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Data intelligence has a critical role to play in the supercomputing battle against Covid-19. Last week, The White House announced the launch of the COVID-19 High Performance Computing Consortium, a public-private partnership to provide COVID-19 researchers worldwide with access to the world’s most powerful high performance computing resources that can significantly advance the pace of scientific discovery […]

Organizations are flooded with data, so they’re scrambling to find ways to derive meaningful insights from it – and then act on them to improve the bottom line. In today’s data-driven business, enabling employees to access and understand the data that’s relevant to their roles allows them to use data and put those insights into […]

In these challenging times, many of our customers are focused on disaster recovery and business contingency planning. Disaster recovery is not just an event but an entire process defined as identifying, preventing and restoring a loss of technology involving a high-availability, high-value asset in which services and data are in serious jeopardy. Technical teams charged […]

In enterprise architecture, there are a number of different types of enterprise architecture frameworks, tailored to meet specific business and/or industry needs. What is an Enterprise Architecture Framework? An enterprise architecture framework is a standardized methodology that organizations use to create, describe and change their enterprise architectures. Enterprise architecture (EA) itself describes the blueprint and […]

Because of the coronavirus pandemic, organizations across the globe are changing how they operate. Teams need to urgently respond to everything from massive changes in workforce access and management to what-if planning for a variety of grim scenarios, in addition to building and documenting new applications and providing fast, accurate access to data for smart […]

Almost 70 percent of CEOs say they expect their companies to change their business models in the next three years, and 62 percent report they have management initiatives or transformation programs underway to make their businesses more digital, according to Gartner. Wouldn’t it be advantageous for these organizations to accelerate these digital transformation efforts? They […]

Forrester recently released its “Now Tech: Enterprise Architecture Management Suites for Q1 2020” to give organizations an enterprise architecture (EA) playbook. It also highlights select enterprise architecture management suite (EAMS) vendors based on size and functionality, including erwin. The report notes six primary EA competencies in which we excel in the large vendor category: modeling, […]

The value of enterprise architecture to innovation management and digital transformation is clear. Innovation management is about quickly and effectively implementing your organization’s goals through the adoption of innovative ideas, products, processes and business models. Most organizations are beginning to realize that to drive business growth and maintain a competitive advantage, innovation needs to be […]

As organization’s technologies and digital strategies mature, enterprise architecture for change management is becoming increasingly relevant.  Enterprise architecture’s holistic view of the organization is perfect for understanding how an organization’s assets are interconnected.  This understanding is crucial when an organization is looking to change from within. But it is perhaps even more crucial still, when […]

Enterprise architecture (EA) and business process (BP) modeling tools are evolving at a rapid pace. They are being employed more strategically across the wider organization to transform some of business’s most important value streams. Recently, Glassdoor named enterprise architecture the top tech job in the UK, indicating its increasing importance to the enterprise in the […]