The document discusses software architecture and the software architecture business cycle (ABC). It defines software architecture as the structure of a system, including elements, their properties, and relationships. The ABC involves business, technical, and stakeholder factors that influence architecture decisions. Architects must balance these concerns. The document provides examples to illustrate business models, value chains, and the complexity of architectural decisions. It explains that the role of architecture is to enable communication, make early design choices, guide quality attributes, and manage change over the system's lifecycle.
The document summarizes the results of a survey of 1000 IT professionals from 14 countries on emerging trends in IT and enterprise architecture in 2009. It includes charts on the respondents' roles, the key challenges enterprises face, and whether respondents have implemented traceability between business, system, and technology requirements.
Organizing Design-Driven Development Using Rational Requirements ComposerKurt Solarte
This document provides an overview of using Rational Requirements Composer to organize design-driven development. It discusses the importance of requirements and outlines how Rational Requirements Composer can be configured to store requirements, wireframes, cities, categories, and data sources for a project. Real-world examples are shown of how wireframes, requirements, and unique data can be represented in Rational Requirements Composer to facilitate traceability between different project elements.
he constant demand for immediate access to data and resources,
reliability and efficiency has created a new ideal of modern,
powerful enterprise IT. Based on market research and technology
observation, this paper explores which criteria modern platforms
have to meet and how leading vendors and service providers
respond in order to deliver these platforms. It is intended as a
guideline for executives who need to make informed purchase
decisions.
Actionable Architecture EA Summit (Singapore)Mark Mamone
Mark Mamone is the CTO of BT Global Services speaking about how BT uses Enterprise Architecture (EA) to provide an actionable architecture for major UK government programs. EA provides objectives like placing architecture at the center of business, using existing frameworks customized for BT, and providing decision support and communication. It allows BT to better develop business, deliver projects, support services, and communicate architecture.
This document discusses five trends in collaborative product innovation: 1) From horizontal to vertical integration of technologies into solutions, 2) Combining devices, content, and user data, 3) Rise of community models, 4) Billions of internet-connected machines, and 5) Frugal innovation for lower costs. It argues that collaborative innovation will be key for companies to create value and address these trends, particularly by targeting India's growing middle class and their emerging needs through platform approaches.
The global economy has been turbulent for the last couple of years but the automotive industry, in particular, has been encountering the most challenging environment. Market dynamics are changing rapidly, thus forcing the auto makers to change their business strategies and to implement them successfully in order to stay competitive. Auto parts makers are further squeezed as they need to satisfy more diverse product requirements with low room for errors in a relatively much shorter time span. As radical technological trends are inevitable, harnessing this opportunity will enable companies with innovative products to gain market share.
Since business revolves around the products or services a company offers, PLM could be the single most rewarding area to focus on in system implementation.
This document outlines the CARDIAC project which aims to advise the European Commission on research priorities in accessible and assistive information and communication technologies (ICT). The project will use a structured dialogic design process involving stakeholders to develop roadmaps on technology transfer, inclusive human-machine interaction, and network-based applications. Key activities include workshops and events to gather input which will be clustered and voted on to create the roadmaps defining short and long-term research priorities. The overall goal is to increase available products and services to improve integration and inclusion of people with disabilities.
This document discusses the future of product lifecycle management (PLM) and manufacturing. It provides an overview of the European Commission's Factories of the Future public-private partnership program and its goals of making factories more productive, sustainable, and human-centric through the use of digital technologies. The document summarizes several European research projects in areas like comprehensive engineering platforms, simulation and virtual prototyping tools, and developing a vision and roadmap for manufacturing in 2020. The future of PLM is seen as more collaborative, mobile, connected, and intelligent to enable on-demand and customized manufacturing while reducing costs and environmental impacts.
The document summarizes the results of a survey of 1000 IT professionals from 14 countries on emerging trends in IT and enterprise architecture in 2009. It includes charts on the respondents' roles, the key challenges enterprises face, and whether respondents have implemented traceability between business, system, and technology requirements.
Organizing Design-Driven Development Using Rational Requirements ComposerKurt Solarte
This document provides an overview of using Rational Requirements Composer to organize design-driven development. It discusses the importance of requirements and outlines how Rational Requirements Composer can be configured to store requirements, wireframes, cities, categories, and data sources for a project. Real-world examples are shown of how wireframes, requirements, and unique data can be represented in Rational Requirements Composer to facilitate traceability between different project elements.
he constant demand for immediate access to data and resources,
reliability and efficiency has created a new ideal of modern,
powerful enterprise IT. Based on market research and technology
observation, this paper explores which criteria modern platforms
have to meet and how leading vendors and service providers
respond in order to deliver these platforms. It is intended as a
guideline for executives who need to make informed purchase
decisions.
Actionable Architecture EA Summit (Singapore)Mark Mamone
Mark Mamone is the CTO of BT Global Services speaking about how BT uses Enterprise Architecture (EA) to provide an actionable architecture for major UK government programs. EA provides objectives like placing architecture at the center of business, using existing frameworks customized for BT, and providing decision support and communication. It allows BT to better develop business, deliver projects, support services, and communicate architecture.
This document discusses five trends in collaborative product innovation: 1) From horizontal to vertical integration of technologies into solutions, 2) Combining devices, content, and user data, 3) Rise of community models, 4) Billions of internet-connected machines, and 5) Frugal innovation for lower costs. It argues that collaborative innovation will be key for companies to create value and address these trends, particularly by targeting India's growing middle class and their emerging needs through platform approaches.
