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Enterprise
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Title:
The Economic Benefits of Enterprise Architecture:
How
to Quantify and Manage The Economic Value
of
Enterprise Architecture
Abstract:
Key
to the effective use of an Enterprise
Architecture is understanding how it can
be used to address important enterprise-wide
concerns, such as: meeting enterprise
stakeholder needs, pursuing new enterprise
strategic initiatives, aligning IT resources
with the business needs, or reducing duplication
of processes, systems, or data.
The answer comes in understanding the
various economic benefits that Enterprise
Architecture provides and learning which
enterprise architecture elements and relationships
must be analyzed in order to achieve specific
objectives.
Most organisations have problems to explain
and manage the economic benefits of Enterprise
Architecture. Managers often asked me
what Enterprise Architecture can do for
me. At the same time several Governmental
organisations are adopting Enterprise
Architecture as part of their change and
E-Government initiatives.
A holistic Enterprise Architecture approach
can deliver a lot of benefits to organisations
depending on the focus where to find these
benefits. Even so Enterprise Architecture
delivers the foundation for Enterprise
Portfolio Management, the ultimate business
driver for Enterprise Architecture.
The main purpose of this presentation
and related book is achieving awareness
at management level as well as at enterprise
architects level about adopting an economic
approach when dealing with Enterprise
Architecture programs.
It explains the areas of economic benefits
of Enterprise Architecture programs, the
different views as well as a holistic
approach to show the areas of economic
benefits.
Economic methods, models and approaches
are described in short to show, how to
quantify and manage the economic benefits
of Enterprise Architecture programs as
well as how Enterprise Architecture supports
Enterprise Portfolio Management.
Best practices are shared based on an
EA measurement program set up by the Singapore
Defence Science & Technology Agency.
Cost
/ benefit figures from public sources
are added to this presentation to show
the effects of economic measurement.
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Session
Title:
The
Trend of Enterprise Architecture in India.
Abstract:
In
the last couple of years Indian Business
Houses have finally come of age and can
now be called true multinationals. With
global acquisitions Indian conglomerates
like The Tata Group, Reliance has made
a mark in the global arena. But with true
globalization comes extreme complexity
- complexities of merger of business processes,
systems, people and compliance to multi-government
regulations. The only solution to manage
these complexities is the creation of
a blueprint of the organization which
can be agile and can quickly react to
business opportunities and challenges
in the global world.
Companies have been maintaining such blueprints
but in silos. The trend of Enterprise
Architecture aims to formalize this as
a process with best practices and systems
which will help organizations create an
actionable blueprint of the organization
which is always ready to take on the hyper
competitive marketplace.
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Session
Title:
The
impact of "Consumers" on Technology
Architecture
Abstract:
The
impact of consumers on technology architecture
Brief Abstract of the Presentation (200
- 250 words) Traditionally, there was
a complaint that technology was evolving
at a rate that people and society could
not deal with. Topics such as change management
grew and there was a debate on the pace
of change that society could absorb.
Suddenly, we have been thrown into a world
where consumers are setting the pace for
technology. Utterly unafraid of it, they
are getting impatient with the inability
of technology to keep pace with their
expectations.
This has thrown a huge challenge to the
world of architecture and development.
The scale of this challenge will only
increase in the coming months & years
and our way of thinking has to undergo
a dramatic shift to deal with it.
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Session
Title:
Raiders of the Lost Arch - Recovering
the lost jewels of
Software Architecture
Abstract:
The
practice of Architecture within Software
Engineering arose out of the need for
a means to capture and model the high-level
plans of IT activity and analyzing that
model for alignment to goals and outcomes
before committing funds and enterprise
resources. This sets a clear goal for
any kind of architectural technique that
it provides the right guidance for downstream
IT activity.
