This document discusses enterprise architecture and managing complexity. It presents two contrasting agendas for enterprise architecture - simplifying and unifying systems to align with business versus differentiating and integrating systems to help manage complexity. It explores traditional enterprise architecture approaches and their limitations. It proposes a new agenda of managing complexity not by suppressing it but by differentiating and integrating systems appropriately. It provides examples of applying this approach to complex problems in domains like defense procurement, banking data warehousing, mobile ecosystems and healthcare.
This document discusses enterprise architecture and managing complexity. It presents two contrasting agendas for enterprise architecture - simplifying and unifying systems to align with business versus differentiating and integrating systems to help manage complexity. It explores traditional enterprise architecture approaches and their limitations. It proposes a new agenda of managing complexity not by suppressing it but by differentiating and integrating systems appropriately. It provides examples of applying this approach to complex problems in domains like defense procurement, banking data warehousing, mobile ecosystems and healthcare.
Greetings and best wishes to all. A special prize for the first person to identify the man on slide 3. (There are clues in the presentation, and you can confirm your guess by looking at his Wikipedia entry.)
This document discusses the challenges of monitoring supplier factories for unethical practices. It provides background on accusations against firms that contract with factories in China for substandard wages, long hours, and unsafe conditions. Both Walmart and Nike are scrutinized for these issues. The document outlines their monitoring systems, including supplier codes of conduct and audits. It then analyzes their situations using Porter's Five Forces and SWOT analyses before providing recommendations such as increasing audits, raising prices, and educating workers.
This document discusses the concept of coupling in system architecture. It notes that coupling affects complexity, adaptability, and behavior. Loose coupling reduces interdependencies but also interoperability, while tight coupling enables integration but with less flexibility. The document examines different types of coupling, including business, organizational, data, process, and implementation coupling. It argues that coupling is important to consider for system scale, economics of manufacturing versus agile systems, and the costs of semantic matching between systems.
This is a Python library and set of tools that lets you build Docker images using masterless SaltStack instead of (or in addition to) using Dockerfiles.
FlyingCloud is easy to run from the commandline, and built to be run on a Continuous Integration server.
LocusLink is an online resource from the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) that provides a central point of access for basic biomedical information on genes, transcripts, and proteins from model organisms including human, rat, mouse, fruit fly, and zebrafish. It links to related NCBI databases such as PubMed, RefSeq, OMIM, GenBank, and others to provide curated gene sequence data, citations, and knowledge on genetic diseases. Users can search LocusLink by gene name or symbol and access descriptions and links to related data for the given genetic locus.
O documento discute as tendências para os serviços públicos no Brasil, incluindo serviços personalizados, atitude proativa, gestão empreendedora e produtividade. A produtividade dos serviços públicos no Brasil precisa aumentar para atender às demandas crescentes e envelhecimento da população. Aumentos modestos na produtividade dos serviços públicos poderiam gerar economias significativas.
The document discusses outsourcing as a business strategy that can provide significant cost savings. It summarizes the results of a survey of 100 companies that found 50-60% savings for large companies and 20-30% savings for small companies when outsourcing back office functions like accounting, payroll, and vendor management. The document then outlines various outsourcing models and functions that are good candidates for outsourcing as well as criteria for determining what to outsource. Both advantages and disadvantages of outsourcing are presented.
Apache Spark GraphX & GraphFrame Synthetic ID Fraud Use CaseMo Patel
This document summarizes a presentation about analyzing graphs using Apache Spark's GraphFrames and GraphX libraries. It begins with an introduction of the speaker and their interests. It then discusses what graphs are and provides examples of graph analytics like node scoring and community detection. It introduces GraphX and GraphFrames, how they allow working with property graphs and integrating graph operations with DataFrames. It also provides an example of how financial institutions can use graph analytics to detect synthetic identity fraud by analyzing relationships between customer addresses.
Slidedeck from Conferenz IT&EA Conference, Auckland, New Zealand, July 2016; also an extended version of slidedeck for IASA Architecture Summit, Dublin, Ireland, July 2016
This provides an overview of whole-enterprise architecture, and how it differs from and extends classic IT-centric 'enterprise'-architecture. It also provides a practical overview of methods, including three worked-examples.