The global economy has been turbulent for the last couple of years but the automotive industry, in particular, has been encountering the most challenging environment. Market dynamics are changing rapidly, thus forcing the auto makers to change their business strategies and to implement them successfully in order to stay competitive. Auto parts makers are further squeezed as they need to satisfy more diverse product requirements with low room for errors in a relatively much shorter time span. As radical technological trends are inevitable, harnessing this opportunity will enable companies with innovative products to gain market share.
Since business revolves around the products or services a company offers, PLM could be the single most rewarding area to focus on in system implementation.
This document outlines the CARDIAC project which aims to advise the European Commission on research priorities in accessible and assistive information and communication technologies (ICT). The project will use a structured dialogic design process involving stakeholders to develop roadmaps on technology transfer, inclusive human-machine interaction, and network-based applications. Key activities include workshops and events to gather input which will be clustered and voted on to create the roadmaps defining short and long-term research priorities. The overall goal is to increase available products and services to improve integration and inclusion of people with disabilities.
This document discusses the future of product lifecycle management (PLM) and manufacturing. It provides an overview of the European Commission's Factories of the Future public-private partnership program and its goals of making factories more productive, sustainable, and human-centric through the use of digital technologies. The document summarizes several European research projects in areas like comprehensive engineering platforms, simulation and virtual prototyping tools, and developing a vision and roadmap for manufacturing in 2020. The future of PLM is seen as more collaborative, mobile, connected, and intelligent to enable on-demand and customized manufacturing while reducing costs and environmental impacts.
The document describes the Building Intelligence Quotient (BiQ) program developed by the Continental Automated Buildings Association. The BiQ rates the intelligence of building automation systems in large office buildings through an online assessment. It provides benchmark ratings and recommendations to improve building performance. Initial beta testing of the BiQ tool and an analysis of corporate building portfolios are discussed. The BiQ is intended to enhance knowledge of building intelligence and guide future decision making.
AgilityWorks developed a native Android mobile field sales application for Hillarys Blinds, the UK's leading made-to-measure blinds company, on SAP's Unwired Platform. The application was designed, developed, and field tested in under 6 months to equip Hillarys' 1,000 sales consultants with order management, payments, and other capabilities on Samsung smartphones and tablets. The solution provides end-to-end support for the sales process from resource planning to in-home printing of receipts.
Mobile Learning Summer School
http://conferences.telecom-bretagne.eu/mlearning09/
Slides of course :
software architecture for adaptive and mobile learning
Advancements in any industry refer to the process of developing systems, tools, products, or techniques that improve conditions,
solve problems, or achieve goals. All industries value innovative minds and solution-oriented breakthroughs. This workshop will
feature top corporate and federal executive leaders form or from? diverse industries share the latest and greatest breakthroughs.
You may be behind the next big thing.
At the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:
a. E xplore pioneering advancements from diverse industries including:
Aerospace & Defense, Automotive, Media & Entertainment, IT, Intelligence Agencies
b. Explore ideas and visions for the future
c. Examine challenges and threats that these industries must overcome to survive
1) The document discusses IBM's cloud computing strategy and offerings called SmartCloud.
2) SmartCloud aims to help organizations transform IT from cost centers to strategic innovation centers by enabling faster deployment, improved access to resources, and variable costs through public, private and hybrid cloud models.
3) IBM focuses on capturing the cloud market across infrastructure as a service, platform as a service, and business process/software as a service through its SmartCloud foundation technologies, managed cloud services, and cloud business solutions.
Agile BI : meeting the best of both worlds from departmental and enterprise BIJean-Michel Franco
The document discusses the need for business intelligence (BI) to evolve from a process-centric IT function to an information-centric service that empowers all users within an organization. It argues that BI must adopt agile methodologies to quickly deliver intelligence to both occasional and advanced users. The document presents a case study of Sanofi Pasteur, which implemented a new hybrid BI architecture and agile development approach to accelerate time-to-value, gain higher user acceptance, and increase the number of prototype projects launched each year.
In 3 sentences:
This document summarizes a case study comparing the commercialization strategies of Sun Microsystems and MIPS Computer Systems in the RISC microprocessor industry. Sun adopted a liberal licensing strategy to establish its SPARC architecture, while MIPS retained more control over its design through tighter licensing. Both approaches helped lower barriers to entry and establish their architectures, but may not be as effective in the growing embedded systems market dominated by Intel and Motorola.
The document discusses new processes and interoperability using building information modeling (BIM). It describes Tekla BIM software's accurate 3D models and specialized solutions for contractors, engineers, detailers, and manufacturers. It introduces a new free application for model-based collaboration across disciplines. It also discusses Trimble's construction portfolio and latest acquisition. It explains how design BIM differs from construction BIM and how integrating them transforms workflows. The "cloud" and openBIM concepts are presented for sharing data across applications and disciplines. Examples show request-based workflows and linking models to site layout. Case studies demonstrate using BIM through the construction process.
This document discusses the challenges of managing complexity in software and systems development. It proposes two approaches to address this complexity: 1) variant management through strategic reuse, defining entry points and reuse strategies; and 2) product line engineering, shifting from asset reuse to sharing across a product line lifecycle. IBM's solutions involve its Rational tools integrated with BigLever's product line engineering framework to support requirements, modeling, quality management, and an overall lifecycle approach. The combination aims to improve productivity, quality, and time to market through feature-based development and automated production.