In this talk will examine the effectiveness
of the current practice of Software Architecture
from the perspective of downstream guidance
it provides. In particular, we intend
to bring out a danger we perceive based
on recent trend - that Architectural methods
and practices are floating, too far fetched
from the simple reality of the underlying
code which is real IT asset. We will talk
about the duality of architecture within
software systems, architectural drift
and the viewpoints from an Enterprise
Architecture and Software Architecture
perspective and how without integrating
our representation across viewpoints architectural
guidance will always be found wanting
by the trench programmers where real systems
and IT solutions are built.
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Session
Title: "HOW & WHY" Architecture
is shaping up the IT initivatives
in Govt sector? Lessons Learned & way
forward
Abstract:
Reviewing and Auditing the Government IT
Projects (Federal, state, and Local) reveal
many issues: Plan TO Fail and Fail to Plan
in designing, architecting, adopting standards,
implementing and replicating, eGOV Projects.This
paper talks about many such issues and give
directions for better implementation of
current and future eGovernance project to
introduce good Governance and fulfill the
India vision 2020. In the era of PPP, transparency,
accountability and compressing time frame
of implementation requires good IT Project
Governance, Integrated, synchronized and
synergized Plan, Program management.
This only can help the efficiency and effective
Governance. The paper also talks about Cyber
Assurance in the specific domain of business
and Governance. Adopting standards &
better control and audit mechanisms will
improve interoperability and information
assurance and improve the service quality
and delivery in a multi stakeholder, multi-located
highly complex Government environments.
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Session
Title: 7
Habits for an Effective Enterprise Architect
Abstract:
Designing
an architecture blueprint for an enterprise
comprising of multiple diverse businesses
requires a different level of skills and
habits on the part of the Enterprise Architect
than devising solution architecture for
a point solution.
The speaker has devised a set of 7 habits
which an Enterprise Architect should follow
to become effective. Many of the seven habits
highlights soft skills which the enterprise
architect needs to consciously develop to
be effective and successful. As the speaker
often says -"You become an Enterprise
Architect by virtue of your technical prowess
but you succeed by putting your soft skills
to use."
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Software
Architecture |
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Title: Good
application architecture determines the complexity
of ensuring application longevity.
Abstract:
Back
in times software was built to last. We
know of applications that were written 15,
20 even 25 years ago and are still running
and serving the business. These applications
have gone through many technology changes
and maintenance cycles. Since those days,
we know IT has changed a lot, distributed
computing has opened new ways to leverage
this wonderful tool IT, to generate more
business. What has happened, unfortunately,
is that applications built won't last for
more than 5 years, most of the time. After
3-5 years we end up rewriting the application
or at least doing an "open heart surgery"
to the application. This is just to keep
the business up and running, to keep the
lights on.
Cost of maintaining and creating better
tools for the business (to do better business)
has sky rocketed. Business is looking for
cost reduction via outsourcing, buying packaged
software etc. No matter what approach we
take into building applications, we need
to consider various things,enterprise architecture,
architectural decisions and reusable assetts
don't play least of the role.
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Session
Title: A
Model Based Approach in Software Maintenance-
An
Initial Field Study
Abstract:
Business
application maintenance is a challenging
task for software services industry. The
maintenance team inherits the software with
little design and implementation knowledge.
The client-facing team gathers an ad-hoc
architectural description of some sort and
communicates the same to the geographically
distributed maintenance team through informal
box and line diagrams. This information
becomes a basis for software maintenance
for the maintenance team.
In this talk we examine the implication
and usefulness of architecture modeling
of business applications in the maintenance
context. Specifically we discuss the philosophy
of Model Driven Architecture and then delve
into the nuances of modeling of various
architectural aspects using an architecture
description language ACME from CMU as the
basis.
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Session
Title: Architecture
complexity- What is its worth?
Abstract:
In
today's world of constant change, creating
architecture and growingit as per the business
need has been the most challenging for the
CIOs.Globalization, Mergers and acquisitions,
security, technology rate of change, obsolescence,
refresh cycles, emergence of standards,
compliances and regulations - All are contributing
to the complexity of enterprise architecture.
