This document provides an overview of implementing an effective enterprise architecture program. It begins with some disclaimers about competing perspectives on EA. It then discusses the architecture continuum from enterprise to system level. Key aspects of a successful EA program covered include gaining executive sponsorship, starting small and showing quick wins, formalizing governance processes, and planning for both centralization initially and eventual federation. The presentation emphasizes communicating value and celebrating successes.
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.
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
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.
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.
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 .
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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 .
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
The latest version of the TOGAF standard has special emphasis on Business Architecture, Digital Trends, and Business Transformation beyond IT. Stuart Macgregor takes us through some of these changes to the TOGAF® 9.2 standard and discuss how they will benefit us.
Your Challenge
It is difficult to start the project, engage the right people, and find the necessary requirements to drive the value of an enterprise architecture operating model.
It is challenging to navigate the common enterprise architecture (EA) frameworks and right-size them for your organization.
The EA practice may struggle to effectively collaborate with the business when making decisions, resulting in outcomes that fail to engage stakeholders.
Our Advice
Critical Insight
The benefits of an EA program are only realized when all components of the operating model enable the achievement of the program goals and objectives. Many times organizations overplay the governance card while ignoring the motivational aspects that can be addressed through the organization's structure or stakeholder relations.
Info-Tech’s methodology ensures that all components of an EA operating model are considered to optimize the performance of the EA program.
Impact and Result
Place and structure your EA team to address the needs of stakeholders and deliver on the previously created strategy.
Create an engagement model by understanding each relevant process of COBIT 5 and make stakeholder interaction cards to initiate conversations.
Recognize the need for governance and formulate the appropriate boards while considering various policies, principles, and compliance.
Develop a unique architecture development framework based on best-practice approaches with an understanding of the various architectural views to ensure the creation of a successful process.
Build a communication plan and roadmap to efficiently navigate through enterprise change and involve the necessary stakeholders.
Enterprise Architecture Management (EAM) I Best Practices I NuggetHubRichardNowack
Enterprise architecture management is a "management practice that establishes, maintains and uses a coherent set of guidelines, architecture principles and governance regimes that provide direction and practical help in the design and development of an enterprise's architecture to achieve its vision and strategy. In this business best practice slide deck you learn how to assess and setup Enterprise Architecture and Digital Architecture frameworks as well as a transformation plan.
We provide you with the following best practices:
- Need for Enterprise Architecture Management
- Enterprise Architecture Approach
- Architecture Target Picture Development
- Implementation Roadmap
Effective Strategy Execution with Capability-Based Planning, Enterprise Arch...Iver Band
The difficulty of strategy execution should not be underestimated
Capability-based planning helps make strategy concrete
Enterprise architecture closes the remainder of this gap, and ensures alignment and coherence
Enterprise portfolio management allows managing large enterprise landscapes based on business value
ArchiMate models tie it all together, providing a clear line of sight from strategy definition to realization
Powerful tool support makes this a strong combination!
Enterprise Architecture Governance: A Framework for Successful BusinessNathaniel Palmer
Enterprise Architectures play an important role supporting business transformation initiatives. Enterprise Architecture Governance (EAG) provides a structure for defining relevant strategies and compliance processes. This Level 3 Communications case study presents a detailed framework composed of three essential components of EAG:
1) Organizational Accountability must be clearly defi ned for all EAG aspects, and executive sponsorship is essential. Level 3 formed an executive steering committee with broad representation, preventing EAG from becoming an IT-only initiative.
2) Strategy Defi nition provides the roadmap for business transformation initiatives. Architectural guiding principles defi ne values and offer input into strategies, end states define where the company is going, and roadmaps document how to get there from.
3) Compliance Processes ensure that development initiatives are in alignment with the strategic direction. Level 3 has created a framework that gives each development initiative an architecture rating that indicates its compliance level.
The TOGAF® Architecture Development Method recommends that "an architecture description be encoded in a standard language". As the Open Group standard for enterprise modeling, Archimate is a strong candidate for this role. This presentation will explore how a diversified financial services company selected and is using Archimate for its TOGAF® implementation. The speaker will compare available enterprise modeling languages and explain why Archimate was selected, and will explain how his organization developed an enabling metamodel and diagram templates using a leading enterprise modeling tool. Methodology transition will also be covered, including how existing diagram types were mapped to TOGAF®, and how TOGAF® diagram content was mapped to Archimate.