The government has published a cloud computing strategy that outlines the kinds of cloud services that could be offered and how a government cloud platform might work. The strategy recommends limited use of private cloud, use of public cloud subject to criteria, and use of community cloud where public cloud is not suitable. However, the strategy is missing some key details like a cloud store, readiness criteria, a framework for public vs community cloud assessment, and details on service provisioning and data management.
This case study provided insight in how ING Group used a corporate cloud training program, facilitated by ITpreneurs, supported by the Cloud Credential Council and using the CompTIA Cloud Essentials exam.
Download a copy at www.cloudcredential.org
Major vendors are starting to integrate their application life-cycle management and systems management tools to close the loop between development and operations. The vision of a fully integrated, automated end-to-end IT life-cycle management solution could address the needs of large businesses. However, there are still many gaps today in vendors' approaches. In the short term, vendors will focus on extending existing offerings through integration. In the medium term, vendors will compete on partner ecosystems and developer networks. Longer term, an integrated solution could become the platform for closed-loop change management and provide governance and auditing capabilities.
Presentation on "Waking the sleeping giant of energy efficiency", made to CleanTuesday Paris 18th September 2012. Video available at http://lnkd.in/XzVwCt (starts at 8 minutes 30. Slides via icon on top row.)
English Slides :
- EA Introdution
- Alqualsadi research team at ENSIAS (on Enterprise Architecture, Quality of their Development and Integartion)
Where : DSV, Stockholm Uni
When : April, 16th, 2010
The document discusses intellectual property (IP) strategies for Chinese tech companies from an IP acquisitions perspective. It recommends pooling domestic patents to negotiate favorable licensing terms. It also suggests pursuing tech transfers from overseas for technological advancement, and considering international mergers and acquisitions to access new costs and markets while establishing collaborative relationships. Overall, the strategies aim to help Chinese small- and medium-sized enterprises overcome IP deficits and better position themselves in the global IP landscape.
Brendan Coveney, Nuxeo's General Manager - Americas/Asia Pacific, presents how Nuxeo's highly flexible platform-based ECM strategy brings innovation and business sense to the world of content management.
The document discusses an open BIM learning exchange presentation by Dr. Howard Jeffrey, a BIM specialist at Skanska. It summarizes Skanska's definition of BIM and its implementation of BIM across projects since 2009. Some key challenges and opportunities of BIM are outlined. The presentation covers Skanska's approach to BIM delivery, focusing on people, process, and technology. Case studies and lessons learned are discussed to capture benefits and inform future BIM adoptions.
1. The stock broking firm Asit C Mehta Investment Intermediates Ltd deployed the MAIA 1Key business intelligence solution to help ease the load on their IT department from a large number of daily data and report requests from users.
2. The company evaluated MAIA 1Key and found that it could help generate reports and access data more efficiently for business users in a user-friendly manner.
3. After a successful proof of concept and pilot implementation, the company is now in the final stages of a full deployment of MAIA 1Key to standardize reporting and data access across the organization.
ModViz is a new leader in industrial visualization software. Their product, Renderizer, turns PCs into affordable, scalable, and portable visualization systems. Renderizer is protected by patents and patent applications. ModViz aims to become the leading vendor of affordable high-performance industrial visualization software. Their 18-month sales projection shows revenue growing from $426k in 2003 to over $6M in 2004 primarily from sales of Renderizer to the manufacturing and oil & gas industries.
The document discusses architectural patterns. It defines what patterns are and provides a taxonomy of patterns including idioms, design patterns, and architectural patterns. Architectural patterns express fundamental structural organizations for software systems and include patterns like layers, pipes and filters, and blackboard. The rest of the document describes various architectural styles and provides examples of architectural patterns within each style.
This document discusses ways that MOOCs can evolve beyond their initial form to better support students. It suggests that MOOCs could help reduce dropout rates and increase passing rates by providing more student interaction and renewed focus on teaching. Learning analytics from student data and customized learning experiences may help monitor student progress. MOOCs also serve the needs of new students by providing upskilling, career opportunities, and a better work-life balance through flexible learning.
The document describes the Building Intelligence Quotient (BiQ) program developed by the Continental Automated Buildings Association. The BiQ rates the intelligence of building automation systems in large office buildings through an online assessment. It provides benchmark ratings and recommendations to improve building performance. Initial beta testing of the BiQ tool and an analysis of corporate building portfolios are discussed. The BiQ is intended to enhance knowledge of building intelligence and guide future decision making.
AgilityWorks developed a native Android mobile field sales application for Hillarys Blinds, the UK's leading made-to-measure blinds company, on SAP's Unwired Platform. The application was designed, developed, and field tested in under 6 months to equip Hillarys' 1,000 sales consultants with order management, payments, and other capabilities on Samsung smartphones and tablets. The solution provides end-to-end support for the sales process from resource planning to in-home printing of receipts.
Mobile Learning Summer School
http://conferences.telecom-bretagne.eu/mlearning09/
Slides of course :
software architecture for adaptive and mobile learning
Advancements in any industry refer to the process of developing systems, tools, products, or techniques that improve conditions,
solve problems, or achieve goals. All industries value innovative minds and solution-oriented breakthroughs. This workshop will
feature top corporate and federal executive leaders form or from? diverse industries share the latest and greatest breakthroughs.
You may be behind the next big thing.
At the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:
a. E xplore pioneering advancements from diverse industries including:
Aerospace & Defense, Automotive, Media & Entertainment, IT, Intelligence Agencies
b. Explore ideas and visions for the future
c. Examine challenges and threats that these industries must overcome to survive
1) The document discusses IBM's cloud computing strategy and offerings called SmartCloud.
