What do you consider as formal training? Training that results in a certification that is somewhat accepted market-wise as being good certificate?

I think you might want to see about TOGAF certifications then.

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Enterprise Architecture question- how do you link a reference architecture back to the business need? We are currently building out a number of artefacts' to help with our Enterprise understanding of our organisation. As we start pieces of work with the business, we build out a business strategy, business capability model, tech catalogue amongst other things. How do you know which reference architectures you should be looking at, what is the trigger? How would I know that I need an API reference arch or an Application Security, what information is telling me to build those out?

Sven VermeulenEnterprise Architect at KBC Group in Finance (non-banking)5 months ago

I tend to look at what you are asking across two lenses.

1. Today companies need to be digitized, meaning they have to have an operational backbone that automates repetitive processes, supports seamless end-to-end ...read more

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How do you suggest to manage the following debate. We are migrating to AWS and lot of applications are using F5. We are trying to convince network to use the native products (EBS in this case). Any suggestions or recommendations?

Sven VermeulenEnterprise Architect at KBC Group in Finance (non-banking)8 months ago

Generally, selections would be based upon experience, requirements, cost analysis, etc. If the native PaaS services from AWS are market-wise accepted as good, they match the requirements of your company, and are cheaper TCO-wise ...read more

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What is the disadvantage of using proxy firewall in an organization with 600+ users and thousands of sessions to the internet daily. Online meetings, o365, applications hosted on the cloud.

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Sven VermeulenEnterprise Architect at KBC Group in Finance (non-banking)10 months ago

While proxy firewalls offer numerous benefits, there are also potential disadvantages, especially in a large organization with significant internet traffic and diverse online activities. Here are some potential drawbacks ...read more

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What is the best password manager tool for an organization? Why?

Sven VermeulenEnterprise Architect at KBC Group in Finance (non-banking)a year ago

In terms of organization, I think 1Password is one of the best.

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We are using an Enterprise Architecture tool. As we expand its usage, we are being asked to model at increasing detail. My question is if you use an Enterprise Architecture tool --- what do you model and where do you stop? Do you overlap with an IT Service Management tool?

Applications & Platforms

Sven VermeulenEnterprise Architect at KBC Group in Finance (non-banking)a year ago

We use TOGAF (The Open Group Architecture Framework) as our EA methodology and framework. TOGAF helps us understand, design, and implement our enterprise structure and processes. As we deeper dive into modeling, we determine ...read more

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Picture this: a magical remote control that can fast-forward through one daily chore. Which chore are you skipping?

Applications & Platforms Management Tools People & Leadership+11 more

Sven VermeulenEnterprise Architect at KBC Group in Finance (non-banking)a year ago

Commuting to work in the morning.

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As part of IT strategy, we are going to build a new data center to improve the system resilience, considering it's a multi-DC practice. Most of the bank systems are now running on a single DC. When it comes to multi-DC, before saying it's Active-Passive or Active-Active, we are having some issues in application architecture design, maintaining database or core banking consistency between multiples sites. I would appreciate if anyone can share the practice of multi-DC, what kind of technologies are being used in network, infrastructure, application, and database.

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Sven VermeulenEnterprise Architect at KBC Group in Finance (non-banking)a year ago

MultiDC which needs to incorporate the benefits of Active-A/A-Passive needs more of application architecture to be defined and implemented before the h/w side is designed. Infact the network/infra bits are simpler than the ...read more

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