Rainer Bartsch, Senior Enterprise Architect at RWE/Innogy give insights into Application Harmonization at EA Connect Days 2018 in Bonn: The Energy Trading business has been changing from high to low margins, from long running contracts to highly volatile (intraday) markets, from a few big players to many smaller market participants and to a business model that requires us to approach new markets and opportunities around the globe. Such constant business change, over time, results in a quite diverse IT landscape using all kinds of technologies and a hell of a lot of people to keep it running. This obviously is adverse business change but what can I do to harmonise my IT environment or prevent to get into such a situation? For sure, it doesn’t happen by accident or just by having a bunch of good developers, a set of architecture guidelines and tools! Bartsch demonstrated RWE's approach to application harmonisation based on a business & IT commitment to deliver IT solutions against a set of 10 Design Principles. This includes LeanIX as our application inventory and two different examples on how to cover Design Principles, first as Custom Tags and second as Custom Fact Sheets.