R&A IT Strategy & Architecture
Insights on all things 'digital', both technical and non-technical
The EU has instigated new sales tax rules which force people selling in the EU to charge the sales tax of the country where the buyer is located. This is a rule designed to fight tax evasion by large companies.…
Read More New PDF Pricing for Mastering #ArchiMate per 1/1/2015
This Christmas, there is a special deal for Mastering ArchiMate. From today until New Years Day, you can buy Mastering ArchiMate Edition II with a discount and at the same time support the development of the free open source Archi modelling tool…
Read More Christmas 2014 Archi & Mastering #ArchiMate special
A short notice today: I've started a (Mastering) ArchiMate Frequently Asked Questions page on this site. Via the menu or the link just given.
Just a short note. If you buy the PDF of Mastering ArchiMate Edition II via DPD (see link on the Mastering ArchiMate Edition II book page) on Black Friday 2014 (Friday November 28), and enter the coupon code BFD2014, you…
Read More Black Friday Deal for Mastering ArchiMate Edition II PDF
The rise of networking form the 1980's onward may be considered the main driving force of the invention of enterprise architecture, itself a follow-up on what was until then known as system architecture. On the eve of the rise of…
Read More Modelling networking using the networking concepts of #ArchiMate
This post is about two related things: modelling actual detailed architectures of large homogenous landscapes and the class versus instance issue in ArchiMate. Both are closely related. But before I start out, for those unacquainted with Object-Orientation, or Classes and…
Read More Modelling Homogenous Landscapes in #ArchiMate (Classes and Instances)
Though I like ArchiMate, and I can (except for a few missing things such as Capability) model anything I encounter in the enterprise, I think some changes could make ArchiMate even more powerful. This is the first post in a…
Just a short note today. The Open Source Archi Tool used to be supported by a UK University. It isn't anymore. The university has stopped its sponsoring and Archi's developer (Phil Beauvoir) has left the university and started an initiative…
In Plato's 'Socratic Dialogue' Protagoras, Socrates and Protagoras (the great 'Sophist') have a discussion on what knowledge and skill is and how people acquire these. I am reminded of that discussion as I am thinking about how to explain my reasoning…
This is the third time I am writing a post titled "What is wrong with this picture?". Sadly, I only have this picture and not the explanation that comes with it, but I found it funny enough to put it…
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