2) SmartCloud aims to help organizations transform IT from cost centers to strategic innovation centers by enabling faster deployment, improved access to resources, and variable costs through public, private and hybrid cloud models.
3) IBM focuses on capturing the cloud market across infrastructure as a service, platform as a service, and business process/software as a service through its SmartCloud foundation technologies, managed cloud services, and cloud business solutions.
Agile BI : meeting the best of both worlds from departmental and enterprise BIJean-Michel Franco
The document discusses the need for business intelligence (BI) to evolve from a process-centric IT function to an information-centric service that empowers all users within an organization. It argues that BI must adopt agile methodologies to quickly deliver intelligence to both occasional and advanced users. The document presents a case study of Sanofi Pasteur, which implemented a new hybrid BI architecture and agile development approach to accelerate time-to-value, gain higher user acceptance, and increase the number of prototype projects launched each year.
In 3 sentences:
This document summarizes a case study comparing the commercialization strategies of Sun Microsystems and MIPS Computer Systems in the RISC microprocessor industry. Sun adopted a liberal licensing strategy to establish its SPARC architecture, while MIPS retained more control over its design through tighter licensing. Both approaches helped lower barriers to entry and establish their architectures, but may not be as effective in the growing embedded systems market dominated by Intel and Motorola.
The document discusses new processes and interoperability using building information modeling (BIM). It describes Tekla BIM software's accurate 3D models and specialized solutions for contractors, engineers, detailers, and manufacturers. It introduces a new free application for model-based collaboration across disciplines. It also discusses Trimble's construction portfolio and latest acquisition. It explains how design BIM differs from construction BIM and how integrating them transforms workflows. The "cloud" and openBIM concepts are presented for sharing data across applications and disciplines. Examples show request-based workflows and linking models to site layout. Case studies demonstrate using BIM through the construction process.
This document discusses the challenges of managing complexity in software and systems development. It proposes two approaches to address this complexity: 1) variant management through strategic reuse, defining entry points and reuse strategies; and 2) product line engineering, shifting from asset reuse to sharing across a product line lifecycle. IBM's solutions involve its Rational tools integrated with BigLever's product line engineering framework to support requirements, modeling, quality management, and an overall lifecycle approach. The combination aims to improve productivity, quality, and time to market through feature-based development and automated production.
The government has published a cloud computing strategy that outlines the kinds of cloud services that could be offered and how a government cloud platform might work. The strategy recommends limited use of private cloud, use of public cloud subject to criteria, and use of community cloud where public cloud is not suitable. However, the strategy is missing some key details like a cloud store, readiness criteria, a framework for public vs community cloud assessment, and details on service provisioning and data management.
This case study provided insight in how ING Group used a corporate cloud training program, facilitated by ITpreneurs, supported by the Cloud Credential Council and using the CompTIA Cloud Essentials exam.
Download a copy at www.cloudcredential.org
Major vendors are starting to integrate their application life-cycle management and systems management tools to close the loop between development and operations. The vision of a fully integrated, automated end-to-end IT life-cycle management solution could address the needs of large businesses. However, there are still many gaps today in vendors' approaches. In the short term, vendors will focus on extending existing offerings through integration. In the medium term, vendors will compete on partner ecosystems and developer networks. Longer term, an integrated solution could become the platform for closed-loop change management and provide governance and auditing capabilities.
Presentation on "Waking the sleeping giant of energy efficiency", made to CleanTuesday Paris 18th September 2012. Video available at http://lnkd.in/XzVwCt (starts at 8 minutes 30. Slides via icon on top row.)
English Slides :
- EA Introdution
- Alqualsadi research team at ENSIAS (on Enterprise Architecture, Quality of their Development and Integartion)
Where : DSV, Stockholm Uni
When : April, 16th, 2010
The document discusses intellectual property (IP) strategies for Chinese tech companies from an IP acquisitions perspective. It recommends pooling domestic patents to negotiate favorable licensing terms. It also suggests pursuing tech transfers from overseas for technological advancement, and considering international mergers and acquisitions to access new costs and markets while establishing collaborative relationships. Overall, the strategies aim to help Chinese small- and medium-sized enterprises overcome IP deficits and better position themselves in the global IP landscape.
Brendan Coveney, Nuxeo's General Manager - Americas/Asia Pacific, presents how Nuxeo's highly flexible platform-based ECM strategy brings innovation and business sense to the world of content management.
The document discusses an open BIM learning exchange presentation by Dr. Howard Jeffrey, a BIM specialist at Skanska. It summarizes Skanska's definition of BIM and its implementation of BIM across projects since 2009. Some key challenges and opportunities of BIM are outlined. The presentation covers Skanska's approach to BIM delivery, focusing on people, process, and technology. Case studies and lessons learned are discussed to capture benefits and inform future BIM adoptions.
1. The stock broking firm Asit C Mehta Investment Intermediates Ltd deployed the MAIA 1Key business intelligence solution to help ease the load on their IT department from a large number of daily data and report requests from users.
2. The company evaluated MAIA 1Key and found that it could help generate reports and access data more efficiently for business users in a user-friendly manner.
3. After a successful proof of concept and pilot implementation, the company is now in the final stages of a full deployment of MAIA 1Key to standardize reporting and data access across the organization.