Is there a way out of it? Should the CIOs
and CTOs have to live with the complexity?
This presentation is aimed at discussing
and elaborating on these challenges and
sharing strategies adopted by some organizations.
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Session
Title: Executable
BPM Models
Abstract:
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TRACK
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Business
Innovation & Management |
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Session
Title: Architecture
driven Innovation in "Consumer Electronics"
Abstract:
Quality
of Service has been utmost priority for
LG Electronics. Wide spread of customer
base in urban and deep rural area posed
a challenge of uniform service experience
to end consumer irrespective of state of
infrastructure, geographic constraint etc.
This was when to overcome all challenges,
we at LG decided to launch a platform called
CSNet. Solution was to be designed keeping
in mind aspects such as availability, scalability,
security, agility and manageability. Key
consideration while designing the solution
was to ensure broader applicability i.e.
to start with transactional platform and
get extend up to collaborative platform.
All this was achieved at a significantly
low cost keeping TCO in absolute control.
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Session
Title:
Enterprise
2.0 Architecture Revolution.
Abstract:
Enterprise 2.0 has just arrived
to bring the power of Web 2.0 and
Social Networking in enterprises.
While SOA 2.0 significantly impacted
on transforming how we design &
use composite applications, Enterprise
2.0 is revolutionizing on how we
work together and realize the power
of communities and social computing
in an enterprise.
In
the current era of Web 2.0, so-called
"Digital Generation People"
are more tech savvy than ever and
how they work are changing. This
has started impacting enterprises
as well where they perform the role
of information workers. Their expectations
within an organization are increasingly
shaped by their experience on public
web sites that offer highly participatory
personalized interfaces and tools
such as Blogs, Wikis, RSS, tagging,
social networking, Mashups etc.
To work and run businesses effectively,
they see a definitive need to integrate
information from many sources, access
Information & applications anytime
anywhere, combine ad-hoc work with
enterprise applications & processes,
work with others as virtual teams
in a task-oriented fashion for short
durations in the context of projects.
This is resulting into the convergence
of 1) transactional applications,
2) SOA composite applications, 3)
Enterprise Portals and 4) Web Sites
and revolutionizing a new User Interaction
Paradigm in the Enterprise Architecture.
The
session begins with discussing the
drivers, challenges and demands
for Enterprise 2.0 architecture.
It then highly focuses on Enterprise
2.0 building blocks and a deep insight
into Enterprise 2.0 Architecture.
Oracle Fusion Middleware Enterprise
2.0 architecture - a latest innovation
from Oracle is referred as an example.
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Product
Line Architecture |
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Title:
Customer
Retention Framework (CRF)
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Session
Title:
Managing Global Product Line.
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Session
Title:
Telecom Operator Service Network.
Abstract:
The Telecom industry has been going through
rapid advancements in the recent past
with 3G, IMS and Service Delivery Platform.
With voice revenues getting near saturation
in mature markets, Telecom operators have
become more and more aware of the need
for common service delivery architecture
for convergence and data based applications.
The fundamental driver for such need stems
from quick time to deployment, operational
efficiency and synergy,
Various Service Network architectures
incorporating global standards and new
architecture trends such as SOA has been
evolving continuously to meet the long-term
and short-term objectives for Operators.
This presentation aims at capturing the
demands of the operator, the commercial
drivers and the architectural offerings
for Telecom Operator Service Network
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Legacy
Transformation & Modernization |
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Title:
Grid
Computing - the new paradigm in High performance
Abstract:
The information age is producing humungous amount
of data that requires a paradigm shift in thinking
about how to store and process this data. Traditional
architectures fade into cost overruns, scalability
and ROI issues.
Distributed computing is the answer. In traditional
High performance settings, one often assumes
a "well-behaved" system: no faults
or failures, minimal security requirements,
consistency of state among application components,
availability of global information and simple
resource sharing policies. While those assumptions
are arguably valid in tightly coupled systems,
they break down as systems become more distributed.
