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Ten Manchester-area high schoolers to plunge into high-tech worldBy DOUG ALDEN
New Hampshire Union Leader
August 17. 2014 8:54PM
MANCHESTER — Ten Manchester-area high school students are getting a head start on college and beyond in a new program designed to take high-tech learning outside the classroom.
The Computer Science Career Exploration is a collaboration between the Millyard-based internet company Dyn and Manchester Community College.
"Many companies are looking for people that come with a background of experience who can start working immediately without requiring major training," said Ali Rafieymehr, the veteran tech entrepreneur and former dean of the University of New Hampshire-Manchester who was hired to oversee education at Dyn this spring.
The two-year program is an intensive introduction to the real world of computer science, starting with high-level coursework and finishing with a semester studying entrepreneurship under a local leader. Participants gain the experience of an internship before leaving high school, Rafieymehr said.
"The teachers are going to be industry leaders," he said.
The 10 students were picked by Rafieymehr after an application and interviewing process. The program begins Sept. 2.
By learning hands-on with local companies. Rafieymehr said he hopes future prospects will get a glimpse of what Manchester and New Hampshire have to offer once they graduate college.
"We need to start concentrating on students in high school, especially in the technology area," Rafieymehr said.
"By them getting connected working on projects for companies, they might decide to stay locally in New Hampshire rather than leaving the state," he said.


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The Last Week
What the Gospels Really Teach About Jesus's Final Days in Jerusalem
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Top Jesus scholars Marcus J. Borg and John Dominic Crossan join together to reveal a radical and little-known Jesus. As both authors reacted to and responded to questions about Mel Gibson's blockbuster The Passion of the Christ, they discovered that many Christians are unclear on the details of events during the week leading up to Jesus's crucifixion.
Using the gospel of Mark as their guide, Borg and Crossan present a day-by-day account of Jesus's final week of life. They begin their story on Palm Sunday with two triumphal entries into Jerusalem. The first entry, that of Roman governor Pontius Pilate leading Roman soldiers into the city, symbolized military strength. The second heralded a new kind of moral hero who was praised by the people as he rode in on a humble donkey. The Jesus introduced by Borg and Crossan is this new moral hero, a more dangerous Jesus than the one enshrined in the church's traditional teachings.
The Last Week depicts Jesus giving up his life to protest power without justice and to condemn the rich who lack concern for the poor. In this vein, at the end of the week Jesus marches up Calvary, offering himself as a model for others to do the same when they are confronted by similar issues. Informed, challenged, and inspired, we not only meet the historical Jesus, but meet a new Jesus who engages us and invites us to follow him.
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The brawl may have been touched off by a fight between people not related to the gathering in the second-floor ballroom at the Radisson Hotel, 6225 West Century Blvd., said Sgt. Robin Richards of the LAPD West Los Angeles Station.
Officers arrived at the hotel around 12:45 a.m. and started to leave the hotel around 1:30 a.m., Richards said.
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Monday, October 21, 2013
|Plenary & Tracks
|Plenary: Business Transformation
|9:00 - 9:05
Welcome AddressAllen Brown, CEO, The Open Group
Welcome Address
Allen Brown, President & CEO, The Open Group
Allen Brown is President and CEO of The Open Group – a global consortium that enables the achievement of business objectives through IT standards. He is also President of the Association of Enterprise Architects (AEA).
|9:05 - 9:55
Just Exactly What Is Going on in Business and Technology?Andy Mulholland, former Global Chief Technology Officer, Capgemini
Just Exactly What Is Going on in Business and Technology?
Andy Mulholland, Former Global Chief Technology Officer, Capgemini
Disruptive Innovation is occurring across not just business, or even social activities, but across society and government, as new low cost technologies become ubiquitous and pervasive in every aspect of modern life and culture. Technology is no longer solely the domain of the IT department! Exactly what this means to each of us individually is usually limited to our role and personal experiences in some subsets and its difficult to grasp how this fits in with the total picture. This plenary session aims to establish the scope, issues and goals for this meeting of the Open Group by providing a 'big picture' of what, where, who and why these changes are occurring as Business adopts new technologies in disruptive ways that create entirely new business competitive capabilities.
There is a direct parallel with the period of Disruptive Innovation that occurred twenty years ago with the advent of the PC, leading to Client-Server architecture and enterprise applications such as ERP. Business Process Re-Engineering was the name given to the innovative change in Business models as the internal back office processes were transformed and the IT organization and CIO were tasked with operating these new technologies for competitive business value. Today Tablets and Smart Phones with Cloud architectures running Apps and Services are the technology disruption capability and Business Innovation is focused on the Front Office and 'doing business' externally.
Most, if not all the attendees will find much to recognize as part of their current experiences, but for many it will be the first opportunity to understand how these are part of a much larger business and technology disruption and innovation. The ability to 'do business externally' has at its center of the concept of Boundaryless Business Process, it also requires alignment and integration with the existing IT architecture, and introduces new challenges for members. This plenary attempts to set the scene as to what mutually agreed standards and methods to extend the various aspects of the Open Group's activities need to be considered.
Andy Mulholland
Andy joined Capgemini in 1996, bringing with him thirteen years of experience from previous senior IT roles across all major industry sectors. In his former role as Global Chief Technology Officer, Andy was a member of the Capgemini Group management board and advised on all aspects of technology-driven market changes, as well as serving on the technology advisory boards of several organizations and enterprises. In 2006, Andy drew on his wealth of knowledge of Web 2.0 and Service Oriented Architecture technologies and co-authored the globally recognized book 'Mashup Corporations' with Chris Thomas of Intel, followed in May 2008 by 'Mesh Collaboration' with Nick Earl of Cisco as his co-author. More recently, Andy has published a third book in this series entitled "Enterprise Cloud Computing: A Strategy Guide for Business and Technology leaders" in 2010 co-authored with well-known academic Peter Fingar and one of the leading authorities on business process, John Pyke. The book describes the wider business implications of Cloud Computing with the promise of on-demand business innovation and as such was one of the first books to make the connection between the technology and new business models. In 2011 Andy was a contributing author to 'Force.com' subtitled 'how to thrive in the new digital economy' that described how Apps and Hosted Services could be harnessed by Business.
A popular speaker with many appearances at major events all around the World, and frequently quoted by the press, in 2009 Andy was voted one of the top 25 most influential CTOs in the world by InfoWorld USA, and in 2010 his CTOblog was voted best Blog for Business Managers and CIOs for the third third year running by Computing Weekly UK. Andy retired in June 2012, but still maintains an active association with the Capgemini Group and his activities across the Industry lead to his achieving 29th place in 2012 in the prestigious USA ExecRank ratings category 'Top CTOs'.
Second Career 2012
Driven by a strong desire to work on the transference of the technology capabilities into new business capabilities and able to focus time on the various aspects that I define as the creation and operation of a 'new business infrastructure. A platform built from the new technologies to create a stable, secure and reliable open environment on which government, business and society can meet and 'do business. I have carefully selected activities that are mutually interrelated and supportive namely;
Capgemini Group – consulting on the strategy and direction of the new global infrastruture business unit (established in 2010) that provides a fully integrated set of 'services' from traditional outsourcing through to Cloud Services orchestration for clients.
Henley Business School – the creation and teaching of a module for European business managers focusing on identifying, and delivering, innovative business capabilities.
Reading University – Chair of the Advisory Board for the School of Informatics
British Computer Society – member of the Policy board specifically working on the development of entrepreneurial and innovative capabilities for professional development of the members and to creating a vibrant and successful technology sector in the UK.
EC DG CONNECT Horizon 2020 – expert advisor providing external expertise on the technology market and business innovative use of technology to aid the creation of a long running program to foster innovation and innovative behavior in Government.
Prior to 1996
Founder or co-founder of two startups in the UK;
Fibre Optic System Sales – one of the first providers of high capacity networking systems using fibre optic backbones successfully sold to BICC plc as part of their diversification into technologies making use of their cable products.