ModViz is a new leader in industrial visualization software. Their product, Renderizer, turns PCs into affordable, scalable, and portable visualization systems. Renderizer is protected by patents and patent applications. ModViz aims to become the leading vendor of affordable high-performance industrial visualization software. Their 18-month sales projection shows revenue growing from $426k in 2003 to over $6M in 2004 primarily from sales of Renderizer to the manufacturing and oil & gas industries.
The document discusses architectural patterns. It defines what patterns are and provides a taxonomy of patterns including idioms, design patterns, and architectural patterns. Architectural patterns express fundamental structural organizations for software systems and include patterns like layers, pipes and filters, and blackboard. The rest of the document describes various architectural styles and provides examples of architectural patterns within each style.
This document discusses ways that MOOCs can evolve beyond their initial form to better support students. It suggests that MOOCs could help reduce dropout rates and increase passing rates by providing more student interaction and renewed focus on teaching. Learning analytics from student data and customized learning experiences may help monitor student progress. MOOCs also serve the needs of new students by providing upskilling, career opportunities, and a better work-life balance through flexible learning.
Beyond MOOCs discusses the future of online education beyond massive open online courses (MOOCs). It argues that while MOOCs have increased access to education through online videos and lectures, true learning requires personalization, networking, coaching from experts, peer feedback, and problem-centered learning. Quality and success in online education should be defined and measured in terms of student engagement, learning analytics, and new learning spaces that foster collaboration beyond traditional instructional designs.
This document discusses financing options for startups, including debt, equity, and sponsorship. It outlines the differences between debt and equity financing. Debt financing includes loans from friends and family, banks, suppliers, and customers. Equity financing includes common stock owned by founders and preferred stock owned by investors. The appropriate financing depends on the startup's stage. Later sections provide an overview of venture capital perspectives and tips for raising capital and managing reporting.
This course prepares future entrepreneurs to start internationally-oriented growth companies. It provides theoretical knowledge on topics like finance, HR, and international business and applies them to students' own business projects. The course involves a blended learning approach with a one-week classroom session and one week of online work. Students will create a pitch for their business and get peer and coach feedback. The goal is to help students scale their companies from one person to over 100 employees.
Learning analytics uses data collected from students to improve learning outcomes. It aims to reduce dropout rates, increase passing rates, and personalize education through tools like learning dashboards, flipped classrooms, and progress monitoring. While learning analytics provides insights into learning, predicting the future remains difficult due to the complex nature of education.
The document summarizes a guest lecture on starting a company from legal and tax perspectives. It covers topics like different legal forms of companies, requirements for setting up a company, commonly used forms like BVBA and NV, corporate governance structures, and interactions between accounting and tax law. It also includes a case study of an agricultural biotechnology company that began as a university spin-off and was later acquired.
1524 how ibm's big data solution can help you gain insight into your data cen...IBM
IBM's big data solutions like InfoSphere BigInsights and InfoSphere Streams can help organizations gain insights from large, diverse data. BigInsights provides an enhanced Hadoop platform for analyzing structured and unstructured data at scale. Streams enables real-time analysis of high-volume streaming data. The document discusses how these solutions helped clients like Vestas optimize investments using 3 petabytes of data and an Asian telco reduce costs and improve customer experience from 5 billion daily records.
The document discusses software architecture and quality attributes. It defines software architecture as the structure of components in a system and their relationships. Quality attributes are non-functional requirements that cover aspects like performance, security, and maintainability. The document discusses how architectural decisions impact quality attributes and gives examples of quality attribute scenarios to define non-functional requirements precisely. Architectural patterns can help meet quality attribute requirements.
This document discusses the importance of creating a vision for software projects. It explains that a project vision describes the reason for undertaking a project and the desired end state, with the goal of aligning the team. The vision helps move an idea into a product or service definition that can be implemented. A vision acts as the true north that guides the Scrum team. When creating a vision, the document recommends including details like the target customers, their needs and benefits, the product's unique value and qualities, key technologies and features, operational requirements, and financials. It then provides guidelines for conducting a vision workshop with the entire team to develop the vision statement over 2-3 hours.
The document discusses industry and research clusters in the Rhône-Alps region of France that were launched in 2005 to promote innovation and competitiveness among small and medium enterprises (SMEs). It describes the region's strong base of SMEs, universities, and major companies. Eight main industry clusters and seven research clusters were established to address strategic challenges through collaboration between businesses, universities, and public/private sectors. The clusters work to enhance members' competitive advantages through activities like training, technology innovation, and international promotion.
NRB MAINFRAME DAY 04 - Yann Kindelberger - New generation of application arch...NRB
This document discusses modernizing legacy application architecture. It describes moving from monolithic to microservice architectures by refactoring applications into self-contained systems (SCS) modules. This allows embracing new technologies while reusing existing code. Operational Decision Manager is also discussed as a way to externalize business rules from code for improved agility. The overall approach emphasizes APIs, DevOps practices, and leveraging tools like Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence to transform legacy applications.
Why Enterprises Should Invest Money in EA Transformation FrameworksNathaniel Palmer
1. Enterprises should invest in business architecture transformation to address long-standing problems in IT like high costs, low business agility, and difficulties changing legacy systems.
2. These problems stem from the way IT has developed over 20+ years with an application-centric and point-to-point integration approach, leading to complex and rigid architectures.
3. Computer science offers a solution in Enterprise Service Orchestration Architecture (ESOA) which addresses these problems by standardizing integration through an enterprise service bus and implementing business processes as executable flows.
