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Event Timetable
Sunday, January 29
Conference sessions run from January 30- February 1. Meetings for members only are scheduled on February 2-3. For details of the latter, go to Member Meetings
|Sunday, January 29
|PRELIMINARY MEETINGS - open to all conference participants
Introduction to TOGAF®
Vish Viswanathan is an internationally reputed EA consultant, trainer, advisor and implementation programme manager. With a broad experience in IT services, strategy, new business set up and new technology solutions and products, he is a well rounded EA professional, bringing all of his 35 years of experience into the EA practice.
Advanced Concepts in Applying TOGAF® 9
Vish Viswanathan is an internationally reputed EA consultant, trainer, advisor and implementation programme manager. With a broad experience in IT services, strategy, new business set up and new technology solutions and products, he is a well rounded EA professional, bringing all of his 35 years of experience into the EA practice.
Monday January 30
Conference sessions run from January 30- February 1. Meetings for members only are scheduled on February 2-3. For details of the latter, go to Member Meetings
|Monday, January 30
|ENTERPRISE TRANSFORMATION -- Keynote Presentations
|Welcome Address -- Allen Brown, CEO, The Open Group
The Enterprise Architect: Architecting Business SuccessJeanne W. Ross, Director & Principal Research Scientist, MIT Center for Information Systems Research
Enterprise architecture has typically been the domain of IT groups, but the impact of enterprise architecture is felt enterprise-wide. Research at MIT Center for Information Systems Research has shown that adoption of enterprise architecture leads to greater efficiencies and business agility But how can enterprise architects work with senior leaders to envision and lead successful business transformations?
This talk describes how enterprise architecture has contributed to the success of firms like Campbell Soup, Southwest Airlines, and USAA. We'll also discuss how enterprise architects have helped lead the way.
Jeanne W. Ross directs and conducts academic research that targets the challenges of senior level executives at CISR's eighty global sponsor companies. She studies how firms develop competitive advantage through the implementation and reuse of digitized platforms. Her work has appeared in major practitioner and academic journals, including Sloan Management Review, Harvard Business Review, the Wall Street Journal, MISQ Executive, MIS Quarterly, the Journal of Management Information Systems, IBM Systems Journal, and CIO Magazine.
She is coauthor of three books: IT Governance: How Top Performers Manage IT Decision Rights for Superior Results, Enterprise Architecture as Strategy: Creating a Foundation for Business Execution through Harvard Business School Press, and IT Savvy: What Top Executives Must Know to Go from Pain to Gain. She has served on the faculty of customized courses for a number of major corporations, including PepsiCo, McKinsey, General Electric, TRW, Pfizer, News Corporation, Commonwealth Bank of Australia, IBM, and Credit Suisse. She regularly appears as a speaker at major conferences for IT executives.
Jeanne earned a BA at the University of Illinois, an MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, and a PhD in Management Information Systems from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She is a founding senior editor and former editor in chief of MIS Quarterly Executive.
How Enterprise Architecture is Helping NISSAN IT TransformationCelso Guiotoko, Corporate Vice President and CIO, Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
In 2005, Nissan Global IS Dev developed "BEST" as an IT mid-term plan which significantly improved the efficiency of its information systems. This was followed in 2009 with the development of the "Change" program, which provided the basis for further advances by changing "people", "technology" and "process". And, in 2011, the next IT mid-term plan "VITESSE" was launched, designed to bring direct profit in the company by IT Dev.
In this presentation, the CIO of Nissan Motor introduces the relationship between these NISSAN IT Transformations and how Enterprise Architecture is helping.
Celso Guiotoko is corporate vice president and CIO of the global IS division of Nissan Motor Co., based in Yokohama and the Alliance managing director for Renault-Nissan. He is responsible for managing Renault and Nissan IS divisions worldwide. Throughout his career he has held positions managing information systems and business in multicultural environments, especially Japan. He began his career as a system analyst in Sao Paulo, Brazil. In 1985, he joined Andersen Consulting LLP (Accenture) in Sao Paulo and later was assigned to Chicago and in 1991, Tokyo. In 1996, he joined Toshiba Corporation semiconductor division in the U.S., as director of information systems. Prior to joining Nissan, Mr. Guiotoko was vice president of i2 Technologies Japan Inc.
Nissan is a world-class automobile manufacturer evolving on a global scale. In fiscal year 2010, Nissan earned net revenues of 102.37 billion US dollars and had an operating profit of 6.27 billion US dollars. With 2 brands of Nissan and Infiniti, Nissan will continue to provide innovative products and services today and in the future with the spirit of "The power comes from inside."
The Transformed EnterpriseAndy Mulholland, Global Chief Technology Officer, Capgemini
The Transformed Enterprise is exactly what?
If it is different to the well understood enterprise of today with its enterprise IT model what is different and why is it an advantage? These are basic questions which need to be addressed, and understood, before attempting to consider how business processes and resulting technology architectures will need to change.
Andy Mulholland author of three books since 2005 defining using the Web for business, changing to a collaborative working model and using clouds for enterprise business uses his experience to bring a cohesive answer to the questions
Andy Mulholland joined Capgemini in 1996, bringing with him thirteen years of experience from previous senior IT roles across all major industry sectors. In his current role as Global Chief Technology Officer, Andy is a member of the Capgemini Group management board and advises on all aspects of technology-driven market changes, as well as serving on the technology advisory boards of several organisations and enterprises, and being a member of the Policy Board for the British Computer Society.
In 2006, Andy drew on his wealth of knowledge of Web 2.0 and Service Oriented Architecture technologies and co-authored the globally recognised book 'Mashup Corporations' with Chris Thomas of Intel. This was followed in May 2008 by 'Mesh Collaboration' with Nick Earl of Cisco as his co-author. More recently, Andy has published a third book in this series entitled "Enterprise Cloud Computing: A Strategy Guide for Business and Technology leaders" co-authored with well-known academic Peter Fingar and one of the leading authorities on business process, John Pyke. The book describes the wider business implications of Cloud Computing with the promise of on-demand business innovation. It looks at how businesses trade differently on the web using mash-ups but also the challenges in managing more frequent change, what happens when cloud comes into play in fully fledged operations and how joined up business processes can lead to increased flexibility and sales.
In 2009 Andy was voted one of the top 25 most influential CTOs in the world by InfoWorld, and in 2010 his CTOblog was voted best Blog for Business Managers and CIOs for the third year running by Computing Weekly.
Making Business Drive IT Transformation Through Enterprise ArchitectureLauren C. States, Vice President & Chief Technology Officer, Cloud Computing and Growth Initiatives, IBM Corp.
Todays business demands and pressures have accelerated the pace of change. This focus on growing the business, entering new markets, enabling new, faster, better and less expensive services to customers creates challenges. While enterprise systems that may address these challenges are emerging:
To enable this kind of agility, your enterprise architecture needs to evolve to become the driving force to significantly impact the organizations ability to compete.
This session will explore, in the context of cloud computing, the connection between a well structured business strategy and transformation, IT's enterprise architecture, iincluding a discussion on how your enterprise architecture can lay the foundation for enterprises to address business and IT complexities.
Lauren C. States, Vice President and CTO Cloud Computing and Growth Initiatives, IBM Corporate Strategy is responsible for the technology strategy for IBM's growth initiatives, including cloud computing, Smarter Planet, business analytics and emerging markets. In per previous role as Vice President of Cloud Computing for IBM Software Group, Lauren led a global team responsible for establishing market leadership for Cloud, engaging with clients to incorporate their requirements into IBM's strategy and plans.
As a senior executive on IBM's Integration and Values Team, Lauren played a leadership role on a company-wide initiative called the Client Value Initiative – a strategic reshaping of IBM's value creation. She was responsible for integrating and transforming IBM's processes for skills development, knowledge management and career progression for IBM's professional sales force.
In a previous role, Lauren led worldwide Technical Sales and Sales Enablement for IBM Software Group. She was responsible for the 5000+ technical sales organization – and for sales enablement and customer software deployment across IBM's total software business.
Lauren joined IBM in 1978 as a Systems Engineer in New York City and has held a variety of leadership positions since that time. Lauren graduated from the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School with a Bachelor of Science degree.
|EA & ENTERPRISE TRANSFORMATION - Host: Judith Jones, CEO, Architecting-the-Enterprise Limited, UK
|TOGAF® 9 Tutorials
Establishing Value Driven EA as the Enterprise Embarks on TransformationMadhav Naidu, Lead Enterprise Architect, Ciena Corp., US
Ciena Corporation offers leading network infrastructure solutions, intelligent software and a comprehensive services for software-centric optical and Ethernet platforms. Ciena's solutions form the foundation of many of the largest, most reliable and sophisticated service provider, enterprise, government, and research and education networks across the globe. Recently, Ciena has acquired a large portion of Nortel and integrated the businesses. As part of that effort to take the organization to the next level of maturity, an Enterprise Architecture charter has been started.
Ciena's EA team has adapted best aspects from many EA frameworks to form the core EA practice, predominantly from TOGAF®. As we established EA, we have been conciously careful in adapting value driven EA practices while delivering quick wins for the organization.
This presentation is about:
This is a journey and we learned a lot!
Madhav Naidu is a lead Enterprise Architect with Ciena and Mark temple is the Chief Architect. Both of them have been working together to setup architecture practice and have been driving the Enterprise Architecture work. Madhav has 20 years of IT experience working for companies like Oracle, IBM, Nationwide et all and is Open Group Certified Master IT Architect. Mark Temple has years of experience in the auto industry and has been the key IT person for Ciena
Enterprise Architecture Education & Research in the U.S.: ROI, Value Measurement, and Best Practices for the EnterpriseBrian Cameron, Executive Director, Center for Enterprise Architecture, Pennsylvania State University, US
The College of Information Sciences and Technology (IST) at The Pennsylvania State University is embarking on several ground breaking educational initiatives in enterprise architecture (EA) that will provide measurable value to enterprises and significantly support IT executives (CIOs, CTOs, VPs) valuation proposition to the enterprise and enhance innovation, agility, growth targets for CEOs.
Enterprise architecture is emerging as a critical discipline within industry but higher education has been slow to create educational programs to support enterprises and their senior executives to address this growing area of importance. In response to feedback from corporate and government stakeholders, the College of IST is planning the following EA related initiatives:
In this session, Dr. Cameron will discuss:
Brian Cameron is Executive Director of the Center for Enterprise Architecture in the College of Information Sciences and Technology at the Pennsylvania State University. Within the College of Information Sciences and Technology, he works with a wide portfolio of companies on a variety of consulting engagements, ranging from systems integration projects to enterprise architecture planning and design. Through his academic work, Cameron has consulted with organizations such as Avaya, AT&T Wireless, Raytheon, Accenture, Oracle, EMC Corp., NSA, U.S. Marine Corps, The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation, and many others. His primary research and consulting interests include enterprise architecture, enterprise systems integration, information management and storage, and the use of simulations and gaming in education. The main focus areas for his teaching efforts are on senior-level capstone enterprise integration, enterprise architecture, and information technology consulting & storage architecture courses.
Dr. Cameron is currently developing new curricular materials for enterprise integration (through funding from NSF) including a textbook to be published by Wiley & Sons Publishing. He has also designed and taught executive education sessions for senior IT executives. Session topics include Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), Business Process Management (BPM), Strategic Alignment of IT & Business Strategies, IT Governance, and IT Portfolio Management.
Dr. Cameron is TOGAF and Zachman certified and has developed an extensive background in the DoDAF, FEAF, and Gartner frameworks. He is a member of the Board of Trustees for the Center for the Advancement of the Enterprise Architecture Profession and Business Architecture Guild, the founding president of the Federation of Enterprise Architecture Professional Organizations, a Co-chair of the Academic Alliance Committee for the Special Interest Group on Enterprise Architecture for the Industry Advisory Council of the US Federal Government, and a member of the editorial review boards for the Journal of Enterprise Architecture, the International Journal on Cyber Behavior, Psychology, and Learning, the Interdisciplinary Journal of Information, Knowledge, and Management, the Journal of Information Systems Education, and the International Journal on E-Learning.
Dr. Cameron currently leads corporately funded research efforts in the following areas: service-oriented architecture and business process modeling, risk analysis and management of enterprise systems integration projects, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) implementation best practices, enterprise storage & information management architecture design, and performance measurement for Enterprise Architecture.
