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Why Architect the Enterprise?

  • Introduction: Current challenges in Enterprise and IT governance
  • Legacy Systems and the need for evolution
  • Business Architecture and Enterprise Architecture: similarities and differences

Fundamentals

  • Architecting the Enterprise: core principles
  • Strategic Alignment
  • Business and IT Repository
  • n-tier Logical Architectures
  • Application technologies: ERP, SCM, web portals
  • Integration and Services Architectures: EAI and ESB
  • Service-Oriented Architectures: Roles of BPM and BAM

Enterprise Architecture Strategies and Methodologies

  • "As-is" and "To-be" system cartographies: How to determine the roadmap?
  • Structures to better align IT with strategies?
  • What is the approach?
  • What are the links with development processes?

Enterprise Architecture Content Framework

  • Identifying the business functions of the enterprise
  • Cartography of actors and business functions
  • Aligning business strategies
  • Patterns for architecting the IT system
  • Zones, squares, and blocks
  • Identifying exchanges using services and events
  • Modeling inter-block exchanges and data objects to support business process realization

Building the Repository and Data Architectures

  • Master Data Management (MDM)
  • Granularity Management
  • Modeling Languages
  • Definition of the meta-model and architecture rules
  • Elaborating the Enterprise Architecture Repository

Reference Layers for Architecture Cartography

  • Business, Functional, Application, and Technical Layers
  • Links between Strategic and Business Views
  • Traceability between Business and Functional Views
  • Traceability between Functional and Application Views
  • Bridges to the Technical View

Contributing Value through 'Enterprise Architecture'

  • Contribution to business value
  • Best Practices
  • The Enterprise Architecture Roadmap
  • Perspectives

Tools

  • Business Process and Cartography Management tools
  • Case study presentation

Note: The above training and mentoring sessions are conducted interactively using Business Modeling tools to ensure a high level of traceability between business specifications and their execution. Concepts are first explained using basic examples and are then followed by solution drafts for your own specific problems. After this session, we can assist you by reviewing and validating your solutions based on your needs.

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