This presentation covers the organizational layout, EA Services and EA Governance processes necessary to develop and govern a technology strategy effectively.
Defining the business value proposition of EA and PPM
Eliminating project risks
Accelerating project execution
Managing project and architecture inter-dependencies
Delivering realized value
Improving collaboration of Architecture and PMO
A Brief Introduction to Enterprise Architecture Daljit Banger
Presentation to Metropolitan University (London) on the 16th Feb 2017.
The purpose of the session was to introduce core basic concepts around Enterprise Architecture and discuss the role of the Enterprise Architect .
What is the Value of Mature Enterprise Architecture TOGAFxavblai
Judith Jones received the Open Group award for Outstanding Contributions to the development of TOGAF 9 at 19th Open Group Enterprise Architecture Practitioners Conference Chicago - July 21-23, 2008. Former CEO of Architecting the Enterprise which has been a member of The Open Group for 6 years, she is personnally involved since 1997. As an active member of The Open Group and she is a major contributor and an editor of TOGAF 7, 8 and 9 as well as leading TOGAF projects for localisation, case studies, ADML, synergy and collaboration projects.
http://www.opengroup.org/member/member-spotlight-jones.htm
How to Articulate the Value of Enterprise Architecturecccamericas
Ever struggled with the question, What is the Value of Enterprise Architecture? In this facilitated conversation, Michael Fulton will share his perspective on Enterprise Architecture and the value it provides to the CIO, to IT, and to the business.
Come ready to engage, because in the conversation we will discuss:
•The EA 7-year itch
•Several External Perspectives on EA Value
•The CC&C perspective on a simplified approach to EA Value
•Ensuring your perspective on EA Value is relevant for your stakeholders
At the end of this conversation, you should walk away with:
•A new perspective on the value of EA
•Tips and tricks on how to articulate and quantify EA Value for your key stakeholders.
According to Gartner, "The stongest performing IT organizations are distinguished by strong strategy practices. The weak performing IT organizations are distinguished by weak delivery practices."
Having an IT strategy and executing it are important.
This brief presentation covers:
1. Why IT Strategy?
2. What does a great IT Strategy look like?
3. How to create a great IT Strategy
4. How to make the IT Strategy real
This presentation is on leveraging Enterprise Architecture Governance and Project Portfolio Management Best Practices to:
Accelerate project execution
Manage project and architecture inter-dependencies
Deliver realised value
Improve Enterprise and PMO collaboration
Defining the business value proposition of EA and PPM
Eliminating project risks
Accelerating project execution
Managing project and architecture inter-dependencies
Delivering realized value
Improving collaboration of Architecture and PMO
A Brief Introduction to Enterprise Architecture Daljit Banger
Presentation to Metropolitan University (London) on the 16th Feb 2017.
The purpose of the session was to introduce core basic concepts around Enterprise Architecture and discuss the role of the Enterprise Architect .
What is the Value of Mature Enterprise Architecture TOGAFxavblai
Judith Jones received the Open Group award for Outstanding Contributions to the development of TOGAF 9 at 19th Open Group Enterprise Architecture Practitioners Conference Chicago - July 21-23, 2008. Former CEO of Architecting the Enterprise which has been a member of The Open Group for 6 years, she is personnally involved since 1997. As an active member of The Open Group and she is a major contributor and an editor of TOGAF 7, 8 and 9 as well as leading TOGAF projects for localisation, case studies, ADML, synergy and collaboration projects.
http://www.opengroup.org/member/member-spotlight-jones.htm
How to Articulate the Value of Enterprise Architecturecccamericas
Ever struggled with the question, What is the Value of Enterprise Architecture? In this facilitated conversation, Michael Fulton will share his perspective on Enterprise Architecture and the value it provides to the CIO, to IT, and to the business.
Come ready to engage, because in the conversation we will discuss:
•The EA 7-year itch
•Several External Perspectives on EA Value
•The CC&C perspective on a simplified approach to EA Value
•Ensuring your perspective on EA Value is relevant for your stakeholders
At the end of this conversation, you should walk away with:
•A new perspective on the value of EA
•Tips and tricks on how to articulate and quantify EA Value for your key stakeholders.
According to Gartner, "The stongest performing IT organizations are distinguished by strong strategy practices. The weak performing IT organizations are distinguished by weak delivery practices."
Having an IT strategy and executing it are important.
This brief presentation covers:
1. Why IT Strategy?
2. What does a great IT Strategy look like?
3. How to create a great IT Strategy
4. How to make the IT Strategy real
This presentation is on leveraging Enterprise Architecture Governance and Project Portfolio Management Best Practices to:
Accelerate project execution
Manage project and architecture inter-dependencies
Deliver realised value
Improve Enterprise and PMO collaboration
It is well known that an effective PMO is key to successful and efficient program and project execution. In other words, doing things “right”. Enterprise Architecture is the discipline that plans and monitors enterprise transformation and aligns the business strategy with information technology capabilities. In other words, doing the “right things” to support the business.