Business Information System Sales – one of the first new wave System Integrators successfully sold to Wang Corporation to form a substantial part of their moves to transform into a 'services' business.
|9:55 - 10:40
One World EA Framework for Governments - The Way ForwardJudith Jones, CEO, Architecting the Enterprise Ltd; and Andrew Tucker, Head of IT Strategy & Architecture, DWP, UK Government
One World EA Framework for Governments - The Way Forward
Judith Jones, CEO, Architecting the Enterprise Ltd
Andrew Tucker, Head of IT Strategy & Architecture, DWP, UK Government
This session will address how we build on the success of the One World EA Framework to achieve aspirations to effectively manage climate changes & impacts, global education, global e-commerce, global food challenges, healthcare challenges, tackle cybercrime and many other global issues. One World EA framework looks at how we meet these challenges, and suggests ways forward that Enterprise Architects can make a difference in assisting governments to meet these future challenging goals.
The world's governments are developing their global thinking and harmony in working towards common goals for the environment, trading standards and economic stability and prosperity for all as set out outlined in the G7 and G8 Summits and many other collaborative networks. Governments are learning that they need effective Enterprise Architecture to make their policies reality and they need industry to support them in doing so.
In 2013, the UN awarded South Korea a UN Public Service Award for their innovative use of Enterprise Architecture and savings of circa $400 million in their e-government initiatives which has placed them first in the United Nations survey on e-government. family.
In the same survey the UK Government is established as the number 3 in e-government development worldwide. The Department of Works and Pensions (DWP) is a leader in the development of UK e-government using Enterprise Architecture and have played a major role in developing the Enterprise Architecture for UK Government as a whole.
This joint session describes the successful progress made by governments and their agencies with Enterprise Architecture and the role that EA Frameworks play and where they need to develop to play a significant role in the future.
Andrew Tucker, Head of IT Strategy and Architecture at DWP, will explain DWP's role with Enterprise Architecture and also the Government EA Framework leadership approach to create Federated Enterprise Architectures in the UK Government.
Key takeaways:
1. Where Government EA Frameworks are successful
2. DWP leadership in Enterprise Architecture
3. How to build on the success for future global challenges
4. The Way Ahead for a One World Framework
Judith Jones is CEO of Architecting the Enterprise, the global market leader in TOGAF® Training and Consultancy. She is an experienced Business Manager and IT Consultant. Judith's prime experience includes business re-engineering, business architecture, enterprise architecture and governance, architecture practice management, business value engineering, IT strategy and management. Judith has worked with many Fortune 100 and government agencies to develop architecture competencies and capabilities. Her background experience includes more than 20 years as a manager in business, technical infrastructure and design with ICL, now Fujitsu Services.
Judith has been a champion and practitioner of Enterprise Architecture standards, including TOGAF and TOGAF certification, for over 20 years and was instrumental in the development of ICL's OpenFramework. Judith is an active member of The Open Group and is a major contributor and an editor of TOGAF 7, 8 and 9 as well as leading TOGAF projects for localization, case studies, ADML, synergy and collaboration projects.
Andrew Tucker is Head of IT Strategy and Architecture at the Department of Works and Pensions, UK Government, which is accountable for over £2 billion of IT spend per annum and 120,000 staff managing £200 billion of UK Government spend. Andrew plays a significant part in leading the enterprise architecture for one of the largest IT transformation programs in the world, moving DWP's existing services to the digital channel. Andrew leads a team of 60 Enterprise and Solution Architects and is an advocate of EA standards to ensure consistent and successful solutions in government, especially TOGAF® and ArchiMate®. Recently, Andrew applied the US Federal Enterprise Architecture Framework (FEAF) to establish the UK Government EA Framework across the whole of UK Government.
Andrew has worked with DWP for seven years and previously held posts in Enterprise Architecture with leading government and commercial organizations including UK MoD, Global Credit Reference Agency, IBM, Price Waterhouse Coopers, Standard Bank, Sainsbury's, BP/ING Bank and many others.
Andrew has a BSc.in Geology and originally trained as a Chartered Accountant before moving into the IT industry in 1990 to commence his illustrious career.
|10:40 - 11:10
|11:10 - 11:15
|Spotlight: Open FAIR Certification Program
|11:15 - 11:55
Bath & North East Somerset Council – Using EA to Inform Business TransformationRichard Shreeve, Consultancy Director, IPL and Angela Parratt, Head of Transformation and joint CIO, Bath and North East Somerset Council
Bath & North East Somerset Council – Using EA to Inform Business Transformation
Councils are complex organisations, providing a huge range of diverse services. Complex and inefficient webs of processes & technology have built up over time to support these services, which limits agility and hampers innovation. To free itself of this complexity, BANES Council used an Enterprise Architecture approach to develop the Council's new 5 year IT strategy, which sets out how it will achieve significant savings on its annual IT spend. The strategy aims to drive out complexity from the IT estate whilst ensuring that the IT architecture evolves and changes in a way which fully supports and aligns with the changing structure and business operating model of the future council.
This case study will:
Angela Parratt is Head of Transformation and Joint CIO at Bath & North East Somerset Council, responsible for IT change programmes across the council, and for ensuring the IT architecture evolves and changes in a way that fully supports and aligns with the structure and operating model of the council.
Richard Shreeve is the Consultancy Director at IPL, a leading UK IT services company specializing in the delivery of intelligent business solutions. Experienced in the fields of Enterprise Architecture, Business Process Management, Information Management and Requirements Engineering, Richard has contributed to the success of many high profile business transformation programmes across a variety of sectors including Manufacturing, Financial Services, Telecoms and Emergency Services. He can be reached firstname.lastname@example.com.
|12:00 - 12:30
|Business Transformation Panel
|12:30 - 12:50
Jericho Forum - Decade of Success
Jericho Forum - Decade of Success
|12.50 - 14.00
|Finance / Commerce
|Tutorials and Workshops
|Business Transformation
|Open Platform 3.0 (Cloud, Big Data & Disruptive Technologies) / Innovation
|EA Practice
|14: 00 - 14:45
Merger Transformation of Three Financial Firms: How TOGAF® and ArchiMate® Made This PossibleHenry Franken, CEO, BizzDesign, Netherlands
Merger Transformation of Three Financial Firms: How TOGAF® and ArchiMate® Made This Possible
Henry Franken, CEO, BizzDesign, Netherlands
The case concern the merger of three previously independent insurance companies (named A,B, C), located in different metropolitan areas:
A: specialized in homeowners and travel insurancance.
ABC now offers all the insurance products of the original companies. It has a common front-office for customer contacts, and for each class of insurance products, there is a separate back-office, located at the headquarters of the original companies. The merger has resulted in a fragmented IT landscape: each of the original companies brought in their "heritage" of legacy applications.tions. ABC wanted to rationalize their IT applications portfolio, to simplify the application landscape, improve consistency, reduce maintenance costs.This presentation shows how they did it using:
Henry Franken is chair of the ArchiMate Forum at The Open Group. Henry is co-founder of the BPM Forum Netherlands. He has co-authored several international publications and Open Group white papers.
At BiZZdesign, Henry is responsible for research and innovation. Alignment with and contribution to open standards are key. BiZZdesign has contributed to and edited the ArchiMate 2 specification. BiZZdesign is involved in the workgroup working towards the next version of TOGAF® and its alignment with ArchiMate®.
BiZZdesign offers native tooling, consultancy and training for TOGAF and ArchiMate. BiZZdesign offers complete and integrated solutions (tools, methods, consultancy and training) to design and improve organizations. Enterprise architecture, business requirements management and process business analysis and management are important ingredients in the solutions.
Challenges and Opportunities for Big Data in HealthcareLarry Schmidt, Chief Technologist - Americas Health and Life Sciences Industries, HP, US
Challenges and Opportunities for Big Data in Healthcare
Larry Schmidt, Chief Technologist - Americas Health and Life Sciences Industries, HP, US
Most industries can leverage Big Data and the appropriate analytics to improve margins, predict results, reduce fraud and obtain competitive advantage. Metrics which reveal the business impact of Big Data often are tied to a financial performance. While the Healthcare industry can certainly measure Big Data's value through financial impact, Healthcare also measures value through human impact. Big Data, and its surrounding information architecture is a technology enabler for improving the health of a population, discovering new treatments to disease and implementing best practice through evidence based protocol. In Healthcare, Big Data saves lives!
This session will cover some of the challenges the Healthcare industry faces when deploying Big Data solutions. It will feature how Big Data is being leveraged to improve Healthcare discovery and delivery.