Delivered at February 2011 Open Group San Diego Conference
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
Creating Enterprise Value from Business Architectureiasaglobal
This presentation will cover the Why (Value) and How (Execution) of a Business Architecture program. You will understand how you can lead your enterprise towards its vision by planning for key Business Capabilities that will get you there.
The latest version of the TOGAF standard has special emphasis on Business Architecture, Digital Trends, and Business Transformation beyond IT. Stuart Macgregor takes us through some of these changes to the TOGAF® 9.2 standard and discuss how they will benefit us.
Your Challenge
It is difficult to start the project, engage the right people, and find the necessary requirements to drive the value of an enterprise architecture operating model.
It is challenging to navigate the common enterprise architecture (EA) frameworks and right-size them for your organization.
The EA practice may struggle to effectively collaborate with the business when making decisions, resulting in outcomes that fail to engage stakeholders.
Our Advice
Critical Insight
The benefits of an EA program are only realized when all components of the operating model enable the achievement of the program goals and objectives. Many times organizations overplay the governance card while ignoring the motivational aspects that can be addressed through the organization's structure or stakeholder relations.
Info-Tech’s methodology ensures that all components of an EA operating model are considered to optimize the performance of the EA program.
Impact and Result
Place and structure your EA team to address the needs of stakeholders and deliver on the previously created strategy.
Create an engagement model by understanding each relevant process of COBIT 5 and make stakeholder interaction cards to initiate conversations.
Recognize the need for governance and formulate the appropriate boards while considering various policies, principles, and compliance.
Develop a unique architecture development framework based on best-practice approaches with an understanding of the various architectural views to ensure the creation of a successful process.
Build a communication plan and roadmap to efficiently navigate through enterprise change and involve the necessary stakeholders.
Enterprise Architecture Management (EAM) I Best Practices I NuggetHubRichardNowack
Enterprise architecture management is a "management practice that establishes, maintains and uses a coherent set of guidelines, architecture principles and governance regimes that provide direction and practical help in the design and development of an enterprise's architecture to achieve its vision and strategy. In this business best practice slide deck you learn how to assess and setup Enterprise Architecture and Digital Architecture frameworks as well as a transformation plan.
We provide you with the following best practices:
- Need for Enterprise Architecture Management
- Enterprise Architecture Approach
- Architecture Target Picture Development
- Implementation Roadmap
Effective Strategy Execution with Capability-Based Planning, Enterprise Arch...Iver Band
The difficulty of strategy execution should not be underestimated
Capability-based planning helps make strategy concrete
Enterprise architecture closes the remainder of this gap, and ensures alignment and coherence
Enterprise portfolio management allows managing large enterprise landscapes based on business value
ArchiMate models tie it all together, providing a clear line of sight from strategy definition to realization
Powerful tool support makes this a strong combination!
Enterprise Architecture Governance: A Framework for Successful BusinessNathaniel Palmer
Enterprise Architectures play an important role supporting business transformation initiatives. Enterprise Architecture Governance (EAG) provides a structure for defining relevant strategies and compliance processes. This Level 3 Communications case study presents a detailed framework composed of three essential components of EAG:
1) Organizational Accountability must be clearly defi ned for all EAG aspects, and executive sponsorship is essential. Level 3 formed an executive steering committee with broad representation, preventing EAG from becoming an IT-only initiative.
2) Strategy Defi nition provides the roadmap for business transformation initiatives. Architectural guiding principles defi ne values and offer input into strategies, end states define where the company is going, and roadmaps document how to get there from.
3) Compliance Processes ensure that development initiatives are in alignment with the strategic direction. Level 3 has created a framework that gives each development initiative an architecture rating that indicates its compliance level.
The TOGAF® Architecture Development Method recommends that "an architecture description be encoded in a standard language". As the Open Group standard for enterprise modeling, Archimate is a strong candidate for this role. This presentation will explore how a diversified financial services company selected and is using Archimate for its TOGAF® implementation. The speaker will compare available enterprise modeling languages and explain why Archimate was selected, and will explain how his organization developed an enabling metamodel and diagram templates using a leading enterprise modeling tool. Methodology transition will also be covered, including how existing diagram types were mapped to TOGAF®, and how TOGAF® diagram content was mapped to Archimate.
