There are a lot of presentations about What EA does, and I wanted to say something about Why we do it. While there is a lot of discussion around the scope of EA, this is an unapologetic IT-centric perspective, because that is where many EA organizations have emerged. My only instructions on how to present this material is to do it with some passion.
Dennis Layton 2010
IT Integration Done Right
It may or may not surprise you, but about 70% – 90% of M&As fail, for one reason or another. The integration of two companies into one functional unit inevitably involves great change. Culture, business strategies, and many other variables need to be adapted to fit new environments, people, and goals.
Are you prepared to take on the pressure and complexity of an IT M&A? Our new M&A Playbook for IT is your roadmap to navigating the biggest IT integration challenges and driving business goals.
In this strategy brief, find out:
-The three common M&A pitfalls that CIOs must avoid
-How to improve synergy, lower costs, and shorten time to market
-How to determine the right level of IT integration for your company
Business Capital Planning PowerPoint Presentation SlidesSlideTeam
Download our ready to use business capital planning PowerPoint presentation slides to represent the planning process utilized to determine the business long term investments. Our research analysts have researched the content of this presentation, and our group of PowerPoint designers have designed this presentation. This capital improvement plan PPT presentation covers a slide on numerous relevant subjects such as introduction, functional areas overview, ERP system architecture, task categories of ERP systems, ERP project progress by stage, overview of implementation process, planning and selection phase, implementation phase, enterprise resource planning funnel, tuning of concept, situational analysis-basic target concept, software selection process, and software selection criteria. It also includes a template on software selection criteria, realization and implement, v model for implementation of ERP system, tips for selecting ERP system, ERP criteria list-technical requirement, and ERP implementation-selection phase. We aim to provide the presentation slides that help customers win the heart of the audience and achieve end goals. Using this presentation PPT, you will be able to explain the concept of investment appraisal. Finetine the frequency with our Business Capital Planning PowerPoint Presentation Slides. Your views will be recieved loud and clear.
IT Integration Done Right
It may or may not surprise you, but about 70% – 90% of M&As fail, for one reason or another. The integration of two companies into one functional unit inevitably involves great change. Culture, business strategies, and many other variables need to be adapted to fit new environments, people, and goals.
Are you prepared to take on the pressure and complexity of an IT M&A? Our new M&A Playbook for IT is your roadmap to navigating the biggest IT integration challenges and driving business goals.
In this strategy brief, find out:
-The three common M&A pitfalls that CIOs must avoid
-How to improve synergy, lower costs, and shorten time to market
-How to determine the right level of IT integration for your company
Business Capital Planning PowerPoint Presentation SlidesSlideTeam
Download our ready to use business capital planning PowerPoint presentation slides to represent the planning process utilized to determine the business long term investments. Our research analysts have researched the content of this presentation, and our group of PowerPoint designers have designed this presentation. This capital improvement plan PPT presentation covers a slide on numerous relevant subjects such as introduction, functional areas overview, ERP system architecture, task categories of ERP systems, ERP project progress by stage, overview of implementation process, planning and selection phase, implementation phase, enterprise resource planning funnel, tuning of concept, situational analysis-basic target concept, software selection process, and software selection criteria. It also includes a template on software selection criteria, realization and implement, v model for implementation of ERP system, tips for selecting ERP system, ERP criteria list-technical requirement, and ERP implementation-selection phase. We aim to provide the presentation slides that help customers win the heart of the audience and achieve end goals. Using this presentation PPT, you will be able to explain the concept of investment appraisal. Finetine the frequency with our Business Capital Planning PowerPoint Presentation Slides. Your views will be recieved loud and clear.
"Electronics Industry CIOs Executive SummaryIBMElectronics
"How can today’s CIO make the biggest impact on behalf of the entire organization? We listened to over 2,500 CIOs worldwide. The
electronics industry was represented, with 128 CIOs from 26
countries."
An EBS Retirement Party - You're Uninvitedeprentise
Not long ago, IT may have stood for Innovative Technology. Today's economic climate has caused a shift: budgets became constricted, dollars were redirected, and much of the collective investment that would have previously been thrown at innovation was thwarted by cost-cutting initiatives geared toward maintaining both existing enterprise applications as well as the status quo. As a result, the functionality of enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems such as Oracle's E-Business Suite (EBS) suffered due to management's focus on the present (time to results - regardless of the quality) rather than on the future (time to value).
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As businesses continue through this evolution, IT begins to recognize increasingly significant benefits. In terms of value, the focus on management and automation yields a reduction of operating expenses, as automation of manual tasks enables the IT organization to operate more efficiently.
CIO Advisory Services Guide | White Paper from Brittenford SystemsBrittenford Systems
IT departments are under stress as the need for financial resources becomes overwhelming and technology departments are required to do more with less, using existing IT systems while having to also move or keep systems online. This white paper serves as a guide to CIO advisory services and discusses the current stress on the IT industry.