Why Enterprises Should Invest Money in EA Transformation FrameworksNathaniel Palmer
Enterprise architecture transformation is essential for businesses to reduce costs and increase agility. The current state of most enterprise IT architectures, with hundreds of isolated applications integrated through APIs, leads to high costs, low business agility, and difficulties changing or exiting legacy systems. Computer science provides the solution of enterprise service-oriented architecture (ESOA) which standardizes integration and allows reusable components. The ESOA Framework (ESOAFTM) is a reference architecture that guides enterprises along a gradual transition from their current application-centric "Legacy Enterprise" state to the desired fully ESOA-based "Elegant Enterprise" state. This transformation is expected to reduce total cost of ownership by 30% within a year.
This document discusses Attribute Driven Design (ADD), which is an approach for designing software architectures based on quality attributes. It covers the following key points:
1. ADD is a recursive design process that involves identifying architectural drivers, choosing design concepts to satisfy the drivers, and instantiating architectural elements.
2. The ADD process has 7 steps: requirements information, element selection, identifying architectural drivers, choosing design concepts, instantiating elements, defining interfaces, and verification.
3. An example of applying ADD to design an automotive platform architecture is provided to illustrate the steps. Modifiability is identified as a key driver, and the model-view-controller pattern is chosen to support it. Elements are then instantiated
Babak Hosseinzadeh IT Portfolio Management In Shared Services & CCBabak Hosseinzadeh
IT portfolio management aims to optimize IT investments and is impacted by cloud computing. Cloud computing improves financial visibility and transparency for IT portfolio management by enabling subscription-based billing. It also facilitates faster project initiation and improved tracking through metrics provided by cloud vendors. Cloud computing removes barriers to portfolio management like asset management and contract negotiations.
This document discusses developing an IT strategy in uncertain times and challenges of effective software delivery. It outlines three key challenges: complexity challenges due to more granular functionality and large projects/assets, team challenges due to dispersed teams, and process challenges due to the need for agility and market experimentation. It emphasizes balancing budget planning with strategic planning and gaining persistent commitment to maximizing value delivery over the long-term.
Software Measurement for Lean Application ManagementCAST
Learn how the Lean practices pioneered in the Toyota Production System apply to the Application Development and Maintenance (ADM) of business software. Applying Lean to ADM decreases total cost of ownership and improves business responsiveness and operational dependability.
This document discusses IBM's Mashup Center product and what they have learned about enterprise mashups. It begins with an overview of what mashups are and why they are important for addressing business and IT challenges through more rapid application development. It then describes IBM's Mashup Center platform and provides examples of its uses. The document concludes by discussing technical considerations for the future of mashups and semantic integration.
Selis Networks is developing B-Watch, a business service monitoring and management solution for SMBs. B-Watch provides real-time monitoring of business services, networks, systems and applications and their SLAs through a portal with trend analysis and wizard-based configuration. It integrates with point solutions and frameworks without complexity. The company is currently in customer beta with a product release expected in Q2 2000. It is pursuing OEM and distribution partnerships to quickly penetrate the multi-billion dollar network and systems management market.
Governance of Power Platform – As enabler, not as gatekeeperSwatantra Kumar
In today’s digital age, organizations are under immense pressure to define, ideate, build and deliver services at consistently shortening time to market. With a demanding market, an unpredictable and slowing economy, and a global shortage of skilled labor, low-code platforms are increasingly seen as a boon for enterprises aiming to fuel digital transformation by building new apps, modernizing application landscapes, or automating processes quicker and more efficiently. Low-code/no-code (LCNC) tools have seen steady growth due to their effectiveness in addressing some of the challenges in technology – primarily for digitizing workflows, enhancing user experiences, promoting internal efficiency, and their ability to quickly fill the workforce gap. Low-code application platforms are emerging as a key accelerator for app development and delivery. However, there are still challenges ahead due to a vacuum of battle-tested IT governance for low-code platforms. This article covers our view on the governance of one of the leading LCNC tools, Power Platform, and why it is important while planning, securing, deploying, and supporting applications built on the platform.
The document provides guidance on developing an e-business plan. It emphasizes that an e-business plan must recognize information technology as part of the overall business value chain. Developing such a plan requires understanding customer needs, industry trends and changes, and embracing a culture of adaptability. The planning process involves defining objectives and markets, assessing strengths/weaknesses, and determining distinctive competencies. Key elements that must be addressed are the technology enabling the vision, competitive environment, marketing and operational plans, critical success factors, funding needs, management team, and financial projections. An effective plan accounts for evolving technologies and changing business dynamics.
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This document provides guidance for researchers to summarize their work using a research canvas template. The template includes sections for researchers to introduce themselves, describe their research context and problem, explain their proposed solution, highlight the unique aspects of their solution, discuss alternative solutions, and note any relevant intellectual property considerations. The goal is for researchers to concisely communicate the key points about their work to a multidisciplinary audience.
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Sa002 abc
1. Software Architecture
Prof.Dr.ir. F. Gielen
The Architecture Business Cycle - ABC
Vakgroep Informatietechnologie – IBCN
2. Software Architecture
Software Architecture
Software creates Value
Software Architecture Business Cycle
What is Software Architecture ?
Vakgroep Informatietechnologie – Onderzoeksgroep IBCN p. 2
3. What is a business model ?
It is a description of how your company
intends to
Create value
Capture value
High Tech Innovation:
New product
New Markets
Vakgroep Informatietechnologie – Onderzoeksgroep IBCN p. 3
4. Why make a business model ?
Measured in technical domain Measured in value domain
The business model unlocks the value of the technology
and justifies the capital requirements to implement it ..
