Howard Hamilton, 53, first started working with computers as a student at Wits University in 1969. In the early/mid seventies he worked in Hersham, UK as part of a development team building thick film processors for real time military applications. This was essentially the start of micro-processors as we know them today.

Upon returning to South Africa he joined Perseus Computers where he sold mini computers into real time process control type applications. Later he was a founder of Productivity Software one of the pioneering companies in the software business in South Africa.

Today Howard is Managing Director of General DIGITAL, the Southern African distributor for Telelogic.

Howard has a BSc from Wits University and is a member if INCOSE.

Presentation
Key Issues in “Enterprise” Architecture tools
An Enterprise Architecture tool is one that supports a multitude of services covering, but not limited to enterprise, business process, forward and reverse engineering of data, and system modelling that helps organisations to align their business with IT. The foundation of such a product will be a multi-user common repository that enables the maintenance of a single knowledge base of operations and users to visualise the relationships between various objects from many different perspectives. The adoption of industry standards, the provision of multiple diagramming techniques, metamodel extensibility, multiple modelling methods, and the integration of frameworks should make the tool very adaptable and capable of meeting the needs of different users.

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