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Today the Open Group released the latest version of their Enterprise Architecture (EA) Framework “TOGAF 9” (The Open Group Architecture Framework version 9).
It’s been more than a few years at version 8 so an update was due; according to the Open Group the new version has a number of enhancements, including:
Allen Brown, President and CEO of The Open Group, said this about the launch:
Today sees the launch of the much anticipated TOGAF 9. From the beginning TOGAF 9 was always intended as an evolution from TOGAF 8 and this is exactly what has been delivered.
A number of enhancements within TOGAF 9 support greater usability of the overall specification. The modular structure of the specification makes it easier for an architect to consider a specific aspect of the architecture capability. In all areas, the specification seeks to add detail and clarity above and beyond previous TOGAF versions.
I wish TOGAF 9 the continued success of its predecessors and extend my thanks and appreciation to all Architecture Forum members who have involved themselves in its development at any level. It is an astonishing achievement and I am delighted to have been able to play a small part.
There have already been a number of reviews and articles about it being released, some of which are well worth having a look at, including Mike Walker’s blog article “TOGAF 9 Release and Impressions” and online IT industry magazine eBizQ’s “Open Group Releases TOGAF Version 9; Ready for SOA“.
As a whole TOGAF 9 is still rather process focused, and I doubt we’ll see a resolution to this in the short term, despite Capgemini ‘gifting’ the new Content Framework to TOGAF. As such I expect that this issue will continue to drive people to adopt elements from other EA Frameworks which are more artifact focused, however given the extensive material on how to integrate TOGAF 9 with other frameworks I don’t see this as a major issue, unless you come from an organisation where there is, or has recently been, an EA “religious war” based around a single EA ideology. If that is the case you may need to take a more pragmatic approach to deliver your EA strategy.
If you are an Architect, or work with Architects, I recommend being familiar with TOGAF and becoming certified (if this is a viable cost option). Principally because I see TOGAFs main value in bringing a common and standardised language, set of semantics and terminology to EA; acting as a “lingua franca” for the architectural community, as well as acting as a standardised approach to EA and as a robust EA Framework in it’s own right.
Sun are a partner of the Open Group and a number of us, including myself, take part in the Open Group’s ‘Architecture Forum‘, the community which defines the TOGAF standard itself.
Downloads of TOGAF 9 and other related documents, such as an introduction and a migration overview, can be found on the Open Group’s TOGAF website: https://www.opengroup.org/togaf/
Today the Open Group released the latest version of their Enterprise Architecture (EA) Framework “TOGAF 9” (The Open Group Architecture Framework version 9).
It’s been more than a few years at version 8 so an update was due; according to the Open Group the new version has a number of enhancements, including:
Allen Brown, President and CEO of The Open Group, said this about the launch:
Today sees the launch of the much anticipated TOGAF 9. From the beginning TOGAF 9 was always intended as an evolution from TOGAF 8 and this is exactly what has been delivered.
A number of enhancements within TOGAF 9 support greater usability of the overall specification. The modular structure of the specification makes it easier for an architect to consider a specific aspect of the architecture capability. In all areas, the specification seeks to add detail and clarity above and beyond previous TOGAF versions.
I wish TOGAF 9 the continued success of its predecessors and extend my thanks and appreciation to all Architecture Forum members who have involved themselves in its development at any level. It is an astonishing achievement and I am delighted to have been able to play a small part.
There have already been a number of reviews and articles about it being released, some of which are well worth having a look at, including Mike Walker’s blog article “TOGAF 9 Release and Impressions” and online IT industry magazine eBizQ’s “Open Group Releases TOGAF Version 9; Ready for SOA“.
As a whole TOGAF 9 is still rather process focused, and I doubt we’ll see a resolution to this in the short term, despite Capgemini ‘gifting’ the new Content Framework to TOGAF. As such I expect that this issue will continue to drive people to adopt elements from other EA Frameworks which are more artifact focused, however given the extensive material on how to integrate TOGAF 9 with other frameworks I don’t see this as a major issue, unless you come from an organisation where there is, or has recently been, an EA “religious war” based around a single EA ideology. If that is the case you may need to take a more pragmatic approach to deliver your EA strategy.
If you are an Architect, or work with Architects, I recommend being familiar with TOGAF and becoming certified (if this is a viable cost option). Principally because I see TOGAFs main value in bringing a common and standardised language, set of semantics and terminology to EA; acting as a “lingua franca” for the architectural community, as well as acting as a standardised approach to EA and as a robust EA Framework in it’s own right.
Sun are a partner of the Open Group and a number of us, including myself, take part in the Open Group’s ‘Architecture Forum‘, the community which defines the TOGAF standard itself.
Downloads of TOGAF 9 and other related documents, such as an introduction and a migration overview, can be found on the Open Group’s TOGAF website: https://www.opengroup.org/togaf/
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Congratulation to the UK Systems Practice’s Andrew Gabriel, who has been awarded a joint Patent entitled “Global visibility controls for operating system partitions”, along with Andrew Tucker, John Beck, David Comay, Ozgur Leonard and Dan Price. Issued as US Patent 7437556, this is the main patent covering the key inventions in Solaris Zones. For those not in the know Solaris Zones are a significant component within Sun’s Operating System Virtualisation capability and have been rolled into OpenSolaris.
