Sustainable IT Architecture community

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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 Agility Chain Management System (ACMS). Learn more.

Pierre Bonnet will be giving a complete presentation of the Sustainable IT Architecture's framework. See here.

Now available the Table of Contents of our book "Sustainable IT Architecture". See the fourth cover here.

 

Watch now this 30 minutes Web Seminar hosted by Pierre Bonnet about Model-driven MDM
and semantic modeling as the first step of Agility Chain Management System (ACMS). 

 

Download and watch
All presentations and videos of
our last annual conference in Paris, April 2009.
The clip of this event

 

MDM and Semantic Modeling

Find out here our next book about MDM and Semantic Modeling. You will find the Table of Contents, a Quick-view and the Praise for MDM Alliance Group. This book is planned for the end of this year in English and French languages. See the link above to discover how to participate in this book.

 

See the presentation of
Pierre Bonnet at the Master Data Management Summit Europe 2009, 20-22 April 2009, Park Plaza Victoria Hotel, London, UK "Enabling IT Agility with help from MDM and Semantic Integration". Download the slides and the whole text of Pierre Bonnet's speech in English.
Link to the MDM Summit Europe 2009.

Do we need to regulate Information Systems? As you can see with this figure (click to enlarge, source: SMABTP insurance company) companies must evaluate their IS assets through their stocks of Master Data and Business rules. The more you will use and reuse ACMS mechanism the more you will gain in agility, traceability and IS ROI. Master Data and Business Rules must be opened and auditable by the business. See also here.

Sustainable IT Architecture's book

Pierre Bonnet, Founder of Sustainable IT Architecture community
Jean-Michel Detavernier, Deputy CIO of SMABTP insurance
Dominique Vauquier, Author of Praxeme method
Jérôme Boyer, Senior Technical Director at ILOG
Erik Steinholtz, Senior Integration Architect at Progress Software
ISBN: 9781848210899 - WILEY. Find out the fourth cover here.


We need to create Information System Rating! On InfoQ.com

Toxic financial products prospered due to weaknesses in the regulation that was otherwise designed to limit risks, in particular Sarbanes Oxley and Bâle 2. While some people see the loopholes and already offer to write more regulations, the symptoms should be carefully isolated from the cause: it is less the lack of financial regulation than the lack of precision when measuring risks that should be blamed for the current situation. See the complete article here.

Les Echos.fr

Pierre Bonnet in "LesEchos.fr" IT and Taxation
and IT, Politics & Crisis.
 

Article by Pierre Bonnet about IS and Crisis

This article shows how to leverage IS assets with help from MDM, BRMS and BPM. See here for French readers . You can download this IT magazine.  

Find out how to stop the dialogue of the deaf between CEO and CIO!

LOGICA, ORCHESTRA NETWORKS AND ILOG have delivered a new white paper about the governance in the context of IS restructuring.
See here.

Are you interested in the IT reasons for the financial crisis?

To foster a sustainable growth, which will be able to keep the complexity of modern organizations under control, politicians and upper managers must take IT into account in a strategic way. Find out why here!

IT for crisis

Rather than reinforcing the ability to manage complexity, IT Specialists reproduce obsolete IS evolution models by stacking up software layers over existing IS. This approach reinforces the inability of IS to face supplemental business complexity.

In this paper (PDF, 100 Ko) Pierre Bonnet, founder of the S-IT-A community, shows that existing IT solutions have become a time bomb that will prime when the absorbable level of complexity is exeeced. Once the bomb is ready to explode, the reaction time to regain control of complexity could be too long and the effort too expensive to stop damage. 

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.