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New PDF Pricing for Mastering #ArchiMate per 1/1/2015
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.…
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Christmas 2014 Archi & Mastering #ArchiMate special
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…
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New: The (Mastering) #ArchiMate FAQ
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.
Low-hanging Cloud
(Sorry, long story. It will return in an appendix in Chess and the Art of Enterprise Architecture. It's not related to that book's main message, it is just an 'illustration' used in the book, which I thought would be nice for…
Black Friday Deal for Mastering ArchiMate Edition II PDF
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…
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Modelling networking using the networking concepts of #ArchiMate
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…
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New Enterprise Architecture Column: On Slippery Ice
Principles and guidelines are not architecture, and if your main product is principles and guidelines, you’re not an architect.
New Enterprise Architecture Column: On Slippery Ice
Principles and guidelines are not architecture, and if your main product is principles and guidelines, you’re not an architect.
Modelling Homogenous Landscapes in #ArchiMate (Classes and Instances)
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…
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R&A IT Strategy & Architecture 