Delivered at February 2011 Open Group San Diego Conference
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
Creating Enterprise Value from Business Architectureiasaglobal
This presentation will cover the Why (Value) and How (Execution) of a Business Architecture program. You will understand how you can lead your enterprise towards its vision by planning for key Business Capabilities that will get you there.
Stepping-stones of enterprise-architecture: Process and practice in the real...Tetradian Consulting
What do we do when we’re doing enterprise architecture? What issues do we tackle, in what sequence, for what business reasons, for what business value? And how do we get results fast? This presentation describes how to adapt the Architectural Development Method (ADM) from The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF) for use in all types of enterprise architecture - for IT and beyond - and at all architecture maturity-levels.
[Presentation at TOGAF Conference, London, April 2009. Applies to TOGAF versions 8.1 and 9. Copyright (c) Tetradian Consulting 2009]
Rationalizing an Enterprise IT ArchitectureBob Rhubart
Shaun McLaurin's presentation from OTN Architect Day in Pasadena, July 9, 2009.
Find an OTN Architect Day event near you: http://www.oracle.com/technology/architect/archday.html
Interact with Architect Day presenters and participants on Oracle Mix: https://mix.oracle.com/groups/15511
Apache Mesos, Apache Hadoop, Apache Spark + Custom Enterprise Applications: This stack combined is greater than the sum of each of the pieces of this stack. Mesos can manage resources across an entire data center, Hadoop provides a distributed data store and scalable data processing, and Spark delivers great in-memory and disk-based performance of data processing as well as streaming capabilities. Couple all of that with custom enterprise applications, and the data center turns into a well-oiled machine. When combined, this software stack delivers unlimited flexibility for the entire data center.
Jim Scott, Director of Architecture and Enterprise Strategy | Strata + Hadoop World | Barcelona, Spain, November 2014
This presentation provides an overview of Enterprise Architecture Frameworks. It is presented by the Semantech Inc. Enterprise Architecture Center of Excellence. The purpose of the briefing is to provide a better understanding of how Frameworks are used in the practice of EA.
An introduction to fundamental architecture conceptswweinmeyer79
(Note: This is a very dated version of this popular deck, as SlideShare does not provide authors with a mechanism to update their documents. If interested in the latest version, feel free to message me on LinkedIn or at wweinmeyer@gmail.com. Also, feel free to ask SlideShare to bring back the ability to update posted documents.)
A discussion of the fundamentals you need to nail in your architecture practice:
- Architecture vs. Design
- Conceptual vs. Logical vs. Physical architecture
- Viewpoint Frameworks
- Architecture Domains
- Architecture Tiers
You are free to use/copy this information but if you do so, please include an acknowledgement
Introduction to Enterprise Architecture and TOGAF 9.1iasaglobal
Santos Pardos nos dará una visión general a TOGAF. Durante 2 horas, Santos nos introducirá al mundo de The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF), ese marco de trabajo de Arquitectura Empresarial que muchos escuchamos hablar. Nos contará el enfoque propuesto para el diseño, planificación, implementación y gobierno de una arquitectura empresarial de información. También repasará, a alto nivel, cuatro niveles o dimensiones: Arquitectura de Negocios Arquitectura de Aplicaciones Arquitectura Tecnológica Arquitectura de Dat
Driving Business Agility & Innovation with Enterprise ArchitectureCorso
How can Enterprise Architecture take the driving seat to deliver increased business agility and uncover new opportunities for innovation? This presentation, first given at the Gartner Enterprise Architecture Summit 2015 in Grapevine, Texas, explains how it can be done.
When implementing SharePoint you might think that you are adding just another technology to your heterogeneous IT environment. But after a while you realize, that users are doing things with SharePoint that you did not expect them to do. This talk dives into the dynamics of adopting SharePoint as a platform, and shows you a how to setup an operational governance practice using a structured governance framework.
One of the most daunting challenges organizations face in making decisions on what technology is needed to fully enable the business to achieve its strategy and objectives. The key is ALIGNMENT.
