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by Kevin Campbell
25 Jun 2013, 17:47
Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
Topic: Technology Provider Standards Management
Replies: 1
Views: 4445

Technology Provider Standards Management

I'm trying to get to grips with the standards management classes, and find myself a bit stymied - any chance of some pointers? We've adopted an approach very similar to that espoused by Gartner and implemented at the National Institutes of Health (https://enterprisearchitecture.nih.gov/Pages/WhatIsB...
by Kevin Campbell
12 Apr 2012, 22:19
Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
Topic: Several "Versions" of the architecture model
Replies: 10
Views: 8495

Re: Several "Versions" of the architecture model

Jonathan Yes, we use the delivered (and sometiems tweaked) views for quite a lot of our reporting, but we do also leverage a fully relational model based on the EssentialBaseline table. We have a nightly process that infers the class structure based on instances in the database and creates a table f...
by Kevin Campbell
22 Mar 2012, 19:36
Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
Topic: Several "Versions" of the architecture model
Replies: 10
Views: 8495

Re: Several "Versions" of the architecture model

Jonathan It's less about the content of the relationship, and more the fact that the relationship used to exist. We work in a very heavily regulated industry with a strong track record of litigation. During discovery we often have to report on sources and targets of data, in some cases going back 7 ...
by Kevin Campbell
21 Mar 2012, 20:27
Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
Topic: Several "Versions" of the architecture model
Replies: 10
Views: 8495

Re: Several "Versions" of the architecture model

I thought I'd chime in as we're puzzling over a similar question - an inevitability once you've had a model in place for a year or two. In our case the static architecture of application providers changes over time as applications are retired and replaced. We're trying to decide what value there is ...
by Kevin Campbell
05 Dec 2011, 15:22
Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
Topic: Any tips for modeling discrete technology such as PBX?
Replies: 1
Views: 2870

Any tips for modeling discrete technology such as PBX?

We are extending our modeling into the domain of more discrete items of deployed technology, such as video conferencing equipment and switchboard/voicemail systems. I've extended the model for Site to include full address along with Longitude and Latitude, as this makes it easier for us to visualise...
by Kevin Campbell
02 Dec 2011, 21:27
Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
Topic: Behaviour of setOrUpdateTechNodeAttributeByName
Replies: 1
Views: 3337

Behaviour of setOrUpdateTechNodeAttributeByName

Hi within standardFunctions the function setOrUpdateTechNodeAttributeByName creates a new instance of an attribute name value pair if there is no instance of the named attribute on the specified Technology_Node, even if there is already an existing instance of that specific Attribute_Value. The resu...
by Kevin Campbell
23 Jun 2011, 22:01
Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
Topic: Data Objects and System of Record
Replies: 3
Views: 3527

Re: Data Objects and System of Record

Say that we have two implementations of an ERP, but their architectures differ - one is deployed on DB2 and AIX, the other on Oracle and Sun. We've created two Application Providers because the deployments and technology products are different in their two architectures. They are each the SoR for a ...
by Kevin Campbell
21 Jun 2011, 14:58
Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
Topic: Data Objects and System of Record
Replies: 3
Views: 3527

Data Objects and System of Record

We're in the process of populating the new classes provided by the Information Pack (for which many thanks). Because of the 1:1 relationship between a data object and an application provider as the System of Record, I'm assuming that we will actually have a number of data objects associated with eac...
by Kevin Campbell
22 Feb 2011, 22:07
Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
Topic: Strategy Management pack view feedback
Replies: 2
Views: 3644

Strategy Management pack view feedback

Relatively minor nit but core_strategy_plan_def.xsl calls for images/objective_icon.png which is not included in the enhancement pack download. Slightly less minor nit: roadmaps_catalogue.xsl wouldn't render until I added <xsl:include href = "../common/core_utilities.xsl"></xsl:include> Th...
by Kevin Campbell
03 Jan 2011, 15:39
Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
Topic: Issue with data import for large data sets
Replies: 6
Views: 5322

Re: Issue with data import for large data sets

A follow up to Jonathan's most recent note: The first time you open an instance list after opening the project it will take some time to populate, but from that point onwards you'll find it's pretty snappy. I just leave the Protege client open all the time, for weeks on end, without any problem to a...
by Kevin Campbell
03 Jan 2011, 15:33
Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
Topic: Is adding relations in source xml files possible?
Replies: 12
Views: 8899

Re: Is adding relations in source xml files possible?

