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Business Intelligence Technology Selection – 5 Crucial points for Executives

We have published previous articles on the current reality of BI project challenges in the African context. Let’s do a quick recap on our 2015 findings to date on Business Intelligence Technology Selection – 5 Crucial points for IT and business Executives are listed. The aim of this article is to serve the project teams at our clients with some key learning points for starting off with BI technology selection. The goal is to promote time savings for BI selection and implementation and to speed up the process…

Enterprise Architecture VS Solutions Architecture – an overview

If you are looking for a comprehensive meta-model describing detailed causation relationships and semantic relationships between activities and artifacts in Enterprise Architecure, don’t look here. Instead, we suggest you start with an established model such as Nick Malick’s Enterprise Business Motivation Model (EBMM) or the Zachmann Framework. The purpose of this article is simple – it provides a pragmatic description of key architectural components as well as the difference between the roles of the Enterprise and Solutions Architect. Let's explore the elements involved first. Key Role Elements Involved Business Architecture is concerned with the alignment of…