IDG Contributor Network: Sherlock Holmes – the original enterprise architect?

What might have been ‘elementary’ for the fictional detective isn’t always apparent to business leaders facing challenging circumstances. Companies today possess large amounts of data, but don’t necessarily have the context with which to draw valuable insight. That’s where enterprise architecture can help.For example, consider one of our customers, a very large corporation that planned to sell several brands.  Needing a smaller workforce, the company wanted to