Overview
An Enterprise Architecture (EA) establishes the Enterprise-wide roadmap to achieve an Enterprise's mission through optimal performance of its core business processes within an efficient information technology (IT) environment. Simply stated, enterprise architectures are "blueprints" for systematically and completely defining an organization's current (baseline) or desired (target) environment. "
The EA service focuses on building holistic, formal, and interrelated models of all business components: strategy, process, organization, IT, cost, projects, and resources. Sometimes, this is referred to as "Business Blueprinting". These models can be of the current situation (as-is EA) and can be used to understand, document, analyze, and communicate business components. They can be also the models of the desired business situation (to-be EA) and can be used to understand "Change Impact, and to drive future transformation projects.
Service Main Activities
- We will be conducting a variety of activities In this service. These include:
- Set the vision of the organization’s Enterprise Architecture, define organization roles, and activities to build, use, and maintain EA. EA governance is designed and documented.
- Use of standard Frameworks such as Zachman or TOGAF, and advanced technology based on semantic networks and smart repository to visually and logically define business models (as-is or to-be). Visual models and generated EA portal will be used to display and communicate built models. Strategy Architecture, IT Architecture, Process Architecture, Organization Architecture, and Project Architectures are built and inter-related.
- Analyze business and technology models against organization’s strategy and vision to define existing gaps and potential solutions.
- International business and IT standards, and best practices are used to perform the analysis.
- Define transition strategy to move to the desired architecture and identify change projects
- Design transition plan schedules and costs and actions inter-dependencies.
- Design communication plans and change management actions to support the execution of transition plans.
Service Main Features
- Experience with applying and using international EA frameworks and methodologies regionally and internationally and with multiple types of organizations.
- Integrated Formal Repository-based capturing of enterprise architecture models.
- Integrated EA components.
- Libraries of Business and IT models best practices.
- Holistic view of the enterprise architecture components.
- Multiple views to meet stakeholders' requirements.
- Highly visual communication environment.
- Traceability and change impact analysis.
- Fast start with EA best practices frameworks.
- Ability to drilldown to any number of levels and link multi-level Organizational units.
Business Benefits
- Managing Change in business and technology environment.
- Support for effective architecture-based business and IT strategies.
- Retaining enterprise knowledge and leveraging it.
- Alignment of strategy and operations.
- Cost-Effective Managing of enterprise projects.
- Unifying business terms and promoting common understanding among enterprise staff.
- Better business communication.
Who should use it?
- Management at all levels
- Business Analysts
- Quality Managers
- IT Architects
- Project Management Office Managers
- HR Managers