Vakgroep Informatietechnologie – Onderzoeksgroep IBCN p. 4
5. Functions of the business model
1. Articulate the value proposition, that is, the value created
for users by the offering based on the technology;
2. Identify a market segment, that is, the users to whom the
technology is useful and for what purpose;
3. Define the structure of the value chain within the firm
required to create and distribute the offering;
4. Estimate the cost structure and profit potential of the
offering
5. Describe the position of the firm within the value network
linking suppliers and customers, including identification of
potential complementors and competitors;
6. Formulate the competitive strategy by which the
innovating firm will gain and hold advantage over rivals.
Vakgroep Informatietechnologie – Onderzoeksgroep IBCN p. 5
6. Example: The Paperless Office
• What is the value proposition ?
• What are the market segments ?
• Who is your customer ?
Vakgroep Informatietechnologie – Onderzoeksgroep IBCN p. 6
7. Value Chain : Customers & Users
A value chain is a “chain” of companies
that work together to satisfy a market
demand for a particular product.
Vakgroep Informatietechnologie – Onderzoeksgroep IBCN p. 7
9. Example: The Paperless Office
• What is the value chain?
• Who is your customer ?
Vakgroep Informatietechnologie – Onderzoeksgroep IBCN p. 9
10. Creating value In the real world
Only 28% of projects finish on time and within
budget
23 % of projects are cancelled before delivery
The remaining projects (late, over budget) only
delivered a fraction of the planned functionality.
Standish Group CHAOS 2000 report
Software is increasing in :
• complexity, size and functionality.
• customer expectations
• business value
Vakgroep Informatietechnologie – Onderzoeksgroep IBCN p. 10
11. … almost 10 years later
Only 32% of projects finish on time and within
budget
24 % of projects are cancelled before delivery
Standish Group CHAOS 2009 report
Vakgroep Informatietechnologie – Onderzoeksgroep IBCN p. 11
12. Failed projects : Motorola Iridium
• 7 billion USD development cost
• 88 satelites
• 3.000.- USD for a phone
• 2 billion satellite opex per month
Vakgroep Informatietechnologie – Onderzoeksgroep IBCN p. 12
13. Software Architecture Business Cycle
Software Architecture
Software creates Value
Software Architecture Business Cycle
What is Software Architecture ?
Vakgroep Informatietechnologie – Onderzoeksgroep IBCN p. 13
14. The ABC: Architecture Business Cycle
1. Stakeholder needs
2. Business management issues
3. Legal/contractual issues
4. Commercial & competitive
pressures
5. Technical environment
6. Political issues
7. Life-cycle issues
An architecture is the result of a set of business and
technical decisions
Vakgroep Informatietechnologie – Onderzoeksgroep IBCN p. 14
15. Influence by Stakeholders
Development Marketing
End user Maintenance Customer
Manager Manager Manager
Vakgroep Informatietechnologie – Onderzoeksgroep IBCN p. 15
16. Skills of a software architect
Handle ( conflicting ) requirements from:
business
organisation
customer
finance people
Be a technical guru.
Be a diplomat
…with great communication skills
Do you still want the job …. ?
Vakgroep Informatietechnologie – Onderzoeksgroep IBCN p. 16
17. Influence of the architect
Organisation
Subsystems = teams & skills
Budget & schedule
Build up the skill base for the company
Business impact
Development & maintenance cost
Time to market
Meet customer requirements
Vakgroep Informatietechnologie – Onderzoeksgroep IBCN p. 17
19. Architecting a High rise
Vakgroep Informatietechnologie – Onderzoeksgroep IBCN p. 19
20. Dimensions of complexity
Higher technical complexity
- Embedded, real-time, distributed, fault-tolerant
- Custom, unprecedented, architecture reengineering
- High performance
An average software project:
- 5-10 people Defense
- 10-15 month duration Telecom Weapon System
- 3-5 external interfaces Switch
- Some unknowns & risks National Air Traffic
Commercial Control System
Embedded Compiler
Automotive
Software Large-Scale
Lower CASE Tool Organization/Entity
Simulation
Higher
management management
complexity Small Scientific complexity
- Small scale Simulation - Large scale
- Informal IS Application
Defense - Contractual
Distributed Objects Enterprise IS
- Single stakeholder (Family of IS MIS System - Many stake holders
(Order Entry)
- “Products” Applications) - “Projects”
IS Application
GUI/RDB
(Order Entry)
Business
Spreadsheet
Lower technical complexity
- Mostly 4GL, or component-based
- Application reengineering Walker Royce, Rational
- Interactive performance
Vakgroep Informatietechnologie – Onderzoeksgroep IBCN p. 20
21. Software Architecture
Software Architecture
Software creates value
Software Architecture Business Cycle
What is Software Architecture ?
Vakgroep Informatietechnologie – Onderzoeksgroep IBCN p. 21
22. Software Architecture Definition
The Software Architecture of a program or
computing system is the structure or
structures of the system, which comprises
software elements, the external visible
properties of those elements and the
relationships among them.
Software
Requirements Design
Architecture
Vakgroep Informatietechnologie – Onderzoeksgroep IBCN p. 22
23. Qualities in Software Architecture
Functionality
Software
System Architectural
Architecture
Qualities Qualities
Business
Qualities
Vakgroep Informatietechnologie – Onderzoeksgroep IBCN p. 23
24. The Role of Software Architecture (1/2)
Communicate among stakeholders
Vocabulary for structure, system and constraints
Making architectural choices
Make early design decisions
Resource allocation
Organisation and work breakdown
Inhibit and enables quality attributes
High performance -> time budgets
Scalable -> high capacity requirements
Re-usable -> coupling
Change Management
local and non-local changes
architectural changes
Analysis
System level analysis , verify structural constraints,
consistency checking.
