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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.
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With
its growing consumer market, India is gearing
to become a major base for the productdevelopment
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.
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The
Zachman Framework defines “Enterprise
Periodic Table”: it enables senior
business managers and IT professionals
to understand the implications of
key business and IT strategies that
must be established for these changing
times.
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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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