EAI (Enterprise Application Integration): Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) vs Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
Let's evaluate the following question: Is an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) a technical tool implementation that aids in delivering a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)? This article looks at ESB and SOA from a conceptual perspective as opposed to practical implementation. Determining the right solution means for these concepts to be fully investigated and applied to the specific enterprise and its landscape. It is therefore by no means the final say on the subject and does not prescribe a specific tool. In order to evaluate this statement, one needs to consider what ESB…
Data Science: Topoligical Data Analysis – Slaying the big data dragon for analytics
Topological Data Analysis (TDA) is a recent field that emerged from various works in applied (algebraic) topology and computational geometry during the past 15 years. This article aims to simplify TDA to the business intelligence and data science community. Despite assuming some level of mathematical and analytical insight from the reader it provides both an oversimplified technical explanation as well as a completely oversimplified non-technical explanation of what TDA is and can achieve in business terms. It aims to be useful at an executive and technical level not limited to but including CIO's,…
Data Architecture VS Information Architecture
Please note that our philosophy on the subject enables the TOGAFF 9 Capability Based Planning approach. This enables the CIO / CDO with proper governance from an enterprise architecture and IT perspective since capability-based planning is a powerful mechanism to ensure that the strategic business plan drives the enterprise from a top-down approach. It is also adaptable with capability engineering to leverage emerging bottom-up innovations. This aligns with the Sirius approach of planning, engineering and delivery of solutions to enable strategic business capabilities to the enterprise. Data vs Information We are…
MDM – Financial Ride or No Ride at all
Context One of the goals of master data management (MDM) is to maintain a single access point to specified data sets, thereby creating a single view of information. Whether customers, products, or other entities, organisations may struggle to measure the actual benefits of consolidating and centralising data to have a single viewpoint of data. Beyond the ability to use a centralised access point to gain a better perspective of what is going on in the organisation, organisations are always required to provide an account of the financial benefits…