Why is it organizations despite having both of these disciplines still struggle with effective enterprise transformation? What can we done to use these disciplines more effectively to effect better business outcomes? What are the roles of each discipline and how do they work together to create business value?
In this presentation, Riaz will address these questions and will provide real life examples that can help build a strong relationship between the PMO and Enterprise Architecture.
Learning Objectives:
• How to build a strong relationship between the PMO and Enterprise Architecture (EA) to deliver positive outcomes for your organization
• Identify the different roles and functions of the PMO and EA as well as their similarities
Business Architecture is a multi dimensional discipline primarily focused on organizational structure and performance in terms of business strategy, business functions, capabilities, roles and their relationships. Implementing and executing Business Strategy goals is among Business Architecture’s focus areas.
This presentation and discussion will focus on Strategic planning relationship with Business Architecture. Employing Business Architecture techniques, Corporate Planners can translate business strategy goals into actions, identify critical areas of enterprise change and transformation while identifying and mitigating related risks.
Introduction to Enterprise architecture and the steps to perform an Enterpris...Prashanth Panduranga
This presentation was used to introduce Enterprise Architecture, Introduction to how to perform an Enterprise Architecture Assessment followed by TechSharp introduction.
Deliverables in the presentation is not clear, the slides represent what was shown as part of the demo.
List of deliverables:
Application Rationalization framework
Portfolio Analysis framework
Road Map
Current state analysis
Target State establishing process
System Context
System Landscape
During last few years, role of Enterprise Architecture has expanded from technical to strategic in an Organization. This slide deck presents: Using Enterprise Architecture in your Organization.
Enterprise Business Analysis Capability - Strategic Asset for Business Alignm...Alan McSweeney
Introducing the concept of Enterprise Business Analysis as a strategic resource to achieve business and IT alignment. Alignment means being able to draw a straight Line from business strategy through to delivered and operational solutions implemented to respond to businessn. Business and IT Alignment requires more than just relationship management – it requires actual engagement by IT with the needs of the business.
Digital Transformation And Solution ArchitectureAlan McSweeney
Digital strategy is a statement about the organisation’s digital positioning, competitors and customer and collaborator needs and behaviour to achieve a direction for innovation, communication, transaction and promotion. Digital strategy needs to be defined in the same framework structure as the proposed digital architecture platform.
Achieving the target digital organisation means deploying solutions that enable the digital architecture. Solution architecture needs to design solutions that fit into the target digital architecture framework. This requires:
• Solution architecture team operating in an integrated manner designing solutions to a set of common standards and that run on the platform
• Solution architecture team leadership ensuring solutions conform to the common standards
• Solution architecture technical leadership to develop and maintain common solution design standards
• Solution architecture updates the digital reference architecture based on solution design experience
Digital solution design requires greater discipline to create an integrated set solutions that operate within the rigour of the digital architecture framework. The solution architecture function must interact with other IT architecture disciplines to ensure the set of solutions that implement the digital framework operate together. This requires greater solution architecture team leadership. This needs to be supplemented and supported by a well-defined set of digital solution design standards.
This follows-on from the previous presentation: Digital Transformation And Enterprise Architecture
https://www.slideshare.net/alanmcsweeney/digital-transformation-and-enterprise-architecture.
Architecture Board & Governance- Key to Running IT as Business. Aligning Business Strategy with IT. Agenda. Goals & Objectives; Enterprise Architect Role ...
Review of Information Technology Function Critical Capability ModelsAlan McSweeney
IT Function critical capabilities are key areas where the IT function needs to maintain significant levels of competence, skill and experience and practise in order to operate and deliver a service. There are several different IT capability frameworks. The objective of these notes is to assess the suitability and applicability of these frameworks. These models can be used to identify what is important for your IT function based on your current and desired/necessary activity profile.
Capabilities vary across organisation – not all capabilities have the same importance for all organisations. These frameworks do not readily accommodate variability in the relative importance of capabilities.
The assessment approach taken is to identify a generalised set of capabilities needed across the span of IT function operations, from strategy to operations and delivery. This generic model is then be used to assess individual frameworks to determine their scope and coverage and to identify gaps.