Peter I realise you're quite a long way down the XML path, but I wanted to expand on something mentioned earlier: you can also create Python scripts to perform integration and in fact I found this rather easier. The following example associates virtual machines with their tehcnology nodes and operat...
by Kevin Campbell
01 Dec 2010, 16:41
Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
Topic: Cloning Instances or Classes?
Replies: 1
Views: 3008

Precisely our experience

This has been exactly our experience. Though the notion of simply copying instances is superficially attractive, it's almost always more trouble than it's worth. Deep copies are especially trouble prone; you'll end up with copies of many of the associative classes, all named identically to the sourc...
by Kevin Campbell
08 Nov 2010, 16:02
Forum: Essential Project Suggestions
Topic: ECP-8 Service Delivery Support Models
Replies: 2
Views: 42915

Re: ECP-6 Service Delivery Support Models

I've just been presented with an "opportunity" that relates to this. We use several external service provides (System Integrators, Consulting firms) and have a few pieces of data to manage for each. We have a Master Service Agreement with each service provider, not dissimilar to the existi...
by Kevin Campbell
08 Nov 2010, 15:27
Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
Topic: Modelling Integrations
Replies: 2
Views: 3444

Re: Modelling Integrations

Hi

You might read this thread which appears to touch on a similar theme:

http://www.enterprise-architecture.org/ ... ?f=8&t=115

Sorry I can't provide any more direct insight, we haven't modeled these types of detailed integrations yet.

Kevin
by Kevin Campbell
21 Oct 2010, 14:38
Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
Topic: Technology Builds and App Deployments
Replies: 4
Views: 4328

Re: Technology Builds and App Deployments

A follow on post just to let you know that the process you described is how we have approached modeling our "as is" - but somewhat meet in the middle. Because it's easy to create technology nodes based on data we already have the first thing we did was to import them, and their associated ...
by Kevin Campbell
20 Oct 2010, 21:59
Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
Topic: Technology Builds and App Deployments
Replies: 4
Views: 4328

Re: Technology Builds and App Deployments

Hi Jonathan Thanks for taking the time for a detailed reply, especially so late at night! What I have found is that if I have a single deployment technical architecture, used in two application deployments one for dev and one for test, when viewing the core_app_def report all infrastructure instance...
by Kevin Campbell
14 Oct 2010, 19:03
Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
Topic: Technology Builds and App Deployments
Replies: 4
Views: 4328

Technology Builds and App Deployments

I'm struggling with what feels like a logical conundrum. There is nothing explicit in the definition of a Technology Build Architecture that specifies deployment role - that only comes with the creation of an Application Deployment that uses the Technology Product Build based on the architecture. Th...
by Kevin Campbell
14 Oct 2010, 15:11
Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
Topic: Indirect dependencies
Replies: 1
Views: 2741

Indirect dependencies

In modeling an application software instance I have included a dependency on an information store instance, which is itself deployed to a technology node and dependent upon infrastructure software instances. When looking at either the technology node itself, or the infrastrucure software instances d...
by Kevin Campbell
11 Oct 2010, 19:06
Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
Topic: Migrated server project issue
Replies: 5
Views: 4741

Re: Migrated server project issue

Looks like it is indeed an issue associated with the delivered SQL Server utilities, when used to copy data directly from one database to another. Restoring from a backup works correctly.

