Category: Brass Tacks

Running an IT department is like running a business. CIOs need key performance indicators and a process for measuring them. Here […]

Centralized data management teams focus on managing reusable corporate ESBs, centralized iPaaS solutions, and corporate APIs across the organization. While […]

Software Asset Management Overview Software asset management, or “SAM,” is a toolset used to discover and quantify software usage within […]

1. Poor Data Quality In a fast-changing API-driven world, a lot can go wrong. Fast.  Take for example the third-party […]

IT and engineering leaders often grapple with the decision to centralize functions, or permit a degree of controlled redundancy within […]

As 2020 comes to an end, I wanted to write a quick article on five digital marketing techniques which I […]

M&A may be inherently complex, but that’s not to say it cannot benefit from repeatable processes. Moving M&A from a […]

One of the indicators of a mature EA practice is the collection and measurement of metrics. Metrics themselves are not […]

Architecture, whether at the enterprise level, domain level, or solution level often describes a target / ideal state. Yet the […]

Mergers and acquisitions can represent unnerving territory. Yet by borrowing some hard-won lessons from product management, M&A can become both […]