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!
Slides from a presentation given by Paul Turner to meetings of IIBA UK on 16 July and 12 August 2014.
Much has been written about technical and solution architectures, without due attention being given to how these work together with the Business Architecture.
It is easy to believe that those who are involved in business analysis, requirements definition and systems modelling do not need to consider the Business Architecture at all. This could not be further from the truth. This talk explains the rationale behind Business Architecture, what its main components are and why Business Analysts should ensure that they understand it and the influence it is likely to have on their work.
In this webinar on demand, your can review how organizations face numerous challenges in managing financial performance and how they can gain actionable insights to drive growth and profitability. To address these challenges, in collaboration with Oracle, Smart ERP Solutions brought you an exclusive webinar to explore the transformative capabilities of Oracle EPM.
MindGears believes that sharing insights and methodologies help organizations widen their perspective in improving their service delivery.
Have a conversation with us on how best we can tailor this for you. Or shamelessly copy our method. Let us know if it works for your organizations.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
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.
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
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.
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/
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
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
"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.
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.
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.
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...
Implementing Effective Enterprise Architecture
1. Implementing an effective
Enterprise Architecture
From C-suite to the front lines
Leo Shuster
Director, IT Architecture
Nationwide Insurance
Enterprise Architecture
15 January 2014
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2. Disclaimers
Many competing perspectives and approaches to
Enterprise Architecture exist – this is just one of them
There is no single, agreed upon Enterprise
Architecture standard
Information presented here will not make you an
instant Enterprise Architecture expert
This presenter should not be held liable for any
misconceptions, misrepresentations, or mistakes you
make in your organization based on the information
presented here
Enterprise Architecture
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3. The Architecture Continuum
If enterprises were cities…
Enterprise
Architecture
Portfolio
Architecture
System
Architecture
(City)
(Street)
(Building)
Architecture Continuum
Enterprise Architecture
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4. Enterprise Architecture & the Enterprise
Classically, EA is the “planning” function between strategy formulation and delivery…
“Do the Right Things”
Strategy
Enterprise Strategy
Business
Opportunity
Bus Strategy
IT Strategy
Technology
Availability
= “the city’s purpose & goals”
Enterprise wide focus
Strategy
Enterprise Architecture
Transition
Planning
= “the city plan”
Bus Architecture
Planning
Component
Scheduling
Shipping
Yarn Buying
Inventory
Assortment
Planning
AEI
Corporate
Component
Knitting
Order Entry
Cash
Management
Saturn
Group
Yankee
Group
Tagging &
Packing
Knits
Division
Accounting
Enterprise
Architecture
IT Architecture
Fire and
hope!
Yarn
Division
Component
Design
Yarn
Dyeing
Raleigh
Plant
Seneca
Plant
Business
Structure
Business
Locations
Program focus
Architecture
Governance
“Do the Right Things Right”
Design
and
Delivery
Enterprise Architecture
Business Operating Environment
and IT Infrastructure
System Design
= “the buildings”
Program Architecture
Soln Outline
Macro Design Micro Design
Devt, etc.
Program Architecture
Soln Outline
Macro Design
Micro Design
Devt, etc.
Change Programs
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4
5. What is Enterprise Architecture?
Simple definition:
Enterprise Architecture is a strategy to minimize IT and business mistakes
Enterprise Architecture
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6. Enterprise Architecture Program
EA is a journey, often non-linear
Tactical, opportunistic
Strategic, systematic
Cost Reduction
Standardization
Broaden Scope
Realizing Strategy
What do we have?
Develop standards
and recommended
best practices (e.g.
technology stacks,
server platforms)
Meet business
needs by linking IT
to business
Develop business
strategy
Need all of it?
Consolidate to
reduce costs?
