Apparently lots of more average companies are not following their lead. According to AIIM, an organization that focuses on BPM and enterprise content management, 57 percent of the 300 companies it surveyed recently do not designate a specific group as responsible for BPM initiatives....
I have had the pleasure of leading several Business Architecture Centers of Excellence (CoE). They have not always been called that, however. Centers of excellence have been around for a long time but with regard to Business Architecture they have only been around for a couple of years. In this article I describe one CoE that I will never forget....
Despite high initial start-up costs, service-oriented architecture (SOA) centres of excellence can save organisations a significant amount of money in the longer term and are crucial to ensure service quality, consistency and reuse.
Top-performing integration competency centers (ICCs) -- or service-orientated architecture (SOA) centers of excellence -- can help companies achieve significant cost savings on application integration projects, according to Gartner, Inc. Analysts estimate...