Kevin
by Kevin Campbell
11 Oct 2010, 18:19
Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
Topic: Migrated server project issue
Replies: 5
Views: 4741

Re: Migrated server project issue

We're thinking along the same lines - I have a suspicion that something subtle in the representation of the data got lost in translation. I used SQL Server "Import and Export Data" tools to basically stream the data from one server to another. We've just repeated the exercise using a backu...
by Kevin Campbell
11 Oct 2010, 16:59
Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
Topic: Migrated server project issue
Replies: 5
Views: 4741

Migrated server project issue

I am testing the process of migrating our Protege server to a different machine. Source and target machines both have a localhost SQLServer with identically named databases and user IDs. I've moved the 3 files associated with the project and used SQLServer utilities to migrate the entries in the tab...
by Kevin Campbell
08 Oct 2010, 15:12
Forum: Essential Project Suggestions
Topic: Links to external references - ECP-3.2
Replies: 4
Views: 66175

Re: Links to external references - ECP-3.2

Here's one I made earlier, with the requisite quantities of sticky back plastic. It's possible that there might be more than one link, so I decided against using only an icon, but at the same time urls can be long. The approach I adopted is just that, the approach I adopted!

Kevin
by Kevin Campbell
07 Oct 2010, 16:24
Forum: Essential Project Suggestions
Topic: ECP-4 Strategy Management
Replies: 15
Views: 178721

Re: ECP-4 Strategy Management

I'd like to register interest in this ECP. Any chance that the model extensions could be provided as a script rather than as a sample repository?

Kevin
by Kevin Campbell
06 Oct 2010, 15:58
Forum: Essential Project Suggestions
Topic: Links to external references - ECP-3.2
Replies: 4
Views: 66175

Re: Links to external references - ECP-3.2

Any update on the second part of this enhancement related to report files?

Kevin
by Kevin Campbell
05 Oct 2010, 16:33
Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
Topic: Application Service Provider Role
Replies: 11
Views: 8626

Re: Application Service Provider Role

I think we've reached the same end state through some internal experiementattion. We have created a Technology Composite to represent the ERP platform itself, with an associated Technology Component Architecture. We then have multiple Technology Product Builds representing each of our various envior...
by Kevin Campbell
05 Oct 2010, 15:12
Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
Topic: Cannot find essential_architecture_manager.zip
Replies: 2
Views: 3401

Re: Cannot find essential_architecture_manager.zip

Hi Kumar With some browsers attempting to download the .jar results in a .zip file being saved locally - in which case it must be renamed to .jar before proceeding with the installation. If you've successfully downloaded the .jar as a .jar then don't worry, you're on the right track already. You're ...
by Kevin Campbell
04 Oct 2010, 17:57
Forum: Essential Project Suggestions
Topic: Link to external references - ECP-3.1
Replies: 6
Views: 82977

Re: Link to external references - ECP-3.1

Hi Jonathan There's no simple answer I don't think. In practice we configure our browsers to bypass the proxy for internal addresses, but that's probably going beyond what can be expected of the URL widget. We use the external reference in two scenarios: a genuinely external reference to information...
by Kevin Campbell
04 Oct 2010, 17:51
Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
Topic: Instances not retaining the name?
Replies: 3
Views: 3688

Re: Instances not retaining the name?

Gary Frightening to think I'd be attempting to answer a question having asked so many myself :-) Several of the name fields within Essential are system generated - this is one of them. Try populating the "Process performed by actor role" field and you'll see what comes before the :: in the...
by Kevin Campbell
01 Oct 2010, 18:59
Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
Topic: Architecture diagram feedback
Replies: 3
Views: 3926

Architecture diagram feedback

A couple of things I've noticed: If the display label for a "pink box" is long it can be almost impossible to persuade the pointer to change to the "hand" to drag a dependency. Increasing the size of the box with the green handles seems to improve this. Regardless of how the boxe...
by Kevin Campbell
01 Oct 2010, 18:46
Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
Topic: Application Service Provider Role
Replies: 11
Views: 8626

