Abstract
Enterprise Architecture, IT Service Management (and Governance) and Service Oriented Architecture are current topics, widely discussed in the information technology departments and professional publications. In addition, many companies have been (or are) involved with the adoption of at least one of these innovations. While each of these elements can be considered in its own right, it is in their relationships, and more or less strong intersections, that interesting opportunities and synergies can emerge, potentially even with some specific issues to manage. The focus of this two-part article is just that: to show the relationships, approaches and operative guidelines related to the synergic adoption in an IT organization and/or in an Enterprise of concepts from the Enterprise Architecture (EA), IT Service Management (ITSM) and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) domains.
Keywords
Enterprise Architecture, IT Service Management, ITSM, Service-Oriented Architecture, SOA
About the author
Carlo Randone is a Senior Certified IBM IT Architect and Open Group Master Certified IT Architect in IBM Global Business Service, Italy. Carlo, that was born in the sixties, has a deep knowledge of different development platforms and middlewares on heterogeneous environments and operating systems. He have been working for several years as Certified Trainer and Solution Developer for a Microsoft Certified Partner. In IBM since 2000, now his main job interests are related to Service Oriented Architectures – with related software engineering methodologies and enabling platforms – and Enterprise Architecture planning and design. He enjoys collecting documentation and hardware pieces related to the historical development in IT, and to support this hobby he is a member of the Charles Babbage Institute (CBI).
References
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