This presentation will talk about Hadoop architecture
and some case studies on how it is used to solve
high performance computing problems. Hadoop
is a grid-computing framework for running applications
on large clusters built of commodity hardware.
It lets one easily write and run applications
that process vast amounts of data (terabytes
to petabytes).
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Session
Title: Information
as a Service
Abstract:
With
the rapidly changing businesses, adaptability
& flexibility has become mantra for architecture
& design. Traditional BI architecture is data
oriented where as frequently changing business
scenarios / market conditions demand Business
Service Oriented approach. In this session we
will look at how to publish Information as Service
& implement SOA concepts and move towards
Business agile BI solutions.
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Session
Title:
Enterprise Architecture Transformation: Hypotheses
Driven
IT Portfolio Rationalization
Abstract:
Enterprise Architects anchor various advisory
initiatives for CTO/CIO to help the organization
in aligning the enterprise architecture with
the changing or target business environment.
Quite often architects lose control over this
transformational process. In order to control
this transformation process, architects will
need to learn how to systematically rationalize
the IT portfolio. However, IT portfolio rationalization
in itself is ineffective and unyielding if such
a process doesn't have a proven and time tested
approach at its foundation.
Hypotheses driven rationalization of IT portfolio
and mapping the findings to the remedial measures
is one such disciplined approach. It is an approach
wherein we first formulate various hypotheses
and then systematically collate the data for
validating them. Eventually after validation,
the remedial measures are identified which are
prioritized based on their business value.
This presentation is to demonstrate this approach
(with the help of a tool) for the benefits of
the enterprise architect community at large.
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Enterprise
Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) |
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Title:
Accenture SOA PoV and Enterprise SOA Challenges
Abstract:
No technology advance is having a more profound
impact on information technology and business
processes today than the emergence of service-oriented
architecture (SOA).In today's competitive global
markets, companies are under pressure to achieve
high performance through improved productivity,
faster time to market, greater flexibility and
a more effective workforce. Achieving these
goals requires them to make more effective use
of IT-posing huge challenges for CIOs to deliver
simpler, more flexible systems at a lower cost
of ownership. This must be accomplished despite
the fact that corporate IT systems are heterogeneous,
with multiple products across multiple platforms.
Accenture believes that SOA holds the key to
meeting these challenges-a view shared by many
of the leading analysts. SOA is a services-based
approach for designing and building flexible
IT solutions, easily combining legacy and new
technologies. It enables business process components
to be assembled and orchestrated efficiently
and rapidly, giving businesses the agility to
respond to changing business conditions and
delivering distinctive business services. For
internal IT organizations, it enables simpler
systems that are cheaper to run, can be modified
easily and integrate better with other platforms.
In this way, SOA provides for success in today's
business conditions while also enabling the
flexibility required to sustain that success
into the future-a key driver of high performance.
The biggest challenge in SOA adoption is not
about technology but the business processes.
Some of the major obstacles for adoption arise
when a business is not ready to re-engineer
its processes.
Other issues include identifying a business
rationale for SOA, communicating the business
rationale to senior management; uncertainty
about industry standards; and the ability to
recruit and train a technical team.
First, a company needs to develop a strategy.
The second thing is get the business involved
with the IT function.
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Title:
Enterprise
SOA on Microsoft Platform
Abstract:
'Service Oriented Architecture' is a loosely
used term in the industry. While the industry
is in the realization phase, it becomes very
critical to understand the trends and statistics
on the success of SOA. This session does a reality
check on SOA adoption and discusses the technicalities
in putting together Service Oriented Architecture
for an Enterprise on the Microsoft Platform.
Microsoft has been the 'Thought Leader' in innovating
new technologies and tools. This session provides
a peek into the SOA offering on the Microsoft
platform and shares the vision on the technologies
& tools leading to 'Service Modeling'. The
session will also bring out the Challenges and
Best Practices enroot to adopting SOA.
