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In the recent posts, I discussed about the changes in the Zachman framework 3.0. also discussed about the prevailing myths about the framework. Thanks for the overwhelming response and of course several questions as well . Some questions – what’s the difference between primitive and composite? Why do you need primitive models ? how these concepts are helpful in the context of business ...

Updated 19th March 2012 at 03:29 PM by Sunil Dutt Jha

Tags: business process, deconstruct, framework principles, model, zachman

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Enterprise Architecture , BPM & BPMS , Architecture Trends & Surveys

Last year, we had a discussion in iCMG Linkedin group (over 20,000 members) which ignited the passion and invited over 1000 comments. The title of the thread was “What’s killing the Enterprise Architecture? – quote extracted from one of John Zachman’s article.”

As the time has gone by, the number of people who misrepresent and misinterpret the Zachman framework has gone up significantly. The problem is that the framework is easily available for download ...

Updated 23rd February 2012 at 03:30 AM by Sunil Dutt Jha

Tags: enterprise, framework, myths, zachman

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Enterprise Architecture , Architecture related Business Opportunities , Architecture Trends & Surveys , Architecture Roles & Responsibilites

It's few months since Zachman Framework version 3, was announced. Interestingly, this is the most EA-inclusive representation of the Zachman Framework over the last 40 years. The new version is the culmination of 4 decades of experience and it took nearly 12 months for Zachman International to prepare the " The Zachman Ontology for Enterprise Architecture".
There are several noteworthy changes in the new version which raises the understanding level and discards ...

Updated 23rd February 2012 at 03:37 AM by Sunil Dutt Jha

Tags: architecture, architecture framework, business, business process, enterprise, enterprise architecture, framework, ontology, zachman, zachman framework

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Software Architecture , Enterprise Architecture , SOA & SaaS , Business Intelligence , BPM & BPMS , Architecture related Business Opportunities , Architecture Trends & Surveys , Architecture Roles & Responsibilites

It's already 12 days since the New Year began. The need for managing change and demand for quick response to the ongoing challenges are mounting pressure on time and resource utilization. Though some of the disciplines like “management” (invented by Peter Drucker nearly 70 years back) and “enterprise architecture” (invented by John Zachman nearly 34 years) are handy, people around us make it difficult sometime ;-).

Time is one of the commodities which seem ...

Updated 12th January 2012 at 08:37 AM by Sunil Dutt Jha

Tags: architecture, enterprise, enterprise architecture, icmg, sunil, sunil dutt jha, zachman

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Software Architecture , Enterprise Architecture , SOA & SaaS , Business Intelligence , BPM & BPMS , Architecture related Business Opportunities , Architecture Trends & Surveys , Architecture Roles & Responsibilites , Architecture events