Extending the TOGAF® 9 Content MetamodelWilliam Estrem, President, Metaplexity Associates LLC, US & Marc Walker, Enterprise Architect & Analyst, BT
The TOGAF® core content metamodel provides a basic set of concepts to support architectural design and development. If this basic set is not sufficiently expressive, then the core metamodel can be enhanced by adding extensions. TOGAF® 9 provides several example metamodel extensions. It is possible to define other custom metamodel extensions to support specialized modeling.
This presentation will demonstrate how to define and validate a metamodel extension using EA modeling tools.
Bill Estrem is the President of Metaplexity Associates LLC. He is a past chair of the Architecture Forum and chairman of the Modeling and terminology committee in the Forum. He has also served a two year term on The Open Group board of Governors.
Marc Walker is an Enterprise Architect and Analyst working for BT plc. His experience over the last twenty years spans a range of sectors including Oil & Gas, Health, Finance, Government and Media & Publishing. Marc specialises in information management and specifically strategic development, service management and business transformation and the application of business informatics and semantics. He has been involved with the Open Group for nearly 5 years with a focus on the conceptual modelling and terminology aspects of TOGAF.
Open Systems Dependability: A New Approach to Attain Dependability of Ever-Changing Huge and Complex Software SystemsMario Tokoro, Chairman / CEO, Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Inc. & Yutaka Matsuno, University of Tokyo
Today, most of the social infrastructures and businesses are supported by huge and complex software systems that must be dependable to provide sustainable services. These systems are often mutually connected by networks, and revised due to changes in business objectives, users' requirements, and technological innovations; hence, attainment of dependability becomes more difficult. It is almost impossible to treat such a system as a closed system whose functions and boundaries are fixed but as an open system whose functions and boundaries are changing all the time.
In this speech, a new approach to attain dependability of huge and complex ever-changing software systems is discussed and the notion of Open Systems Dependability is presented. Then, the DEOS process that integrates processes for development, operation, and continuous revision is given with the architecture which realizes the system. A panel discussion follows this presentation.
Mario Tokoro, Chairman and CEO, Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Inc., is the research supervisor of the DEOS project (http://www.dependable-os.net/index-e.html) funded by Japan Science and Technology Agency. He isCo-Founder of Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Inc. (http://www.sonycsl.co.jp/en/). Hewas SVP of Sony Corporation and served as CTO. He promoted a common software platform for the consumer electronics products and established CELF (Consumer Electronics Linux Forum), which was then absorbed into Linux Foundation to form the CELF workgroup. Before joining Sony Corporation, he was Professor of Computer Science at Keio University, and held visiting positions at University of Waterloo, Carnegie-Mellon University, GMD, and University of Paris VI.
Dr Yutaka Matsuno is Project Lecturer in University of Tokyo, currently involved in DEOS project. He got a Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of Tokyo in 2006. Currently he is interested in assurance cases, and leading D-Case team in DEOS project.
Utilizing Architecture Methods to Solve Common IT Transformation PitfallsJonathan Gibson, Distinguished Technologist; & Jaye Hicks, DSE, HP Enterprise Services - Architects Office
IT service provider's core business is to transform and/or operate Information Technology (IT) concerns for large global entities. Most IT transformations can be assigned to one of a handful of categories: "Lift and Shift (Run Your Mess for Less)", "Standard", "By the Drink", and "Hybrid." With "Lift and Shift" transformations, the IT service provider runs the client's IT operations "as is" without significant refactoring or adjustments. In some cases entire data centers, personnel as well as assets, are transitioned to the IT service provider.
In a "Standard" transformation the IT service provider leads the client through major IT and/or business operations change, refactoring client's IT with a focus on modernization and/or cost reduction (requires significant capital investment). "By the Drink" transformations require the client to shift away from a dedicated/owned IT paradigm to a usage based or consumption based model. The IT service provider owns the IT assets and charges the client for usage. This minimizes capital expense and moves the client away from capital expenses towards operational expenses.
A "Hybrid" transformation incorporates elements from two or more transformation categories. Regardless of type, IT transformations are large, complex, expensive endeavors that all too often go wrong. However, proactively recognizing and mitigating the most prevalent and detrimental pitfalls inherent with IT transformations can significantly increase the chance of a successful outcome.
This abstract addresses the most significant potential IT transformation pitfalls via the Lightweight Enterprise Architecture Process (LEAP). LEAP is succinct, employs real-world/intuitive terminology, and shares TOGAF®'s metamodel so that artifacts can flow easily between TOGAF and LEAP. LEAP's straightforward organization, economic size, and intuitive terminology make it ideal for any number of situations/organizations such as pre-sales, sales, operations, executive stakeholder interaction, contract renegotiation, project start up, inter organizational working sessions, etc.
Jonathan Gibson, as an HP Distinguished Technologist, ITAC Level 2 certified architect, TOGAF® certified and a licensed Professional Engineer with the Discipline in Software Engineering from the State of Texas has been in the Information Technology (IT) industry since 1985. With more than 25 years of client facing experience across several industries (Transportation, Manufacturing, Energy, Healthcare, Government), Jonathan consistently architects and implements technical solutions with significant lasting business impact for his clients. He grasps his client's business needs, formulates appropriate strategies and executes to produce positive business value.
Jonathan succeeds by combining his Masters degree in business, his formal engineering training, and his account and corporate experience. Jonathan's background includes Enterprise Architecture, Software Engineering, Portfolio Development & Management, Intellectual Property Management, Research & Development and Technology Commercialization. Jonathan's acumen for business, passion for technology and ability to work with people has resulted in a broad set of contributions to his clients, the corporation, and society.
Jaye Hicks. Within 27 years of IT experience, Jaye has been engaged in enterprise architecture for the past 14 years. He has worked for several companies spanning multiple industries. For the last 19 years Jaye has worked in a professional servicesorganization (HP's Enterprise Services formerly known as EDS) where he has not only delivered enterprise architecture to clients but has also delivered innovative internal solutions (deployed across the corporation) for process management, knowledge management, technology trending, client satisfaction dashboarding, and intellectual capital management. He has always been heavily involved in his company's architectural community (e.g. developing and delivering architectural training courses). Jaye is an Open Group certified architect and earned a master's degree in computer science from Texas A&M University, with supporting concentration in electrical engineering.
How to Improve Productivity of Highly Mobile and Global Architecture Groups - an IBM Case StudyMark Palmer, IBM Distinguished Engineer & Gwen Murphy, manager, IBM BT/CIO Enter. Architecture & Govern. Org
Members of The Open Group will know IBM as a very large IT services/software/hardware company but IBM is also a very large manufacturing & distribution company, with over 400, 000 employees and operations all over the world. IBM's CIO organization is responsible for the systems which keep this running. The CIO organization has architects, including Enterprise Architects, all over the world. Keeping this team productive and consistent has been challenging.
This session will
Mark Palmer is an IBM Distinguished Engineer, member of the IBM Academy of Technology and co-author of Team Solution Design, the methodology used world-wide by IBM. Mark will be joined by Gwen Murphy, manager of IBM's BT/CIO Enterprise Architecture and Governance Organization, chartered with simplifying, maturing and reinventing the way architects collaborate to support IBM's operations.
Gwen Murphy, manager of IBM's BT/CIO Enterprise Architecture and Governance Organization, chartered with simplifying, maturing and reinventing the way architects collaborate to support IBM's operations.
TOGAF 9.1 Briefing - The Best Just Got (a Little Bit) BetterMike Lambert, CTO, Architecting the Enterprise Ltd., UK
This tutorial will provide an overview of the changes introduced in the latest version of TOGAF®, launched in December 2011, focussing on
Mike Lambert was CTO of The Open Group. He is a Fellow of The Open Group CTO and Principle Instructor for Architecting the Enterprise He is also an active member of the group that developed TOGAF 9.1
Open Systems Dependability: A New Approach to Attain Dependability of Ever-Changing Huge and Complex Software SystemsDr Mario Tokoro, President Sony R&D; Dr Yutaka Matsuno, University of Tokyo
Today, most of the social infrastructures and businesses are supported by huge and complex software systems that must be dependable to provide sustainable services. These systems are often mutually connected by networks, and revised due to changes in business objectives, users' requirements, and technological innovations; hence, attainment of dependability becomes more difficult. It is almost impossible to treat such a system as a closed system whose functions and boundaries are fixed but as an open system whose functions and boundaries are changing all the time.
In this speech, a new approach to attain dependability of huge and complex ever-changing software systems is discussed and the notion of Open Systems Dependability is presented. Then, the DEOS process that integrates processes for development, operation, and continuous revision is given with the architecture which realizes the system. A panel discussion follows this presentation.
Mario Tokoro, Chairman and CEO, Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Inc., is the research supervisor of the DEOS project (http://www.dependable-os.net/index-e.html) funded by Japan Science and Technology Agency. He isCo-Founder of Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Inc. (http://www.sonycsl.co.jp/en/). Hewas SVP of Sony Corporation and served as CTO. He promoted a common software platform for the consumer electronics products and established CELF (Consumer Electronics Linux Forum), which was then absorbed into Linux Foundation to form the CELF workgroup. Before joining Sony Corporation, he was Professor of Computer Science at Keio University, and held visiting positions at University of Waterloo, Carnegie-Mellon University, GMD, and University of Paris VI.
Dr Yutaka Matsuno is Project Lecturer in University of Tokyo, currently involved in DEOS project. He got a Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of Tokyo in 2006. Currently he is interested in assurance cases, and leading D-Case team in DEOS project.
Enterprise Portfolio Management: The Strategic Role of EA in Enterprise TransformationsDan Belville, Senior Practice Director, Troux Technologies, US
From the Cloud to Mobile to IT consumerization, the opportunities for Enterprise Architects to lead has never been greater. While they need to embrace a new level of knowledge and provide accurate insights within and between key business and IT portfolios, they also need the ability to turn IT chaos into IT harmony. As such, Enterprise Portfolio Management must take on a new urgency in today's business world where the need for structuring for maximum business and IT agility is greater than ever.
In this presentation, we will explore what every EA must do about the new portfolio optimization opportunities and how to improve your portfolio on a sustainable basis. By recognizing that the portfolios are interlinked and agreeing on what must be tackled, the business can raise its expectations of the EA team.
Dan Belville, Senior Practice Director - centers on practice direction for Troux Implementations, with a key emphasis on a business-focused value driven approach. Dan has more than 26 years of experience in the computer industry with broad operational experience including operations, development, architecture (business and technology), sales, and professional services. While at EDS Dan held a title of Enterprise Architecture and during Dan's time with Troux, he has provided consultative expertise with many customers in various industries. Dan also lead the design and development of the Troux for TOGAF® module. Dan received his degree in data processing from Baker Business College and holds two US patents.
Implementing Capabilities Within an Architecture PracticeMike Jacobs, Director & Principal Architect, OptumInsight
There has been much discussion within the architecture community on the benefits of using capability based planning in EA practices. Unfortunately, much of this discussion remains at the conceptual level, rather than advice on applying it to the real world.
This presentation describes a practical framework for capability-based architecture development to drive enterprise transformation. We describe the approach applied within the architecture practice of OptumInsight, and include a high level overview of our processes, artifacts and real world experiences.
Mike Jacobs is an experienced, pragmatic software professional with proven technical, business, and management experience. Strong, effective and natural leadership and communication skills to influence without authority across organizations. Proven track record of successful implementations in multiple industries and technologies.
Latin America Enterprise Transformation with TOGAF®Leonardo Ramirez, EA Iberoamerica Practice Director, Dux Diligens, Colombia
Synopsis (TBC)
Leonardo Ramirez, EA Iberoamerica Practice Director, Dux Diligens, Colombia. Leonardo Ramirez is a trusted Enterprise Architect with 15 years of successful experience applying Enterprise architecture, Industry Reference Models, SOA and Ontology Coaching to develop effective Business - IT Aligment Projects. He is Chair of the AOGEA Chapter, Colombia,EA Iberoamerican Practice Manager Director at Dux Diligens in Spain, Mexico, Argentina and Colombia as well as He is Chair of Dux Diligens Colombia.
He has the skills to lead end-to-end implementations with effective leadership, define customer business directions, create solutions, integrate market trends and industry point of view on customer environment, going from assesments and business cases to final executive presentations to articulate IT portfolio into business strategy.
Leonardo has experience in defining IT strategies and roadmaps, Application Portfolio Analysys, SOA strategies and Roadmaps, Process mapping using Industry Reference Models, Enterprise Architecture and cost-benefit cases for business-it converging conversations.
He has been traveling around the world from America to Asia sharing a vision of changing conversation with business with lectures to IT teams to focus on business value, instead of working isolated high-tech projects.He has been working and developing a Retail and Banking Model that improves Business IT Alignment using TOGAF, ARTS and SOA.
