Sustainable IT Architecture community

The migration of legacy systems to a sustainable SOA relying on the Agility Chain Management System (ACMS)

The “Sustainable IT Architecture” community (S-IT-A) rallies IT actors (Software Vendors, Consultants, Companies, Industry Analyst) advocating a progressive revision of information systems around the following principles: the SOA maturity matrix (Cosmetic SOA, Overhaul SOA, Extended SOA), the Agility Chain Management System (ACMS), an enterprise method. Learn more.

Hottest links:

April 28, 2008 - New methodological guide to conduct Master Data Management projects. Download this guide in our materials section. The MDM project is a key solution for improving quality of systems in the approach promoted by Sustainable IT Architecture Community.

April 28, 2008 - New events upcoming with help from the CXP and DPM Services. These events will highlight the Sustainable growth of information systems in architecture and software. See here.

April 27, 2008 - A very interresting post by Jérome Boyer about his analysis concerning the three key principles of our community. We are working with Jérome Boyer (ILOG) for releasing the international version of our community's book. The publishing is foreseen at the end of this year, ISTE and Wiley publisher (see below). Find out more about this post and Jérome boyer here.

The community's book

 

The international version of our book is foreseen for October 2008, ISTE and Wiley publisher. We are pleased to present below the temporay description, already available in the ISTE and Wiley's Science and Technology catalog 2008 (click on this picture to enlarge):

The french version is available since 2007, you can order it via Amazon or directly via Hermes Lavoisier.

If you have any remarks or questions regarding S-IT-A's book or this website, please contact us directly or via our international group.

Le système d'information durable - La refonte progressive du SI avec SOA. Si vous préférez vous exprimer en langue Française vous pouvez nous faire part de vos remarques sur le groupe Français Méthode SOA.

 

Quick insight about agility and variation points

  • Have a look at our Agility Framework and find out how to raise agility of Information Systems with help from variation points (PDF, 0.12 Mb).

  • Have a look at our blueprint 'How to manage variation points and raise agility' (PDF, 0.15 Mb).

 

A turning point for infrastructure software vendors

Software vendors in EI-BPM, business intelligence, data integration (ETL, data quality), and BRMS are facing a considerable industry shift that could induce a downfall:  their offerings can no longer guarantee sufficient growth in a market where XML standards smooth out the specifics and projects are increasing in dimension and scope.  It is no longer enough to supply technologies improving existing assets, but rather solutions designed to adaptively restructure the entire system. Read more.