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Building Greater IT Collaboration With The Business Units

by Michael Blechar  |  August 27, 2009  |  Submit a Comment

One of the highest priority objectives of most IT organizations is to collaborate better with the business units they serve. A good place to start in fortifying these relationships is on enterprise business process improvement (BPI) initiatives, since they require greater collaboration among business users, enterprise and business process architects, and analysts and their counterparts [...]

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Are You Building Objects, Components or Services?

by Michael Blechar  |  August 15, 2009  |  Submit a Comment

When service-oriented architecture (SOA) platforms started to be implemented several years ago, I tracked the success and failure of the early adopters doing service-oriented development of applications (SODA). Most seemed to understand that building reusable software and data services was different from building siloed applications and required different development approaches. Most elected to use methodologies [...]

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