicator of the rise of event processing.] Vivek describes this transition on Enterprise 3.0. [Note, at the Analyst Summit yesterday, we gave two thumbs down to the “Enterprise 3.0�? term. We like the 2 second advantage message, but...

@ Tibco's TUCON: Customer Panel at Analyst Summit

brendamichelson — Mon, 10 May 2010 18:18:29 -0500

This afternoon, we have an opportunity to interact with some of Tibco's customers. First, via a panel session and later in 1x1 sessions. On the customer panel are representatives from the World Economic Forum, Colt Technology Services, Energy Australia and the Defense Intelligence Agency. Each organization represents a different use case, and product set, for Tibco. The panelists were asked to give brief introductions, I captured the following: World Economic Forum - Challenge: provide a forum for Davos constituents to collaborate throughout the year, at the physical events, and in day-to-day context. Adopted tibbr as part of collaboration forum. Use...

@ Tibco’s TUCON: SOA, Event Processing, Cloud Computing & more

brendamichelson — Mon, 10 May 2010 09:11:41 -0500

For the start of this week, I’m at Tibco’s annual conference, TUCON. I was invited by Tibco to attend the Analyst Summit and the main conference. My primary interests here are no surprise: event processing, cloud computing and SOA. One thing I’ve always liked about Tibco is they understand, and exploit, the connections between technology strategies. Tibco has been linking SOA and Event-Driven Architecture for years. And now, with Silver, they link SOA (services & composite applications) and event processing (sense and respond elasticity) in their cloud computing strategy. I’ll cover the conference via my blogs and Twitter. I believe...

Announcing 2010 Case Study Contest: Business Agility and Process Optimization enabled by BPM & SOA

brendamichelson — Mon, 10 May 2010 08:22:04 -0500

The BPM/SOA Community of Practice (CoP), in partnership with BPTrends and TechTarget, is sponsoring the “Business Agility and Process Optimization enabled by Business Process Management (BPM) and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)�? Case Study Competition. The competition is open to organizations of all sizes, including government agencies, which have successfully delivered business or mission value using a BPM, SOA or combined BPM-SOA approach. Similar to the SOA Consortium’s contests in 2008 - 2009, the goal of the BPM/SOA Case Study Competition is to highlight business success stories and lessons learned to provide proof points and insights for other organizations considering or...

New Presentation: 6 Secrets of Successful SOA

brendamichelson — Tue, 04 May 2010 18:36:18 -0500

As I mentioned earlier, I went to the ITLC Conference this week to speak on SOA. The official session title was “Driving Transportation Efficiencies with SOA�?. The format was two 30 minute presentations, followed by a Q&A period. My co-conspirator was none other than Maja Tibbling, Principal Enterprise Architect for Con-Way Transportation. As you may recall, Con-Way was a winner in the 2008 SOA Consortium Case Study Contest. Con-Way has a great business transformation story, powered by SOA and Event Processing. After Maja delivered the SOA in Transportation presentation, I gave a new 30-minute talk on “6 Secrets to Successful...

@ ITLC 2010 Conference: Cloud Computing for the Trucking Industry

brendamichelson — Tue, 04 May 2010 14:37:22 -0500

I’m at the Information Technology & Logistics Council (ITLC) conference on Amelia Island in Florida. I was invited here to speak on SOA. Now, I’m sitting in on a cloud computing session. The format is three mini-presentations, followed by a panel discussion. Chris Rafter, Solution Services Group, Logicalis, Inc. Jackie Baretta, CIO, Con-Way Inc. Dave Tezler, Oracle Moderator: Steve Chaffee, Logicalis Steve Chaffee opened quoting the Forrester paper by Gene Leganza on Enterprise Architects and Cloud Computing Adoption. He also mentioned the citizen development aspect of cloud, as familiarized by Gartner. First up is Chris Rafter, Logicalis is an IT...

BREAKING NEWS: Event Processing Symposium 2010 – Now Appearing Everywhere!

brendamichelson — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 16:21:17 -0500

Interested in Event Processing? Travel budget non-existent? Disappointed to miss out on event processing luminaries at the Event Processing Symposium? No problem! You asked. We answered. On June 7, 2010, the Event Processing Community will run the first Event Processing Symposium as a free, virtual conference. The virtual conference features event processing luminaries, early adopters and experts: • W. Roy Schulte, Vice President and Distinguished Analyst, Gartner • Opher Etzion, IBM Senior Technical Staff Member and chair of the Event Processing Technical Society • Christopher Bird, Chief Architect at Sabre Airline Solutions • Paul Vincent, CTO Business Rules and CEP,...