The honest truth about getting value from ITRob Eddowes
Improving Business Performance is Enterprise Architecture's value proposition. By helping the enterprise facilitate strategic planning, address executive priorities, deliver customer value, leverage investments in major initiatives and deploy horizontal solutions across business units.
Business Enterprise Architecture is the best way to create agility, align IT with the business, and establish the governance that keeps the business focused on the business strategy. It aligns strategic goals and objectives with decisions regarding products and services; business partners; organisation structure; business capabilities; and key initiatives. The Business Architecture is captured in 5 models. The business strategy, organisation, capability, value stream, and knowledge to produce the business operating model(s) – the language of the business.
A foundation for alignment:
This summary addresses complex, and often far-reaching business and IT challenges.
1. Identify and list the top business priorities and issues for the organisation, focusing on shared horizontal or cross business unit challenges.
2. Consolidate business-unit objectives into a common vision statement.
3. Establish a business architecture that your company can use to determine the exact impact points and investment ramifications of misalignment from a business perspective.
4. Map these business objectives to clear, well-articulated business views defined within the business architecture.
5. Identify major IT architecture weaknesses and issues that prevent critical business priorities from being addressed, in reference to the business architecture.
6. Determine IT architecture impacts and impediments of achieving these business objectives.
7. Draft a plan for addressing these issues from a systematic, long-term transformation perspective.
8. Build an incremental ROI approach that aligns near-term requirements with the business-driven transformation roadmap.
"Electronics Industry CIOs Executive SummaryIBMElectronics
"How can today’s CIO make the biggest impact on behalf of the entire organization? We listened to over 2,500 CIOs worldwide. The
electronics industry was represented, with 128 CIOs from 26
countries."
An EBS Retirement Party - You're Uninvitedeprentise
Not long ago, IT may have stood for Innovative Technology. Today's economic climate has caused a shift: budgets became constricted, dollars were redirected, and much of the collective investment that would have previously been thrown at innovation was thwarted by cost-cutting initiatives geared toward maintaining both existing enterprise applications as well as the status quo. As a result, the functionality of enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems such as Oracle's E-Business Suite (EBS) suffered due to management's focus on the present (time to results - regardless of the quality) rather than on the future (time to value).
View the original Blog post: http://www.eprentise.com/blog/the-changing-enterprise/an-ebs-retirement-party-youre-uninvited/
Website: www.eprentise.com
Twitter: @eprentise
Google+: https://plus.google.com/u/0/+Eprentise/posts
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/eprentise
As businesses continue through this evolution, IT begins to recognize increasingly significant benefits. In terms of value, the focus on management and automation yields a reduction of operating expenses, as automation of manual tasks enables the IT organization to operate more efficiently.
CIO Advisory Services Guide | White Paper from Brittenford SystemsBrittenford Systems
IT departments are under stress as the need for financial resources becomes overwhelming and technology departments are required to do more with less, using existing IT systems while having to also move or keep systems online. This white paper serves as a guide to CIO advisory services and discusses the current stress on the IT industry.
The honest truth about getting value from ITRob Eddowes
Improving Business Performance is Enterprise Architecture's value proposition. By helping the enterprise facilitate strategic planning, address executive priorities, deliver customer value, leverage investments in major initiatives and deploy horizontal solutions across business units.
Business Enterprise Architecture is the best way to create agility, align IT with the business, and establish the governance that keeps the business focused on the business strategy. It aligns strategic goals and objectives with decisions regarding products and services; business partners; organisation structure; business capabilities; and key initiatives. The Business Architecture is captured in 5 models. The business strategy, organisation, capability, value stream, and knowledge to produce the business operating model(s) – the language of the business.
A foundation for alignment:
This summary addresses complex, and often far-reaching business and IT challenges.
1. Identify and list the top business priorities and issues for the organisation, focusing on shared horizontal or cross business unit challenges.
2. Consolidate business-unit objectives into a common vision statement.
3. Establish a business architecture that your company can use to determine the exact impact points and investment ramifications of misalignment from a business perspective.
4. Map these business objectives to clear, well-articulated business views defined within the business architecture.
5. Identify major IT architecture weaknesses and issues that prevent critical business priorities from being addressed, in reference to the business architecture.
6. Determine IT architecture impacts and impediments of achieving these business objectives.
7. Draft a plan for addressing these issues from a systematic, long-term transformation perspective.
8. Build an incremental ROI approach that aligns near-term requirements with the business-driven transformation roadmap.
Learn about how Enterprise systems have long defined the core value proposition of business computing, as well as the IT infrastructures that large organizations depend on to support both day to day operational processes and long term strategic initiatives.
Charles King, Pund-It, Inc believes that the term 'enterprise system' has to be redefined to meet the today business process, application and workload.To know more about the IBM System z, visit http://ibm.co/PNo9Cb.