Panel Discussion - DEOS/Open Systems Dependability
The DEOS process architecture contains two cycles:
By these two cycles, the DEOS process helps the stakeholders to achieve accountability. Its assumption is that no system can be designed to be 100 per cent free of faults; so why not design a system from the beginning that is easier in fault mitigation?
This panel is assembled to discuss and field questions concerning the DEOS system and its implications for Dependability, including the D-Case tool. DEOS consists of both an architectural design philosophy and a run-time infrastructure to support that architecture. The panel will be elaborating on DEOS' potential to solve Dependability problems when standard techniques, such as Formal Methods, are not feasible or applicable, or simply need supplementation.
Building an Enterprise Architecture Practice Foundation for Enterprise Transformation ExecutionFrank Chen, Senior Manager & Principal Enterprise Architect, Cognizant, US
A company needs to transform itself successfully beforeit can compete to win at a next business level or in a new business landscape. However, quite some of companies are not able to transform themselves successfully after spending millions or billions of dollars. Last year, Blockbuster's transformation failure made it bankrupt. This year, Yahoo's another transformation attempt failed, which cost it billions of dollars from its market value and its CEO's job. People are still watching Microsoft, whose transformation has not been successful yet.
Although each company has its own various challenges in its enterprise transformation, there is a core competency required for any company who wants to transform enterprise successfully:a solid enterprise architecture practice foundation based enterprise transformation execution.
These questions will be answered in the presentation. A case discussion will show how a fortune 500 company built an enterprise architecture practice foundation for a global e-business enterprise transformation execution. Note: This presentation is highly related to EA & Enterprise Transformation.
As a senior manager and principal enterprise architect at Cognizant, Xijia(Frank) Chen provides technology/strategy/management leaderships and solutions for Fortune 500 companies across various industries internationally to help them win in the present competition and lead to the future. A TOGAF and Sun Certified Enterprise Architect with MBA from USC and Masters in Computer Science from LTU.
Gaining and Retaining Stakeholder Buy-in: The Key to a Successful EA PracticeRuss Gibfried, Enterprise Architect, CareFusion Corporation, US
Despite tremendous potential for EA to provide value to organizations and contribute to the goals of all stakeholders, many EA practices are disbanded within two years of operation after losing key IT and Business stakeholder support. Stakeholders often cite confusion on EA's purpose and continued role. What went wrong?
This session takes a hands-on look at the challenges of starting an EA practice and real life tips and tricks necessary for maintaining critical stakeholder support. To be successful, an EA practice must employ a strong framework and processes, but there are often on the ground realities required to keep stakeholders informed and supportive of the EA directive.
Russ Gibfried is a TOGAF® certified Enterprise Architect at CareFusion Corporation, a global medical technology company, where he has been instrumental in defining and maturing CareFusion's EA practice. As an architect, Mr. Gibfried's focus has been defining the enterprise architecture processes, frameworks and viewpoints related to business collaboration, identity infrastructure and cloud integration patterns.
Prior to CareFusion, Mr. Gibfried was an architect at SAIC where he focused on a wide variety of corporate IT initiatives. His expertise covers a range of technologies and development programs where he has worked with such clients such as Microsoft, HP, Turner Broadcasting, Disney and various financial institutions.
A Tangible Implementation of TOGAF® Building BlocksKyle Gabhart, Director of Architecture, Architecture Mentors, a Division of Web Age Solutions, US
Synopsis (TBC)
Kyle Gabhart, Director of Architecture, Architecture Mentors, a Division of Web Age Solutions, US
Policy Enforcement Using A Mils™ ArchitectureDylan McNamee, Galois
Synopsis (TBC)
Dylan McNamee, Galois
Business Innovators Lead IT Innovation - What Does This Mean For EA?Stuart Boardman, Senior Business Consultant, KPN Consulting, Netherlands
The adoption of new and emerging applications of information technology is being led by the business rather than the IT department. Those applications in turn are changing how organizations carry out their business. The IT department is typically not the source of those applications and is often not even involved in their adoption and management.
So while information technology plays an increasing role in business innovation, those responsible for technology management in the organization are left behind.
This presentation examines the new developments, their role in business architecture and the responses available to enterprise architects. It illustrates some relevant techniques from other disciplines and tries to provide some answers using case studies of effective and useful responses.
Stuart Boardman has been involved in IT for more than 25 years but still likes to regard himself as an outsider. As a business consultant for KPN Consulting he co-leads both the EA and Cloud practices. He is also co-chair of The Open Group "Security for the Cloud and SOA" project. Currently he's learning a lot from his new challenge as the enterprise architect for a large outsourcing engagement. In his spare time Stuart plays music (his original professional ambition), runs and tries not to get too upset about the state of the world.
Zen and The Art of Modern Enterprise Architecture - Rethinking the MessAlan Hakimi, Senior Enterprise Architect, Enterprise Strategy Services, Microsoft
This is an unconventional session for the unconventional architect. This session is intended for enterprise architects who want to understand the nature of architecture itself by understanding the philosophy of systems and how it can be applied in the context of a modern enterprise.
Problem solving by thinking about the "enterprise as a system" has The modern enterprise has imperatives of interdependency, the necessity of reducing endless complexity, and the need to produce manageable simplicities requires a pragmatic system thinking methodology that guides decision making and business value realization.
The discipline of system thinking allow for us to analyse the "mess" bylooking holistically using analysis and synthesis. The speaker
By balancing enterprise architecture goals areound operational goverance and business enablement will help these ideas converge and resonate as a whole, and will be profoundly more elegant than any one concept in isolation. This journey will be difficult, but rewarding.
Alan Hakimi, Senior Enterprise Architect, Enterprise Strategy Services, Microsoft
Successfully Implementing EA with TOGAF® and ArchiMate®Henry Franken, CEO, BiZZdesign, Netherlands
A complete approach to Enterprise Architecture (EA) requires:
TOGAF® 9, an Open Group standard, is the defacto global standard for Enterprise Architecture. It is used by the world's leading organizations to improve business efficiency. ArchiMate®, an open and independent modelling language for enterprise architecture, provides instruments to enable enterprise architects to describe, analyze and visualize the relationships among business domains in an unambiguous way. It is supported by different tool vendors and consulting firms.
Just as an architectural drawing in classical building architecture describes the various aspects of the construction and use of a building, ArchiMate offers a common language for describing the construction and operation of business processes, organizational structures, information flows, IT systems, and technical infrastructure. This insight helps stakeholders to design, assess, and communicate the consequences of decisions and changes within and between these business domains. standard is the leading language for integrated EA modelling, describing the business, application and technology layers and their relationships. In a recent update of the language, two extensions have been added for modelling the motivation for the architecture (e.g., goals, principles and business requirements) and implementation and migration planning.
Based on a comprehensive case study of application portfolio rationalization in a post-merger insurance company, this presentation will show how ArchiMate is used with TOGAF to improve business efficiency.
Key takeaways:
Henry Franken is chair of the ArchiMate Forum at The Open Group. Henry is co-founder of the BPM Forum Netherlands. He has co-authored several international publications and Open Group white papers.
At BiZZdesign, Henry is responsible for research and innovation. Alignment with and contribution to open standards are key. BiZZdesign has contributed to and edited the ArchiMate 2 specification. BiZZdesign is involved in the workgroup working towards the next version of TOGAF® and its alignment with ArchiMate®.
BiZZdesign offers native tooling, consultancy and training for TOGAF and ArchiMate. BiZZdesign offers complete and integrated solutions (tools, methods, consultancy and training) to design and improve organizations. Enterprise architecture, business requirements management and process business analysis and management are important ingredients in the solutions.
Assurance Cases/Templates/PatternsEd Roberts, Elparazim
Assurance Cases (aka Dependability Cases) have in recent years been used to formally describe the arguments used to "prove" that a system is in some way assured, e.g. that the "system is safe" or "system is reliable".
This talk will describe what Assurance Cases are and how they arose, the technology, models, and tools behind them, and the different ways one goes about designing an Assurance Case for a particular system. The talk will conclude with a discussion of some of the recent work on Assurance Cases in the Real-Time Embedded System Forum of The Open Group.
Ed Roberts, Elparazim
Death of IT; Rise Of The MachinesMans Bhuller, Senior Director, Oracle Corporation, US
Corporate IT departments are doomed. So much money poors into IT will terrible returns for the business. This cannot continue! Just as the industrial revolution changed how people worked, the same automation and industrialization of IT is dramatically changing the IT landscape. The modern IT architect needs to understand and channel these needs. For many customers having a data center at all is pointless and building your own computing environments is passé.
This presentation will outline the new world order and how to architect modern architectures.
Mans Bhuller is a key contributor to the Oracle Enterprise Architect programme, Mans often finds himself at the forefront of disruptive technology. With over two decades of solid architectural foundation under his belt he continues to help customers transform themselves through Enterprise Architecture and standards
The Virtual Enterprise Architecture TeamNicholas Hill, Infosys, US; and Musharaf Mughal, Director of EA, Manulife Financials, Canada
As companies commit to the discipline of enterprise architecture, and business solution delivery excellence, they quickly understand that propagation of architecture discipline creates a capacity challenge for architecture expertise. The VEAT model provides for on-demand as well as planned leverage of external architecture resources that are practiced and knowledgeable of the culture of architecture (strategic or delivery oriented)within the target organization. As such, Manulife has partnered with Infosys to make VEAT a viable model to deal with the capacity constraints needed to provision architecture expertise and discipline, at the right time, right place and cost to preclude missteps due to variation in demand and to ensure that the architecture mandate can be accomplished.
Musharaf Mughal is Director, Enterprise Architecture at Manulife Financial's Canadian Division (CTO). He has over 25 years experience in IT and Information Management and has held senior IT roles in Financial Services, Life & General Insurance and high-tech organisations, specialising in IT Operations, Service Delivery, Application Management and Strategic Planning.
Musharaf holds a BA degree from Wilfrid Laurier University (English), with a Diploma in Business Administration (also from Wilfrid Laurier). He also holds ITIL, CobiT and TOFGAF certifications, as well as numerous vendor technology certifications.
Nicholas Hill has over 30 years in IT industry and has been with Infosys over the past 3 years. Nicholas is TOGAF certified and has worked with numerous Fortune 500 companies to help them establish strategies, roadmaps and transformation initiatives to continually evolve their technology platforms in concert with business strategies and emerging technology trends.
Implementing ArchiMate with ACORDIver Band, Enterprise Architect, Standard Insurance Co. & Cliff Chaney, Senior Architect, ACORD
A working group (WG) within The Open Group ArchiMate Forum has been collaborating with ACORD, the predominant data standards body for the global insurance industry. The WG is integrating TOGAF®, ArchiMate and ACORD to create a unified approach for enterprise architecture practitioners. Here, the WG presents its work with ACORD including an insurance case study and previews a forthcoming White Paper.
Iver Band chairs the Open Group ArchiMate Forum Working Group on Insurance Industry Reference Models and is an enterprise architect at Standard Insurance Company. Earlier, he was a security architect and researcher at HP, where he led development of a patented method for network security management. Iver has been a CISSP since 2005.
Cliff Chaney is a Senior Architect with ACORD focused on technological initiatives such as the ACORD Framework and directing the Component Model development. Previously, Cliff served as Program Director for Life & Annuity, directing the development and maintenance efforts for ACORD's Life, Annuity & Health Standard. Prior to his elevation to Program Director, he served as a technical architect for the program, providing training and technical support of implementations. He continues to enhance and refine the standard by facilitating Working Group sessions and utilizing project management skills to develop and refine member deliverables. Cliff has 20 years of experience in insurance technology, and ten years in the development and managing of Illustration Software, Carrier Web Sites and related agent field technologies.
Assurance Cases/Templates/Patterns
Assurance Cases (aka Dependability Cases) have in recent years been used to formally describe the arguments used to "prove" that a system is in some way assured, e.g. that the "system is safe" or "system is reliable".
This talk will describe what Assurance Cases are and how they arose, the technology, models, and tools behind them, and the different ways one goes about designing an Assurance Case for a particular system. The talk will conclude with a discussion of some of the recent work on Assurance Cases in the Real-Time Embedded System Forum of The Open Group.
