Enterprise Architecture Management

IT strategists, planners and enterprise architects have to plan IT support for changing business strategies, to be proactive in assessing IT landscape performance in terms of cost, risk, agility and future viability and to deliver policy and standards that improve performance. Enterprise Architecture Management brings together processes, people, information and the following capabilities to get these tasks done.

Application portfolio governance inventories applications including critical information on their use by business and their technical and information architectures. KPIs such as cost, failure rates and risk are added to provide the business intelligence needed to optimize the application landscape – driving down costs and risk while improving agility.

A catalog of technology components and platforms with lifecycle and status information serves to communicate IT standards. Information on usage in applications and reporting supports planning convergence to the standards while workflows ensure proper evaluation of new technologies and standards adherence. This drives roadmap decisions and reduces landscape costs and risks.

With Information Portfolio Governance organizations understand who owns data, who uses data and where this data is being processed. This provides valuable input into possible application or database consolidation scenarios. Furthermore, it supports regulatory compliance by providing a framework for classification of information including clear business responsibility.

The pre-defined, TOGAF compliant meta-model is the most comprehensive and proven available today. This, along with EA methodologies and processes gives the enterprise architecture program a kickstart to delivering business value quickly. The process and role-based platform ensures stakeholder involvement and reliable EA data.

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