Why IT Struggles With Digital Transformation and What to Do About Itrun_frictionless
To win the digital transformation race, successful CIOs need to overcome three immense challenges: Massive backlogs, legacy debt and scarce resources. And, at the same time they need to embrace new methods, better suited to fast-paced innovation.
www.runfrictionless.com
7 Steps to Transform Your Enterprise Architecture Practicepenni333
Enterprise architecture has a critical role in driving business success. But enterprise architects often find that they must create a better understanding for IT and business leaders of the function’s place in strategic planning, application rationalization, and business/IT alignment.
In this slidecast, author Beth Bacheldor explains what steps enterprise architects can take to transform their practice and give colleagues a greater appreciation of its value. The result? The business will have a greater opportunity to profit from enterprise architecture as an essential component of its operations.
Originally posted on: http://smartenterpriseexchange.com/groups/smart-architect
Digital Engineering: Top 5 Imperatives for Communications, Media and Technolo...Cognizant
Many communications, media and technology companies share similar digital objectives. Here are our recommendations for realizing five common digital goals, and a look at a few companies that have succeeded with meeting them.
The evolution of the Architecture of Enterprises (AKA Enterprise Architecture) Leo Barella
We are in the era of competitive advantage through smart information and analytics. Process automation and leveraging transactional systems is a "thing of the past". To advance organizations need to start designing their architecture leveraging microservices and focus on data management / analytics efficiency.
Don't let the common issues catch you out. M&A IT projects are difficult however the issues tend to be common ones. In this whitepaper we help guide you through them so come Day One you have a smile on your face and not a frown.
Discute as facilidades que uma ferramenta como portal corporativo pode oferecer a uma organização, apresenta os critérios de avaliação, infra-estrutura de tecnologia de informação, e o posicionamento, visão e impacto do portal na corporação.
www.terraforum.com.br
Integration allows rapid business reconfiguration to create new business models and ecosystems while continually optimizing customer experience and business operations.
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
Let's dive deeper into the world of ODC! Ricardo Alves (OutSystems) will join us to tell all about the new Data Fabric. After that, Sezen de Bruijn (OutSystems) will get into the details on how to best design a sturdy architecture within ODC.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
Search and Society: Reimagining Information Access for Radical FuturesBhaskar Mitra
The field of Information retrieval (IR) is currently undergoing a transformative shift, at least partly due to the emerging applications of generative AI to information access. In this talk, we will deliberate on the sociotechnical implications of generative AI for information access. We will argue that there is both a critical necessity and an exciting opportunity for the IR community to re-center our research agendas on societal needs while dismantling the artificial separation between the work on fairness, accountability, transparency, and ethics in IR and the rest of IR research. Instead of adopting a reactionary strategy of trying to mitigate potential social harms from emerging technologies, the community should aim to proactively set the research agenda for the kinds of systems we should build inspired by diverse explicitly stated sociotechnical imaginaries. The sociotechnical imaginaries that underpin the design and development of information access technologies needs to be explicitly articulated, and we need to develop theories of change in context of these diverse perspectives. Our guiding future imaginaries must be informed by other academic fields, such as democratic theory and critical theory, and should be co-developed with social science scholars, legal scholars, civil rights and social justice activists, and artists, among others.
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
"Impact of front-end architecture on development cost", Viktor TurskyiFwdays
I have heard many times that architecture is not important for the front-end. Also, many times I have seen how developers implement features on the front-end just following the standard rules for a framework and think that this is enough to successfully launch the project, and then the project fails. How to prevent this and what approach to choose? I have launched dozens of complex projects and during the talk we will analyze which approaches have worked for me and which have not.
2. 2 Introduction There are many, many presentations on what EA does, but few about why we need EA.
3. 3 Complexity of our IT Ecosystem Why is it increasingly more difficult, and costly to develop new solutions and maintain existing applications and services ? Application development technology has improved, so it’s easier to build new --- if only we were operating in a “green field”, but we’re not. We are building solutions on our IT legacy which is a complex IT ecosystem, built up over 30 years or more.
4. 4 Emergence of Enterprise Architecture – Why Now ? An Industry Perspective It is clear by now, that a strategically coherent, well architected set of IT services, applications, infrastructure and databases does not emerge on it’s own accord. It needs direction, alignment and the right level of governance.
5. 5 Emergence of Enterprise Architecture ? In order to understand why EA is emerging as a discipline, we have to understand where we’ve been in the last 30 years.
6. 6 Why is EA emerging ? The technology paradigm keeps changing We build new faster, than we decommission legacy. Our business runs on a topology of applications, services, databases and infrastructure, whose design has spanned more than 30 years. Each layer, fundamentally different in its technology, design paradigms and implementation. Core functionality delivered from some of the oldest systems in this topology Every time we build a new solution, we are integrating within this topology.
