IT Architecture Practitioners Conference  Europe 2006, Barcelona, Spain The Open Group
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  Bill Estrem, Metaplexity Associates; Chair, The Open Group Architecture Forum    
Bill EstremBill Estrem is principal of Metaplexity Associates, an education and consulting firm that concentrates in the area of Enterprise Information Architecture. Throughout his career, Bill has been actively engaged in education and consulting in the areas of Enterprise Information Management and Strategic Information Systems planning.

He has been actively engaged in professional organizations and industry groups that are committed to promoting open systems computing and industry standards. He has been affiliated with the development of TOGAF since its origination in 1994. He is currently the chairman of The Open Group Architecture Forum, and has served on the Board of Governors for The Open Group.

Bill is an adjunct associate professor in the International MBA program at Saint Mary's University of Minnesota. He previously served as an Associate Professor in the College of Business at the University of St. Thomas where he held the Honeywell Endowed Chair in Technology Management.

 

   
 

Presentations

Pre-Conference Meeting:
Introduction to TOGAF (The Open Group Architecture Framework)

Conference:
Building the Enterprise Continuum:
Modeling the Enterprise Leveraging Reusable Assets, Reference Models, Building Blocks, and Architecture Patterns
All models are wrong, but some models are useful. The ability to create useful models is the essence of enterprise architecture. This presentation proposes methods to enhance TOGAF’s Enterprise Continuum to enable more effective modeling and analysis of architectures using reference models, building blocks, and architecture patterns. It will also propose an Architecture Information Base to serve as a repository for architecture assets such as building blocks, standards, principles, viewpoints, and patterns.

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