The generic IT function capability model proposed here consists of five groups or domains of major capabilities that can be organised across the span of the IT function:
1. Information Technology Strategy, Management and Governance
2. Technology and Platforms Standards Development and Management
3. Technology and Solution Consulting and Delivery
4. Operational Run The Business/Business as Usual/Service Provision
5. Change The Business/Development and Introduction of New Services
In the context of trends and initiatives such as outsourcing, transition to cloud services and greater platform-based offerings, should the IT function develop and enhance its meta-capabilities – the management of the delivery of capabilities? Is capability identification and delivery management the most important capability? Outsourced service delivery in all its forms is not a fire-and-forget activity. You can outsource the provision of any service except the management of the supply of that service.
The following IT capability models have been evaluated:
• IT4IT Reference Architecture https://www.opengroup.org/it4it contains 32 functional components
• European e-Competence Framework (ECF) http://www.ecompetences.eu/ contains 40 competencies
• ITIL V4 https://www.axelos.com/best-practice-solutions/itil has 34 management practices
• COBIT 2019 https://www.isaca.org/resources/cobit has 40 management and control processes
• APQC Process Classification Framework - https://www.apqc.org/process-performance-management/process-frameworks version 7.2.1 has 44 major IT management processes
• IT Capability Maturity Framework (IT-CMF) https://ivi.ie/critical-capabilities/ contains 37 critical capabilities
The following model has not been evaluated
• Skills Framework for the Information Age (SFIA) - http://www.sfia-online.org/ lists over 100 skills
Bringing Architecture Thinking to the People - An introduction into the PEOPL...Craig Martin
The successful implementation of an architecture plan or blueprint is often challenged not in the efficacy of the design elements of the architecture, but in its implementation by people in business operations. Transformation programs will often struggle as a consequence of the failure to consider the issues impacting and the role of people in supporting the target operating state of the architecture once implemented, it is therefore imperative that when architects innovate, model and design to solve business problems, that they equally consider the people dimension. Capability based planning is incomplete unless we address the optimum mix of people, process and tools to drive out the target outcome of that capability. This presentation will look at a case study from within the Australian market in which Business Capability Based Planning was applied to assess people capabilities and organisation preparedness to support a target business model. It will also discuss some of the more effective people levers that can be applied to deliver more impactful and long lasting architectural change.
Practical Enterprise Architecture in Medium-size Corporation using TOGAFMichael Sukachev
Overview on the Practical Enterprise Architecture approach using TOGAF ADM for architectures development, Zachman Framework as artifacts repository and Sparx EA as a modelling tool.
PECB Webinar: Aligning ITIL/ISO 20000 Service Design and TOGAF Enterprise Arc...PECB
Summary:
The ITIL Service Design stage specifies 8 key IT processes that organizations need to excel at, if they are to develop effective designs for their IT ecosystem.
TOGAF is an Enterprise Architecture Model that takes a holistic and integrated look at how architectures are conceptualized and implemented.
To get Service Design right means the individual/organizations has to have some sort of knowledge and experience in the use and adoption of TOGAF.
IT Projects go wrong in the Service Design stage and they further go wrong because they lack the rigor that an enterprise architecture brings into play.
In this webinar we will explore the following:
• The very heart of ITIL Service Design
• The 8 Design Process
• TOGAF Introduction
• Architecture Development Lifecycle
• IT Infrastructure and Application Design Issues
• The Link between Service Design, Enterprise Architecture and IT Implementation
Presenter:
Orlando is an Enterprise Architect and Programme Director with over 15 years’ experience in the field of Computing and Information Technology Consulting. He has an excellent technical background and has carried out Project Management, Service Management, Assurance, Advisory and System Integration Projects within SAP, Microsoft, Oracle, HP, Cisco and other solution areas of Information Technology. He has led more than 100 successful engagements for clients over the past 15 years. Orlando has developed various documentation for Enterprise Architecture, IT Service Management, CRM Implementation and Information Security. He has also trained over 2, 000 Professionals on (ITIL, TOGAF, Business Analysis, COBIT, CMMI, XBRL, ISO 20000, ISO 27001 and ISO 22301).
It is well known that an effective PMO is key to successful and efficient program and project execution. In other words, doing things “right”. Enterprise Architecture is the discipline that plans and monitors enterprise transformation and aligns the business strategy with information technology capabilities. In other words, doing the “right things” to support the business.
Why is it organizations despite having both of these disciplines still struggle with effective enterprise transformation? What can we done to use these disciplines more effectively to effect better business outcomes? What are the roles of each discipline and how do they work together to create business value?
In this presentation, Riaz will address these questions and will provide real life examples that can help build a strong relationship between the PMO and Enterprise Architecture.