7. 7 Why is EA emerging ? More and more Data We have a mountain of data, that continues to grow and needs to be managed like never before Operational data was transformed into informational data warehouses were created, then more specialized data marts. Content management arose to deal with growing amounts of so-called unstructured data. While, analytics are the newest frontier. The discipline of Master Data Management arose because we are being buried in layers of data that needs to be structured and managed appropriately to provide meaningful information to the business
8. 8 Why is EA emerging ? Operational automation is only part of what we do today IT was solely about operational automation. Later investment into IT focused much more on information, then with the web, it was about the customer experience. IT has a much more direct influence on the customer experience than ever before.
9. 9 Why is EA emerging ? New end users IT’s influence has extended beyond the four walls of the enterprise. Being a user of an IT system used to mean that you were a employee. Later, intermediaries like Business partners and service providers were connected as part of the extended enterprise and we saw the rise of first generation EDI interfaces. Finally we added the customer as an end user. Each class of user, has created a unique set of challenges. The result is that never has IT had a bigger influence on our brand and our values than it does today.
10. 10 Why is EA emerging now – The IT ecosystem today
11. 11 The lesson ... The need for enterprise architecture has arisen, because of what we have created without it.
16. Application Development Technology Tribes 14 The wide range of application development technologies also meant that within IT organizations, pockets of expertise emerged, unofficial competency centres around a particular application development technology, often aligned to a vendor. Passion and bias for a particular technology or set of technologies yielded a phenomena of; my technology is the best answer to your business problem. So rather than unbiased, full spectrum decisions being made about the application of technology to a business problem. The decisions often depended on which tribe you approached first; the Microsoft tribe, the Oracle tribe or the Sun Java tribe
17. 15 Tactical Solutions have been preferred Budget and perceived time pressures to deliver short term results in a constrained environment combined with better development tools have yielded; High levels of proprietary code Low levels of re-use More interim and remedial solutions, than strategic Rate of new development has exceeded the rate of decommissioning Increased technical debt - layer rather than replace
18. 16 Adding to our technical debt Every time we; Wrap rather than replace legacy Add technical complexity needlessly Add to our information stores rather than effectively managing what we already have. Fail to introduce enterprise scale technologies because of silo-ed budgets. Fail to make full-spectrum decisions about the application of our technologies. We increase the technical debt of the enterprise.
19. 17 The lesson... The way in which IT has done things in the past is not going to make things any better.
20. 18 Summary EA has emerged as a discipline in its own right because; Efficiencies gained through initiatives that are; National or global in scope vs. regional Enterprise vs. single line of business initiatives Strategic vs. interim (tactical) focus
21. 19 Summary EA has emerged as a discipline in its own right because; Rise in Complexity, Visibility and Importance of IT Solutions today are not standalone, they need to interoperate with some aspects of a 30 year legacy of technology and design paradigms. Rising amounts of corporate data and the demand for more business information Breadth of IT initiatives; not just operational automation we are increasingly focused on our brand and the overall customer experience Extended reach of IT; its no longer just about employees. It’s the customer, brokers, service providers and the employees.
22. 20 Summary EA has emerged as a discipline in its own right because; Need for better decisions about the application of IT across organizational boundaries EA is about enabling unbiased, full spectrum decisions about the application of information technology. Its not EA’s decision alone, but EA should act as a proponent for a more enterprise wide, and strategic perspective in decision making
23. 21 Summary EA has emerged as a discipline in its own right because; Need for better Business/IT alignment IT is increasingly expected to align with the business direction -- not the other way around. The best information technology solution provides no business value if the business is not ready to use and exploit its capabilities or if that technology is introduced too late. Ideally we would not need alignment, after all IT and the Business are part of the same company, operating towards a common set of corporate objectives, but a schism has developed within many large companies between IT and the Business that needs to be repaired.
24. 22 Emergence of Enterprise Architecture – Why Now ? Without heightened governance and direction, the current mode of operation for IT is not sustainable in an era where IT budgets are either flat or decreasing. Each year, the cost of maintaining erodes the budget for new, transformational IT development. At the same time, you are faced with increasing complexity, less agility within IT to respond to changing business needs, increasing IT cost now and in the future and the risks associated with our company’s reputation, missed opportunities for growth, and competitive advantage.
Editor's Notes
The complexity represented here arises because any new application or service added today, has to interoperate with components that exist in other layers.
The discipline of Master Data Management arose because we are being buried in an layers of data, that needs to have a level of quality assurance applied to have real business value.
IT used to be simple, it was about operational automation of tasks. The focus on the operational, shifted to the informational, then it was about the customer experience. Never has had IT, had this breadth.
Architecting for the extended enterprise gets more complicated as we extend its boundaries.
IT got very complex. Its reach has expanded on a number of levels.