Re: Application Service Provider Role

I'm making some progress with our model. Here's the thought path thus far: To model the license entitlements and deployments, we must have application providers modeled similarly to the structure of the license. If the license spells out an entitlement for FI, then FI must be an application provider...
by Kevin Campbell
01 Oct 2010, 16:24
Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
Topic: Application Service Provider Role
Replies: 11
Views: 8626

Re: Application Service Provider Role

Thanks for the helpful explanation. The one piece I'm not quite clear on is the role of the Technology_Build_Architecture. It appears as if I must create several of these to support the dev, test and production environments? In our case we have ERP modules deployed to two countries, with three envir...
by Kevin Campbell
30 Sep 2010, 18:54
Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
Topic: Application Service Provider Role
Replies: 11
Views: 8626

Re: Application Service Provider Role

A follow up thought on this topic. Once we've separated the functional elements into distinct technology providers, we are then obligated to duplicate the technology build architectures, and obviously also the technology provider usage instances. While this is needed if the deployments are, or could...
by Kevin Campbell
30 Sep 2010, 14:24
Forum: Essential Project Suggestions
Topic: Link to external references - ECP-3.1
Replies: 6
Views: 82977

Re: Link to external references - ECP-3.1

Is it possible to configure this extension to be aware of proxy servers? I can see that it's attempting to render the page after entry of the URL, but never succeeds because I'm behind a proxy server. I can close the window but subsequent performance of Protege suggests that perhaps a thread is stil...
by Kevin Campbell
29 Sep 2010, 15:12
Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
Topic: Application Service Provider Role
Replies: 11
Views: 8626

Re: Application Service Provider Role

Jonathan I think that will work - we'll give it a try. I've already found that I really need to create separate application software instances for each part of an application that is deployed to different technology nodes, and then list them all as deployed application instances within an applicatio...
by Kevin Campbell
28 Sep 2010, 17:03
Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
Topic: Application Service Provider Role
Replies: 11
Views: 8626

Application Service Provider Role

On the technology domain we have a Technology Component which is realized by a Technology Provider - and the relationship between the two has attributes held by the Technology Provider Role class. The Application equivalents would seem to be Application Service being provided by Application Provider...
by Kevin Campbell
24 Sep 2010, 21:13
Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
Topic: Shared Technology Provider Usage
Replies: 1
Views: 2530

Shared Technology Provider Usage

If two product build architectures leverage the same technology provider, say a shared database instance, is the approach to model them as distinct Technology Provider Usage instances, and then deploy them both to the same Infrastructure Software Instance? The compound naming convention of the Infra...
by Kevin Campbell
24 Sep 2010, 16:52
Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
Topic: Composite Service vs. Service
Replies: 2
Views: 3099

Re: Composite Service vs. Service

Thanks Jonathan, and I think that sounds reasonable. We'll poke around with the reporting a bit ourselves.

Kevin
by Kevin Campbell
22 Sep 2010, 20:01
Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
Topic: Composite Service vs. Service
Replies: 2
Views: 3099

Composite Service vs. Service

I can see the value of a Composite Application Service in many circumstances as a time saver when entering details of a model - for example I might create a Composite Application Service of "Financial Suite" to represent Payables, Receivables, Asset Accounting, General Ledger and so forth....
by Kevin Campbell
14 Sep 2010, 17:14
Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
Topic: Standards compliance
Replies: 3
Views: 3517

Re: Standards compliance

Thanks Jonathan Here's the scenario: EA is a new function within the organization, which has a diverse "default" architecture. Throughout the enterprise technology products are providing functionality in production, today. Our first task is to begin pragmatically documenting the as-is arch...
by Kevin Campbell
13 Sep 2010, 20:40
Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
Topic: Standards compliance
Replies: 3
Views: 3517

Standards compliance

We tend to develop technology Standards at the Technology Component level, often listing several technology providers with an appropriate lifecycle status for each role. We have the concept of an "enforcement level" for each documented component indicating the degree to which Standards com...