Learning Objectives:
• How to build a strong relationship between the PMO and Enterprise Architecture (EA) to deliver positive outcomes for your organization
• Identify the different roles and functions of the PMO and EA as well as their similarities
Business Architecture is a multi dimensional discipline primarily focused on organizational structure and performance in terms of business strategy, business functions, capabilities, roles and their relationships. Implementing and executing Business Strategy goals is among Business Architecture’s focus areas.
This presentation and discussion will focus on Strategic planning relationship with Business Architecture. Employing Business Architecture techniques, Corporate Planners can translate business strategy goals into actions, identify critical areas of enterprise change and transformation while identifying and mitigating related risks.
Introduction to Enterprise architecture and the steps to perform an Enterpris...Prashanth Panduranga
This presentation was used to introduce Enterprise Architecture, Introduction to how to perform an Enterprise Architecture Assessment followed by TechSharp introduction.
Deliverables in the presentation is not clear, the slides represent what was shown as part of the demo.
List of deliverables:
Application Rationalization framework
Portfolio Analysis framework
Road Map
Current state analysis
Target State establishing process
System Context
System Landscape
During last few years, role of Enterprise Architecture has expanded from technical to strategic in an Organization. This slide deck presents: Using Enterprise Architecture in your Organization.
Enterprise Business Analysis Capability - Strategic Asset for Business Alignm...Alan McSweeney
Introducing the concept of Enterprise Business Analysis as a strategic resource to achieve business and IT alignment. Alignment means being able to draw a straight Line from business strategy through to delivered and operational solutions implemented to respond to businessn. Business and IT Alignment requires more than just relationship management – it requires actual engagement by IT with the needs of the business.
Digital Transformation And Solution ArchitectureAlan McSweeney
Digital strategy is a statement about the organisation’s digital positioning, competitors and customer and collaborator needs and behaviour to achieve a direction for innovation, communication, transaction and promotion. Digital strategy needs to be defined in the same framework structure as the proposed digital architecture platform.
Achieving the target digital organisation means deploying solutions that enable the digital architecture. Solution architecture needs to design solutions that fit into the target digital architecture framework. This requires:
• Solution architecture team operating in an integrated manner designing solutions to a set of common standards and that run on the platform
• Solution architecture team leadership ensuring solutions conform to the common standards
• Solution architecture technical leadership to develop and maintain common solution design standards
• Solution architecture updates the digital reference architecture based on solution design experience
Digital solution design requires greater discipline to create an integrated set solutions that operate within the rigour of the digital architecture framework. The solution architecture function must interact with other IT architecture disciplines to ensure the set of solutions that implement the digital framework operate together. This requires greater solution architecture team leadership. This needs to be supplemented and supported by a well-defined set of digital solution design standards.
This follows-on from the previous presentation: Digital Transformation And Enterprise Architecture
https://www.slideshare.net/alanmcsweeney/digital-transformation-and-enterprise-architecture.
Architecture Board & Governance- Key to Running IT as Business. Aligning Business Strategy with IT. Agenda. Goals & Objectives; Enterprise Architect Role ...
Review of Information Technology Function Critical Capability ModelsAlan McSweeney
IT Function critical capabilities are key areas where the IT function needs to maintain significant levels of competence, skill and experience and practise in order to operate and deliver a service. There are several different IT capability frameworks. The objective of these notes is to assess the suitability and applicability of these frameworks. These models can be used to identify what is important for your IT function based on your current and desired/necessary activity profile.
Capabilities vary across organisation – not all capabilities have the same importance for all organisations. These frameworks do not readily accommodate variability in the relative importance of capabilities.
The assessment approach taken is to identify a generalised set of capabilities needed across the span of IT function operations, from strategy to operations and delivery. This generic model is then be used to assess individual frameworks to determine their scope and coverage and to identify gaps.
The generic IT function capability model proposed here consists of five groups or domains of major capabilities that can be organised across the span of the IT function:
1. Information Technology Strategy, Management and Governance
2. Technology and Platforms Standards Development and Management
3. Technology and Solution Consulting and Delivery
4. Operational Run The Business/Business as Usual/Service Provision
5. Change The Business/Development and Introduction of New Services
In the context of trends and initiatives such as outsourcing, transition to cloud services and greater platform-based offerings, should the IT function develop and enhance its meta-capabilities – the management of the delivery of capabilities? Is capability identification and delivery management the most important capability? Outsourced service delivery in all its forms is not a fire-and-forget activity. You can outsource the provision of any service except the management of the supply of that service.