Ed Roberts, Elparazim
Learning Lab – Interact and Learn
Learning Lab consists of short, informal, interactive sessions offered in continuous, simultaneous 15-minute talks. Topics include:
|Networking Reception
Tuesday January 31
Conference sessions run from January 30- February 1. Meetings for members only are scheduled on February 2-3. For details of the latter, go to Member Meetings
|Tuesday, January 31
|ENTERPRISE TRANSFORMATION -- Keynote Presentations
|Welcome & Address Keynote:
Enterprise Transformation and the Role of Open StandardsAllen Brown, President & CEO, The Open Group
Enterprise Transformation and the Role of Open Standards
Enterprise transformation seems to be gathering momentum within the enterprise architecture community. The term, enterprise transformation, suggests the process of fundamentally changing an enterprise. Sometimes the transformation is dramatic but for most of us it is a steady process.
Key takeaways:
Allen Brown, President and CEO, The Open Group
Allen Brown is President and CEO, The Open Group – a global consortium that enables the achievement of business objectives through IT standards. He is also President of the Association of Enterprise Architects (AEA).
For over 10 years Allen has been responsible for driving The Open Group's strategic plan and day-to-day operations, including extending its reach into new global markets, such as China, the Middle East, South Africa and India. In addition, he was instrumental in the creation of the AEA, which was formed to increase job opportunities for all of its members and elevate their market value by advancing professional excellence.
Prior to joining The Open Group, Allen Brown held a range of senior financial and general management roles both within his own consulting firm, which he founded in 1987, and other multi-national organizations.
Enterprise Transformation: An Architecture-Based ApproachWilliam Rouse, Executive Director, Tennenbaum Institute at Georgia Institute of Technology
An enterprise can be represented in terms of the architecture whereby it delivers value to it's markets or constituencies. This architecture can be of several forms. A hybrid of SOA, DODAF, and other off-the-shelf alternatives can represent the operational, systems, and technical levels of how an enterprise delivers products and services. In contrast, a socio-technical architecture depicts how people interact with processes carried out by organizations that exist in an ecosystem that establishes the rules of the game. The former determines how information flows; the latter defines the incentive and rewards system.
This presentation will elaborate two themes.
Bill Rouse is the Executive Director of the Tennenbaum Institute at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is also a professor in the College of Computing and School of Industrial and Systems Engineering. His research focuses on understanding and managing complex public-private systems such as healthcare, energy and defense, with emphasis on mathematical and computational modeling of these systems for the purpose of policy design and analysis.
Rouse has written hundreds of articles and book chapters, and has authored many books, including most recently Economic Systems Analysis and Assessment (Wiley, 2011), People and Organizations: Explorations of Human-Centered Design (Wiley, 2007), Essential Challenges of Strategic Management (Wiley, 2001) and the award-winning Don't Jump to Solutions (Jossey-Bass, 1998). He has edited or co-edited numerous books including Engineering the System of Healthcare Delivery (IOS Press, 2010), The Economics of Human Systems Integration (Wiley, 2010), Enterprise Transformation: Understanding and Enabling Fundamental Change (Wiley, 2006), Organizational Simulation: From Modeling & Simulation to Games & Entertainment (Wiley, 2005), the best-selling Handbook of Systems Engineering and Management (Wiley, 1999, 2009), and the eight-volume series Human/Technology Interaction in Complex Systems (Elsevier).
Among many advisory roles, he has served as Chair of the Committee on Human Factors of the National Research Council, a member of the U.S. Air Force Scientific Advisory Board, and a member of the DoD Senior Advisory Group on Modeling and Simulation. Rouse is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and has been elected a fellow of four professional societies -- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE), the Institute for Operations Research and Management Science (INFORMS), and the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES).
Case Study: Continuing Devon's EA Journey - Evolving Toward InnovationTim Barnes, Chief Architect, Devon Energy
Devon Energy is one of North America's leading independent producers of oil and natural gas. Devon has undergone profound growth from just $706 million in revenue in 1998 to $9.9 billion in 2010 following numerous mergers and acquisitions. As a result of these acquisitions, Devon's systems were very complex, which had become a barrier, impacting business growth and driving excessive IT costs. Tim Barnes was chartered by Devon leadership in March 2009 to develop an enterprise architecture (EA) discipline for the company and leverage the EA process to reduce unnecessary complexity, help streamline the business and lower IT costs.
In July 2011, at the Open Group conference in Austin, Texas, Tim presented the Case Study, "Using EA to build a bridge between business and IT to reduce unnecessary complexity." He shared his hands-on experience and the keys to Devon's success.
In this presentation, Tim will continue Devon's story, which has evolved toward innovation, and will speak on the following:.
Tim Barnes, PMP, is a business-savvy, results-oriented IT professional with more than 18 years of experience across various industries. Tim has served as Chief Architect at Devon Energy since March 2009; in August 2011, Tim also assumed responsibility of the Innovation Function. Prior to his current role, Tim led Devon's Enterprise Integration Practice with a focus on event-driven architecture and business process automation. Prior to Devon, Tim had a successful consulting career where he led major projects and programs for both Accenture and Deloitte. Tim has also presented at seven different summits, one of them an Open Group summit; he has also received awards for his thought leadership.
What You're Up Against: Mobsters, Nation-States and Blurry LinesJoseph Menn, author and cybersecurity correspondent for the Financial Times
Veteran cyber-security journalist Joseph Menn, author of "Fatal System Error: The Hunt for the New Crime Lords who are Bringing Down the Internet", will speak about the increasing evidence of collaboration between some governments and organised cybercriminals.
Though definitive attribution remains challenging, research is showing that some of the same software, techniques and individuals deployed in economic cyber-attacks are also being used in campaigns that have no obvious financial motive but serve the political objectives of various nations. Events in recent years suggest that nations are deliberately aligning with underground cybergangs and may be protecting them as they would other local industries with strategic value. Fatal System Error, published in 2010 by Public Affairs, showed that some of the West's most sought-after criminal hackers, including a former head of the original international crime forum CarderPlanet, were protected by Russian Federal Security Service, or FSB.
Investigative journalism that reads like a thriller, Fatal System Error became a bestseller and was placed on the official reading list of the US Strategic Command. At the Financial Times, Menn has continued to break stories on cybercrime and cyberwarfare. In this talk, he will discuss additional area where criminal enterprises and government activity overlap, including use of criminal hosting operations for political denial of service attacks and hacktivism.
Joseph Menn is the author of "Fatal System Error: The Hunt for the New Crime Lords who are Bringing Down the Internet" and the cybersecurity correspondent for the Financial Times. He has covered security since 1999, for the FT and before that for the Los Angeles Times, mostly from San Francisco. Fatal System Error is his third book. He also wrote "All the Rave: The Rise and Fall of Shawn Fanning's Napster," which was named one of the three best books of 2003 by Investigative Reporters and Editors Inc.
Menn has won two "Best in Business" awards from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers and has been a two-time finalist for the Loeb Awards for business reporting. He previously worked for Bloomberg News and the Charlotte Observer after graduating from Harvard College. Fatal System Error has been influential in Washington, translated into Japanese, Chinese and Korean, and been widely praised by publications from Business Week, the Guardian and the New Yorker, which compared it to the novels of Stieg Larsson.
Menn has spoken at RSA, DefCon and Black Hat DC, industry gatherings in England, Canada, Australia and Spain, and training sessions convened by US bank regulators and federal law enforcement.
CONVERGENCE!! Business ArchitectureShatender Singh and Madhav Madaboosi, BP Plc., US
The Open Group has determined that Business Architecture is a critical input into the decision making for an Enterprise. This presentation will outline BP's Business Architecture methodology and will also provide a case study. BP's varied and global business processes required the convergence of siloed business architectures to meet a simplification agenda.
Shatender Singh is Sr. Functional Architect at BP Plc. Shatender has been working on end to end Functional Architecture process and solutions with SAP software for the past 20 years.
Madhav Madaboosi works in the Strategy & Architecture group for Enterprise Systems at BP Plc. Madhav's current emphasis is in SAP strategy and roadmaps for BP's Businesses.
The Open Group Security Survey ResultsJim Hietala, The Open Group
Synopsis (TBC)
Jim Hietala, CISSP, GSEC, is Vice President, Security for The Open Group, where he manages all security and risk management programs and standards activities, including the Security Forum and the Jericho Forum. He has participated in the development of several industry standards including O-ISM3, and O-ACEML. He also led the development of compliance and audit guidance for the Cloud Security Alliance v2 publication.
Jim is a frequent speaker at industry conferences. He participates in the SANS Analyst/Expert program, having written several research whitepapers and participated in several webcasts for SANS. He has alsopublished numerous articles on information security, risk management, and compliance topics in publications including CSO, The ISSA Journal, Bank Accounting & Finance, Risk Factor, SC Magazine, and others.
An IT security industry veteran, he has held leadership roles at several IT security vendors, including ControlPath, Alternative Technologies, eSoft, Qwest, Concentric Network, and Digital Pathways.
Jim holds a B.S. in Marketing from Southern Illinois University.
SOA a Recipe for the Agile EnterpriseHans Schoebach, HDS Enterprise Consulting, Canada
IT departments have emerged from an internal company service provider to a strategic business driver. To fullfill this role it has to adapt to changes induced by market demand and regulations that are changing more rapidly than ever in a global market place.
This has a profound impact on the lifecycle of IT solutions that automate the business processes of the enterprise. SOA has long been misconceived as an "easy" solution for the integration of existing and new applications on heterogeneous platforms. This misconception has led to many failed projects and discredited the concepts behind SOA.
Well suited for business process modelling it opens possibilities for an agile approach by designing the business function contracts (Interface Descriptions) in close cooperation with business users and stakeholders. This is supported by graphical design tools like Business Process Modelling Notation (BPMN) editors that enable a clear communication between business and development teams.
The business functions or composite services delegate execution to lower level services by "componentizing" them into more granular service components. The business service layer is exposed as an endpoint via an orchestration service that controls the message and execution flow via interaction with the lower level services. This business process layer is decoupled from the implementation layer via precisely defined interface definitions, enabling a close collaboration between business and implementation teams. This is where a contemporary SOA shines.
SOA is message based and all about loosely coupling of application functions that can act as autonomous, stateless and independent units interacting via messages. This can be achieved by defining a concise business interface layer that is independent of the application interfaces (API) and their implementations. This business interface layer relates directly to the Enterprise Architecture (EA) viewpoints of the business architecture, data architecture and application architecture. This enables direct collaboration between business stakeholders and IT implementation teams. The realization of the business layer is achieved via an orchestration service, that can be implemented via a domain specific language such as BPEL, the Business Process Execution Language, which can be represented as graphical process flow diagrams. These diagrams depict the business process and thus improve communication and collaboration with business teams significantly. Combining these clearly defined business interfaces to create composite applications that are controlled and executed by the orchestration service with the capability to inject new business functionality on the fly via registering new services with the SOA framework further supports the agility of development and deployment.
The agility aspect of SOA comes mainly as a function of decoupled core business functions and the possible direct business user participation in the interface contract definitions. Because of this the adaptation of IT functions to support rapidly changing business processes can be achieved in sync with the demand from evolving business requirements.
The presentation will show real world examples based on existing technologies proving the concepts described above.
Hans Schoebach works as a Consultant for Enterprise Application Integration, specializing on SOA and realtime data integration technology for international clients in the manufacturing industry since 2010. Before that he worked for Galdos Systems Inc. since 2006 as Senior Software Architect. At Galdos he was responsible for the architecture and design of Galdos™ software products and product road map for Geo-spatially enabled Web Services and Infrastructures and in particular Spatial Data Infrastructure Middle-ware and Enterprise Systems. As a member of the Technical Committee (TC) at the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) he participated in many international OGC Collaboration Projects to specify and develop OGC compliant web services standards such as Web Feature Service (WFS), Web Registry Service (WRS) and applications based on these standards. Hans has also been a voting member of OASIS specializing on WS protocol stack specifications.
Before joining Galdos Hans worked at major international IT companies incl. NCR, Bull, Data Pathing Inc. in Germany, the US and Canada. Hans has developed large scale enterprise applications for Supply Chain Management, Manufacturing Execution Systems and real-time Shop Floor Control for the Aircraft and Automotive Industry. Hans has been the leading industry partner in international collaborative research projects headed by the Canadian National Research Counsel (NRC).
IT for Mega DisastersDr Jane Liu, Inst. of Information Science & Dr Chi-Sheng (Daniel) Shih, Taiwan University
Recent years have ushered in tremendous advances in information and communication technologies (ICT) and infrastructures and applications for disaster management. Still, daily news on disasters has been telling us that even people in technologically advanced regions remain ill prepared. Some of the reasons are that state-of-the-art disaster management systems/services cannot access responsively valuable information in sources owned by businesses, organizations, communities and individuals and do not exploit synergistically information from networks of things and crowd of people during emergencies.
