In Aesops fable, The Ant and the Grasshopper, the frugal ant laid up food for winter and survived when it got cold. The grasshopper didnt and died when its food ran out.

One of the prevailing themes of discussions at this year’s ACORD LOMA conference revolved around the role a sound architecture plays in the ultimate delivery of business value, and in the seemingly never-ending quest of IT and business alignment.