Vakgroep Informatietechnologie – Onderzoeksgroep IBCN p. 24
25. The Role of Software Architecture (2/2)
Construction
Partial blueprint, construction instructions.
Evolution
Allowable envelope of change, change impact
analysis.
Reuse
components, and patterns for the organisation
Management
evaluation of milestones,
identification of risks
Basis for evolutionary prototyping
Skeletal construction - vertical strip.
Vakgroep Informatietechnologie – Onderzoeksgroep IBCN p. 25
Editor's Notes
Business Modeling is s not different from the logic of scientific discovery: Start with a hypothesis Test in the market place Conceptual test: does it make sense ? Market test: do the numbers add up ?
“ The functions of a business model are to: articulate the value proposition , that is, the value created for users by the offering based on the technology; identify a market segment , that is, the users to whom the technology is useful and for what purpose; define the structure of the value chain within the firm required to create and distribute the offering; estimate the cost structure and profit potential of producing the offering, given the value proposition and value chain structure chosen; describe the position of the firm within the value network linking suppliers and customers, including identification of potential complementors and competitors; formulate the competitive strategy by which the innovating firm will gain and hold advantage over rivals. These six attributes collectively serve additional functions, to justify the financial capital needed to realize the model and to define a path to scale up the business.The process begins with articulating a value proposition latent in the new technology. This requires a preliminary definition of what the product offering will be and in what form a customer may use it. The business model must then specify a group of customers or a market segment to whom the proposition will be appealing and from whom resources will be received. A customer can value a technology according to its ability to reduce the cost of a solution to an existing problem, or its ability to create new possibilities and solutions. Importantly, different prospective customers may desire different latent attributes of the technology. Thus, there is no single inherent value for the technology: if it subsequently were to be developed in different ways, it would likely accrue different value to its developer. Value, of course, is an economic concept, not primarily measured in physical performance attributes, but rather what a buyer will pay for a product or service. A further complexity is the fact that realizing value also involves third parties, both within the vertical value chain, and from the value network
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Many people argue that companies are able to use innovation to create needs within customers. The iPod is a classic example, people defend that the world never needed such fashionable device before Apple created it. In my opinion, however, it is not possible to create needs within customers.One can influence people and consumption behavior with marketing techniques but he can not create a need out of nothing. Every successful innovation addresses a task that customers were already trying to perform in the first place.The Iridium project launched by Motorola in the late 1990s illustrates this point perfectly. Around that time the mobile market was in ferment and service operators around the world were fighting to conquer the increasing number of mobile subscribers.Most mobile networks, however, were based on base stations that could cover a couple of kilometers each. Such technology obviously limited the range where operators could offer their services.In order to solve such a problem Motorola tried to develop a network that would cover literally the whole world. It looked like a great innovation and the management team was enthusiast about the idea that people would be able to talk anywhere from the Sahara Desert to the North Pole. The project required an investment of 7 billion dollars and it involved 88 satellites that were placed into orbit around the Earth.After the network was in place they started selling the services. The handsets were large and clumsy, after all they required a much more complex technology. They would also sell for $3000 a pop and call charges were incredibly high. But hey, those would allow users to communicate anywhere in the globe!A couple of months later, once the novelty worn off, people started to realize that there was not such a strong need to make calls from a remote city in Siberia or from an island in Polynesia, after all. But it was already too late. Motorola did not only missed the sales expectations by far but it was also forced to keep paying the maintenance of the satellites, which accounted for 2 billion dollars… monthly. Motorola invested into what could have been a very successful innovation, but there was no customer need to be met in the first place. In 1999 the Iridium project filled for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
Many people and organisations are interested in the construction of a software system. We call them the stakeholders: The customer, the end user , the developer, the people who maintain the system are a few examples. These stakeholders have different concerns that they wish the system to optimize or guarantee. The software architecture of a system is the first early artifact that allows to analyze the priorities of the competing concerns and translates them into system qualities.
When we consider complex physical buildings, it is immediately apparent that we could not do without architecture. The result is at best baroque. Along with theclumsiness, inelegance and discord in the structures, we get • duplication, redundancy, wasted effort, rework • gaps • poor integration, inconsistency, mismatch We simply could not imagine building a skyscraper without an architecture! Now there is not just the need for integrity of the design, consistency of assumptions, and integration among the parts. Even for theinexpert, other considerations loom large: The sequence of work has to be carefully planned. Also, structural qualities have to be designed --including the building ’ s ability to bear load, it ’ s behavior under high-winds, the ability to move people as well as bulky heavy equipment into the building. All these normal conditions, and unusual conditions like fire, earthquake, and terrorist attacks, have to be taken into account. If they are not explicitly taken into account in creating the architecture, it is left purely to a matter of luck and who can afford this?
While there are numerous similar definitions of software architecture, at the core of all of them is the notion that the architecture describes its gross structure using one or more views. The structure in a view illuminates a set of top level design decisions, including such as how the system is composed of interacting parts, the main ways of interaction and communication and the propoerties of the parts. Software architecture typically plays a key role as a bridge between requirements and design and by providing an absrtact description of the system it gives the designer a tool to assess certain system requirements and suggest methods for construction and implementation
Communication among stakeholders Understanding, vocabulary for structure, system and constraints. Making architectural choices.