Category Enterprise Architecture

August 21, 2026 Posted in Data Migration, Datacenter, Enterprise Architecture, Enterprise Integration, Investment Optimization

There is a common requirement to migrate datacenter from on-premises to cloud.

During my consulting career, I led several on-premises datacenter migrations. Additionally, these projects targeted financial, utilities, and transportation organizations.

To give you a big-picture view, I outline the datacenter structure.

The datacenter structure includes racks, power bus, cooling towers, networking gear, air handling units, backup generation, and water storage. This layout supports power distribution, environmental control, and resilience. Understanding how these elements interact helps operators plan capacity and respond to changes.

Within each rack, components such as network switches, cable management, servers, and cooling modules exist...

August 20, 2026 Posted in Blogs, Data Architecture, Data Migration, Database, Enterprise Architecture, Enterprise Integration

I would like to provide a data architecture summary briefly. Additionally, it reflects my long-term working practices in this area.

Data Architecture and Governance:

• Data governance involves strategies, policies, processes and procedures, collaboration, tools, audit and metrics, etc. For detail info, please refer to Seven Steps to Effective Data Governance.
• Data quality includes data validation, foreign keys, constraints and data cleansing. Please refer to 10 Best Practices in Database Schema Design.
• Metadata management involves schema design, data linage, API contracts, etc. Building a Database-driven Application Framework includes good references.
• Toolbox: MS Purview, Ataccama, Denodo

Data Modeling:

• UML: describe the relationship among objects, no emphasize o...

September 14, 2020 Posted in API, Blogs, BPM, Enterprise Architecture, Enterprise Integration, ESB, SOA

During past two decades, I worked for Oracle, Accenture, Deloitte and involved clients from different industries, including consulting, forestry, finance, healthcare, retails and government agencies, what I observed was their IT environments are more and more complex and expensive, hard to manage and maintain. To simplify IT and reduce cost become strong demands from business.

In enterprise environment, Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) is outstanding since the IT environment is changing quickly with the continuous procurement and integration of new systems. The purpose of this article is to provide the perspectives on middleware selection, approaches and tools, and enterprise integration strategies.

A few key principles of enterprise integration: