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In
high growth industry like Telecom, Airlines, Finance, Insurance,
Retail, Manufacturing, Energy, etc. senior management is constantly
looking for innovation and facing the daunting task of aligning
the IT systems with business goals to ensure competitiveness
without much success. Very often, IT managers find themselves
in the middle of chaos wherein the enterprise spending more
than $100 million per year to develop and maintain information
technology systems which are not able to support changing
business requirements. In fact, there is growing need to consolidate
the multiple line of business (LOB), face the complexity of
rationalizing 70 or 100 plus IT systems and task of mapping
their relevance to the enterprise profitability.
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"The
framework has been applied in Global 2000 organizations*
such as
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Volkswagen |
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Boeing |
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Sprint |
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Swisscom
Mobile |
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Bank
of America |
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Health
Canada |
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Allstate
Insurance |
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Federal
Express |
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Johnson
& Johnson |
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NCR
Corp |
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Glaxo
SmithKline |
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Volkswagen |
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General
Motors |
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Canadian
Imperial bank
of Commerce |
note-*
based on public domain information
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Enterprise Architecture
(EA) is a comprehensive framework used to manage and align
an organization's business processes, Information Technology
(IT) software and hardware, people, operations and projects
with the organization's overall strategy. A strong Enterprise
Architecture process helps to answer basic questions like:
What are the organization's business processes and how is
IT supporting those processes?
The
Zachman Framework has become
de facto standard for Enterprise
Architecture for aligning the business goals with Information
Technology Investments world over. It's not surprising to
note that why Fortune 2000 companies are using this framework
as a blueprint for ensuring business improvements, cost reductions
as high as $500 mn (and more) and increasing the opportunities
to collaborate with partners across the multiple market segments
and crossing the geographical boundaries.
 With
its growing consumer market, India is gearing to become a
major base for the product development firms and new technology
companies, This conference will provide an opportunity to
the architects, program managers, CIOs and CTOs to share knowledge
of innovative architecture which represents the next generation
of organizational practice.
"In
India, very small fractions (<1 %) of professionals are
enterprise architects.
The
objective of this one day Conference by John Zachman is to
build an understanding of the concepts of Enterprise Architecture
and develop a sense of urgency for implementing those concepts
in a modern enterprise. It will greatly improve your chances
for a successful implementation of enterprise information
architecture. Make no mistake, such an implementation is a
daunting task with opportunities to fail lurking in many places.
As inventor of enterprise architecture, he has obviously encountered
a good many implementation problems and gives some great advice
on how to overcome them.
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