Desire for impact
analysis
Seeking repeatability
Encourage IT
evolution
Focusing on IT scope
only
Cost focus
Managing
architectures
outside IT
Increasing focus on
business
architecture and
business processes
Value propositions,
capabilities, resources
Refine into to-be
Compare to as-is
Create transition plan
Execute
Value focus
Enterprise Architecture has to be treated as an ongoing program that
continues to evolve together with the organization
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7. Determining Your Path
Laying out a vision of the Enterprise Architecture Program’s maturity is one of
the most important first steps in ensuring its success and longevity
• Self awareness
–
Strategic
–
Recognizing the
problem
IT leadership starts the
EA program
• Standardized
technology
–
IT / Business Impact
–
Optimized
core
Pervasive
governance
• Optimized core
–
–
Standardized
technology
–
Tactical
–
–
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Moving from local to
enterprise view of
technology assets
Standardizing core
business processes
Establishing core
technology assets
• Pervasive governance
Self
awareness
Low
Establishing
technology standards
Moving to a shared
infrastructure model
EA Maturity
High
Establishing effective
centralized EA
governance
Federation of EA
* Based on MIT Sloan Center for
Information Systems Research
EA maturity model
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8. Enterprise Architecture Maturity Model
Many EA Maturity Models exist. Choose the one that works best
for you and adopt it. It will provide a prescriptive guidance and
define the levers you can pull to maximize EA maturity.
EA Maturity Dimensions
• Stakeholder Support and Involvement
–
–
The involvement and support of the primary
stakeholders
Includes all EA stakeholders
• Team Resources
–
–
Skills and talent level of Enterprise Architects
Tools and support available
• Architecture Development Method
–
–
Process to define architecture goals and
outcomes
See EA Lifecycle
• Organizational Integration
–
Integration with other processes and
organizations
• Deliverables
–
–
Existence of actionable EA deliverables
Alignment with EA lifecycle
• EA Governance
–
–
Formally established EA Governance
Broad visibility across the organization
• Metrics
–
–
Set of clearly defined metrics
Broadly understood and communicated
• Stakeholder Perceptions
–
–
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Perceived value of the EA program by the
stakeholders
Indication of success or failure
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9. Starting the EA Journey
Gartner recommends establishing and evolving the EA program via six major phases.
Strategize and
plan
Assess
current state
Assess
competencies
• Gain agreement
on the major
problems to be
solved
• Charter the EA
program
• Develop program
guidelines
• Identify current
level of
organizational
maturity
• Understand
existing
capabilities
• Identify EA
requirements
• Review
established
budgetary
practices and
refine them
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Gain approval
Implement
• Develop a formal
plan
• Perform a
strategic
planning exercise
• Develop the
requirements,
and assess the
results
• Analyze the
findings and
prioritize the
gaps
• Develop
investment plans
using identified
business cases
• Present findings
to gain funding
and approval
Operate and
evolve
• Improve and
refine your
efforts
• Continue
evolving future
state plans
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10. Enterprise Architecture Lifecycle
Develop business
case(s) for the
initiative(s) identified
on the roadmap
Create the Enterprise
Architecture vision
and program
structure
Document current
state architecture
Establish and execute
governance processes
EA lifecycle is a series
of continuous iterations
over these phases
Develop future state
architecture
Create a roadmap of
transitioning from
current state to
future state
* Based on Oracle Enterprise Architecture Framework
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11. EA Governance
Alignment
• Enterprise Architecture
establishes a number of
governance mechanisms
– Architecture Board
serves as a governance
body ensuring IT
initiatives align with EA
– CTO and/or Chief
Architect provide
stewardship and
guidance
– Enterprise Architects
develop policies,
practices, and processes
that the Architecture
Board supports
• Enterprise Architecture
and IT leadership ensures
alignment with business
goals, strategies, and
objectives
* Based on TOGAF
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12. Recipe for EA Program Success
The need should
be evident (IT
inefficiencies,
duplication of
capabilities, etc.)
Make all IT leaders
responsible for EA
success with
specific goals and
objectives.
Formalize all EA
governance bodies
and processes.
Integrate them
into all aspects of
IT operations.
Ensure universal
adoption through
executive (CIO /
CTO) mandates
and objectives.
Incentivize positive
behavior.
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Show the need
Institute EA
governance
mechanisms
Drive adoption from
the top
Make everyone
aware why EA is
important to them
and what value it
brings.
Gain an executive
sponsor
Engage all IT leaders
Communicate value
of EA through entire
organization
Formally establish
the EA program
Ideally, this should be
a C-level exec. Start
with highest possible
level and aim for Clevel sponsorship.