The following IT capability models have been evaluated:
• IT4IT Reference Architecture https://www.opengroup.org/it4it contains 32 functional components
• European e-Competence Framework (ECF) http://www.ecompetences.eu/ contains 40 competencies
• ITIL V4 https://www.axelos.com/best-practice-solutions/itil has 34 management practices
• COBIT 2019 https://www.isaca.org/resources/cobit has 40 management and control processes
• APQC Process Classification Framework - https://www.apqc.org/process-performance-management/process-frameworks version 7.2.1 has 44 major IT management processes
• IT Capability Maturity Framework (IT-CMF) https://ivi.ie/critical-capabilities/ contains 37 critical capabilities
The following model has not been evaluated
• Skills Framework for the Information Age (SFIA) - http://www.sfia-online.org/ lists over 100 skills
Bringing Architecture Thinking to the People - An introduction into the PEOPL...Craig Martin
The successful implementation of an architecture plan or blueprint is often challenged not in the efficacy of the design elements of the architecture, but in its implementation by people in business operations. Transformation programs will often struggle as a consequence of the failure to consider the issues impacting and the role of people in supporting the target operating state of the architecture once implemented, it is therefore imperative that when architects innovate, model and design to solve business problems, that they equally consider the people dimension. Capability based planning is incomplete unless we address the optimum mix of people, process and tools to drive out the target outcome of that capability. This presentation will look at a case study from within the Australian market in which Business Capability Based Planning was applied to assess people capabilities and organisation preparedness to support a target business model. It will also discuss some of the more effective people levers that can be applied to deliver more impactful and long lasting architectural change.
Practical Enterprise Architecture in Medium-size Corporation using TOGAFMichael Sukachev
Overview on the Practical Enterprise Architecture approach using TOGAF ADM for architectures development, Zachman Framework as artifacts repository and Sparx EA as a modelling tool.
PECB Webinar: Aligning ITIL/ISO 20000 Service Design and TOGAF Enterprise Arc...PECB
Summary:
The ITIL Service Design stage specifies 8 key IT processes that organizations need to excel at, if they are to develop effective designs for their IT ecosystem.
TOGAF is an Enterprise Architecture Model that takes a holistic and integrated look at how architectures are conceptualized and implemented.
To get Service Design right means the individual/organizations has to have some sort of knowledge and experience in the use and adoption of TOGAF.
IT Projects go wrong in the Service Design stage and they further go wrong because they lack the rigor that an enterprise architecture brings into play.
In this webinar we will explore the following:
• The very heart of ITIL Service Design
• The 8 Design Process
• TOGAF Introduction
• Architecture Development Lifecycle
• IT Infrastructure and Application Design Issues
• The Link between Service Design, Enterprise Architecture and IT Implementation
Presenter:
Orlando is an Enterprise Architect and Programme Director with over 15 years’ experience in the field of Computing and Information Technology Consulting. He has an excellent technical background and has carried out Project Management, Service Management, Assurance, Advisory and System Integration Projects within SAP, Microsoft, Oracle, HP, Cisco and other solution areas of Information Technology. He has led more than 100 successful engagements for clients over the past 15 years. Orlando has developed various documentation for Enterprise Architecture, IT Service Management, CRM Implementation and Information Security. He has also trained over 2, 000 Professionals on (ITIL, TOGAF, Business Analysis, COBIT, CMMI, XBRL, ISO 20000, ISO 27001 and ISO 22301).
Many organizations engage in initiatives to develop elaborate reference architectures, patterns and governance processes in an attempt to optimize their enterprise. They put significant effort into the upfront guidance of development teams, and then find themselves challenged to understand how closely an architecture matches the approved approach after the projects complete. Organizations must take a new approach to this problem!
Building a ICT Strategy with an Enterprise Architecture MindsetDaljit Banger
The attached slides are from my 1-hour workshop held at the BCS Enterprise Architecture Specialist Group 2nd Annual Conference - 26th June 2018
As this was an interactive workshop, the slides were presented to provide 'context' to stimulating debate, so some of the essence of content may be lost e.g the debate around funding – but sharing to the community.
Frameworks to drive value from your investment in Information TechnologyJohn Halliday
This PDF presentation aims to assist the C-Suite (CEO, CIO, CRO, CSO), Board Members and Audit and Risk Committees to be aware of good IT governance frameworks and references and thereby have Value conversations with IT professionals (and assist IT professionals to drive, and prepare for these conversations). It will cover a wide range of frameworks and references. Enjoy!
IT4IT: Realize a Digital Strategy with ServiceNowZenoss
ServiceNow's Senior Product Manager, Mark Bodman, presents IT4IT: Realize a Digital Strategy with ServiceNow.
Access the full presentation recordings for GalaxZ17 here: http://ow.ly/WyBu30cakk0
Best practices for reconciling Architecture roadmaps across domainsMohan K.
Enterprise Architecture roadmap definition and review process.
Best practices on reconciling Architecture Architecture roadmaps across domains. This includes review of Architecture roadmaps across functional and architecture domains (BDAT).