Key takeaways:
Larry Schmidt, an HP Fellow, is the Chief Technologist for the Health & Life Sciences (HLS) industries within the Americas Office of the Chief Technologist (CT). Schmidt, an enterprise architect and Distinguished Systems Engineer (SE), provides innovation, thought leadership and architecture expertise to HP clients within the HLS and Financial Services industries.
How to Improve Productivity of Highly Mobile and Global Architecture Groups - an IBM Case StudyMartin Owen, CEO, Corso, UK
How to Improve Productivity of Highly Mobile and Global Architecture Groups - an IBM Case Study
Martin Owen, CEO, Corso, UK
Open Group members will know IBM as a very large IT services/software/hardware company but IBM is also a very large manufacturing & distribution company, with over 400,000 employees and operations all over the world. IBM's CIO organization is responsible for the systems which keep this running. The CIO organization has architects, including Enterprise Architects, all over the world. Keeping this team productive andconsistent has been challenging. This session will address how those learnings have been extended to IBM architects working in the field, with customers. These architects are also widely distributed and even more numerous and mobile than the architects in the CIO organization. Improving their consistency and productivity has been even more challenging. This session will discuss how IBM is transforming how we manage resources to support our global community of architects. Session will cover approaches used and how the IBM EA team enables global and mobile architect teams to improve productivity, increase consistency and reduce troubled projects in the enterprise.
Key takeaways:
- Approaches used to simplify processes and exploit EA asset information
Martin Owen has spent over 20 years in Enterprise Architecture and is a co-author of the original Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) standard. Martin has run teams driving the product directions, strategies and roadmaps for the Enterprise Architecture tools at IBM.
|14:45 - 15:30
Architecting Automation Driven Business TransformationSantosh Mohanty, VP and Head of Components Engineering Group, Tata Consultancy Services Limited, India
Architecting automation driven Business Transformation
Santosh Mohanty, VP and Head of Components Engineering Group, Tata Consultancy Services Limited, India
The advancement of technology, social media and service models have provided opportunities for enterprises to redefine customer centricity and drive organizational growth and efficiency. This entails business transformation that is ably supported by transformation of process, application, data and computing infrastructure. Any large scale transformational activity needs to gain management confidence for go ahead. This means a clear articulation of growth and efficiency that has to be achieved in the target state, understanding of current state, migration capability from current state to target state and ability to develop and service target state with speed and quality.
The speaker will articulate the opportunities and challenges in a large scale business transformation and how to architect automation covering knowledge extraction of current state, generation of target state and tool based migration of soft and computing assets.
Best practices and lessons learnt from recent engagements will be shared covering rule extraction, rule validation, flow diagram, system documentation, model based development, data quality management, variability handling, test management, change management and change automation. Benefits covering speed and quality both in development and support enviornment will be presented.
Key takeaways:
Confidence to adopt large scale business transofrmation depends upon the follwoing four factors:
Dr. Santosh Mohanty is a Vice President at TCS. He has twenty five years of industry experience covering Business Strategy, Business Unit Management, Corporate R&D, and Leadership Grooming. He has PhD in Mathematical Sciences and MS in Computational Mathematics from NIU, IL USA. He has been awarded the title of Distinguised IT Architect (Profession Leader) by The Open Group.
"Wellnet", the Case of Healthcare Establishing the New Digital Internet of ThingsMark Skilton, Professor of Practice in Information Systems Management, Warwick Business School, UK
"Wellnet", the case of Healthcare establishing the new digital internet of things
Mark Skilton, Professor of Practice in Information Systems Management, Warwick Business School, UK
Are you ready for the new generation of embedded technology and ubiquitous systems that pervade our daily lives?
With Apple rumoured to be launching smart apple watch or the gesture gaming experience, or home automation of connected use of lingual translations, the explosion of data and lower cost multi-sensor devices connected over networks are rapidly changing the possibilities of technology and human sensory intervention.
The Healthcare sector is providing leading early examples of patient care augmentation, improved palliative and whole of life care and overall cost effective improvement from integrated technology and services. Often using accessible low cost smart phone and other devices and connectivity with new biosensor and information applications, these technologies are opening up a new frontier of open platform augmented services. Many lessons can be learnt from the healthcare industry in the emerging abilities to integrate information in context with a range of services and resources for the advancement of technology enabled industry and the benefit of society.
This session will illustrate the health sector revolution with current work of the Platform 3.0 Business Use Cases that is defining how digital orchestration, micro sourcing, secure integration and contract metering and multi-device user experience is transforming IT and Industry.
Mark Skilton is co-chair of the Cloud Computing Work Group and a member of the Platform 3.0 Forum in The Open Group. He is a member of the ISO JC38 Distributed Computing Standards and an editor and author of the Cloud Credential Council Professional Cloud Solution Architect Certification. Mark is Professor of Practice in Information Systems Management at Warwick Business School UK and a visiting lecturer at Washington State University, Pullman, USA in Cloud Computing and Digital Innovation.
Lean Enterprise Architecture: An Operations Management ApproachThomas Obitz, Principal Advisor, KPMG LLP, UK
Lean Enterprise Architecture: An Operations Management Approach
Thomas Obitz, Principal Advisor, KPMG LLP, UK
Enterprise Architecture is about creative problem solving, and about influencing the organization to facilitate change. But there is more: Running an enterprise architecture function also has a very non-glamorous, practical, operational side of managing workload, optimizing processes, and "getting things done." This tutorial shows how to apply "lean†techniques to Enterprise Architecture. The example based on a real case - demonstrates the results: By reducing waste and optimizing scheduling of resources, the
Key takeaways:
-- Deliver change effectively and efficiently
Thomas Obitz is a Principal Advisor with KPMG LLP in London. Building on more than 20 years of experience in the IT industry, he acts primarily as a lead architect of major initiatives, as an enterprise architect, and a business architect. He has more than 13 years of experience in the Financial Services industry, with a strong focus on Investment Banking and Capital Markets.
Besides his client work, Thomas is involved with the development of the TOGAF framework since 2004. He is part of the Business Architecture Working Group and served as chair of the TOGAF strategy working group and of the TOGAF – BIAN collaboration initiative to ease EA adoption in the Banking industry. Thomas is frequent speaker at international conferences.
|15:30 - 16:00
|Finance / Commerce
|Tutorials and Workshops
|Architecture Practice in the Finance Sector
|Healthcare Transformation
|Architecture Methods and Techniques
|16:00 - 16:45
Enterprise Architecture - We do that?: How (not) to do Enterprise Architecture at a BankOmkhar Arasaratnam, Chief Security Architect, TD Bank Group, Canada
Enterprise Architecture - We Do That?: How (not) to do Enterprise Architecture at a Bank
Omkhar Arasaratnam, Chief Security Architect, TD Bank Group, Canada
After almost 15 years of working in a technology company, Omkhar ventured forth to conquer Enterprise Architecture at a Financial Services company. All of his years of Architectural pontification from the ivory tower could not prepare him for this. Federated P&L accountability and mandate?! Disparate reference architectures!? Line of business sponsorsed projects with no IT involvment!? How does one go about applying Enterprise Architecture in such an environment?
Please join Omkhar in an insightful, engaging and sometimes humorous discussion of how he took traditional, top down, center based architectural methodologies and applied it to a highly federated environment.
Key takeaways:
-- Enterprise Architecture program revitalization
Omkhar Arasaratnam is the Chief Security Architect at TD Bank Group. He is an accomplished author and technical editor of several IBM, John Wiley & Sons, Open Group and O'Reilly publications. Omkhar also holds several pending patents in Information Technology. Mr. Arasaratnam previously held leadership roles at The Open Group in the Cloud Workgroup, and participated in the Security Forum.
The Future Architecture of HealthcareMateen Greenway, Chief Technologist, HP Enterprise Services, UK
The Future Architecture of Healthcare
Mateen Greenway, Chief Technologist, HP Enterprise Services, UK
An exmination of how Healthcare will evolve in the next few years and how Cloud, Mobility, Big Data architectures can help Healthcare evolve from treating the ill to enabling individual wellness.
Key takeaways:
-- The model of healthcare in the Western world is fundamentally broken
Mateen Greenway is the Chief Technologist, HP Enterprise Services, EMEA Public Sector (currently focussing mainly on Healthcare and Education). In this role, he is responsible for client innovation, evolving the industry vision & solutions and business development. In addition Greenway acts as CT for a variety of global accounts.
