How to build your corporate Enterprise Architecture Function inspired by Google’s Design function

How Google built their central design function (known as UXA – User Experience Alliance) can be a lesson and guidance on how to built a central EnterpriseArchitects function. This dawned on my reading the great Fast Company article about how design finally made its way into Google, not only within each product, but also as a function within…

New Context Visualization for Applications – Neighborhood (iteraplan 3.2)

This is a guest blog from Daniel Neuer (iteratec) – for more see iteraplan blog. There is new context visualization for applications available in iteraplan 3.2. This new neighborhood diagram is adding to the previous choices like information flow, landscape and master plan diagram. The neighborhood diagram shows an application/information system in its application context: It offers…

smartEA 3.2 released – Enterprise Architecture Management

smartEA 3.2 has been released and is now available for all organizations interested in improving their Enterprise Architecture Practice. In smartEA 3.2 many improvements and suggestions of our customers and community members have been integrated. It offers, among other things: Data exchange with other IT Management tools: The new REST interface provides read access to…

SMART 360 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Architecture Tools

Cambridge, MA – SMART 360, headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is the global partner of iteratec, the German-based developer of iteraplan software. SMART 360 is proud to announce that iteratec is listed on the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Architecture Management Tools. iteraplan is a leading EAM tool in Europe and is gaining popularity in the U.S./Canadian…