Best practices for aligning Enterprise Architecture (EA) roadmaps with Architecture governance and technology management.
Creating an Agile Enterprise ArchitectureCognizant
With the proliferation of digital, the function of enterprise architecture is more critical than ever. Getting there requires a strong, agile enterprise architectural foundation that can embrace a fail-fast/fail-safe approach to the IT charter of stronger business alignment, while ensuring that services are delivered fast and friction-free to meet the needs of today’s dynamic business objectives.
Similar to How to develop and govern a Technology Strategy in 10 weeks (20)
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning will have a profound effect in transforming healthcare and bridging the historical gap of information asymmetry between the healthcare ecosystem and people
As Digital and AI are now the new "buz word" vendors and consulting organizations use to advertise their services CIO must grow their understanding of how business capabilities can be transformed with the use of technology to improve efficiency and profitability across the value chain. This presentation addresses how CIOs must earn the respect of the business and be recognized as their Chief Digital Officer as well.
Deciphering the impact of AI to pharma + healthcare Leo Barella
This presentation covers the impact of Artificial Intelligence leveraging Big Data to improve health outcomes and it gives a perspective on how the technology can be leveraged to improve the Pharma value stream.
This article describes 10 Architecture Solution Design principles to help organization focus their solution architecture teams around simple but effective design criteria.
I believe in developing enterprise architecture principles as a foundation for the definition of solutions that meet the strategic needs of an organization. These principles don’t reference technology—instead, they drive tech- nology decisions.
If used correctly, these principles allow companies to avoid building the right solution the wrong way, or worse, building the wrong solution the right way.
The focus of this article is not the Design Principles of the Architecture but the Principles that guide Enterprise Architects.
These are principles that I shared with the Enterprise Architecture teams I led
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.
By leveraging Big Data, the healthcare industry has an incredible potential to improve lives. This session will give examples of how data volume, velocity and variety is transforming the “art” of a doctor to the science of care. It will describe how the use of machine learning and massive amount of data will drive the new Consumer Drive healthcare movement.
The presentation defines the shift in the health care system to fit the model of Consumerism and Customer Centricity. IT details the changes focus for the Customer, the Providers (Doctors and Hospitals), the Pharmaceutical Companies and the Insurance Companies.
Business Value Measurements and the Solution Design FrameworkLeo Barella
The presentation covers a process and artifacts to establish better communication between business and IT and improve the quality and consistency of solutions. It also includes a tool to measure business value of the solutions that are being proposed and allows the business audience to make educated choices based on overall IT Business impact.
Big data in the real world opportunities and challenges facing healthcare -...Leo Barella
The Healthcare system will be target of major disruption more than any other industry in the next 10 years.
The Digital economics and increasing demand by consumers for more real time information in order to make better decisions on who they want to "hire" to perform services for them or in their behalf will be the driver of this disruption. Analytics, Big Data and Machine Learning will lay the foundation for the next generation of healthcare yet there are still many challenges to truly revolutionize the healthcare system end to end (Providers, Pharma, Payers)
The presentation covers innovation strategies that have been implemented by different companies in different industries to disrupt the market and become leaders in their industries.
Leveraging Big Data for Improving Population Health ManagementLeo Barella
Health Care reform redefined how individuals can obtain health insurance. Providers will receive incentives on positive outcomes which will lead to their increased interest in improving the health not only of the patients they visit in their offices but the patients they seldom see. The information available about their patients is growing rapidly and can be harvested from sources that are not typically linked to medical records. In this session you will learn about emerging sources of data and the use of advanced analytics that can lead to the proactive improvement of population health and wellness.
Slack (or Teams) Automation for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Soluti...Jeffrey Haguewood
Sidekick Solutions uses Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Solutions Apricot) and automation solutions to integrate data for business workflows.
We believe integration and automation are essential to user experience and the promise of efficient work through technology. Automation is the critical ingredient to realizing that full vision. We develop integration products and services for Bonterra Case Management software to support the deployment of automations for a variety of use cases.
This video focuses on the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
Interested in deploying notification automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
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
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.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
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.
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.
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.
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
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
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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;
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- 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;
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How to develop and govern a Technology Strategy in 10 weeks
1.
2. Enterprise Architecture Services Federated Operating Model
Solution
Architects
• Drive the alignment of solutions to Target State
Architecture
• Design solutions aligned to EA Guiding Principles
• Escalate to Head of Architecture
Head of
Architecture
(HOA)
• Leads execution of EA program within CFIT/SSIT
• Escalates to EALT based on governance criteria
Enterprise
Architects
• Proactively lead EA development within CF/SS Domain
• CFIT EA’s are focused on Business Solutions
• SSIT EA’s are focused on Technology Solutions
• Identify opportunities to leverage existing solutions
across the enterprise
CTO
• Lead EALT
• Lead Domain Teams / Workgroups
• Lead Community of Practice
• Consistency of execution of EA across SSIT/CFIT
Core EA
Team
How is Enterprise Architecture (EA) Organized?
