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are four major components of the conference:
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Environmental
Challenges Facing the Modern Enterprise
"Environmental Challenges" develops the conditions
that currently are driving the modern enterprise to address
the issues of Enterprise Architecture. It develops the
environmental conditions that literally demand a revolution
in concepts as the tools of the Industrial Age begin to
limit our effectiveness for addressing the complexities
and rate of change of the 21st Century Enterprise.
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Conceptual
Foundations
"Conceptual Foundations" develops the Framework
for Enterprise Architecture as a basis for defining what
architecture looks like relative to Enterprises. (We know
what "architecture" looks like for buildings,
for airplanes, for automobiles, etc. What does it look
like for Enterprises?) Out of the context of the Framework,
it is easy to observe the physics surrounding Enterprises,
that is, the "laws of nature" that are operating
and affecting the Enterprise operation. Further, it is
easy to observe why the approaches of the past, the Industrial
Age, are breaking down in the face of the Information
Age, and why knowledge of the classic "short term/long
term trade-off" is fundamental survival in the foreseeable
future.
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Practical
Implementation Issues
"Practical Implementation Issues" develops approaches
to reduce the "time to market" for responding
to Enterprise requirements. It identifies the obstacles
that must be overcome in order to effect successful implementation
of architectural concepts. Time permitting, it develops
certain obstacles in some detail and suggests possible
strategies to overcome them. Further, it establishes that
the desirable characteristics of "alignment,"
"flexibility," "adaptability," "interoperability,"
"reusability," "user-friendliness,"
"reduced time-to-market," "quality,"
etc., etc. are actually engineering design objectives,
Enterprise engineering design objectives.
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Conclusions and Recommendations
"Conclusions" summarizes the value proposition
for Enterprise Architecture and discloses some of the
early numbers that indicate that Architecture-based approaches
actually are cheaper and faster than the traditional approaches
for building systems for the Enterprise. In fact, the
numbers suggest that it is orders of magnitude cheaper
and faster.
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The
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