Horizons Enterprise Architecture Service (HEAS) enables organizations control its operations and manage its transition plans. Organization knowledge is captured in a smart repository with holistic and interrelated business models of all business components. Using advanced technology based on semantic networks, logic, and set theory, Horizons consultants will help organization model its strategic, process, organization and resources. Standard EA frameworks such as Zachman Framework are used to organize and navigate EA components.
EA work products can be used to effectively improve process performance, build strategic and performance monitoring plans, and to improve human performance and utilize resources better. A variety of approaches can be used to build EA repository with Horizons providing guidance and methods in this regard.
EA work products can be delivered in variety of formats (smart repository, web portals, XML Files, word documents, or any other text-based format). Horizons can provide knowledge transfer for customer teams to maintain and evolve the EA.

Business Benefits:
1. Maintain a central repository in which all business components models can be integrated and updated using formal and visual methods.
2. Visually navigate the repository models with multiple points of views.
3. Use powerful visual models to communicate knowledge effectively.
4. Compute Impact of Change and manage change across the organization from the As-Is to the To-Be state.
5. Build analysis and computational reports.

Key Features:
1. Visual models and tools are used to build EA models.
2. Integrated models and multiple views for enterprise architecture elements, and single place update.
3. Enforcement of EA constraints and rules while building the models.
4. Support of EA Frameworks and methods.
5. Web Portal reports of all work products.
6. Textual and XML reports of EA components.
7. Analysis and computational reports.
8. Multiple ways of linking EA components and elements to existing documents and files.
9. Import of structured information from existing files and databases.

Customizability:
1. Customization of EA service is quite powerful and Horizons Team can customize the service to use customers own methods, standards or a combination of this and other standard approaches.
2. Customizable reports can be used to perform variety of tasks including visual navigation as well as computation and analysis reports.
3. EA work products such as portals can be linked to other applications running at the customers site.

Lets Get Technical:
Horizons EA service uses Ptech FrameWork Family of products to implement its EA solutions. Customers with desire to maintain and update their EA models can acquire FrameWork licenses. FrameWork runs either in single mode or in TeamWork mode and can be installed on any PC with Windows 2000/XP and 256M RAM. Concurrent licensing schemes are also available

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