How to Measure Enterprise Architecture Complexity: A Generic Approach, Practical Applications and Lessons LearnedChristian Schmidt, Managing Partner, Scape Consulting GmbH, Germany
How to Measure Enterprise Architecture Complexity: A Generic Approach, Practical Applications and Lessons Learned
Christian Schmidt, Managing Partner, Scape Consulting GmbH, Germany
Complexity of both, business and IT, is one of the most frequently discussed topics in EA today. For many architects, complexity is of central concern due to its (assumed) impacts on operating costs, organizational agility, and operational risks. Architects therefore generally seek to minimize (or at least mitigate) complexity (e. g. via standardization of infrastructure or application consolidation). However, complexity decisions are still mostly based on the architects' intuition and experience rather than on formal criteria. This may be attributed to the fact that no established measurement models exist so far.
In this speech I will report on some of the latest research in the field as covered by two research projects that I am currently engaged with, namely CEAR (Complexity in Enterprise Architectures) of Darmstadt University of Technology and CALM3 (Complexity of Application Landscapes - Methods, Models, Measures) of Munich University of Technology. In particular, I will present a new and practice-proven approach for measuring Enterprise Architecture complexity based on existing architecture frameworks and tools. The approach is fully generic and applicable to any architecture layer (business, application, information, technology) and at any scale (enterprise, domain, solution). This way, the collection of data as well as the integration and interpretation of measures is strongly facilitated. The approach is illustrated by a real-life case on the landscape transformation of an insurance company.
Based on my practical experience, I will also highlight some of the possible usage scenarios for complexity assessments along the architecture cycle (e. g., identification of pain points / hot spots, support for target architecture decisions, benchmarkings). Beyond that, I will give some recommendations for successfully implementing complexity measurement and management practices and report on the most common pitfals.
Key takeaways:
-- attendees will be introduced to a new and practice-proven method to measure the complexity of enterprise architectures emanating from the latest research in the field
Dr. Christian Schmidt is a Managing Partner at Scape Consulting GmbH. He is specialized in establishing, optimizing and supporting Enterprise Architecture practices within end-user organizations and has authored a number of publications on these subjects. Mr. Schmidt has been working as a consultant, project manager, architect and software engineer within various industries including banking, (re-) insurance and pharmaceutical. He holds a PhD in Business Administration and a Diploma in Information Systems from Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany.
|16:45 - 17:30
The Road to Architecture Maturation in a Highly Federated, Multi-regional Architecture LandscapeMax Fischer, Chief Enterprise Architect, Nordea, Sweden
The Road to Architecture Maturation in a Highly Federated, Multi-regional Architecture Landscape
Max Fischer, Chief Enterprise Architect, Nordea, Sweden
Nordea did embark a focused road to maturing architecture during 2011, now 2 years later there are some conclusions and learnings ta share and also a clearer way forward.
Key takeaways:
Max Fischer has working as an enterprise architect and manager of architects for the last 8 years, with task as Head of EA Implementation and Chief CRM Architect in TeliaSonera, Enterprise Business Architect in SEB, Head of Business IT Architecture and Lead EA in Nordea Group Functions, and latest Chief Enterprise Architect and process owner of Architecture and IT Strategy in Nordea. Max has always strived to make architecture tangible and always architect with the consumer in mind, focusing on simplifying a complex world. Max is reporting to the CTO in Nordea.
Transforming the Healthcare Sector with Enterprise Architecture - Part-IRoar Engen, Head of Enterprise Architecture, Helse Sør-Øst RHF, Norway
Transforming the Healthcare Sector with Enterprise Architecture - Part-I
Roar Engen, Head of Enterprise Architecture, Helse Sør-Øst RHF, Norway
The Healthcare environment is complex, with a conservative culture with regards to utilizing information technology to drive and support transformation towards a more patient and citizen-centric experience.
In order to support and drive change, the Norwegian healthcare organisations establish the Nasjonal IKT to focus on common information strategies, standardization, shared practices and implementations across the sector.
Case: In 2010 Nasjonal IKT decided that the The Open Group Architecture Framework / TOGAF will be the standard for architectural work in all National projects, and strongly advised the four healthcare regions to use the standard. This kicked off a series of activities both within the Nasjonal IKT, in the regional healthcare organizations and created interest for the framework and practices throughout the whole healthcare sector. Nasjonal IKT has worked systematically to build competence and experience, mature and address stakeholders, establish shared practices and leverage the value existing and proven practices from organizations like The Open Group can provide.
The presentation will take the audience through part-I of the EA transformation journey for the public healthcare sector in Norway and share experiences from the three first years from end-user, customer and provider perspectives.
It will conclude with some lessons learned, and thoughts on what part 2 holds in terms of challenges and opportunities.
Key takeaways:
-- The value of competence, proven practice and structure in a conservative culture;
Roar Engen is Head of Enterprise Architecture at Helse Sør-Øst RHF (the Southern and Eastern Norway Regional Health Authority), the largest of the four Regional Health Authorities in Norway. He also works for the National ICT in Norway, which is the institution responsible for coordinating ICT-related initiatives in the specialized health care services.
Architecting the enterprise along the communication paradigm using TOGAF®Ramtin Mesbahipour, Managing Consultant, Detecon Intl., Germany
Architecting the enterprise along the communication paradigm using TOGAF®
Ramtin Mesbahipour, Managing Consultant, Detecon Intl., Germany
The hidden paradigm behind modelling the enterprise capabilities is based on Ford and Taylor's idea of sequencing activities and taking the best in class approaches. It has once proven to be suitable for mass production of goods. While the paradigm is still the basic modelling assumption for shaping enterprise capabilities, the environmental and social basis for enterprises changed. The business has moved from mass good production to massive personalized services around goods, where customers can place unpredicted change requests almost at any time. The fact that such events occur unpredicted does not mean they occur rarely. The exception to the lucky path is basically the routine. How the reaction to such unpredicted events look like is shown by the inflationary usage of e-mails, instant messages, phones, and meetings. It seems that communication is about to become the new paradigm.
Putting massively personalized services on top of complex products asks for fitting architectural structures. Ford's hidden paradigm fails to master the resulting architectural complexity due to the lack of the concept of "communicationâ€. What enterprises need to master is an enterprise architecture driven by communication.
The presentation discusses a methodology to create an enterprise architecture that promotes the communication-centric paradigm using TOGAF. We describe how the role of individuals within an enterprise and the communication paths between them are used to create an enterprise architecture that is understood and accepted by end-users. We also show how architecture planning on the business, application, and data is performed using the concepts of subject-oriented business process management in rapid architecture cycles, creating greater agility. We also show the lessons learned from financial sector that motivates the application of this methodology.
Key takeaways:
-- Develop an understanding about the hidden paradigms behind current enterprise modelling
Ramtin Mesbahipour studied information science and mathematics. He has a long experience in integration architectures within different industries, currently focusing on EAM consulting. He is an expert in introduction of the EA function and EAM tool rollout in worldwide in global companies such as telecommunication and aerospace.
|17:30 - 19:00
|Networking Reception at Central Hall Westminster
Tuesday, October 22, 2013
Additional Open Session: 13.00 - 14.30
RTES Dependability Track
|Plenary & Tracks
|Plenary: Healthcare Transformation
|9:00 - 9:05
Welcome AddressAllen Brown, CEO, The Open Group
Welcome Address
Allen Brown, President & CEO, The Open Group
Allen Brown is President and CEO of The Open Group – a global consortium that enables the achievement of business objectives through IT standards. He is also President of the Association of Enterprise Architects (AEA).
|9:05 – 9:50
Healthcare TransformationDr. Peter Sudbury, Healthcare Specialist, HP Enterprise Services
Healthcare Transformation
Dr. Peter Sudbury, Healthcare Specialist, HP Enterprise Services
Healthcare across the developed World is in the midst of a crisis driven by (a) Changing demographics and disease processes (b) need for cost constraint (c) the impact of evidence-based medicine and a focus on outcomes (d) the need to engage patients in their own care. Our health systems still reflect their origins in the time when infectious diseases, and episodic treatments, were the norm, and are ill-suited to the management of long-term conditions, which now account for over 70% of healthcare spend.
