Boundaryless Information Flow is a vision to which many organizations aspire. Achieving
Boundaryless Information Flow requires an in-depth understanding of the business, the set
of services that the business needs, and the technologies required in the information
infrastructure in order to provide those services. For the immediately foreseeable future,
no single solution will provide the complete, integrated set of services needed by the
modern enterprise - so organizations will have to build up their infrastructure to provide
the necessary services. In doing so, it is important that the necessary changes to the
computing environment be properly architected, lest the new services merely create
tomorrow's inflexible legacy. This presentation highlights the crucial importance of an
architectural approach to achieving Boundaryless Information Flow, the steps necessary to
architect Boundaryless Information Systems, and the required skills of the architect.
