Smart, Connected Products enable Digital Transformation but Entail Challenges Smart, connected products (aka the Internet of Things (IoT)) amalgamate hardware assets, sensors, data storage, microprocessors, software and connectivity in various ways. They enable the digital transformation of asset- and product-related business operations and corresponding operational technologies. However, only a few solutions related to smart, connected … A Framework for Developing IoT-related Solution Architecture Blueprints weiterlesen
Monat: April 2026
Agile Concepts and Methods are All the Rage Social media and market surveys indicate an increasing number of organizations reporting that they are applying agile practices (see e.g. [1]). Those practices are used by a wide range of organizations with different sizes, geographic locations, market roles and industry focus. At first, they were deployed on … On Agility and Architectural Engineering (Revisited) weiterlesen
Maturity of the Discipline of (Software) Architecture Software architecture as a distinct discipline in software engineering emerged around 1990 although the problems, concepts and solutions had been discussed much longer (see [1]). Since then, software architecture has matured to encompass a broad set of concepts, techniques, practices, and methods (see [2]). Moreover, the scope of … Towards Developing an Architecture Practice Library based on Essence weiterlesen
State of Cloud Transformation Cloud computing supports several business and technical benefits like faster time to market, increased productivity, scalability, and agility. Therefore, many organizations give cloud computing a fundamental role in transforming their business, IT departments, application landscapes, and architectures for more than a decade. However, more and more organizations got stuck after taking … How to Reap the Full Benefits of the Cloud with Architectural Concepts and Practices weiterlesen