Reliance on episodic care, combined with traditional "artisan" methods of practising medicine result in unacceptable variation in outcomes, and there is a consequent need to develop vertically and horizontally integrated health and social care systems, and to define and standardise on evidence-based best practice. Together, these forces can be seen as a perfect storm, or as a necessary stimulus to transforming the way healthcare is practised across the globe. There is already strong evidence as to how the best, most effective and efficient healthcare providers work. They standardise and sytematise processes, work seamlessly around the patient's needs, study their own process and outcome data, and run systematic experiments around incremental or transformational improvements. As part of the drive towards this type of best practice, governments across the globe are pushing their healthcare providers to up the pace on digital health.
The potential for ICT to support standardisation, and to transform the depth and pace at which process and outcome data can be used to drive improvement, is obvious and compelling, but has proved frustratingly elusive to achieve. However, there are now excellent case studies from around the world, illustrating every component of the journey to the digital transformation of healthcare. The IT sector can further support this with agreed standards promoting interoperability, and mirroring the system integration and standardisation that is needed within the health and social care sector.
Dr Peter Sudbury - After studying Natural Sciences in Cambridge, Pete qualified in medicine from Oxford University on 1986. He trained in psychiatry at St George's and Oxford, during which time he took an MBA from Oxford Brookes University, where he first began to understand the potential for ICT to transform healthcare. Appointed as a consultant in 1995, he quickly moved into medical management, being a clinical director at Heatherwood and Wexham Park Hospitals Trust, then medical director at Berkshire Healthcare, one of the early mental health FTs. During time he was also seconded to the national program for IT, and experienced first hand the difficulties in translating vision to reality, and the critical importance of effective program management. He then moved to be medical director at at Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health Trust, a failed merger requiring very significant turnaround. Whilst there, he led the Trust to a ground-breaking ITO with HP, arguing that the complexity, mission-critical nature and pace of change in ICT made a long-term partnership with a world-class IT company of vital strategic importance. He is currently seconded to HP enterprise services "teaching a major IT company to 'speak health' fluently", and improving his own fluency in ICT. He spends 1 day a week doing clinical work in Hillingdon.
|9:50 – 10:20
Healthcare Transformation PanelModerator: Allen Brown, CEO, The Open Group
Healthcare Transformation Panel
Moderator: Allen Brown, CEO, The Open Group
Allen Brown is President and CEO of The Open Group – a global consortium that enables the achievement of business objectives through IT standards. He is also President of the Association of Enterprise Architects (AEA).
|10.20 - 10:25
|Spotlight - Dependability Through Assuredness™
|10:30 – 11:00
|Finance | Commerce
|Tutorials and Workshops
|EA & Enterprise Transformation
|Open Platform 3.0 (Cloud, Big Data, & Disruptive Technologies)
|Risk Management
|11.00 - 11:45
Transformation in Payments ITSailesh Panchal, Head of Function, Payments Architecture, Lloyds Banking Group; and Rajaram Venkataramani, IT Architect and Consultant, Cognizant Technology Solutions, UK
Transformation in Payments IT
Sailesh Panchal, Head of Function, Payments Architecture, Lloyds Banking Group; and Rajaram Venkataramani, IT Architect and Consultant, Cognizant Technology Solutions, UK
There are a number of industry regulations such as Industry Accounting Switching, FATCA, Mobile P2P, ISO 20022, SEPA, SWIFT, AML etc. that impact Payments industry. There is a drive to bring the cost of transactions down due to the macro-economic pressures. Banks are extremely vulnerable to reputation risks associated with transaction processing issues. LBG has transformed the payments IT landscape through a large initiative that addresses these drivers by following an architecture development method aligned to TOGAF and Industrialised Design Process aligned RUP/UML. We conceptualised, designed and delivered key architecture building blocks to execute the strategy using trusted partners. There were a number of challenges due to IT innovations and tight schedules that were handled to keep the focus on the outcomes. In this journey, we have reached a point where the business benefits have been realised and business IT leaders are committed. This presentation will share the transformation story and some of the lessons learnt that makes LBG the best bank for customers.
Sailesh Panchal is Head of the Enterprise Architecture and Design function for Global Payments at Lloyds Banking Group (LBG). In this role, he develops the vision, strategy and solutions in technology for a £150m annual change and regulatory activity across all geographies and lines of business for LBG, including:
Rajaram Venkataramani works as Chief Architect for Cognizant UK and provides IT consultancy to Banking and Financial Services customers. He graduated in 1993 from National Institute of Technology, Trichy, one of the top 10 engineering institutes in India and holds a number of industry accreditations such as Fellow of British Computer Society and Chartered Engineer. He has extensive experience in IT architecture planning, definition, assessment, engineering and governance through consultancy work done for leading banks and financial institutions as well as enterprises in other industries. This experience includes complete lifecycle of large and complex IT platforms in Payments and Risk. He has also lead development of innovative assets for optimizing Business IT Change. He has presented papers in industry and academic conferences including opengorup, IEEE etc. He holds membership in Global Association of Risk Professionals, Engineering Council UK, FS Club, International High IQ Society and British Computer Society. Outside work, he spends time on philosophy, physical fitness and social entrepreneurship.
Big Data for Good or Evil -- Lessons from the NSA PRISM ScandalJason Bloomberg, President, ZapThink, US
Big Data for Good or Evil -- Lessons from the NSA PRISM Scandal
Jason Bloomberg, President, ZapThink, US
Heroic whistleblower or villainous traitor? Regardless of how you feel about Edward Snowden's release of confidential NSA documents, there are several important lessons from the entire NSA PRISM scandal that any organization dealing with Big Data can take to heart.
Nobody is upset the NSA has stopped terrorist attacks (except the terrorists, of course). What we're all upset about is the fact that they are collecting information on everybody else -- especially non-US citizens. Lesson #1: It's not just the data you want that are important, you also have to worry about the data you don't want. Other lessons include the increased role of metadata, the role Big Data analytics play in data governance, and dealing with Big Data issues over time.
Big Data are here to stay, and Big Data sets only going to get larger and more dangerous. We must learn the lessons of NSA PRISM to understand how to deal with Big Data pitfalls before we fall into them.
Key takeaways:
Attendees of this session will:
-- Get a hype-free, vendor-independent definition of Big Data
Jason Bloomberg is President of ZapThink, a Dovel Technologies Company. He is a global thought leader in the areas of Cloud Computing, Enterprise Architecture, and Service-Oriented Architecture. He created the Licensed ZapThink Architect (LZA) SOA course and associated credential, and runs the LZA course as well as his Cloud Computing for Architects course around the world. He is a frequent conference speaker and prolific writer, including as a regular columnist on US Government IT for CIO Magazine and blogger for DevX.
Mr. Bloomberg is one of the original Managing Partners of ZapThink LLC, the leading SOA advisory and analysis firm, which was acquired by Dovel Technologies in August 2011. His book, Service Orient or Be Doomed! How Service Orientation Will Change Your Business (John Wiley & Sons, 2006, coauthored with Ron Schmelzer), is recognized as the leading business book on Service Orientation. His newest book, The Agile Architecture Revolution: How Cloud Computing, REST-based SOA, and Mobile Computing are Changing Enterprise IT (John Wiley & Sons), is due in the spring of 2013.
Mr. Bloomberg has a diverse background in eBusiness technology management and industry analysis, including serving as a senior analyst in IDC's eBusiness Advisory group, as well as holding eBusiness management positions at USWeb/CKS (later marchFIRST) and WaveBend Solutions (now Hitachi Consulting). He also co-authored the books XML and Web Services Unleashed (SAMS Publishing, 2002), and Web Page Scripting Techniques (Hayden Books, 1996).
From Enterprise Architecture to Cyber Security Risk AssessmentMargaret Ford, Consult Hyperion, UK; and Henk Jonkers, BiZZdesign, Netherlands
From Enterprise Architecture to Cyber Security Risk Assessment
Margaret Ford, Consult Hyperion, UK; and Henk Jonkers, BiZZdesign, Netherlands
Cyber security risk assessment is often a manual process, requiring brainstorm sessions to identify possible attacks. Attack opportunities will be identified and prevented only if people can envisage them. In today's dynamic attack landscape, this process is too slow and exceeds the limits of human imaginative capability. Emerging security risks and multi-step attacks demand tool support to predict, prioritise, and prevent complex attacks systematically. It seems natural to use existing models of organisations, such as enterprise architectures, as a basis for automating part of this process.