Responsibilities
2
EA Leadership Team (EALT)
CSIS SSS/ALS EUSSSS/IIS EUGG Commercial R&D
Architecture Domain Lead
Chief
Enterprise
Architect Arc. Performance
SSIT/CFIT
CFIT
Shared Services IT Customer Facing IT
SSIT
Operations
3. What Services Do We Provide to our Customers?
3
ADL
AS
Architecture Domain Lead
Application StrategyCTO
HOA
EA
SA
Head of Architecture
Enterprise Architect
Solution Architect
CFIT/
SSIT
Support strategic, integrated
portfolio planning processes by
alignment with architectural
direction
HOA AS
Enterprise Planning
Evaluate new and existing
technologies for enterprise
adoption; support mobilization
readiness to facilitate target state
enablement and realization
EA ADL
Technology Assessment
& Remediation
Test a certain technology or
process element to demonstrate
its feasibility
EA ADLSA
Technology Prototyping
& Proofs of Concept
Assist in post-merger technology
and process integration
AS EA
M&A Technical
Advisory
Provide as-needed consulting
services to both business and IT
stakeholders
EA SA
SWAT/Consulting
Establish and maintain enterprise
application strategy and roadmap
HOA AS
Application
Rationalization
Help establish architectural
solution design in-line with
defined standards and patterns
EA SA
Project Architecture
Delivery
Translate the business vision into
an actionable architecture and
technology strategy and multi-
year roadmaps to guide
priorities, projects, budgets and
staffing
EAHOA ADL
Strategies &
Blueprinting
4. Process Activities Value to IT/Business
What Enterprise Processes Will EA Support/Govern?
4
Portfolio
Planning
• Support the Portfolio Planning process by steering
solutions toward leveraging enterprise technology
standards
• Improved adoption of strategic enterprise standards
• Identification of opportunities to share solutions across CFITs
Technology
Acquisition
• Identify opportunities to re-use existing technologies
• Define a decommissioning plan if new technologies are
being proposed for enterprise adoption
• Transparent understanding of current Enterprise Technology
standards via the Technology Catalogue
• Improved ROI for existing technologies
Technology
Lifecycle
Management
• Establish a proactive lifecycle plan for enterprise
technologies and information
• Collaborate with procurement in the contract extension
of major technologies / enterprise license agreements
• Reduce technology and data debt/cost
• Reduce number of technologies that provide similar capabilities
• Reduce replication of data and complexity of integration
• Define a decommissioning plan prior to contract expiration
Solution
Design
• Maximize the use of enterprise technology standards
as part of solution design
• Consistent use of design patterns
• Alignment to IT and Business Strategies
• Faster solution implementation when enterprise
standards are adopted
• Transparent understanding of value is being delivered
to the business
5. Enterprise Architecture Governance Operating Model
Business & IT IT
• Defines Target State
Architecture
• Defines Enterprise Standards
• Defines Technology Lifecycle
• Defines Reference
Architectures
• Discuss emerging
business demands for
new/emerging
technologies
• Discuss improvement to
Current State
• Reports on Technology
Scorecards
• Review Solution Designs
• Reports Solution Quality
• Request exceptions to
Enterprise Standards
• Approves Enterprise Standards
• Approves Exceptions to
Enterprise Standards
• Ad-Hoc Virtual Teams
• Agile Technology Decisions
• Cross Domain Strategic Decisions
• Enterprise IT Strategies
• Ratifies Enterprise Standards
• Influence Strategic Priorities
5
6. DEC JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC
EA Lead
Executive Sponsor
EA Lead
Executive Sponsor
EA Lead
Executive Sponsor
EA Lead
Executive Sponsor
EA Lead
Executive Sponsor
EA Lead
Executive Sponsor
EA Lead
Executive Sponsor
EA Lead
Executive Sponsor
EA Lead
Executive Sponsor
EA Lead
Executive Sponsor
EA Lead
Executive Sponsor
EA Lead
Executive Sponsor
Future Strategies/Technology Decisions Roadmaps
ITLT Ratification Strategies SET Innovation Alignment EALT Lead (Domain Workgroup) CFIT Lead/EALT Ratified
Data Strategy Data Strategy (2) (C. Day effort)
Integration Strategy
Search
Development Platforms Discovery Development Platforms Recommendation
Big Data/Data Lakes Metadata Management
Learning Management
API Management
Content Management
Machine Learning
