Korea examines EA for defence

The Ministry of National Defence of the Republic of Korea held a meeting aimed at promoting and reviewing its Defence Enterprise Architecture (EA) project at the ministry in central Seoul on 4 August, reveals Defence Professionals.

Defence EA is a project that allows the military to obtain and take advantage of core defence information system, including finance, human resource and C4I. The project has been promoting since December 2008.

At the meeting, which was presided by the Defence VM Chang Soo-man, some 100 experts related to the project in the Defence Ministry, joint chief of staff, private sector and other military units were attended and discuss the accomplishment of the project and its future plans for improvement.

Gartner's 2010 Hype Cycle for enterprise architecture (EA) reveals that two generations of EA, one currently focusing on IT-orientated practices and the other rising to focus on integrating and engaging with the business, reveals AdvertiserTalk.

The Hype Cycle also shows how EA will further evolve and how enterprise architects will utilise and govern EA within the business in the next 10 years.

Gartner defines EA as the process of translating business vision and strategy into effective organisational change by creating, communicating and improving the key requirements, principles and models that describe the organisation's future state and enable its evolution.

Enterprise and network architects, are being called, as their skills are a hot commodity as companies mount new initiatives in automating and virtualising the data centre and desktop in US, says E-Week.

Increases to project funding and investment in new technology initiatives are driving demand for technology skills this quarter, according to reports from IT staffing firms such as TEKsystems and analyses on IT spending from Forrester.

An early August report from Hanover, TEKsystems found that 59% of companies expect to have increasing project needs over the coming six months and that hiring for those needs will climb 6% from the previous quarter.