This Enterprise Reference Architecture Blueprint is meat to break the barriers of and addresses the integration, transactional, operational, analytical, and batch applications in a cohesive manner within the same architecture space, which not many IT shops have ever done.
It is very easy to understand and has low learning curve.
It identifies the most critical and fundamental components and integrate them in clean and standard ways. And yet, it will facilitate the extensibility, which means other components can be plugged to the framework seamlessly.
This is a risky endeavor. It can be either overly simplified or overly complex. And yet, during these years in IT, one project after another in different industry and circumstances, I do find some overlapping architecture themes among them. Some fundamental and yet powerful practices that demand not huge learning curve but some disciplined habits and some training can make huge differences.
The distance between wasting a million or more and saving a million or more in relatively large IT projects is much shorter than most people could have realized, imagined or been willing to admit.
People, especially among non-technical people, like business stakeholders often wonder why IT is so expensive.
What most of projects and IT shops really need are not expensive and fancy software from famous vendors; instead, with some common sense and strong people, who have the right mixture of non-technical and technical skills and some proven practices and disciplines, they will be better than at least 80% of their competitors and yet spend less than at least 15% to even 30% money. These are not empty promises.
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