Digital Health
IoT—EnterpriseIoT—Digital Manufacturing (1)
Robotics Process Automation
ITLT ITSS Gov ITLT CFIT Gov ITLT F2F
6
7. Strategy Sprint Process (High-level View)
7
STRATEGY SPRINT PROCESS
+ STRATEGY PORTFOLIO TRACKING
EPMO Portfolio
Planning
Output
• ITLT approval
• Project initiation
document (PID) [high
level business case]
EALT Strategy
Governance
Output
• Strategy roadmap
• Strategy communication
(including EA
SharePoint)
EALT Strategy
Roadmap Review
Activities
• Identify required strategies
• EALT strategy roadmaps
(6 month review cycle)
Input
• Strategy lead appointed
• ITLT sponsor confirmed
• Work group members
identified
• Define target start/
• End time
• Sprint check list and
templates
STAGE 1
Initiate
STAGE 2
Analyze
STAGE 3
Validate
STAGE 4
Approve
Strategy Review Cycle (h)
17. 17
Example/Templates:
No change needed (Perfect
alignment between current state
and future state)
Agreed future state with no
immediate change (An evolution
strategy meaning “as and when”
approach to change working
towards the defined future target
architecture)
Agreed future state overview
and further investigate needed
(High level sprint breaks down in
to more detailed sprints)
Agreed future state with
immediate change (An Fully
actionable strategy resulting in the
creation of projects and funding)
Agreed future state with mixed
change (Partial actionable
strategy resulting in the creation of
projects and funding to address
certain key areas of the future
target architecture)
Rejected future state
recommendations (Reinitiate
spring analyse phase)
Suggested Possible
Outcomes
18. EA — Technology Lifecycle Stages
Watch Prove Invest Tolerate Migrate Eliminate
Rejected
Prohibited
AZ are aware of the
technology and are
monitoring the
capability and/or
roadmap
AZ are performing an
evaluation such as Proof
of Concept, Proof of
Technology or Pilot
This technology is
strategic to AZ and is
preferred for deployment
This technology is not
strategic to AZ but is
allowed to be deployed
AZ has this technology
deployed but it is a target
for migration and should
not be used
AZ has this technology
deployed but it is a target
for migration and should
not be used
Retire
AZ has evaluated this
technology but decided
it to be inappropriate
and should not be used
AZ no longer has this
technology in the estate
and it should not be
used
TIL/CFIT/SSIT EALT
18
19. Integration Pattern / Use Case Technology Watching Proving Invest Tolerate Migrate Eliminate Rejected Prohibited
Messaging Oracle SOA
Publish / Subscribe Oracle SOA
Request / Response Oracle SOA
Business Process Orchestration Oracle SOA
Business Process Management Oracle SOA
Request / Response Oracle SOA
Transformation Oracle SOA
Routing & Abstraction Oracle SOA
ESB Oracle SOA
File Transfer GlobalScape
B2B GlobalScape
API Gateway / Security IBM DataPower
API Management IBM DataPower
ESB MuleSoft
API Gateway / Security MuleSoft
API Management MuleSoft
Micro Services MuleSoft
API Management APIGee Sense
API Gateway / Security APIGee Edge
Cloud SnapLogic
Hybrid Integration SnapLogic
Connector SnapLogic
Citizen Integration SnapLogic
Simple ETL SnapLogic
B2B Cyclone
EDI Cyclone
File Transfer Cyclone
File Transfer AZIA
Cloud ETL Talend
On-Premise ETL Talend
Hybrid Integration Talend
Big Data Talend
On Premise ETL Informatica
Cloud ETL Informatica
Big Data Informatica
Data Virtualisation Cisco Composite
Data Federation Cisco Composite
Messaging SAP PI
Request / Response SAP PI
Publish / Subscribe SAP PI
Transformation SAP PI
Routing & Abstraction SAP PI
ESB SAP PI
EDI SAP PI
Enterprise Scheduling Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Enterprise Scheduling BMC Control-M
ETL SAP BODS
Technology Standards Example
19
26. Leo Barella
VP - Chief Enterprise
Architect
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Editor's Notes
Data shows enterprise app numbers by the IT area that supports the App
This is generated from underlying CMDB data. We are working with each IT area to make sure data is accurate but there are DQ issues.
38%Apps managed outside of Central IT. Likely rationalisation opportunities where overlapping functionality. Work already underway in certain areas to change this profile.
Core SSIT has (possibly) not had as much data-focus in previous App Rat initiatives. Manage 475 in total across SSS, EUS, CSIS (18%total). Deep dive and Domain group analysis to target this.