Show value quickly
Organize and
announce the team.
Clearly establish
scope, charter, and
responsibilities.
Expand to Business
Architecture
Concentrate on low
hanging fruit such as
cost savings, platform
and capability
consolidation, etc.
Concentrate on
aligning business and
IT strategy once core
EA program has
matured sufficiently.
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13. Keys to Success
Start small
• Don’t try to boil the ocean
• Focus on quick wins
• Show results early and often
Plan big
• Start with the end in mind
• Design the EA program for maximum scale and flexibility upfront
• Create a maturity roadmap and follow it
Obtain executive sponsorship
• Without a C-level executive sponsor, EA program will not succeed
• Ensure buy-in from all IT leaders
• Drive adoption from the very top
Communicate and celebrate
• Communicate results and accomplishments often and to as wide of
an audience as possible
• Celebrate successes and recognize those responsible
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It is very hard to sell
EA on its value alone.
While there are many
ways to demonstrate
value, it is often not
realistic enough for
executives to grasp.
Instead, identify real
needs to establish the
EA program and focus
on showing results
quickly. Once
everyone sees the
value, it will be easy to
justify continuing
investment.
Frequently publish
metrics to
demonstrate progress.
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14. Designing an Effective EA Program
From centralization to federation
• Centralize at first to accelerate maturity
–
–
–
Establish a central EA team
Define and enhance all the EA processes
Pragmatically and systematically drive EA
adoption
• Exercise EA governance cautiously
–
–
Establish an Architecture Review Board
Slowly increase its scope and influence
• Plan for federation
–
Ensure all the processes and structures can be
easily federated when needed
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• Federate when enterprise is ready
–
–
Pull the trigger when the enterprise is mature
enough for federation
This typically happens when EA is universally
accepted and is not questioned
• Align Enterprise Architects with business units
–
–
Absorb Portfolio Architecture functions
Ensure clear alignment between EA and Portfolio
Architecture
• Maintain governance and planning functions
centrally
–
Keep Architecture Review Board as a central
governance body
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15. Designing an Effective EA Program
Small / medium organizations
and early in large enterprises
Large mature enterprises
Sponsors
CIO
Reports to
CTO / Chief
Architect
Influences
EA Team
All EA functions are
managed and
delivered centrally
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Reports to
Architecture
Board
Division CIO
Reports to
Influences
CIO
CTO / Chief
Architect
Reports to
Division
Architecture
Team
EA functions are
federated. EA owns
governance.
Delivery decisions
are made locally.
Influences
Division CIO
Influences
EA Team
Division CTO
Influences
LoB
Architecture
Team
Reports to
LoB
Architecture
Team
Reports to
LoB
Architecture
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16. Achieving Success
The success of an Enterprise Architecture program is hard to measure in objective terms. It is not just how much
savings was achieved, what percentage of enterprise was modeled, how many roadmaps were created, etc. The
primary indicator of success is the degree of change in the company’s culture. Below are the signs of what a
successful Enterprise Architecture program looks and feels like.
EA is universally
accepted
Everyone (from
executives to
developers) believe in
EA vision, mission, and
purpose
EA Governance is
invisible yet
omnipresent
EA processes are tightly
woven into the IT fabric
A system to incentivize
positive behavior and
penalize negative
behavior is in place
Everyone understand
their role and value they
bring to EA
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18. About the Author
About
Publications
• Leo Shuster directed IT Architecture, Enterprise Architecture, and SOA for a number of organizations including
Nationwide Insurance, National City Corporation, and Ohio Savings Bank
• Presented on Enterprise Architecture, SOA, BPM, and related topics at a number of events and conferences
• MS in Computer Science and Engineering from Case Western Reserve University and MBA from Cleveland
State University
• Blog: http://leoshuster.blogspot.com
• SOA Governance Book with Thomas Erl: http://www.amazon.com/SOA-Governance-Governing-PremiseService-Oriented/dp/0138156751
• Service-Driven Approaches to Architecture and Enterprise Integration Book: http://www.igiglobal.com/book/service-driven-approaches-architecture-enterprise/74192
• E-mail: leo@incipienttech.com
• LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/leoshuster
Contact Info
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