15.2 Ten Reasons to Adopt the Software Fortress Model

Your enterprise will face a significant learning curve, should you choose to adopt the software fortress model. Why do I think this learning curve will pay off? Here are my top ten reasons:

1. The software fortress model gives everybody in your organization, including managers, architects , users, and developers, a common language and a common vision for understanding how to build systems that can work together.

2. The software fortress model helps you understand the complex relationships among the many discrete systems that make up your enterprise.

3. The software fortress model recognizes the relationship between the political and technical boundaries of your organization.

4. The software fortress model provides you with specific modeling tools based on industry standard techniques for documenting your overall enterprise system.

5. The software fortress model gives you a methodology for getting software systems to work together, even when those software systems are built on completely different technology bases.

6. The software fortress model defines appropriate levels for you to make technology choices, giving your enterprise tremendous flexibility in choosing the best possible technology for each specific problem.

7. The software fortress model helps you evaluate technologies by focusing on only those capabilities that are relevant either to a particular fortress type or to a particular function within the fortress.

8. The software fortress model helps you protect your enterprise from attack over the Internet by defining a security buffer between the Internet and your enterprise systems.

9. The software fortress model gives you a simple yet highly effective model for overall enterprise security based on the complementary functions of preventing entry (walls) and allowing entry ( guards ).

10. The software fortress model is a clear, simple, and safe model for flowing transactions through your enterprise.