After my last post about Enterprise reporting tools in academia, I have had the (mis)fortunate experience of seeing a presentation on Enterprise Architecture. It seems to be all the rage right now with academic institutions, along with implementing CERIF. Yes, this is going to be another random rant.

Some things that I really appreciate as a systems administrator and user is the simplicity of some solutions over other solutions. Generally anything that lets me be lazy makes me like it even more. All these buzz words for Enterprise Architecture just worries and scares me that people are missing some of the concepts and what to target first. Admittedly I don't understand Enterprise Architecture fully, I can see it being useful, I just hope that it's not a fad.

On a similar note, as a proof of concept I had setup CAS, Liferay and Drupal to use single sign on which I suppose is just a piece of the big puzzle for Enterprise Architecture. As per usual, there is a bunch of tools out there which is free and easy to use and implement to provide enterprise grade solutions.