15 articles in this selection

2009/07/03

Governance, Risk Management, and Compliance or 'GRC' is an increasingly recognized term that reflects a new way in which organizations can adopt an integrated approach to these three areas. However, this term is often positioned as a single business activity, when in fact, it includes multiple overlapping and related activities within an organization, e.g. internal audit, compliance programs like SOX, enterprise risk management (ERM), operational risk, incident management, etc....

2009/06/16

By now, most organizations understand the concept of master data management (MDM). After all, vendors like IBM, Siperian and others have been pushing the MDM message for years. What most organizations don't understand, however, is how exactly to get the initiative under way, according to John Radcliffe, an analyst with Stamford, Conn.-based Gartner Inc....

2008/10/07

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is becoming widely deployed as a means of constructing an agile IT environment. It supports several higher-level initiatives such as Business Process Management and a number of upcoming forms of Web 2.0 collaboration. In order to fully exploit the potential of SOA and avoid it falling into disrepair over years of iterative deployments, governance of the environment needs to be implemented early with the understanding and endorsement of business stakeholders as well as IT executives....

2008/09/11

WOA is one more way to build service-oriented applications and will need to co-exist as a part of a larger enterprise SOA. SOA governance practices and tools will necessarily need to evolve to accommodate WOA and adapt to reflect the benefits that REST and WOA bring....

2008/09/11

MEGA, a recognized source for enterprise architecture (EA), business process analysis (BPA), and governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) solutions, announced it has extended its global partners program to Eastern Europe and Russia by signing an agreement with BPM International, based in Budapest, Hungary....

2008/09/11

An enterprise process architecture provides the context and cross-functional glue within which the work that has already been done can be leveraged to gain efficiencies and contribute to the bottom line.

2008/08/25

SOA governance is crucial to building, managing, and maintaining a successful SOA implementation – indeed, without governance, well-intended SOA pilot projects spiral into chaos when they go operational.

2008/08/06

How do you protect and connect applications as services across departmental and organizational boundaries in a flexible and scalable way?

2008/08/06

What’s the best entry point to launch a service-oriented architecture implementation? Is it through business process management, an enterprise service bus or SOA governance?

2008/08/05

The need for application and data integration between government departments has made the public sector the leaders in Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) adoption, according to IT market analyst firm Springboard Research.

2008/07/15

Software AG surveyed global customer base to identify emerging best practices for SOA governance. Users expressed nearly universal commitment to SOA with widespread satisfaction reported as well. Report concludes that better governance is needed to instit...

2008/07/14

Without a sound description of the problems being solved, as well as clear communications around key decisions and the authority to make them, data governance can fail before it really begins.

2008/06/16

What problems does Business Acrhitecture Centre of Excellence solve and why companies should have one.

2008/06/16

What value does Business Transaction Management bring to SOA.

2008/06/04

This presentation will present highlights of recent research including the following: How do leading firms develop governance for BPM? How does governance enable the improvement and management of cross-functional business processes? What are some of