Business Architecture Concepts and Modeling

1. BUSINESSS ARCHITECTURE
Concepts and Modeling
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Amit Midha
B.E ( Computer Science )
MBA ( FINANCE)
BUSINESS
ARCHITECTURE
Why and How

2. BUSINESS ARCHITECTURE
Bridges the gap between company’s
Business Strategy and IT Execution
Reveals where the investment is not
aligned to goals and objectives
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Business Architecture Practice
Architecture Change Management
Business Capability Model
Relation with Enterprise Architecture

3. EXPERTS VIEW ON BUSINESS
ARCHITECTURE
Gartner : enterprise business architecture (often called business
architecture) as the EA activities that create deliverables to guide people,
process and organizational change in response to disruptive forces and
toward desired business outcomes.
Forrester: An organized and repeatable approach to describe and analyze
an organization's business and operating models to support a wide variety
of organizational change purposes, from cost reduction and restructuring
to process change and transformation.
TOGAF 9.1: A description of the structure and interaction between the
business strategy, organization, functions, business processes, and
information needs.
OMG Business Architecture Working Group: a blueprint of the enterprise
that provides a common understanding of the organization and is used to
align strategic objectives and tactical demands.
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4. BUSINESS CAPABILITY MODEL
Business Capability model is a three tiered model
made up of business domain, capability groups
and capabilities
Capabilities are logically organized so that those
can be found and understood
In an organizational scenario capabilities
comprise of
People and Roles
Business Unit Capabilities
Process Capabilities
Solution Capabilities
Operational Capabilities
Modeling Business Architecture helps to
understand your business well and align the role
of a Business Architect with other roles inside an
Enterprise
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5. Modeling BUSINESS ARCHITECTURE
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Business Landscape and
Business Capability Model
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Business Capability Modeling
Real Life Hands on Exercises
Understanding Enterprise
Architecture Frameworks
Mock Test
Business Architecture
Layers

6. Course Coverage
Understanding Business Architecture (Workshop Objectives)
Why Business Architecture?
Business Architecture using EA Frameworks (Zachman and TOGAF)
Business Architecture and Business Capability Model
Relating IT Architecture to Business Architecture
Detailed Case Study
Day 1 Theme: Introduction to EA Frameworks and Architecture Modeling
What is Business Architecture?
Significance of Business Architecture in an Enterprise
Business Landscape and Business Capability Model
Business Architecture Layers (Goals, Business Capabilities, Process Model, Operational Model and
Organizational Model)
Introduction to Sparx Systems EA and Business Capability Modeling
Relation of Capability Map to Process Levels
Introduction to Zachman and TOGAF Frameworks
Day 2 Theme: Architecture Development method and associated Deliverables and Artifacts
Business Capability Modeling Using Zachman and TOGAF and DoDAF- Business Architecture Layer with
Tools and Techniques
Business Process Management and Modeling with an Introduction to BPMN
Concepts of views and viewpoints and Security Architecture relevant for various stakeholders
Relating Business Architecture to Domain and Technology Architecture- AS IS, TO BE and Gap Analysis
Maintaining Business Architecture Repository`
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A
COMPREHENSIVE
COURSE

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Thank You
Amit Midha
A Freelance EA Consultant
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