In the TREsPASS 7th Framework project, attack navigators are being developed to analyse and visualise information security risks in dynamic organisations, as well as possible countermeasures. To this end, the project combines knowledge from technical sciences (how vulnerable protocols and software are), social sciences (how likely people are to succumb to social engineering), and state-of-the-art industry processes and tools. The project leverages organisational models, the ArchiMate enterprise architecture modelling language and the Open Group Risk Taxonomy standard (based on FAIR) to assist organisations in prioritising risks and countermeasures.
In this presentation , the fundamental concepts of the project will be outlined, as well as the connections with ArchiMate and the Risk Taxonomy standard. This provides valuable input for future developments and extensions of the relevant standards.
Key takeaways:
-- Complex cyber security risks require systematic, model-based risk assessment
Margaret Ford has extensive experience in the design, delivery and management of enterprise scale network security systems, with a special interest in Identity and Privacy. Margaret has worked extensively in the public sector and for pharmaceutical companies, major financial institutions and corporate clients. She has contributed to various research reports into state of the art electronic identity for the European Commission and is currently working on TREsPASS, a large scale EU-funded risk management research project.
Henk Jonkers is a senior research consultant, involved in BiZZdesign's innovations in the areas of enterprise architecture and engineering. He participates in multi-party research projects, contributes to training courses, and performs consultancy assignments. Previously, as a member of scientific staff at an applied IT research institute, he was involved in research projects on business process modeling and analysis, enterprise architecture, service-oriented architecture, and model-driven development. He
|11:45 - 12:30
Architecting Banking TransformationRich Macfarlane, Senior Manager, Ernst & Young, New Zealand; and Andy Charles, Senior Manager - FSO IT Advisory, Ernst & Young, UK
Architecting Banking Transformation
Rich Macfarlane, Senior Manager, Ernst & Young, New Zealand
Banking models have been compromised by a landscape of complexity that increases the risk factor for any organisation wanting to transform the time has come for institutions to take on the challenge to remove these impediments to competitive advantage.
This session will consider the basis for banking transformation and describe paths to success, from identification through to delivery, and pick out the key architectural touch points and techniques that lead to successful results using case studies from our portfolios
Key takeaways:
-- Key success factors for banking transformations
Rich Macfarlane is a Senior Manager with Ernst & Young based in Auckland and leads their New Zealand architecture practice. He is TOGAF ® 9 Certified and has a deep background in large scale transformation.
Andy Charles is a Senior Manager in EY's Financial Services IT Advisory practice and has over 30 years of FS industry experience, the last fifteen of which have been in consultancy roles including seven years focussing solely in the digital space. He started his career with NatWest in branch banking before moving into IT with BACS , where he gained an in depth knowledge of payments and experience of working across all stages of the project life cycle. For the past fifteen years he has focussed on senior architecture and project management roles across a range of industries including FS, telecoms, Government, Not-For-Profit, publishing and utilities - often working as the Solution Architect to bring together the business, functional and technical elements of a solution. He holds an MBA from Henley Management College. Andy is a keen motorcyclist and snowboarder and has, for the last three years, been renovating a derelict house that he bought from a property developer who had given up on the project.
A New Platform for Integrated Government ServicesChris Harding, Director for Interoperability, The Open Group, UK
A New Platform for Integrated Government Services
Chris Harding, Director for Interoperability, The Open Group, UK
Government, as other sectors, can take advantage of technical developments in cloud, mobile and social computing, big data, and the Internet of things. Analysts see the convergence of these technologies as a nexus of forces and the basis for a new IT platform. The Open Group has formed the Platform 3.0 Forum to advance its vision of Boundaryless Information Flow™ by helping enterprises to use these technologies. This will be accomplished by identifying a set of new platform capabilities, and architecting and standardizing an IT platform by which enterprises can reap their business benefits. This presentation will describe the benefits that Platform 3.0 will bring by facilitating the development, integration, procurement and deployment of government IT services and solutions.
Key takeaways:
-- The changing nature of government IT
Dr. Chris Harding is Director for Interoperability at The Open Group. He is responsible for developing the new Open Platform 3.0 Forum, to address the convergence of new technical phenomena such as social, mobile and cloud computing, big data, and the Internet of Things. He supports the work of The Open Group's members in the Forum on these topics. Chris has been with The Open Group for 17 years. He has managed forums and work groups in a number of areas, including networking, UNIX®, Directory Interoperability, Identity Management, SOA and Cloud Computing. The Open Group's international events and publications are respected providers of thought leadership within the IT industry. Chris is a frequent speaker at Open Group and other industry events, and a contributor to several online journals.
He began his career in communications software research and development. He then spent nine years as a consultant, specializing in voice and data communications, before moving to his current role. Dr Harding has a PhD in mathematical logic, is TOGAF® certified, and is a member of the British Computer Society (BCS), the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and the Association of Enterprise Architects (AEA).
Re-Architecting RiskThomas Obitz, Principal Advisor, KPMG LLP, UK
Re-Architecting Risk
Thomas Obitz, Principal Advisor, KPMG LLP, UK
The risk management function of banks traditionally was organized into the three pillars of prudential capital risks market, credit and (a bit of) operational risk. Each of them used different controls, models, information, systems and skills. Liquidity was a given, almost at a risk-free rate. And collateral management was a support function. Not a single one of these assumptions holds true anymore they were washed away by the global financial crisis. Liquidity is scarce and expensive. Credit and market risk cannot be looked at in segregation not since credit derivatives made it possible to convert one into the other, and clearly not since IFRS9 and Basel III called for adjusting asset prices for counterparty credit risk. Libor rigging, PPI and swap mis-selling have demonstrated the perils of conduct risk. With EMIR, collateral suddenly became a scarce and crucial resource. Welcome to the new reality.
Key takeaways:
-- How to use architecture to transform a key function of a bank
Thomas Obitz is a Principal Advisor with KPMG LLP in London. Building on more than 20 years of experience in the IT industry, he acts primarily as a lead architect of major initiatives, as an enterprise architect, and a business architect. He has more than 13 years of experience in the Financial Services industry, with a strong focus on Investment Banking and Capital Markets.
Besides his client work, Thomas is involved with the development of the TOGAF framework since 2004. He is part of the Business Architecture Working Group and served as chair of the TOGAF strategy working group and of the TOGAF – BIAN collaboration initiative to ease EA adoption in the Banking industry. Thomas is frequent speaker at international conferences.
|12.30 - 14.00
|Finance / Commerce
|Tutorials and Workshops
|Enterprise Architecture
|Defense Architectures
|Risk Management
|14.00 - 14:45
Bringing Enterprise Architecture to the BoardroomHenk Jonkers, Senior Research Consultant, BiZZdesign, The Netherlands
Bringing Enterprise Architecture to the Boardroom
Henk Jonkers, Senior Research Consultant, BiZZdesign, The Netherlands
Enterprise architecture delivers value by presenting business and IT leaders with recommendations for adjusting policies and projects to achieve desired business outcomes. Enterprise architecture is used to steer decision making towards the evolution of the future state architecture of the organization. In this context, enterprise architecture occupies a central position in the network of disciplines that also includes, among others, business strategy, requirements management, risk management, project portfolio management, and organization and system design.
We present a number of case studies from different sectors (financial services, manufacturing) in which we show how enterprise architecture models, expressed in the ArchiMate language, are used to support strategic decision making and project portfolio management. Based on a consistent set of models, various visualizations are derived that provide the information that the stakeholders involved in these decisions need, both quantitative and qualitative (e.g., cost metrics, impact, etc.), in an integrated and comprehensible way. In addition to this, we show how the enterprise architecture models relate to strategic models, as well as to implementation-oriented models for designing business processes, information structures, business decisions and IT systems.
Key takeaways:
-- How can ArchiMate models be used as a basis for creating visualizations to support decision makers?
