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Enterprise Architect Summit

Enterprise Architect Summit, May 2006

Solving Real-World IT Architecture Issues
IT architecture in the real world is messy. Enterprise Architect Summit speaker Chris Barlow gives you an inside view of how some of the world's largest companies have addressed these complexities. Learn how you can move from "spaghetti" architecture to service-oriented architecture.
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Architecture Under Management and Governance
IT management and governance have become significant enterprise-level initiatives. Learn architecture best practices that will help you meet stakeholder needs and thrive in an IT management governance environment.
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A Blueprint for EA
Learn a new style that describes data-centric enterprises. Get proven blueprints, and understand the concepts that will help you build successful business, information, system, and infrastructure architectures.
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Build an Enterprise Security Architecture
Go behind the scenes of the methodology that Intel's IT group used to develop its enterprise security architecture. Alan D. Ross discusses key factors affecting the strategy, such as policy, risk, and emerging business drivers.
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Perspectives on Architecture Modeling
Some of the industry's top IT professionals participated in a panel at Enterprise Architect Summit to discuss the effect of advanced architecture-modeling paradigms on the enterprise. See what they have to say.
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Manage Dependencies Across the Architecture
Understand architectural dependencies and how they can influence the long-term reliability and extensibility of your enterprise architecture. Plus, learn about tracking dependencies among parts of the architecture using the Design Structure
Matrix (DSM).
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Minimize Business Disruptions
Automate the architectural modeling of your business-critical applications. Minimize the risk and expense of disruptions caused by redundancy and versioning, while also accelerating agility to meet the needs of the business.
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Experts Share Solutions for Agile Enterprises
Experts at this week's Enterprise Architect Summit conference discussed how they implemented enterprise architecture and SOA strategies in their organizations. Read the panelists' success stories.
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Best Practices for Data Connectivity
EAS speaker Rob Steward helps you devise a methodology for data connectivity in a heterogeneous enterprise environment, while also addressing the business implications and technical considerations relating to your approach.
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Architecture on the Edge?
Usually when we think of "architecture on the edge" in IT and software, we think of how to make applications accessible beyond the desktop, says Peter Varhol. But Enterprise Architect Summit keynote speaker Michael Platt had other ideas.
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New Architecture Tools Showcased at EAS
Vendors highlighted their offerings in the exhibit hall at this year's Enterprise Architect Summit, including tools for data connectivity, SOA, change management, alignment between IT and business, and more.
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The Rocky Road to Compliance
New government regulations on the way businesses report and protect information are changing how you design and deploy your IT systems. Find out how to adjust to these regulations.
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Metadata: The Key to Understanding IT
Metadata helps you connect business requirements to real data. Learn how you can use metadata about IT information objects to manage and execute IT projects more efficiently and productively.
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5 Practical Tips for Enterprise Architects
Enterprise architects are uniquely poised to make distributed development more effective. Enterprise Architect Summit speaker Dan Massey provides you with five practical strategies to help you communicate more effectively and drive business goals forward.
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