Do reference calls really work? This is the last in a three (3) part series discussing a Buyer’s Guide to help select the right Enterprise Architecture Management (EAM) tool for your organization. Enterprise Architects have a wide range of stakeholders needs to satisfy in selecting an Enterprise Architecture Management tool (EAMS). Stakeholders are unsure whether…
CIO Review featured smart360 among the 20 Most Promising Enterprise Architecture Technology Providers – 2016! The role of Enterprise Architecture (EA) has steadily grown over the last two decades. Although, many EA teams operate as part of their IT departments, others are taking a more active approach in strategic planning, investment, and transformation at the enterprise-level.…
This is the last in a three (3) part series discussing a Buyer’s Guide to help select the right Enterprise Architecture Management (EAM) tool for your organization. Once you purchase and install your tool, you still need to ensure your EA organization and relevant stakeholders adopt it to realize its myriad of benefits. Tool adoptions…
Giving something back to the EA community is a large part of what smart360 is all about. We are pleased to actively support The Federation of Enterprise Architecture Professional Organizations (FEAPO) at the Open Group Event. Jean Gehring, FEAPO President, will speak on A Career Path Model for Enterprise Architecture. Jean provides an abstract of The…
SMART360 is a proud sponsor of the Open Group Event ‘Making Standards Work’ this October 24th-27th in Paris, France. Sign up for a demo of smart360, the next evolution of Enterprise Architecture and IT Portfolio Management tools. Holistically view all of your architecture domains and manage your components, processes and services on any device, anywhere, at any…
SMART EA 3.6 is released and available as a new enhancement. You can test the new release via our online demo of SMART EA for free! Updated Intelligent User Experience This release builds upon the improved icon usage (Metamodel, Visualizations and User Guide) in the prior Release 3.5. Building Blocks now have explicit create dates as an addition…
An Enterprise Architecture Tool for Your Business – Part Two : Every EA demo is different Use this Enterprise Architecture demo checklist. Regardless of the path the salesperson or product engineer takes, you need to make sure the tool supports your functional needs and stakeholder use cases (link to prior blog). Here is the list…
With a career stretching from corporate IT to working for pioneers, like Ivar Jacobson, I seem to have landed squarely in the field of Enterprise Architecture (EA). A practitioner for the past 10 years, I’ve become quite passionate about this profession. What peaks my interest is the changes occurring in the EA profession, accelerated by…
As a leader in the field of EA, you have a wide range of stakeholders with individual needs that you need to consider when purchasing and implementing an Enterprise Architecture Management Tool for your business. You need to be sure that the tool will address the unique challenges your business faces, and that the investment…
Our Partner Lean42 organizes the next IT Management gathering. If you are in the IT Management space – we highly recommend to participate in this industry event! The IT Management Conference is on April 20th 2016 in Munich, Germany. SMART 360 will be present and is proud to support one of the most important practitioner gatherings of IT Managers…