Henk Jonkers is a senior research consultant, involved in BiZZdesign's innovations in the areas of enterprise architecture and engineering. He participates in multi-party research projects, contributes to training courses, and performs consultancy assignments. Previously, as a member of scientific staff at an applied IT research institute, he was involved in research projects on business process modeling and analysis, enterprise architecture, service-oriented architecture, and model-driven development. He
DoDAF Integration ArchitectureDavid Daniel, Enterprise Architecture Consultant, IBM, US
DoDAF Integration Architecture
David Daniel, Enterprise Architecture Consultant, IBM, US
Using a DODAF-Based Top Level Architecture (TLA); requirements, assignments and consistency can be built in to weapon system development. Functionally, the TLA is the 'glue' that binds the other areas of interest and defines a 'conduit' for compatibility across the sub-components of the system. By using this construct, one baseline 'sole source of the truth' exists that allows sub-component systems developers to 'dovetail' in to the common benchmark.
The presentation uses an aircraft retrofit example. The government PMO manages the TLA, while various vendors build out sub-components. The modeled sub-architectures consist of power plant, avionics, payload, flight systems and airframe. As the overall requirements change, they are reflected in to the TLA, which flows down to the sub-architectures. As a sub-architecture changes (based on ability to meet TLA requirements), the changes are passed vertically and laterally to other sub-component architectures, so that everyone has a common understanding of the updated capabilities (that they may have been relying on).
This method allows for:
David Daniel is an Enterprise Architecture Consultant with IBM in the US. He has 18+ years experience in the systems engineering and enterprise architecture space, across industries including defense, manufacturing, heavy-industry, banking, telecom and others. He is an active IBM industry consultant.
Improving the Measurement and Communication of Information Security Risk: Launching Open FAIR CertificationJim Hietala, VP Security, The Open Group, US; and Steve Tabacek, CEO, CXOWARE, US
Improving the Measurement and Communication of Information Security Risk: Launching Open FAIR Certification
Jim Hietala, VP Security, The Open Group, US; and Steve Tabacek, CEO, CXOWARE, US
Risk analysis has grown to be a critical function in enterprises. As organizations are confronted with a confusing array of threats, gaining a more precise understanding of which risks are the most serious ones to address is important. This talk will explore common challenges in risk analysis, including measurement of risk, and communication on risk with senior executives, and it will discuss popular risk management frameworks and how they deal with these topics.
The Open Group published its Risk Taxonomy Standard, based upon FAIR (Factor Analysis for Information Risk) several years ago to address the need for a standardized taxonomy in risk analysis. It has also now published a companion Risk Analysis Standard, and has launched a new risk analyst certification program. This talk will provide an overview of these standards, how they address the issues of risk measurement and communication, and the new Open Group FAIR Certification for People program.
Jim Hietala is Vice President, Security for The Open Group, where he manages all security and risk management programs and standards activities. He holds several security and risk certifications including CISSP, GSEC, and Open FAIR Foundation. Jim is a frequent speaker at industry conferences, and he recently authored a comprehensive course on IT risk management. He participates in the SANS Analyst/Expert program, having written several research whitepapers and participated in several webcasts for SANS. He has also published numerous articles on information security, risk management, and compliance topics in publications including The ISSA Journal, Bank Accounting & Finance, Risk Factor, SC Magazine, and others. A security & risk industry veteran, he has held leadership roles at security vendors including ControlPath, Avail Networks, Alternative Technologies, eSoft, Qwest, Concentric Network, and Digital Pathways. He holds a B.S. in Marketing from Southern Illinois University.
Steven Tabacek is Cofounder and CEO of CXOWARE and is focused on recruiting and working with an exceptional team to deliver the highest obtainable value to customers and investors. Steven is the founder and former CEO of IT-Lifeline and under his leadership, IT-Lifeline grew from a single service outsourced data backup service provider to one of the largest full-service business recovery centers in the Northwest supporting 100+ corporate customers primarily in the finance and healthcare sectors. Prior to IT-Lifeline Steven had 20+ years managerial and technical experience within the government and heavily regulated finance sectors. Steven is a veteran of the U.S. Air Force where he specialized in secure communications and management of large computing environments. Steven's education includes U.S. Air Force Technical University certifications, an array of IBM technical certifications, and holds a BA Business Administration from Eastern Washington University.
|14:45 – 15:30
EA Principles: Guide Rails or Laws? An Insurance Industry Case StudyDaniel Simon, Managing Partner, Scape Consulting GmbH, Germany
EA Principles: Guide Rails or Laws? An Insurance Industry Case Study
Daniel Simon, Managing Partner, Scape Consulting GmbH, Germany
Principles are an acknowledged instrument in EA practice. However, the understanding and application of EA principles still seems to differ to some extent. This presentation takes you on a nearly two years' journey toward the establishment of a coherent set of EA principles in a case from the insurance industry. It reports on challenges and pitfalls
Key takeaways:
-- It is crucial to align EA principles with goals.
Daniel Simon is a Managing Partner with Scape Consulting in Germany. Before, he served as an Enterprise Architect at a large insurance group, following several years of work as a Consultant specializing in EA management and IT portfolio management. Across these years, he has gained practical experience in several industries and with various business functions. Daniel holds a Ph.D. from the University of Cologne and has authored several works on EA management. He is both TOGAF9- and ArchiMate2-certified.
EA and the Information Management Supply Chain (or Let's Share our War Stories)Paul Homan, Enterprise Architect, IBM UK Ltd
EA and the Information Management Supply Chain (or Let's Share our War Stories)
Paul Homan, Enterprise Architect, IBM, UK
EA Capability Improvement project within Architecture Forum has been looking at how to measure current EA capabilities, and what interventions to make that will deliver business aligned maximum benefit for the investment. This case study looks at what that could mean for the Information Management Supply Chain throughout the Government Defence Team & its partners, and what part EA can play.
As part of the EA Capability Improvement project, we are observing that rather than worry about the framework or metrics per se, the biggest gains are coming from how a community of end-users have been able to exchange stories of what worked and what didn't.
Paul Homan is an EA Consultant with IBM, UK. An Enterprise Architect for 12 years, Paul was previously Chief Architect in the UK PostOffice / Royal Mail. Paul has worked since for IBM on EA engagements for client organizations.
Risk Management as input for an Enterprise Security Architecture built around the IBM Security Blueprint and O-ESAStefaan Van Daele, Senior Security Architect, IBM, Belgium
Risk Management as input for an Enterprise Security Architecture built around the IBM Security Blueprint and O-ESA
Stefaan Van Daele, Senior Security Architect, IBM, Belgium
The IBM Security Blueprint is a technology agnostic approach to describe the security capabilities an organization needs to support its business. In the latest redbook about the IBM Security Blueprint, published in March 2013, we show how to evolve from this blueprint to an enterprise security architecture. In the provided example is the Open Enterprise Security Architecture from the Open Group leveraged to realize this. Also a practical use case for mobile devices in a healthcare environment has been worked out based on the earlier described approach.
In the presentation will be explained:
Stefaan Van Daele is a Senior Security Architect in a world wide security team at IBM. He is been active in IT since 1988 and from 2000 he's been active in the security domain, mostly IAM and security architectures.
|15:30 – 16:00
|Finance | Commerce
|Tutorials and Workshops
|Open Platform 3.0 (Cloud, Big Data, & Business Technologies)
|EA & Enterprise Transformation
|Risk Management
|16:00 – 16:45
Big Data and Enterprise Architecture - Building New Customer Views in BankingRainer Gimnich, Executive IT Architect, IBM, Germany
Big Data and Enterprise Architecture - Building New Customer Views in Banking
Rainer Gimnich, Executive IT Architect, IBM, Germany
Big Data approaches provide new business value along with new functionality on large and diverse kinds of data, often with real-time analytics speed requirements.
Big Data is used in several business areas in Banking, predominantly in building a customer-focused enterprise. Existing customer profiles can be significantly more rich and precise when, for example, internal documents and mails are analyzed and the results are added to the profile. This holds even more for external data such as documents of any kind, social media data or streamed data (e.g. market data/reports). These offer a wealth of information on existing or prospected customers. If properly and timely analyzed, they can provide significant information for
- contacting potential new customers,
Building Big Data solutions involves a set of new technologies (e.g. fast search, text analytics, entity resolution) and new management approaches, e.g. high-level requirements, rich functional provisioning and more end-user initiative and exploration.
The development of a new, productive Big Data solution is typically done in an Enterprise Architecture context. Using TOGAF, it is interesting to see how Business / Application / Data / Technology Architectures develop in a Big Data approach, and how the target solution architecture integrates with existing systems and advances the Enterprise Architecture.
