TOGAF Version 9 -- The Open Group Architecture Framework
Monday, 18 May 2009 | 
Technology - An...
We posted this reference below in February this year & have recently re-referred it in a discussion of The Point About Stress Tests
Tags: A Layered Integrated Enterprise Solution Architecture for Financial Predictive Analytics
Sunday, 17 May 2009 | John A Morrison
I posted this blog note at the beginning of this year and I am replaying it here to help me develop a chain of content which can serve as guidelines for those developing solution architetures to respond to the new world of banking superivision which is developing right now. If you believe that Stress Testing (in an Open fashion) is going to be the basis of transperency and disclosure and thus a large part of banking supervision is going to be predicated upon what I once called 'The Calculus of Securitisation'; then there is a chain of content on this site which will be useful to you. If you are involved in the calculation of fair value for imparied assets or in the related process of management of a 'Bad Bank Model' then these contributions here in the field of Financial Predictive Analytics will be of interest to you.
Project codename "Madison" - MICROSOFT Enterprise Data Warehouse
Thursday, 14 May 2009 | Technology - An...
A Madison MPP appliance acts as an enterprise “hub” that publishes data as needed to various business units or departments (spokes).
Rogue Wave Software Acquires Visual Numerics
Thursday, 7 May 2009 | Technology - An...
Rogue Wave Software, Inc., a Battery Ventures portfolio company, today announced that it has acquired Visual Numerics, Inc., a privately held advanced analytics software company based in Houston, Texas.
Open Source Projects = Horizontal innovation networks - by and for users
Wednesday, 29 April 2009 | John A Morrison
Eric von Hippel. MIT Sloan School of Management
ABSTRACT
Innovation development, production, distribution and consumption networks can
be built up horizontally – with actors consisting only of innovation users (more
precisely, “user/self-manufacturers”). Some open source software projects are
examples of such networks, and examples can be found in the case of physical
products as well. In this paper we discuss three conditions under which user
innovation networks can function entirely independently of manufacturers. We
then explore related empirical evidence and conclude that conditions favorable to
horizontal user innovation networks are often present in the economy.
http://web.mit.edu/evhippel/www/papers/Horiz%20User%20Innov%20Networks%20ICC%20Final.pdf
Is SAP Bank Analyzer Just too Complex?
Saturday, 18 April 2009 | Technology - An...
United States Government Accountability Office - Review of Regulators’ Oversight of Risk Management Systems
Friday, 10 April 2009 | Risk - Research
United States Government Accountability Office - Review of Regulators’ Oversight of Risk Management Systems
Review of Regulators’ Oversight of Risk Management Systems at a Limited Number of Large, Complex Financial Institutions
Statement of Orice M. Williams, Director Financial Markets and Community Investment
Testimony Before the Subcommittee on Securities, Insurance, and Investments, Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, U.S. Senate
http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d09499t.pdf
The New Generation of banking needs The Next Generation of solutions: TNG from FRSG
Friday, 3 April 2009 | Technology - An...
From Steve Husk's blog (Steve is the CEO of FRSGlobal)
SAP: The Banking Industry Architecture Network (BIAN): Defining the Service Landcape
Tuesday, 31 March 2009 | Technology - An...
The Banking Industry Architecture Network (BIAN): Defining the Service Landcape
by David Frankel, a standards architect for SAP Labs and one of the founders of Model Driven Architecture.
The role of organizational politics in Software Engineering and Software Architecture design
Wednesday, 18 March 2009 | Technology - An...
The topic of organizational politics is not new. The concept surfaced in 1958 and in early 1980's the topic was actively studied and analyzed. There is no definitive guidance since it's a challenging topic to study; after all this is about the behavior of people. There are many factors that shape the game of politics: individual values and ethics, organization's structure and the way of life (e.g. "cooking books"), environmental conditions (e.g. market stress), and performance reward criteria (e.g. measuring and rewarding the wrong results). What's clear from research is that there is a distinction between an actual political behavior and a perception of a political behavior. For a software architect it's important to recognize and manage both.
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