EA Vision 4 24 08

Enterprise Architecture The value of EA April 24, 2008

Agenda
What is EA?
What is the role of the Chief Architect?
What is the Value of EA?
What should the EA group focus on?
How will the EA team operate?
What does the future look like?

What is EA?
Enterprise Architecture is the organizing logic for business processes and IT infrastructure reflecting the integration and standardization requirements of the firm’s operating model (wikipedia)‏

What is the role of the Chief Architect?
The Chief Architect is responsible for....
Creating the Vision and Plan
Maintain & Govern across the Enterprise
Defining processes and review procedures
Integrating EA with business and IT processes
Categories of Expertise
Visionary – (Strategy, roadmap, alignment)‏
Technologist – (Evaluate, architect, implement)‏
Leadership – (Sell, motivate, manage change, resolve conflict)‏
Govern – (Enforce, refine, measure, report)‏
Communicate – (Promote, discuss business value, inform)‏

What is the value of EA?
Business Alignment
Support corporate vision with technology
IT as a value add, not a cost center
Reduce costs
Consistency and standards
Fewer technologies to maintain
Easily move people across applications
Retire expensive infrastructure and applications
Speed to market
Reusability and flexibility
Integration
Connect to customers, suppliers, partners, existing systems

What should the EA team group focus on?
Create the vision
Where is the business going?
How does IT get the business there?
What is the roadmap?
Products, App Dev, Infrastructure, Security
Provide direction and oversight
Implement EA & SOA governance
Review all proposals for new technologies
Communicate vision and strategies
Key areas
Business processes, Business services
Enterprise metadata
Infrastructure, security

What should the EA team group focus on?
Fiscal Responsibility
Retire expensive infrastructure and applications
Open source strategy
IT performance strategy
Portfolio Management
Service Management (ie. ITIL)‏
Information (BI, KPIs)‏
Research and Development
Investigate emerging technologies
Web 2.0, Social networking
SOA, BPM, WOA, SAAS, EDA
Virtualization

How will the EA team operate?
Select an Architecture Framework or create one
Best practices taken from existing frameworks
Lean EA
FEA (Federal Enterprise Architecture)‏
Zachmann
TOGAF

What does the future look like?
Aligned
Quickly react to business opportunities
Enabler not an inhibitor
Open
Support multiple technologies, interfaces, devices
Software as a Service
Plug and Play
Key Financial Contributer
Bring revenue opportunities to the business (UPS & FedEx model)‏
Continually reduce costs of IT and business
Maximize reuse of IT assets
Forecast future IT investments and retirements

Summary
“ The Future's so Bright, You gotta wear Shades!”

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