Troux Blog

Tuesday, May 1, 2012
by: Bill Cason – Troux CTO –  May 1st, 2012 Articulating and measuring the business benefit of Enterprise Architecture (EA) has always been a bit tricky.  But lately we have noticed this exercise is becoming easier for all corporate stakeholders. Key to this development is adopting an Enterprise Portfolio Management (EPM) approach. EPM...Read More
Wednesday, Jan 18, 2012
Relevant, compelling, in-demand enterprise architecture is the goal of many of today's IT architecture and strategy leaders.  Yet for many organizations, the first hurdle lies in communicating the value and justifying the required resources for EA to IT and business leadership.  Join Bodhi Choudhuri of American Express and Chuck Keffer of Troux as they discuss their experience...Read More
Wednesday, Jan 18, 2012
It's common knowledge that an EA program has to create business value to be successful. So it is important to consider business architecture as an essential part of an EA program. However, it may not be clear how to leverage business architecture artifacts to create va lue. This presentation will take a maturity model perspective in the development of a sustainable high-value EA program...Read More
Wednesday, Jan 18, 2012
Dell’s explosive growth in the 1980s and 1990s had left them with an effective, yet complex IT environment. In some cases, redundant applications met the same underlying business needs. To improve agility, Dell established an architecture practice aimed at: Rationalizing its application portfolio Taking a consistent architectural approach and delivery process to...Read More
Wednesday, Jan 18, 2012
  Nearly 70% of CIOs today are focused on developing IT strategies to accelerate business goals, according to the latest CIO Magazine’s annual “State of the CIO” survey.  Yet, with a still skittish economy, mounting global competition across almost every business sector, and unrelenting cost pre ssures, CIOs are in a real battle to innovate, foster agility, and...Read More
Wednesday, Jan 18, 2012
USAA is a leading financial services supplier for the U.S. military community. Its en terprise architecture practice has evolved from a technology-centric practice to one with two epicenters: technology and business.  During this webinar Mike will present the journey from the technical to the  business   side  and Troux's role as the unified architecture repository....Read More
Wednesday, Jan 18, 2012
In this Webinar Troux Technologies’ CTO Bill Cason  hosts Gene Leganza, Vice President, Principal Analyst at Forrester Research Inc., for an in-depth discussion on the increasing need for a new generation of EA programs that deliver business value and transformation in weeks, not years. Ready… Are you destined to fail – can your EA program ever get to...Read More
Wednesday, Jan 18, 2012
As Troux customers, Richard J. Reese and his Discover Financial Services team were just awarded the coveted 2010 Enterprise Architecture Award by Forrester Research Inc. and InfoWorld last month. Rick says, “Enterprise Architecture has a long history of being viewed as too technical, too theoretical, or too slow to react to changes in the business environment. However, EA is more and...Read More
Sunday, Jan 8, 2012
We can run but we can’t hide; there is too much to do, too many opportunities to leverage. Cloud. Mobile. IT consumerization.  Now is the time to take the first step toward turning what may be  IT chaos into IT harmony. The empowered CIO embraces the challenge and moves with a vengeance, knowing that accurate insights within and between key business and IT portfolios delivers a...Read More
Monday, Dec 5, 2011
  Talking to industry journalists and observers gives us an interesting view into how opinion leaders see enterprise architecture and where it fits in today’s business environment. Given today’s pressures, it wasn’t surprising that Eric Lundquist, vice president of editorial for Ziff Davis Enterprise, focused on practical issues in a recent  “CIO...Read More