Smart and intelligent environments now offer us an increasingly broader spectrum of devices and services for comfort and convenience, safety from intruders, social connectivity, etc. but little or nothing to help us to improve our preparedness for killer tornados, major earthquakes, floods, and so on. OpenISDM (Open Information Systems for Disaster Management) is a research project on critical technologies needed to bridge these gaps. After presenting a brief overview of the project, this talk will focus on cyber-physical devices, systems and services that can process standard-based disaster alert messages and take actions to prevent loss of lives and reduce damages to properties.
The talk will conclude with opportunities and challenges in making such devices and systems dependable and affordable enough to be deployed pervasively as parts of future smart living environments.
Jane W.S. Liu is a Distinguished Visiting Research Fellow of Institute of Information Science and Research Center for Information Technology Innovations of Academia Sinica and holds visiting professorship of National Taiwan University and National Tsing-Hua University of Taiwan. Before joining Academia Sinica in 2004, she was a software architect in Microsoft Corporation from 2000 to 2004 and a faculty member of Computer Science Department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from 1972 to 2000. She received her Sc.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and her BSEE from Cleveland State University.
Her research interests are in the areas of real-time and embedded systems. In addition to journal and conference publications, she has also published two text books, one on real-time systems and the other on signals and systems. Her recent research focuses on technologies for building user-centric automation and assistive devices and services and for disaster preparedness and response. She received Achievement and Leadership Award of IEEE Computer Society, Technical Committee on Real-Time Systems in 2005; Information Science Honorary Medal of Taiwan
Chi-Sheng SHIH, Dept. of Computer Science and Information Engineering. Starting from Feb. 1, 2004, Dr.Chi-Sheng Shih has joined the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering at National Taiwan University. He currently serves as an Associate Professor. He received the B.S. in Engineering Science and M.S. in Computer Science from National Cheng Kung University in 1993 and 1995, respectively. In 2003, he received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
His main research interests include embedded systems, hardware/software codesign, real-time systems, and database systems. Specifically, his main research interests focus on real-time operating systems, real-time scheduling theory, embedded software, and software/hardware co-design for system-on-a-chip.His research results won several awards including the Best Paper Award, 2011 ACM Research in Applied Computation Symposium (RACS 2011), the Best Paper Award, IEEE RTCSA 2005, and the Best Student Paper Award, IEEE RTSS 2004.
Business Architecture Profession and Case StudiesPeter Haviland, Ernst & Young
The Open Business Working Group has been working on defining the Business Architecture profession and on defining a certification program for business architects.
The statement the working group makes is:
This presentation also includes several case studies from companies that have implemented business architecture initiatives. It explains the motivations of the companies, the different objectives of the business architecture initiatives, different metrics of the team, and ways in which the initiative was successful, or was not.
Key takeaways:
Peter Haviland is chief architect within Ernst & Young's global architecture practice. He has worked around the world in Australia, Asia, North America and Europe, working with clients to articulate how business can better exploit technology, and set up architecture functions for success.
Peter is a regular contributor to various industry knowledge forums and has recently published articles on such topics as value-centric architecture, risk mitigation via cultural governance, and improving business/IT alignment through enterprise architecture.
Peter holds a Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering in Industrial and Aeronautical Aerodynamics in addition to a number of architecture-related qualifications including L3 ITAC and TOGAF® 9.
Overview of TOGAF® and SABSA Integration white paperDave Hornford, Chair, Architecture Forum
Synopsis (TBC)
Assessing Your SOA Maturity with OSIMMHeather Kreger, CTO of International Standards & Andras Szakal, Vice President, Chief Technology Officer, IBM
Come hear about Open Group's first International Standard for SOA, OSIMM. In this session we will introduce OSIMM, the International Standard and overview how it helps companies implement the right services at the right time for their business objectives. As part of this session we will show how to extend OSIMM maturity indicators for your company and share some of the custom indicators that have been developed by IBM and other organizations. To wrap up we will talk about how to expand the set of maturity indicators in the standard.
Heather Kreger is IBM's CTO of International Standards, responsible for setting IBM's strategy on contributing to and adoption of de jure standards for Software Group. Her current focus is SOA and Cloud Standards.
With 15 years of standards experience; she has led the development of standards for Web services, Management and Java in numerous standards organizations, including W3C, OASIS, DMTF, and The Open Group. Heather is currently co-chair and liaison for The Open Group's SOA Work Group and led collaboration with OASIS and OMG to develop and jointly publish the: Navigating the SOA Open Standards Landscape Around Architecture paper.
She is also liaison for The Open Groups Cloud Work Group, representing SOA and Cloud work groups to ISO/IEC JTC 1 SC38 and ISO/IEC JTC 1 SC7 SOA SG. Heather contributes significantly to The Open Group's SOA Governance, Service Integration Maturity Model, SOA Ontology and SOA Reference Architecture standards. In addition, Heather held leadership roles in: OASIS Web Services Distributed Management Technical Committee, DMTF WSDM Mapping Work Group, DMTF Resource Catalog Work Group, W3C Web Services Architecture, Web services in J2EE (JSR109) Expert Group and Java Management Extensions (JMX) Expert Group.
Heather is also the author of numerous articles on SOA, Web services and management in the IBM Systems Journal, Communications of ACM, Web Services Journal and her own book: Java and JMX, Building Manageable Systems.
Andras Szakal is an IBM Distinguished Engineer and Chief Architect of IBM's Federal Software business unit. He is an IBM Distinguished Engineer, also an IBM Senior Certified Software IT certArchitect and an IBM Certified SOA Solution Designer. His responsibilities include developing e-Government software architectures using IBM middleware and leading the IBM federal government software IT architect team. Mr. Szakal holds undergraduate degrees in Biology and Computer Science and a Masters Degree in Computer Science from James Madison University.
Mr. Szakal has been a driving force behind IBM's adoption of government IT standards and is a member of the IBM Software Group Strategy Team. The team he leads has been responsible for helping the federal government move e-Government into the On-Demand era through the application of SOA. His team has been directly involved with multiple, high-profile, successful government software and services engagements based on open standards and open source.
Mr. Szakal represents IBM SWG on the Board of Directors of The Open Group. He currently holds the Chair of the IT Architect Profession Certification Standard (ITAC) within the Open Group.
An Agile Approach to Building an Enterprise Architecture for a Health Insurance ExchangeMaharshi Desai, Director, Enterprise Architecture & Hamza Jahangir, Oracle Corporation, US
President Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), which extends health care coverage to an estimated 32 million uninsured individuals and makes coverage more affordable for many others. As per this act, each state needs to build and administer healthcare Exchanges to operate in each state by 2014.
This presentation shows how to effectively approach building a 21st century government program using latest technologies, an agile development method and enterprise architecture as a discipline for aligning business with IT. It also highlights a case study where such an approach was tested, validated and refined in helping develop one of the first innovator Health Insurance Exchanges in the nation. It also highlights Oracle's business-driven enterprise architecture framework (OEAF) that was used to develop the Health Insurance Exchange and how all the moving pieces of the implementation effort was practically organized using such a framework.
Maharshi Desai is a Director of Enterprise Architecture at Oracle Corporation. He has 20+ years of experience in leading and delivering large-scale Oracle implementations projects. He successfully managed number of comprehensive IT solutions including IT strategies, Enterprise level architecture, IT Audits, ERP/CRM implementations, Infrastructure development for diverse national and international companies.
Hamza Jahangir has over 12+ years of experience in information technology architectures and implementations, including 6+ years at Oracle Corporation. Hamza is one of the original authors and practitioners of Oracle Enterprise Architecture Framework (OEAF) and Oracle Architecture Development Process (OADP), and is certified in TOGAF®.
In his current role as an Enterprise Architect, Hamza advises C-level executives on IT strategies and future-state architectures around IT security, enterprise identity management, application and information architectures supporting the execution of business processes. Hamza also spends a considerable amount of time and energy in developing and providing thought-leadership on how to transform today's technology architecture to support new and emerging trends like Cloud Computing,
Information Security in the Internet AgeSteve Whitlock, Chief Security Strategist, Boeing
Synopsis (TBC)
Steve Whitlock is chief strategist for Boeing IT Information Security. In this role, he provides strategic support for Boeing's long term information security capabilities. This includes the tracking of emerging technologies and the changing threat landscape, as well as helping to influence the direction of the information security industry in support of Boeing's global presence.
With more than twenty-five years of research in information security and cryptography, Whitlock has provided strategic input to numerous global agencies, and has served on writing and steering committees for the Intelligence and National Security Association, Internet Security Alliance, Defense Information Base Technology and Architecture Working Group, Trans-global Secure Collaboration Program, and Enduring Security Framework Activity.
He has served on the Program Committee for the annual ID Trust conference sponsored by NIST, ACM, OASIS and Internet 2 for eight years. He currently serves on the Jericho Forum Board of Management and is Vice Chair of the Open Group Security Forum.
Steve has a master's degree in software engineering from Seattle University.
Using TOGAF® to Define & Govern Service Oriented Architectures - A New Technical GuideEd Harrington, Architecting the Enterprise, Ltd., US
This presentation will detail and discuss the recently released Technical Guide:"Using TOGAF® to Define & Govern Service Oriented Architectures". This Technical Guide describes, in detail, how an architect might utilize TOGAF® if he/she has chosen Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) as the appropriate style of architecture. It includes aspects specific to SOA on Governance, Reference Architectures, Maturity Assessments as well as a detailed view of the particular enhancements that might be considered as the architect steps through all the Phases of TOGAF®.
Mr. Harrington is a consultant and instructor with Architecting the Enterprise, a TOGAF® and Enterprise Architecture Consultancy. Prior to this, Ed was COO of Model Driven Solutions and worked for two UK based companies. Before that, Ed spent 17 years at General Electric. Ed is past chair and vice-chair of various Open Group Forums. He is TOGAF® 9 Certified.
Securing Our eCity®Liz Fraumann, Director Cybersecurity Awareness and Education ESET, North America /Securing Our eCity®
Synopsis (TBC)
Liz Fraumann, Director Cybersecurity Awareness and Education ESET, North America /Securing Our eCity®,
Constructing the Architecture of an Agile Enterprise using the MSBI MethodNick Malik, Senior Principal Enterprise Architect, Microsoft Corporation, US
There are many methods that inform the development of agile systems, but very few that attempt to inform the development of an agile model for an entire enterprise. MSBI stands for "Minimum Sufficient Business Integration" and represents a method for modeling enterprises that use the Collaboration-style Operating Model. Come learn how the internal Enterprise Architecture team inside Microsoft used the MSBI method to develop a vision for the integration of the entire corporation.
Nick Malik has spent the last 31 years in the software business, playing a wide array of roles from R&D and product development to management, leadership, and consulting. For the past eight years, he has provided Enterprise Architecture services deep in the heart of the Microsoft Corporation where he currently leads the Segment Enterprise Architecture program.
Panel – Strategies for Data Protection, Trusted Environments, Identity Entitlement & Access Management, Resilience, Security Intelligence/Management
In the previous session, Steve Whitlock sets the framework for identifying key strategies to surviving cyber in the internet age: Data Protection, Trusted Environments, Identity Entitlement & Access Management, Resilience, and Security Intelligence/Management. Not only do we want to survive, but go on the offensive - to focus on the proactive solutions and future responses. Join the interactive panel of the principals from market leading security solution providers: Greg Brown (McAfee), CJ Desai (Symantec) and Alan Kessler (HP).
Moderated by Mary Ann Mezzapelle, Open Group Security Forum Steering committee and HP.
Mary Ann Mezzapelle is the chief technologist for Security Services for HP, Office of the CTO. She is the strategist for the Account CTO Global Capability program, responsible for overall technology strategy and planning for clients. Previously, she served as strategic business planner, business transformation and technology advisor to major clients. Mezzapelle has 20 plus years' business and technical experience applying solutions in industries such as financial, insurance, energy, transportation, and manufacturing.
Mezzapelle is a CISSP and CSSLP; and an active member of the Open Group Security Forum, San Francisco Bay Area chapters of InfraGard and the ISSA. She contributes to the security community as an author, conference speaker, conference planner, and CISSP domain coach. In her spare time, she rides with the Warriors' Watch Riders supporting U.S. military at home.
Chirantan "CJ" Desai is senior vice president of the Endpoint and Mobility Group at Symantec. In this role, he leads engineering, product management and related product operations for Symantec's Endpoint Protection, Protection Suites, Mail and Web Security, IT Management, Endpoint Virtualization, Critical System Protection, and Mobility solutions. These products secure and manage millions of endpoints for organizations of all sizes globally.
