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About EWITA

The EWITA site serves those who are working in the Enterprise Architecture space. It is useful to Information or Data Architects, Application or Software Architects, Technology or Infrastructure Architects and Architecture Program Managers, Product Line Architecture Managers, Reuse Program Managers, as well as everyone who needs to think strategically about architecture and business leadership, including CIO's and CTO's.

The EWITA site was founded and created by David McAfee. He assembled a tremendous information resource for Enterprise Architects. Bredemeyer Consulting took over the site on June 1, 2001.

Announcements

• Of interest to all Enterprise Architects around the world:

• The Global Enterprise Architecture Organisation (GEAO) is a new not-for-profit organization created by and for professionals who work in the field of Enterprise Architecture. The GEAO goal is to become the premier resource for Enterprise Architecture professionals around the world. For more information, please see http://www.geao.org/

• See GEAO Newsletters. GEAO is also publishing a periodic Journal of Enterprise Architecture.

• Become a GEAO-certified Enterprise Architect
   

• Ruth Malan and Dana Bredemeyer wrote Cutter Consortium's June 2005 Enterprise Architecture Executive Report. It is titled "Enterprise Architecture as Strategic Differentiator." You can download a complimentary copy from http://www.cutter.com/offers/strategic.html

• Cutter Consortium has an Executive Report series on Enterprise Architecture. The August 2004 issue is titled "What it takes to be a great Enterprise Architect", written by Ruth Malan and Dana Bredemeyer.

• The following classes are of special interest to Enterprise Architects, and the teams of solution architects, domain architects, application architects and managers and business analysts who partner with them.

  Open Enrollment Classes from Bredemeyer Consulting
  Architectural Leadership Workshop:   - Indianapolis, IN September 22-24, 2008	Software Architecture Workshop:   - Indianapolis, IN October 13-16, 2008

The following conferences are of special interest to Enterprise Architects:

•  Enterprise Architecture Conference Europe 2008,  9-11 June 2008, UK

• We have added a slide set on "Enterprise Architecture as Business Capabilities Architecture". Our work on  Architecture Strategy is very applicable to Enterprise Architecture. It is published at http://www.bredemeyer.com/ArchitectingProcess/ArchitectureStrategy.htm.

• Software Architecture Action Guide is a draft of a book by Ruth Malan and Dana Bredemeyer. See http://www.ruthmalan.com. 

• Practical Software Architecture For the Enterprise: Software Architect's Toolbox is a draft of a book by Boris Monin, published at  http://www.safe-house.org/SH-Book/safe-house-book.htm.
  

• Software Architect, is a "book in the making" by Nigel Leeming, that for now, is published on the web at www.ivencia.com/softwarearchitect

•  The Philips Gaudi Architecture project site has been significantly updated and has remarkable depth and coverage of their internal architecture training material on the site http://www.gaudisite.nl/.

• Gartner has a report on Enterprise Architecture (some of the reports referenced in the first part of this 3-part report can be accessed even if you don’t have a subscription to Gartner reports). See http://www4.gartner.com/pages/story.php.id.2225.s.8.jsp.

• The EWITA site was transferred from founder and creator, David McAfee to Bredemeyer Consulting on June 1, 2001. Bredemeyer Consulting also sponsors and maintains the popular Resources for Software Architects web site, and we will leverage synergies across the two sites, together with our considerable architecture experience, to continue to make the EWITA site interesting and useful.

Books: 

• Allen, Paul with Sam Higgins, Paul McRae and Hermann Schlamann, Service Orientation: Winning Strategies and Best Practices, 2006.
• Erl, Thomas, SOA: Principles of Service Design, Prentice-Hall, 2007.
• Erl, Thomas, Service-Oriented Architecture: Concepts, Technology and Design, Prentice-Hall, 2005

• Fowler, Martin, David Rice, Matthew Foemmel, Edward Hieatt, Robert Mee, and Randy Stafford, Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture, Addison-Wesley, 2002. 

• Hay, David C., Requirements Analysis: From Business Views to Architecture, Prentice-Hall, 2003. (Essentially a perspective on the Zachman Framework.)

• Hohman, Luke, Beyond Software Architecture: Creating and Sustaining Winning Solutions, by  Addison-Wesley, 2003.

• (forthcoming) Malan, Ruth and Dana Bredemeyer, Software Architecture Action Guide, see http://www.ruthmalan.com for draft chapters.

• Marks, Eric A. and Michael Bell, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA): A Planning and Implementation Guide for Business and Technology, Wiley, 2006.

• O'Rourke, Carol, Neal Fishman, and Warren Selkow, Enterprise Architecture Using the Zachman Framework, by Course Technology, 2003.

• Perks, Col, and Tony Beveridge, Guide to Enterprise IT Architecture. Springer-Verlag. New York, 2003. (Essentially a book on TOGAF.)