Overview of an Enterprise Architecture talk I gave in 2009

1. Enterprise
Architecture
Vision
Integration
and
Ideals
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2. Vision
Enterprise Architecture
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3. Vision
O Self Documenting
O Automated
O Ease of Use (@5,000’)
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4. Self Documenting
O Workflow Automation
O Initiates and records activities
O Spawns initial discovery or update
discovery for hardware
O Spawns source code documentation upon
check-in or build
O Change Management Automation
O Updates Configuration Documents
automatically
O Spawns CMDB discovery and differencing
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5. Automated
O Code
O Nightly Builds
O Build on Demand
O Build by Version
O Hardware
O Auto provisioning of systems in blade or VM
environment based on demand
O Automated profiling of live systems
O Policy Verification
O Device State Reporting
O Correction to Standards
O Workflow
O Creates/Implements the intermediate steps of
all of the above
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6. Ease Of Use
O 5000’ level
O Hides the complexity of the actual
implementations
O Easy access to necessary audit data w/o
additional administrative overhead
O Easy reporting, trending, and view of
health
O Automation and reuse decrease time to
market and build upon “ease of use” goal.
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7. Purposes
O Business Alignment
O Technology support of corporate goals
O Create Value-Add from IT
O Reduce Costs
O Consistency and Standards
O Sunset expensive infrastructure/applications
O Speed Time to Market
O Reuse
O Flexibility
O Provide Integration Framework
O Federated standards to connect
customers, partners, and existing
systems
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8. Integration
Enterprise Architecture
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9. Business Alignment
Proper Alignment ensures that IT is a Value-Add
organization and not a cost center
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12. Architectural Mapping
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21. Ideals
Enterprise Architecture
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22. Ideals
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