Most recently, Desai served as vice president of engineering for the Enterprise Security Group where he led engineering for Symantec's Endpoint Security, Messaging and Web security, and server security solutions. Desai joined Symantec in 2004 and has served in both product management and engineering roles.
Prior to joining Symantec, Desai ran product management for all product lines at Pivotal. He also established and ran product operations of India Development Center at Pivotal. Previously, Desai held various senior management positions in the Applications Development division of Oracle Corporation.
Alan Kessler, VP and GM Development, Security Research and Support Enterprise Security Products, Hewlett Packard Company As the VP and GM for product development, security research and support for HP's Enterprise Security Products group, Alan Kessler sets and executes the strategic product direction, development, security research and customer support plans for HP's enterprise security products. He is responsible for leading the teams that innovate, research and deliver the market leading HP ArcSight, HP TippingPoint, HP Fortify, HP Application Security Center and HP Atalla security products within HP's Enterprise Security Product portfolio, which includes both cloud-based and on-premise solutions.
In his prior role at HP, Mr. Kessler was the VP and GM for HP's security products within HP Networking. In this capacity Mr. Kessler set the strategic growth plans and direction for critical network security solutions including those from HP TippingPoint and HP Atalla. He is responsible for driving the development of technologies and products that protect enterprise clients from the security attacks that can hurt brand reputation and lead to data loss, financial hardship and compliance issues.
Prior to 3Com acquisition by HP, Mr. Kessler led the TippingPoint business (a division of 3Com Corporation) through a stage of unprecedented market growth. Under the HP umbrella, Mr. Kessler has continued to drive strategic innovation and development for the HP TippingPoint product group and has continued steadily increasing market share at a rate of four times the industry average.
A veteran of the networking industry, Mr. Kessler has more than 20 years of management experience with both entrepreneurial startups and very large technology organizations. Prior to TippingPoint, Mr. Kessler was president and CEO of Attune Systems, a provider of enterprise-class network file management solutions. His previous experience includes 3Com Corporation, where he served in a variety of senior management positions including responsibility for global customer support, global end-user system sales and general management of the Network Systems Division. He has also served as the president of Palm Inc. and president of Palm's Platform and Products group during Palm's successful IPO.
Greg Brown, Vice President, Product Marketing Network Security, assumed his current role in 2008, championing value delivery for McAfee's network defense portfolio. Brown joined the McAfee network intrusion prevention product management team in 2006. In that role he sponsored industry leading advances in network security integration with McAfee's systems and risk management product lines. He has more than 15 years experience in the network security and telecommunications industry, working withsilicon technology vendors, security software/hardware vendors and service providers. He has provided design consultant services for national IT security infrastructure programs on four continents, and was the principal designer for first time national Internet infrastructure programs in more than 30 countries.
Workshop - The Realization of SOA's using the SOA Reference ArchitectureNikhil Kumar, President, Applied Technology Solutions, Inc. & Dr Ali Arsanjani, Distinguished Engineer, IBM
The Workshop will target practitioners engaged in the adoption and enhancement of SOAs. Its goal is to provide insight in the use of the RA in the creation of actionable SOA solutions.
The workshop, will:
Nikhil Kumar is President and CEO of ApTSi (Applied Technology Solutions, Inc.) a visionary organization focused on Cloud Computing, SOA, EA, reuse and application architecture. Nikhil is responsible for defining corporate strategy, direction and business development, while providing consulting services to key ApTSi clients.
His educational background includes graduate and postgraduate degrees in engineering and computer science. Nikhil has been on the international who's who list, co-chaired the SOA Reference Architecture Project and is on the Board of Trustees at Henry Ford Health Systems. He has authored or contributed to numerous standards, articles and books on Cloud Computing, SOA, Security, EA and Aspect Oriented Programming.
He is leading ApTSi's product solutions development as well ApTSi's PPIT methodology. While with ApTSi Nikhil has been engaged in the delivery of strategy, governance and end-to-end solutions in the areas of Cloud Computing, SOA, Security and EA, at numerous Fortune 500 organizations.
Dr Ali Arsanjani, Distinguished Engineer, IBM
Panel - IT for Mega Disasters/eCity® Panel
Synopsis (TBC)
Dr Liu, Dr Shih
Liz Fraumann, Director Cybersecurity, Awareness and Education ESET, North America / Securing Our eCity ®, (TBC) - FEMA, . .
Keith Tresh, Director and Chief Information Security Officer, California Technology Agency, Office of Information Security
Frank Calvillo, Protective Security Advisor, US Dept of . Homeland Security, (TBC) SF DEM
Dave Lounsbury, CTO, The Open Group (Moderator)
There's a SEA Change in Your Future: How Sustainable EA Enables Business Success in Times of Disruptive ChangeLeo Laverdure & Alex Conn, Managing Partners, SBSA Partners, LLC, US
In today's rapidly shifting business context, organizations face major challenges, including economic instability, energy and resource uncertainty, social and political unrest, climate change, and disruptive technologies. Some disruptions signal long-term shifts rather than temporary fluctuations and require strategic changes of direction. Whole industries may be impacted. Enterprise architecture (EA) is a key tool to help businesses transform themselves to meet these challenges.
To do so, however, architectural methods must themselves be adapted to focus less on technology per se and more on how these technologies enable the business to survive and thrive over the long term—to be sustainable—in the shifting, uncertain business context.
We call this transformation to sustainable enterprise architecture (SEA) a "SEA change." The practice of SEA differs from the usual practice of EA in a number of ways. This presentation will describe these changes and the challenges of implementing them.
With over 60 years of Enterprise & Solutions Architecture experience between them, Leo Laverdure and Dr. Alex Conn were among the early pioneers in information and communication systems architecture methodology. Now, as managing partners at SBSA Partners LLC, their passion is for improving business sustainability through adaptive strategies that address pervasive, unrelenting, disruptive change. In particular, they are strong proponents of systems thinking and life-cycle analysis, focusing on resources and the pragmatic integration of societal, economic, and environmental considerations.
Global Supply Chain: The Open Group Trusted Technology Forum and the Challenges of Protecting Products Against Counterfeit and TamperingMary Ann Davidson, Chief Security Officer, Oracle
Ms. Davidson will provide an overview of the Open Group's Trusted Technology Forum, developing Best Practices for secure engineering and supply chain integrity. She will focus her talk on the challenges of defining the right scoping (it's not "all supply chain problems), why we are focusing on tainting and counterfeiting first, limitations of COTS, and where together we can make progress.
Mary Ann Davidson is the Chief Security Officer at Oracle Corporation, responsible for Oracle Software Security Assurance. She represents Oracle on the Board of Directors of the Information Technology Information Sharing and Analysis Center (IT-ISAC), and serves on the international board of the Information Systems Security Association (ISSA). She has been named one of Information Security's top five "Women of Vision," is a Federal 100 award recipient from Federal Computer Week, and was recently named to the ISSA Hall of Fame. She has served on the Defense Science Board and as a member of the Center for Strategic and International Studies Commission on Cybersecurity for the 44th Presidency. She has testified on cybersecurity to the U.S. House of Representatives (Energy and Commerce Committee; Armed Services Committee; and Homeland Security Subcommittee on Emerging Threats, Cybersecurity, and Science and Technology) and the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Technology.
Ms. Davidson has a BSME from the University of Virginia and an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. She has also served as a commissioned officer in the U.S. Navy Civil Engineer Corps, during which she was awarded the Navy Achievement Medal.
SOA Governance Thinking Beyond ServicesJed Maczuba, Senior Manager, Accenture, US
While SOA Governance is fundamentally driven based on an organization's decision to implement shared, reusable services, its impact to the organizations goes well beyond the traditional concept of service lifecycle management. Organizations that are planning on implementing a services oriented architecture need to be aware of larger issues and concerns that can impede an organization from taking full advantage of this architectural pattern.
Using a real-life case study, this session will explore some of those broader concerns that organizations will face when undertaking SOA and will share practical experience with how one client defined and implemented a comprehensive SOA Governance Operating Model to address these.
This session will provide prescriptive guidance on topics such as strategic SOA planning activities, service funding mechanisms, service reuse incentive structures, organizational barriers, and synergies with traditional IT governance functions.
Jed Maczuba is a client-facing information technology consulting executive with over 16 years of experience. Jed defines IT strategies for business enablement for C-suite clients. Jed possesses a strong combination of strategic-level insights with practical implementation experience and has established Enterprise Architecture functions within large, complex organizations.
TOGAF® to the PlatformEd Roberts, Elparazim
Parallel to TOGAF®'s arising as the de facto industry standard in the development of Enterprise Architectures, there arose multiple technical architecture development processes (e.g. RUP, openUp, Agile). The question is "How does one integrate these together with TOGAF®?".
This talk will focus on the technologies and models available to integrate processes together and discuss work currently being done in both the Architecture Forum and the Real-Time and Embedded System Forums to model TOGAF and use mechanisms to integrate and extend it.
Governance & the Sustainability of the EA DisciplineEric A. Stephens, Enterprise Architecture Director, Oracle Corporation, US
Corporations are being bombarded with a number of new technologies promising seemingly magical fixes to traditional computing and managerial problems. Technologies such as SOA, cloud computing, and mobility typically be aligned with corporate objectives and realize new enterprise capabilities. However, they are also subject to architectural abuse - especially as they become easier to use (e.g., Ten minutes to spin up an Amazon AWS instance).
With each new technological innovation, it is critical to re-evaluate an EA governance program to ensure the necessary processes, controls, and standards are in place. Otherwise the architectural fragmentation that exists with legacy technology will manifest itself by an order of magnitude with newer generations of technology. And corporate objectives will be missed and enterprise capabilities unrealized.
Eric Stephens has 20+ years of IT experience most of which in Enterprise and Solution/Software Architecture. Within the EA discipline he focuses on IT/EA/SOA Governance, SOA blueprints, and Identity Management strategy. Vertical domains include insurance, healthcare, life sciences, finance & banking, mobile telecom, media & entertainment, public sector, and retail.
Overview of the Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative on Supply Chain Risk Management (CNCI-SCRM) - With an Additional Focus on Counterfeiting.Don Davidson, Chief, Outreach, Science & Standards (CNCI-SCRM)
Mr. Davidson will provide an overview of the Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative on Supply Chain Risk Management (CNCI-SCRM) and how it is shaping development of Trusted Mission Systems & Networks. He will also provide insight into ongoing activities with respect to countering the effects of counterfeits in the global supply chain.
Mr. Davidson is currently assigned to Trusted Mission Systems and Networks (TMSN, formerly known as the Globalization Task Force, GTF) in the Office of the Department of Defense Chief Information Officer (DoD CIO), where he leads the outreach, S&T investment and standardization efforts for the White House's Comprehensive National CyberSecurity Initiative (CNCI) task #11 on improving Supply Chain Risk Management for Information Communications Technology capabilities (ICT SCRM).
He has over 37 years of federal service, to include 11 years active duty, as well as civilian assignments in Army Research Laboratory, Army Materiel Command, Army Secretariat, US Joint Forces Command, OUSD-Acquisition, Technology & Logistics (AT&L), and OASD-Networks and Information Integration (NII), which is now only known as the DoD-Chief Information Office (CIO).
Enterprise Architecture Must Lead Cloud Strategy and PlanningMike Walker, Chief IP Architect, Microsoft's Enterprise Strategy & Architecture
Companies are looking to cloud enablement as the key to advancing their IT maturity, reducing the total cost of ownership, providing a doorway to innovative solutions and increasing the velocity of delivering business value. With all this broad opportunity, there are deep and pervasive complexities and risks involved. Leveraging an Enterprise Architecture Framework such as TOGAF® combined with other industry proven practices from the Risk Management and Cloud communities provides a comprehensive approach to creating strategies for cloud.
In this session, we will discuss why it is essential that Enterprise Architects lead cloud strategy and planning activities by taking a business value first approach. By leveraging a proven EA framework like TOGAF we will show synergies and alignment with cloud strategy and planning. As a guide, the Cloud Strategy and Planning (CSP) Framework will provide tangible examples of how this is applied. CSP is leveraged in engagements world-wideand will be used to provide an end-to-end method leveraging the TOGAF ADM, a set of models and tools to aid companies in making the right cloud investments.