For more information on Solaris and Virtualisation there’s the official Sun UK Virtualisation page. Alternately you can get in touch here and I’ll connect you with the right people inside Sun UK if I can’t answer you directly.
This is a great example of how the UK technical community is contributing to Sun Microsystems capabilities world wide. A copy of the patent can be viewed and downloaded at https://www.pat2pdf.org/
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BBC NEWS | Politics | 10 lessons from my Euro MP’s life BBC political reporter Brian Wheeler spent a week living the life of a Member of the European Parliament. …..
About eighteen months ago I wrote up an overview of government to government (G2G) systems in the UK, followed by a high level comparison of the three most utilised, and a look at the potential evolution of the G2G systems across the UK.
Continue readingBBC NEWS | Education | White working class ‘losing out’ As if we didn’t know this already “Class” still matters in the UK; working class people are losing out on several fronts, from education to housing, and the current school system is skewed in favour. …..
One of the highlights of the UK technology calendar, the jointly hosted BCS and IET Turing Lecture, takes place over the coming week. Sir Michael Brady FRS FEng, BP Professor of Information Engineering, Keeble College, University of Oxford, will be presenting his lecture “Information Engineering and it’s future”. Summarising his knowledge in the areas of mobile robotics, computer vision, signal processing, medical image analysis and artificial intelligence, Professor Sir Brady will then examine what information engineering really means and the possibilities for the future of the field.
More on the lecture here: https://www.bcs.org/server.php?show=nav.5826
And for specific locations and dates:
A summary of last year’s lecture “Target Earth” by Dr James Martin, along with links to video and audio recordings for all of the Turing lectures since 2004 can be found here: https://horkan.com/2008/05/27/james-martin-turing-lecture-2008
I’m hoping to get along to tomorrows lecture at the IET Head Office, at Savoy Place, so expect a write up to follow.
BBC NEWS | Technology | White House plans open government Searching for data about the Obama administration should get easier as the Whitehouse.gov website gets overhauled. …..
Apple bucks trend with record results – The Inquirer – Are you paying the Apple fashion tax? …..
Posted this in response to an internal email titled “What makes Google notice a blog?”, it’s pretty universal and applicable to most search engines so I thought I’d share it as a blog article.
Here’s a few suggestions, hope they help. Wayne.
1) You may want to write your blog in a manner which is spider, as well as human, friendly.
Include meta-data and micro-format information, such as tags; don’t forget that key words in headers will increase the ‘value’ of that key word (for many search engines); always make sure that “SCRIPT” HTML segments are followed by “NOSCRIPT” segments (most spiders don’t “do” JavaScript, specifically Google’s; lean web page code that is easy for spiders to ‘consume’.
Re: Tags / Meta-Data / Micro-Formats – I use the Operator plug in / add on for Firefox, this informs the user about semantic data embedded in a viewed web page.
Re: Keyword Analysis – I use the SeoQuake plug in / add on for Firefox, which allows me to do dynamic keyword (and related key word) analysis.
Here’s an article I wrote on Tag format standardization, I recommend that you standardize on a Tag format that is Search engine friendly: ‘Tic, Tag, Toe‘. Don’t over tag nor under tag, but try and match your articles tags with other similar articles, try and join in with the subject matter’s folksonomy if at all possible (i.e. the tags people are using when talking about that subject matter, technorati and delicious are both good examples).
As well as embedding all the tags for all of the articles on the front page (have a look in Operator if you decide to use it or another semantic data ‘explorer’) I also embed tags to major blog directories and social bookmarking sites on the individual page for each entry, here’s an article which demonstrates this: ‘Roller Weblogger blog post tag link code for blogs.sun.com, technorati and del.icio.us‘. I’ve superseded this code now, with a nicer layout and having added more blog directories / social bookmarking sites, you can see the example at the end of the page for any given blog article I’ve written, give me a shout if you’d like the newer code.
2) Google’s PageRank algorithms work on links, inbound, outbound, number, and the PageRank of those inbound and outbound links.
Link to sources, get inbound links from sources / reciprocal links if possible.
Don’t forget to trackback articles that you reference, if the trackback fails try leaving a comment with a link to the article that references it.
3) Make sure you let sites such as Google know you’ve updated your site and that you’d like it re-“spider”ed, indexed and advertised.
This is done by “blog pinging” search engines and blog directories so that they are informed that your site has been updated and to send over there spiders when they get chance (most search engines / blog directories want to do this quite quickly as they want to be first with any potentially newsworthy content that draws traffic).
Personally I wanted a more granular level of control over this than offered with the standard blog ping functionality embedded in roller and so I wrote my own stand alone version: ‘Free XML-RPC blog ping site submitter: “Blog Ping”‘.
4) Other things to consider…
PageRank of your site and individual pages; how well does your article compete with articles of a similar nature.
Have pages been bookmarked in del.ici.ous, technorati, etc., i.e. are they being shared.
P.S. This article doesn’t mention quality of written articles, cadence of posts, timeliness of posts to current events, etc., as it focuses purely on the current electronic mechanisms for getting noticed by a search engine like Google and not the related, but extremely important, human and social element that gains you readership.