Web 2.0

For many Gurus who keep evaluating the scope and practicality of agile Web 2.0 in the structured Enterprise Architecture (EA) and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) space – here is a scoop!

Some of the biggest drivers of Enterprise Architecture are standardization and communication of services and infrastructure on an ongoing basis. So while there could be excellent and detailed plans from Business Architecture to Application, Information, System and infrastructure architecture – EA is desperately in need for tools to drive communication and adoption.

A few early corporate pilots have seen tremendous benefit from using Web 2.0 capabilities of tagging, knowledge and expert identification (Diggs), RSS for communication but most of all Wikis for online templates and procedures that drive utilization through availability. One company found new subject matter experts they did not know they had!

So while Web 2.0 might not be the end all for Enterprise Architecture – it sure is helping a lot.

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