Key takeaways:
-- Big Data can realize some of the "business dreams" in a company, e.g. building new kinds of customer profiles.
Rainer Gimnich is an Executive IT Architect in IBM. He is a member of the worldwide Big Data Industry team, working with clients to define relevant use cases and support Big Data solution implementations. Prior to this assignment, Rainer has worked in the IBM SOA Advanced Technologies team and run several large SOA implementation and legacy transformation projects.
The Value of EA in GovernmentJamie Roberts, CEO, Enterprise Architects Ltd., UK
The Value of EA in Government
Jamie Roberts, CEO, Enterprise Architects Ltd., UK
By defining commonly required operational and technological services, a government wide Enterprise Architecture ensures consistency and cohesiveness of cross governmental services, as these are designed and delivered on behalf of the government as a whole.
Enterprise Architects Ltd has established and matured Enterprise Architecture across all the core UK government departments in the UK. It has also established and matured an Enterprise Architecture capability in government departments in the Middle East.
This presentation explains how EA is of value and how it is used across UK government, with cases provided as examples from our client base.
Key takeaways:
Jamie Roberts is CEO of Enterprise Architects Ltd. in the UK.
Risk Management as a Business CapabilityWilliam Estrem, President - Metaplexity Associates LLC, US; and Marc Walker, Enterprise Architect, BT, UK
Risk Management as a Business Capability
William Estrem, President - Metaplexity Associates LLC, US; and Marc Walker, Enterprise Architect, BT, UK
This presentation examines how enterprise architects can define Business Capabilities that apply Risk Management concepts. The presentation will highlight case examples of organizations that have developed Risk Management capabilities by applying TOGAF Risk Management concepts and other standard methods such as the OpenGroup Risk Management Taxonomy and the FAIR standard. The presentation will also describe suggested content metamodel extensions, building blocks, and patterns. Examples of this application will be demonstrated through ArchiMate.
Bill Estrem is the President of Metaplexity Associates LLC. He is actively involved in the development of TOGAF and ArchiMate. He is a past chair of the Architecture Forum and chairman of the Modeling and terminology committee in the Forum. He has also served a two year term on The Open Group board of Governors.
Marc Walker is an Enterprise Architect and Analyst working for BT plc. His experience over the last twenty years spans a range of sectors including Oil & Gas, Health, Finance, Government and Media & Publishing. Marc specialises in information management and specifically strategic development, service management and business transformation and the application of business informatics and semantics. He has been involved with the Open Group for 5 years with a focus on the conceptual modelling and terminology aspects of TOGAF.
|16:45 – 17:30
Applying Service Oriented Architecture within a Business Technology Environment in the Finance SectorGerard Peters, Managing Consultant, Capgemini, The Netherlands
Applying Service Oriented Architecture within a Business Technology Environment in the Finance Sector
Gerard Peters, Managing Consultant, Capgemini, The Netherlands
This case study is part of a white paper on Service Oriented Architecture for Business Technology (SOA4BT). Within organizations we see responsible management taking more and more initiatives on allocating IT assets to support business operations and management, outside of the existing IT departments (also referred to as Business Technology). This white paper focus on the added value of applying service orientation in the IT departments in order to keep track but also on the need of applying a service oriented view on an organization as a whole.
In this case study I will first elaborate on the concept and back ground of Business Technology and business agility. Then I will go into depth on the drivers, challenges and results of a project where service orientation was applied to reshape the organization, operations and IT set up of a globally operating Financial Institution for 3rd party securities & derivatives clearing. Specific to this industry is that it is heavily dependent on IT facilitation, so business agility is almost one to one connected to IT agility. As it was driven by top level management it is an example of applying a service oriented architecture within a Business Technology environment.
The study will illuminate how to apply the service concept especially in the architectural set up of such an organization and how to link it to the more common used IT-service concept.
Key takeaways:
After his study Business Econometrics (Operations Research) at Tilburg University, Gerard Peters joined a Dutch predecessor of Capgemini. He developed into a thought leader in Capital Markets and published articles and reports on several specialized subjects (e.g. Algo trading, Asset Management). He was co-writer of the BIAN-TOGAF white paper and is currently involved in the SOA4BT working group at The Open Group.
Decision Rights: Empowering Clients and EmployeesRobert Weisman, CEO / Principal Consultant, Build The Vision Inc., Canada
Decision Rights: Empowering Clients and Employees
Robert Weisman, CEO / Principal Consultant, Build The Vision Inc., Canada
People are well-educated, informed and expect government/business services to be available on a 24/7/365 basis, leveraging the internet. Employees are also well-educated, motivated and want to deliver services better, faster and cheaper. The challenge is that often the business/government mentality, processes and organization are still based
Key takeaways:
Robert Weisman has spent more than 25 years in enterprise level planning and implementation for business and IM/IT capabilities, in both private and public sectors in North America, Europe and Australia. For the past five years Bob has been an active member of the Open Group Architecture Forum, a significant contributor to TOGAF® 9 and President of the Ottawa/Gatineau Chapter of the Association Enterprise Architects (AEA). As Principal Consultant and CEO of Build The Vision Inc., Bob both practices Enterprise Architecture and provides in-house training for Enterprise Architects leading to TOGAF 8 and 9 certification. Robert has an MSc in Computer Science and is a Professional Engineer and Project Management Professional.
Protecting your Organization Against Maliciously Tainted and Counterfeit ProductsSally Long, Director, Open Trusted Technology Provider Forum (OTTF), The Open Group, US; and Andras Szakal, Vice President, Chief Technology Officer, IBM U.S. Federal IMT, US
Protecting your Organization Against Maliciously Tainted and Counterfeit Products
Sally Long, Director, Open Trusted Technology Provider Forum (OTTF), The Open Group, US; and Andras Szakal, Vice President, Chief Technology Officer, IBM U.S. Federal IMT, US
The increase in sophistication of cyber-attacks has forced technology suppliers and governments to take a more comprehensive approach to risk management as it applies to product integrity and supply chain security. Customers, including governments from around the world, are beginning to seek assurances that their providers are consistently following best practices to mitigate the risk of tainted or counterfeit components making their way into a customer's critical infrastructure.
This presentation will highlight the challenges of securing the global supply chain against these two major threats and will describe how the OTTF is helping industry to meet those challenges from a global perspective. The session will illustrate the value of the Open Trusted Technology Provider Standard (O-TTPS) Mitigating Maliciously Tainted and Counterfeit Products v1.0. The O-TTPS, which is an open standard for organizational commercial best practices to enhance the security of the global supply chain and the
Details of the O-TTPS Accreditation Program, designed to help assure conformance the standard, will also be discussed. The Accreditation Program, to be approved in October, is being conducted as a pilot now for members, with a public launch planned for the end of 2013. The public program will be available to all component suppliers, providers, and integrators around the world. This session will also provide plenty of opportunity for discussion and Q&A.
Key takeaways:
Learn about the risks of tainted and counterfeit products:
Sally Long is the Director of The Open Group Trusted Technology Forum (OTTF), an international forum of industry providers, third party labs and governments developing standards and conformance programs to increase security in the global technology supply chain. Ms. Long has managed customer-supplier forums and collaborative development projects for over twenty years. She was the release engineering section manager for all multi-vendor collaborative technology development projects at The Open Software Foundation (OSF), in Cambridge Massachusetts. Following the merger of the OSF and X/Open under The Open Group, she served as director for multiple forums in The Open Group. Ms. Long has a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts.
Andras Szakal is a VP and CTO for IBM's Federal Integrated Market Team (IMT). Andras is an IBM Distinguished Engineer, and an IBM Senior Certified Software IT Architect and an IBM Certified SOA Solution Designer. His responsibilities include developing e-Government software architectures using IBM middleware and leading the IBM federal government software IT architect team. Mr. Szakal holds undergraduate degrees in Biology and Computer Science and a Masters Degree in Computer Science from James Madison University. Mr. Szakal has been a driving force behind IBM's adoption of government IT standards and is a member of the IBM Software Group Strategy Team. Mr. Szakal represents IBM SWG on the Board of Directors of The Open Group. He is the Chair of the Open Group Trusted Technology Provider Forum.
|18:30 - 20:00
Networking Event at the London Eye
The offsite event at this conference will be an evening drinks reception (not dinner) on the London Eye.