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Session
Title:
The
SOA Journey in Wells Fargo
Abstract:
Wells Fargo's SOA journey is more than a decade
long and has served the bank well. This paper
takes the audience through Wells Fargo's SOA
Journey and highlights the business benefits
and system evolutions. The paper also highlights
the challenges currently faced and the future
direction of Service Oriented Architecture in
the bank
The seeds for the Wells Fargo SOA revolution
were sown in 1993. SOA adoption was driven by
a specific business need but then started to
evolve and serve multiple functions. The architecture
formed a key part of driving the change within
Wells Fargo, enabling business to offer brand
new channels and services easily. SOA adoption
was triggered in 1993 with the need to provide
an integrated view for High net worth customers.
The next year saw additional channels added
to the environment like brokerage and IVR. As
the functionality proliferated, the customer
base was expanded to include the Retail Customers
as well as the High net worth customer segment.
The Internet Banking service at Wells Fargo
was launched leveraging this platform in 1995.
Soon other services where added sponsored by
the Call Center and Internet Banking including
bill-pay, Check Order, etc. In the time span
of 1997 through 1998, Computer Telephone Integration
(CTI) was added to the CORBA environment supporting
the call center to enable customers to authenticate
on the IVR and transfer the call with full context
to a banker for further assistance. In 1998
Norwest and Wells Fargo merged, and Wells Fargo's
three-tier environment was extended to incorporate
the Norwest-based accounting systems. This enabled
the call center, bankers, and customers to access
account information seamlessly at either bank,
independent of which system of record held customer
information, and smoothed the transition of
accounts to a single accounting system. In 2007,
Wells Fargo leveraged its SOA infrastructure
to launch Wells Fargo Mobiles browser-based
banking and later Wells Fargo Mobile text banking.
Wells Fargo was an early adopter of SOA and
its predecessor technologies and architectures.
The Organizational commitment towards SOA has
helped to discover new ways in driving business
process improvement. SOA has delivered a new
generation of highly complex and powerful solutions
that has evolved through time.
Wells Fargo continues with its efforts of implementing
new features and functionality leveraging its
SOA environment. One of the challenges encountered,
due to early adoption of Web services, that
they tended to address issues with technical
integration and system interoperability rather
than a more enterprise wide services offering.
Current areas of maturity of this technology
at Wells Fargo, is focusing on implementing
a stronger governance process to help maximize
the full potential of this approach. Lack of
initial governance created issues with service
duplication and requirement on the part of service
consumers to address the shortcomings. The next
generation of SOA in Wells Fargo will see a
greater emphasis on "Business Services"
at an enterprise level to increase reuse and
guide as to how services will be built and deployed.
A second area of potential growth being explored
is the greater use of AJAX technology to improve
the overall performance of the Wells Fargo SOA
implementation in its internal applications.
With new channels like Mobile and wireless rapidly
evolving, Web services and Service Oriented
Architectures will continue to be key in meeting
Wells Fargo's business objectives. SOA also
provides the bank required flexibility to tap
other business opportunities when need arises.
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IT
Service Managament & Governance |
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Session
Title:
A Reusable Clustering Framework for IT Portfolio
Optimization.
Abstract:
One of our Fortune 1000 clients had over
the years grown inorganically, which resulted
into a big IT delivery organization working
in silos. Due to overlapping application functionality
and duplication of resources, the company brought
inefficiencies into their processes. The company
was also not responsive to its growing business
demands and was gradually losing its cost effectiveness.
The cost could have been reduced by outsourcing
with wage arbitrage, but their outsourcing partners
were not able to achieve economies of scale
and give volume discounts. Perot Systems was
engaged to assess their current IT organization,
applications and processes, and to assist them
in building a transformation roadmap. The major
focus areas were to consolidate business demands
to achieve economy of scale and achieve volume
discount, bring agility to their IT structure,
make IT a service-oriented supply function,
optimize the production depth and facilitate
transparency in quality and cost.