Mike Walker is the Chief IP Architect in Microsoft's Enterprise Strategy & Architecture organization. He is responsible for the creation of strategy, executive briefings and the execution of Microsoft's vision on Enterprise Strategy and Architecture. As a practitioner in the Enterprise Architecture space he held key positions as a Chief and Enterprise Architect in industry segments such as Financial Services, Healthcare, Government and High Technology. He is an Open CA Distinguished Chief IT Architect and is on the Open CA Board providing both mentorship and certification of enterprise architects.
Additionally, Mike has evolved many of the concepts behind mainstream architectural approaches and styles. His works are realized through the publication in books, trade publications, authoritative architecture guidance, articles and standardized frameworks. Walker is quoted and referenced throughout the industry as an expert in architecture shown though in articles and books such as, "Microsoft 2.0: How Microsoft Plans to Stay Relevant in the Post- Gates Era", where he is named as a key thought leader at the Microsoft Corporation. His frameworks and works are not only used by Microsoft Corporation but have been featured in media outlets such as: InfoWorld.com, CNN.com, eWeek.com, ComputerWorld.com, and has been demonstrated in keynotes by Bill Gates at industry events.
Walker's insights can be found on his blog www.MikeTheArchitect.com or the Microsoft Enterprise Architecture Portal (http://msdn.microsoft.com/architecture/ea)
Open Systems Architecture and Data RightsNicholas Guertin, Director for Open Architecture,US Navy - DASN (RDT&E)
Synopsis (TBC)
Nicholas Guertin, Director for Open Architecture, US Navy - DASN (RDT&E)
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Architecting a RESTful Cloud: The key to ElasticityJason Bloomberg, President, ZapThink
It's a common misconception that the Cloud is nothing more than a virtual server in the sky, where you can take any on-premise, legacy app, drop it into the Cloud, and expect it to both work properly and leverage the Cloud's advantages. In reality, it's essential to architect applications properly, both to mitigate the Cloud's shortcomings as well as leverage the most important Cloud benefit: elasticity.
The problem? Cloud environments are inherently partition tolerant, which impacts both data consistency and application state. As a result, architects must utilize different approaches from traditional application environments, instead leveraging best practices for creating hypermedia applications. In particular, they must move application state off the server to the client, following an architectural style known as Representational State Transfer, or REST.
Attendees of this session will:
Jason Bloomberg is President of ZapThink, a Dovèl Technologies Company. He is a thought leader in the areas of Enterprise Architecture, Service-Oriented Architecture, and Cloud Computing, and helps organizations around the world better leverage their IT resources to meet changing business needs. He is a frequent speaker, prolific writer, and pundit.
Mr. Bloomberg is one of the original Managing Partners of ZapThink LLC, the leading SOA advisory and analysis firm, which was acquired by Dovèl Technologies in August 2011. His book, Service Orient or Be Doomed! How Service Orientation Will Change Your Business (John Wiley & Sons, 2006, coauthored with Ron Schmelzer), is recognized as the leading business book on Service Orientation.
Mr. Bloomberg has a diverse background in eBusiness technology management and industry analysis, including serving as a senior analyst in IDC's eBusiness Advisory group, as well as holding eBusiness management positions at USWeb/CKS (later marchFIRST) and WaveBend Solutions (now Hitachi Consulting). He also co-authored the books XML and Web Services Unleashed (SAMS Publishing, 2002), and Web Page Scripting Techniques (Hayden Books, 1996).
ArchiMate® 2: The New Version of The Open Group Modeling Language for Enterprise ArchitectureHenry Franken, BiZZdesign
Synopsis (TBC)
Henry Franken is chair of the ArchiMate Forum at The Open Group. Henry is co-founder of the BPM Forum Netherlands. He has co-authored several international publications and Open Group white papers.
At BiZZdesign, Henry is responsible for research and innovation. Alignment with and contribution to open standards are key. BiZZdesign has contributed to and edited the ArchiMate 2 specification. BiZZdesign is involved in the workgroup working towards the next version of TOGAF® and its alignment with ArchiMate®.
BiZZdesign offers native tooling, consultancy and training for TOGAF and ArchiMate. BiZZdesign offers complete and integrated solutions (tools, methods, consultancy and training) to design and improve organizations. Enterprise architecture, business requirements management and process business analysis and management are important ingredients in the solutions.
Capability Driven IT StrategyWilliam M. Sheleg, Senior Manager, Deloitte Consulting, US
This presentation will expand upon the importance of utilizing business capabilities to drive IT strategy, and the value of a capability release plan to communicate to business executives the value of migrating to future architectural models.
Bill Sheleg is a Senior Manager in Deloitte's Technology Strategy & Architecture service area. He has more than 25 years of experience working with organizations to increase the value they receive from IT. This involves working with clients to develop IT strategies that align with business imperatives and transforming IT Operating Models to improve IT performance.
The IT Operating Model design work includes IT organizational design, increasing IT's capability maturity and implementing effective IT governance structures. He is ITIL V3 certified and works with IT organizations to assess and improve their IT Service Management maturity.
He is also TOGAF® certified, and works with organizations to achieve more integrated IT environments that improve support for the business, reduce costs and provide more consistent information. He is a frequent speaker at The Open Group's Architecture Forums on the topic of Strategy Execution.
He is PMP certified and experienced in managing complex program, and received certification from IBM as a Cloud Certified Architect.
Architecting for Information Security in a Cloud EnvironmentDavid J W Gilmour, Metaplexity Associates, US
A couple of years practical experience in Corporate utilization of Cloud environments has thrown up some subtle architectural and design considerations where personal and secure data must be handled and governed in highly regulated environments where the wired world makes all kinds of border ever more 'porous'. Here we run over some of the pitfalls we hit and how we resolved them in an agile development culture.
David J W Gilmour came up through the ranks of the IT world starting in 1972. He has been consulting and mentoring substantial companies on EA and Governance issues for the last 12 years in many lines of business.
Standardization of Processes Using ArchiMate® and TOGAF®Dario Vargas, Research & Chief Enterprise Architect, Unycorp, Mexico
In order to build well-established organizations that provide fast and quality services, allowing its customer to obtain the
From this model based insight we present a structured approach to the continuous improvement.
Dario Vargas, Research & Chief Enterprise Architect, Unycorp, Mexico. Darío is active member of several groups and forums, such as Archimate® Forum, Beta Gamma Sigma etc. He has written articles about Business Requirement Management and Business Innovation. Darío is certified as Six Sigma Black belt professional and is part of Center for Talented Youth in Washington. At Unycorp Darío is responsible for research, training and business innovation.Unycorp is specialized to bring new innovative principles, best practices and technology on the Mexican market. Unycorp serves large governmental and private institutions. Unycorp offers integrated solutions in order to design, implement and continuous improvement. Darío is currently enrolled in an MBA programme.
Integrating Enterprise Architecture into Business PlanningRobert Weisman, CEO, Build the Vision, Inc., Canada
The goals of EA and Business Planning have converged.
EA is an effective technique with which Business Planners at all levels can describe the current and future state of the enterprise and how to migrate into the future. Information and the related information technology is a, if not THE, crucial enabler of business value in a knowledge/service based economy;
EA is too important to be hidden in the CIO organization. In the future it should not be a question of aligning IT with Business, it must be a question of seamlessly integrating IT into the Business Planning at the strategic, tactical and operational levels. A major benefit of this approach is that it assists in getting IT initiatives conceieved, understood, funded, delivered and maintained.
This presentation proposes a way of integrating EA into the Business, using the TOGAF® 9 constructs, and case studies.
Robert Weisman MSc, PEng, PMP, CD was in military plans and operations at the tactical, operational and strategic level of command and was brought in as an enterprise architect for a major business transformation in defence.
He completed studies in knowledge-based systems and advocated the integration of advanced technologies into revolutionized business functions and processes.
He has been using TOGAF® and its predecessor (TAFIM) since 1993 in large defence, health, tax, social benefits, education, transportation, environment and R&D organizations.
Un-Architecture: How a Fortune 25 Company Solved the Greatest IT ProblemChris Lockhart, Independent Consultant, blogger
In the real world, IT has certain practical matters to consider: politics, finances, personalities among them. This is a case study of how one giant company needed to revise an outdated technology model to enable and support cloud centric services.
Where to start? There was already a business architecture in place and championed. There were multiple business units with competing ideas for how to organize IT services. Oh, and there was no funding. But lots of "cloudy" projects were in the planning stages and IT would have to support and deliver them.
We will trace the team's steps as they pulled the various threads together and positioned IT to solve the greatest problem: how best to actually enable the business as it entered a cloudy new world.
Chris Lockhart has more than a decade of experience in architecting, implementing, and testing solutions for business problems at large corporations. Born of the first Internet bubble, raised in start-ups, seasoned in management and technology consulting firms, he's an Enterprise Architect, IT Strategist and blogger.
Effective Lightweight Approach to Enterprise Architecture GovernanceKen Street, Knowledge Management Architect & Consultant, Conexiam Solutions Inc.
In order for your organizational change initiatives to be successful you need to have a governance structure that will allow you to manage, measure and ensure you are realizing the intended benefits of your strategy.
During this interactive presentation, we will discuss and exchange ideas on the role of Governance in Enterprise Transformation (ET). The discussions will center on three principles of effective ET Governance.
The three principles ET Governance needs to address are:
Ken Street is a Partner with Conexiam Solutions Inc. with over 30 years experience in IT Management and Consulting. His governance and knowledge management work has supported Enterprise Transformation initiatives in the Oil and Gas, Telecommunications and Financial sectors.
Workshop - Business/IT AlignmentBrian Cameron, Exec. Dir., Center for EA, Penn. State Uni. & Jeff Scott, VP, Bus. & Tech. Strategy, Accelare
Synopsis (TBC)
Brian Cameron is Executive Director of the Center for Enterprise Architecture in the College of Information Sciences and Technology at the Pennsylvania State University. Within the College of Information Sciences and Technology, he works with a wide portfolio of companies on a variety of consulting engagements, ranging from systems integration projects to enterprise architecture planning and design. Through his academic work, Cameron has consulted with organizations such as Avaya, AT&T Wireless, Raytheon, Accenture, Oracle, EMC Corp., NSA, U.S. Marine Corps, The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation, and many others. His primary research and consulting interests include enterprise architecture, enterprise systems integration, information management and storage, and the use of simulations and gaming in education. The main focus areas for his teaching efforts are on senior-level capstone enterprise integration, enterprise architecture, and information technology consulting & storage architecture courses.
Dr. Cameron is currently developing new curricular materials for enterprise integration (through funding from NSF) including a textbook to be published by Wiley & Sons Publishing. He has also designed and taught executive education sessions for senior IT executives. Session topics include Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), Business Process Management (BPM), Strategic Alignment of IT & Business Strategies, IT Governance, and IT Portfolio Management.
Dr. Cameron is TOGAF and Zachman certified and has developed an extensive background in the DoDAF, FEAF, and Gartner frameworks. He is a member of the Board of Trustees for the Center for the Advancement of the Enterprise Architecture Profession and Business Architecture Guild, the founding president of the Federation of Enterprise Architecture Professional Organizations, a Co-chair of the Academic Alliance Committee for the Special Interest Group on Enterprise Architecture for the Industry Advisory Council of the US Federal Government, and a member of the editorial review boards for the Journal of Enterprise Architecture, the International Journal on Cyber Behavior, Psychology, and Learning, the Interdisciplinary Journal of Information, Knowledge, and Management, the Journal of Information Systems Education, and the International Journal on E-Learning.
Dr. Cameron currently leads corporately funded research efforts in the following areas: service-oriented architecture and business process modeling, risk analysis and management of enterprise systems integration projects, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) implementation best practices, enterprise storage & information management architecture design, and performance measurement for Enterprise Architecture.
A Pragmatic Approach to Cloud ComputingStephen Bennett, Senior Enterprise Architect, Oracle
What would be more beneficial - private, public, hybrid? Which service models make sense to adopt initially? What applications/components should be hosted in the cloud? Which applications should not be hosted in the cloud? To answer these questions and more requires a Cloud Decision Framework that assists in defining a pragmatic adoption roadmap including motivation/strategy,architecture, operations, and organizations.
Steve Bennett is a 25-year experienced technologist focused on providing thought leadership, best practices, and architecture guidance around SOA and cloud computing. He has delivered technology management and enterprise architecture consulting to many enterprise customers.
Before becoming a consultant, Stephen was involved in delivering enterprise-wide mission critical systems within the investment banking industry.
