by Dave McComb | Jul 11, 2014 | Data-Centric Architecture
Shortly after you start your inquiry about software architecture, or enterprise architecture as it is often called, you will come across the Zachman Framework. The Zachman Framework is a product of John Zachman who has been championing this cause for at least 15...
by Dave McComb | Jul 11, 2014 | Data-Centric Architecture
“Action without planning is folly but planning without action is futile.” In this write-up, we explore the intimate connection between architecture and planning. At first blush, they seem to be completely separate disciplines. On closer examination, they...
by Dave McComb | Sep 12, 2013 | Data-Centric Architecture
Jan Voskuil, of Taxonic, recently sent me this white paper. It is excellent. It’s so good I put it in the taxonomic category, “I wish I would have written this”. But since I didn’t, I did the next best thing. Jan has agreed to let us host a...
by Dave McComb | Mar 31, 2011 | Data-Centric Architecture
Reid Hoffman, of LinkedIn, came up with this tag line in a video I watched where he talked about Web 3.0. While it was a very Web 2.0 view of Web 3.0, that phrase “the data is the platform” really resonated. I actually do think this is the future. The...
by Dave McComb | Aug 31, 2010 | Data-Centric Architecture
What is Software Architecture? Originally published as What is Software Architecture on August 1, 2010 As Howard Roark pointed out in “The Fountainhead” the difference between an artist and an architect, is that an architect needs a client. Software Architecture is...
by Dave McComb | Aug 25, 2010 | Data-Centric Architecture
We do enterprise architectures, service-oriented architectures, and semantics. I suppose it was just a matter of time until we put them together. This essay is a first look at what a semantic enterprise architecture might look like. What problem are we trying to...