Our IT Portfolio Management approach is based
on a series of steps to achieve end state vision
for our clients, such as portfolio analyses,
grouping applications into various clusters,
and consolidating business demands into service-oriented
supply function. Using this approach, all applications
of this client were clustered based on the parameters
such as differentiator vs. commodity, core vs.
non core, influence of service and delivery
locations, etc. In this talk, we will present
a reusable framework for the clustering of enterprise
applications to help organizations in developing
coherent sourcing models and service-oriented
supply functions that would help in streamlining
of processes and designing extensible architecture.
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Title:
Value Added Datacenter Approach.
Abstract:
Quite often a data center is viewed as
consolidation of servers, applications, storage
etc. acting as hosting service provider. The
inherent centralized and consolidated nature
of datacenter presents a lot of opportunities
to extend its role beyond a hosting service
provider. Datacenter can take responsibility
of providing some common or shared services
that can enhance existing capabilities of hosted
applications.
This presentation illustrates how a focus on
core shared services can evolve a datacenter
from a hosting service provider to value added
service provider ensuring that organizations
get maximum return from their data center investments.
Shared services are common to all business applications
hosted on datacenter. They address common functional
requirements like single window interface, end-to-end
security management, comprehensive system management,
master data management, single business identity,
pervasive business intelligence and business
process management. These services ensure that
the basic architecture principals like manageability;
agility, security, accessibility, quality of
data etc are delivered as part of core design
and are not retrofitted as an after thought.
This presentation will share details of each
of these potential Horizontal / Shared services
with examples from government and corporate
world.
Any organization (government or corporate) that
is investing in datacenters will benefit from
this session.
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Ramesh Loganathan
MD (and Vice President- Products), Progress Software
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Title:
Emerging enterprises- SOA meeting SaaS.
Abstract:
As SOA matures, it is imperative that SOA
becomes more main stream in the enterprise beyond
just integration. New solutions coming up will
leverage the notion of services and business
processes/orchestration in an entirely new light.
Could factor in top-down solution design (process
first, services next) as in Process Oriented
Architectures, or could even take SOA into the
emerging enterprise IT clouds. As virtualization
becomes a reality in enterprise infrastructure,
question of time before most IT solutions are
available in the virtual-enterprise cloud. Be
it complete solutions running in SaaS model,
or SOA services available on the cloud. These
solutions give more power to the end user. One
allows users to access the software with zero-hassle
and still allows integrating the same with other
solutions the user may need (Such as reporting),
and the other allows for services to be on the
cloud allowing users to “orchestrate”
these into business processes. The virtualization
combined with the empowered-users in the Web2.0
environment, where user wants to “control”
the software solutions being used, brings forth
new solution demands and architecture possibilities.
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Title:
Software
components as Enterprise Assets
Abstract:
In the knowledge era Enterprises are complex,
intangible and deeply embedded as systems. The
need for Architected Enterprise is felt by one
and all to mange burgeoning complexity and change.
Today there are talks of manufacturing enterprise
to order. If collectively we call the intangibles
as software and that is the only asset worth
managing to have sustained competitive advantage,
then we need a scientific approach to create
and manage enterprise assets.
This presentation provides insight into a standardized
way of conceptualizing, building and deploying
reusable software components in an enterprise
ecosystem to foster much needed innovation.
It also brings the gaps in the current industry
practices and an imperative to don a new role
of Architect as software economist in defining
the IT systems within the enterprise
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Olivier
Chief Architect
Schlumberger |
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Session
Title:
A
long journey to master data management
Abstract:
With the continuous growth of data collected
across the enterprise and the promises of SOA,
master data is becoming more important than
ever. Too often looked at as a technical problem,
it loses business traction by creating more
problems than what it is supposed to solve.
Moving away from a technical solution, Schlumberger
will present their methodology. Through a strong
involvement of the business, they force the
identification of a business owner for each
master data as the starting point for process
definition and a synchronization solution. A
data alignment monitoring tool helps to track
progress and to raise visibility.
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