Exploring the White Space Between the ADM's Phases F&GSteve Else, CEO, EA Principals, Inc., US
This presentation will explore the challenges and possible alternative ways to move from Phase F to Phase G in TOGAF®'s ADM. It is difficult enough to synchronize and harmonize a reasonable roadmap of projects, but how does one then merge into all the different scenarios for Phase G? For example, what if a strong PMP and or IT Portfolio Program have already made determinations about which programs to fund and with what priority? My research and experience indicates that a challenging change initiative will ne needed for TOGAF® to succeed in such a scenario. This talk will address these kind of challenges and offer recommendations for success.
Dr. Steve Else is Founder and CEO of EA Principals, Inc., which is a Gold Member of The Open Group and a Sponsor of the Archimate Certification Program.
Measuring the Business Performance of Cloud ProductsPenelope Gordon, 1Plug Corporation, US
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A Practical Use of TOGAF® in Enterprise Architecture for the Energy Services IndustryPradipa Karbhari, Director - SOA and Business Integration, Sogeti US
This presentation discusses the use of TOGAF® in defining the enterprise architecture in the context of the Energy Services Industry. It provides a comprehensive overview and discusses the application of the ADM, the steps involved in going through the various phases, performing a detailed gap analysis, the use of iteration cycles, defining transition architectures, setting up governance, change management and so on.
Pradipa Karbhari currently serves as the Director of SOA and Business Integration at Sogeti USA, LLC. Prior to this, she was the National Director of Web Services and SOA for SilverTrain. Considered a renowned expert in her field, her experience spans over 17 years in Information Technology leadership, design and development, with an emphasis on Service Oriented Architectures, Web Applications, Web Services and Solutions Delivery.
EA and Cloud Computing - Taking Strategy to the CloudsRoberto Severo Coelho, Chair, AEA Brazil Chapter
EA and Cloud Computing - Taking Strategy to the Clouds
Today there are a lot of companies talking about Cloud Computing initiatives. It's a must do issue in the CIO agenda, but why are they so eager to implement? Cloud computing is sometimes more a buzzword rather than a enterprise strategy.
This presentation shows how Cloud Computing can address an enterprise strategy using TOGAF® as a framework to govern the program initiative. It will show a practical example step-by-step, bottom up, on how to leverage Cloud
Roberto Coelho is an Enterprise Architect who has been TOGAF® 8 Certified since 2008. Roberto has experience with IT architecture, BPM and Cloud Computing. Roberto has successfully implementing TOGAF and Zachmann frameworks in many companies, and is now leading a Cloud Computing Initiative in a large telecom company in Brazil. He is founder and chair of the Association of Enterprise Architects (AEA) Brazil Chapter.
Roberto has written many articles on EA to well recognized magazines and papers, including the Journal of EA - August issue (Architect in the Spotlight)
Investigative Architecture: Understanding Systems in a Business ContextDan Hughes, Principal Architect/Practice Lead, Systems Flow, Inc., US
A foundational skill for an architect is the capability to rapidly assess and document "as is" and proposed architecture and communicate clearly to business partners. A carefully scoped and formatted diagram is a powerful vehicle for clear communication. A specific diagram - the business context view - provides a rapid method to describe a solution in business language. This instructional session presents concrete techniques and structured rules of thumb to guide the development of business context views at both the enterprise and solution level. We will walk through a case study in order to illustrate the techniques, and present strategies to map to and from other types of views within Systems Flow's core set of "Investigative Architecture" diagrams, which we presented at previous Open Group conferences.
Dan Hughes is a principal consultant at Systems Flow, Inc., where he leads the technology services practice. He has 20+ years of software engineering experience spanning a broad range of technologies and techniques. He has launched, managed, and executed all aspects of product and enterprise life cycles. Dan holds a B.S. in Computer and Systems Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and blogs at http://sysflow.com.
Case Study: Setting up an EA Function Based on TOGAF® 9 at Bank of Costa RicaSonia Gonzalez, Enterprise Architect, Bank of Costa Rica, Costa Rica
The case is about the whole experience of developing the EA capability and the first EA iteration in Bank of Costa Rica which is the second public larger bank in Costa Rica, founded more than 100 years ago, and positioned as one of the strongest options for retail commercial banks in the country. The Case presents the following elements: - Development of the EA capability ( TOGAF® 9 focused adapted for the bank's needs ): framework, process, artifacts, metamodel, governance, templates, Reference Models, EA team conformance and business readiness for change assessment. - Stakeholder analysis and EA selling process experience - First iteration approach, focused in customer management as the main bank strategy driver and with emphasis in the business architecture development aligned with the strategy ( top down) and also making some "reverse engineer" (bottom up) from the "as is" technological implementations and actual application portfolio. - First iteration scope: architecture views, business areas to cover, regulatory requirements to fulfill ( Cobit implementation, mainly P02 Cobit control objective, information architecture) Development of a strategic architecture, a set of segmented architectures and finally a capability more detailed architecture all of them customer management focused. - First deliverables and artifacts constructed in the first iteration using the approach as the basement for the project roadmap (Architecture statement of work as a formal deliverable) - Rational System Architect as an EA tool supporting the whole process and with the framework, process and metamodel customized - First results and business value delivery for the main stakeholders (CEO, CTO, CFO and CIO) - Migration Plan and roadmap strategy: applying the same first iteration approach and strategy for the whole customer services area and in order to fulfill the Cobit implementation process in the bank.
Sonia González has been an Enterprise Architect for Bank of Costa Rica since 2008. She has been a TOGAF® 9 certified Project Manager for the Bank of Costa Rica Information Technology office from 2002 to 2008. IT Consultant for Core Banking solutions.Unisys Corporation. From 1996 to 2002 Sonia was as System Analyst in several service companies in El Salvador, during 1992-1996 Experience in EA, TI Governance (Cobit), Project Management, System Analysis for Banking Systems and computer programmer.
The Benefits, Challenges and Survey of Cloud Computing Interoperability and PortabilityMark Skilton, Capgemini, US; Kapil Bakshi, Cisco, US; and Chris Harding, The Open Group
World Economic Forum Report published in May 2010 identified interoperability as of the key themes that affect the rate of success of economic growth and competitiveness. The report also developed Cloud Computing as a major paradigm shift seen in Information & Communications Technology (ICT) services shaping the way services and products from ICT Vendors and Providers might be driven in the future to support enterprises and business markets.
The session will discuss the topic of interoperability and its role in Cloud Computing. It will explore the current activities that we have seen in the global technology market and the efforts to develop standards to address challenges of agile services , choice and growth potential for providers and consumers of IT and their businesses and barriers in business performance.
Mark Skilton , Kapil Bakshi and Jeffery Raugh are members of The Open Group Cloud Computing Interoperability and Portability Project and will provide insight on their own company views on this important architectural issue in cloud and the current work in progress. Mark Skilton and Kapil Bakshi are co-chairs of the Cloud Interoperability project and Mark is co-chair of the Cloud Computing Work Group. The presenters are senior industry practitioners with direct experience in applying cloud computing to technology strategy, enterprise architecture in public and private sectors in global roles.
Mark Skilton is Director for Capgemini, Strategy CTO Group , Global Infrastructure Services . His role includes strategy development, global delivery readiness and creation of Centers of Excellence. He is currently author of the Capgemini University Cloud Computing Course. Mark has published a number of articles on Cloud Computing through The Open Group including CIO.com, ZDnet.com , CloudComputingJournal.com and guests on iTunes Cloud Blogs and is co-chair of The Open Group Cloud Computing Workgroup, Cloud Business Artifacts Project. He is a regular conference speaker and panel member on Cloud Computing thought leadership.
Kapil Bakshi works for Cisco Systems Inc and is responsible for leading and driving Data Center and Cloud Computing initiatives in Cisco Public Sector. Kapil has extensive experience in strategizing, architecting, managing and delivering Data Center solutions to US Federal Agencies and Enterprise customers. During his career, he has held several architectural, consulting and managerial positions within the industry. Prior to Cisco, Kapil worked for Sun Microsystems, where he spent a decade working with US Government and Service Provider industry.
Prior to SUN, he worked for Hewlett-Packard and several government system integrators in consulting and product development roles.
Kapil is native of Washington DC area, and holds both BS in Electrical Engineering and BS in Computer Science from University of Maryland, College Park. MS in Computer Engineering from Johns Hopkins University and an MBA from University of Maryland, College Park. He also holds a U.S. patents for a Data Center Solutions.
Chris Harding, The Open Group
Normalization: The Foundation for Effective Enterprise ArchitectureWalker White, CTO, BDNA, US
Dealing with organizational complexity is the norm for enterprise architects trying to reconcile sometimes conflicting information about their entire infrastructure and all its moving parts. This is in part due to different IT disciplines which often label information inconsistently, further complicating an already complex enterprise. IT professionals, especially enterprise architects, increasingly need an accurate and consistent view of their organization's entire IT infrastructure that also provides the information necessary to effectively drive strategic IT initiatives and increase business value.
One approach to solving the problem of tracking IT data is to create a standardized taxonomy that applies data normalization to existing hardware and software inventories to drive accuracy and consistency for better decision making. This presentation will explore the problem that disparate IT data currently poses for enterprise architects, strategies for effective data normalization and how to derive better business value from IT data for driving internal projects.
Walker White is CTO of BDNA and is responsible for all technical aspects of the company. Prior to joining BDNA, he worked at Oracle Corporation for 12 years as vice president of applications technology and chief technologist of Oracle service industries, and was previously product line manager for Hewlett-Packard.
TOGAF® Camp
TOGAF® Camp is an unconference where adopters of TOGAF can meet and discuss whatever subjects concerning TOGAF are on your minds, exchange ideas, share experiences, challenges and solutions. At TOGAF Camp, you are encouraged to share your thoughts in several open unstructured discussions. Attendees will go away with new or refined ideas that can be taken back to their own enterprises - together we expect to have a thoroughly stimulating experience.
NOTE: Registration for TOGAF Camp is independent of the Conference registration. There is no fee but registration is required. If you are only planning to attend only TOGAF Camp, you should enter TOGAF as the promotion code to have the fee waived.
Panel Discussion - Cloud Portability and Interoperability
Following the presentation on Cloud Computing Interoperability and Portability, this panel session will explore the measures that the enterprise architect can take to avoid vendor lock-in and achieve interoperability when using Cloud services.
As cloud computing technology matures, and its use becomes established, an enterprise will want to use multiple external Cloud services for information access, storage, and processing - and will also want to create such services for use within the enterprise and by its customers and partners. There are key questions that must be addressed to achieve a successful Cloud architecture, including:
The panel will discuss these questions, and the audience will be invited to ask further questions and make relevant points.
The debate may not provide a definitive recipe for building interoperability and portability into Cloud-based enterprise architecture, but it will be an opportunity for panelists and audience to compare notes on how the issues can best be addressed in 2012.
The panel will be moderated by Chris Harding, Open Group Director for Interoperability, and will include Stuart Boardman, Senior Business Consultant at Getronics, Tom Plunkett, Senior Solution Consultant at Oracle, and Ron Schuldt, Senior Partner of UDEF-IT.
Ron Schuldt is a Senior Partner of UDEF-IT, LLC. He has over twenty years experience withnational and international data standards covering the gamut from Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) to the National Information Exchange Model (NIEM). He is Chairman of The Open Group UDEF Project. He is co-author of the first two books about the UDEF.
The Enterprise Architecture - Solution Architecture GulfVish Viswanathan, CC&C Solutions Pty. Ltd., Sydney, Australia
As organizations are evolving their EA, their initial scope is generally severely restricted by organizational maturity and readiness,budgets, resources, politics, lack of a credible champion and sometimes sheer inertia. However several critical projects are already in the pipeline, many involving Enterprise wide Solution Architectures (ESA).
As the lines of demarcation are grey and projects fail, the blame game continues,often involving the extended EA community comprising of SA, PMO, PM,key domain architects as well as strategic partners and outsourcing organizations.
While TOGAF® 9 sets out the basics and processes for the interactions,what are the tried and tested patterns for practical application of TOGAF® for a successful synergy between EA and SA?
Recent case studies involving a few Fortune 500 organization have some of the answers.
Vish Viswanathan is an internationally reputed EA consultant, trainer, advisor and implementation programme manager. With a broad experience in IT services, strategy, new business set up and new technology solutions and products, he is a well rounded EA professional, bringing all of his 35 years of experience into the EA practice.
Cloud Camp
Cloud Camp is an unconference where early adopters of Cloud Computing technologies exchange ideas. With the rapid change occurring in the industry, we need a place where we can meet to share our experiences, challenges and solutions. At CloudCamp, you are encouraged to share your thoughts in several open discussions, as we strive for the advancement of Cloud Computing. End users, IT professionals and vendors are all encouraged to participate.
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