CONFERENCE - DAY 2
Wednesday, 9 JUNE 2004

10:45–12:00

10:45–12:00

13:00–14:15

KEYNOTE

14:15–15:15

Track 1 

14:15–15:15

Track 2 

16:30–17:00

Conference Wrap-up
Brian Burke, VP Intl, EPAS, META Group

Wednesday
9 June
09:00–10:30

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KEYNOTE: Enterprise Architecture in the Age of Transparency
Don Tapscott, President, New Paradigm Learning Corporation

Transparency is new force rising in business. Nascent for half a century, this force has quietly gained momentum through the last decade; it is now triggering profound changes across the corporate world. This is far more than the obligation to disclose basic financial information. People and institutions that interact with firms are gaining unprecedented access to all sorts of information about corporate behaviour, operations, and performance. Armed with new tools to find information about matters that affect their interests, stakeholders now scrutinize the firm as never before. The corporation is becoming naked. Corporations have no choice but to rethink their values and behaviours - to integrate corporate citizenship into their DNA. If you’re going to be naked, you’d better be buff!

Don Tapscott, almost 15 years ago, first explained the rise of a standards-based enterprise architecture in his book Paradigm Shift. He will discuss:

• The payoff for transparency and integrity -- engaged relationships, better quality and cost management, more innovation, and improved overall business performance
• The rise of “The Open Enterprise” - a new model of the corporation
• The implications of transparency for business and IT strategy - how leaders build transparency and integrity into their business strategy, products and services, brand and reputation, corporate character and enterprise architecture

Wednesday
9 June
10:45–12:00

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CASE STUDY

While most people appreciate the importance of architecture in general, the practice of architecture is still full of contradictions and challenges. Architects are continually justifying the value of architecture and the long view to often unappreciative stakeholders.

This presentation shares insights gained from the trenches of enterprise architecture at various levels and enterprises of vastly different sizes. It challenges conventional wisdom held among architecture community, and points out a number of refreshing learning’s that can, at best, lead to a step change in the effectiveness of architecture, or at least, prevent failures of misalignment between architecture and stakeholders interests.

• Watch our “balance sheet” and “cash flow” – Lead architecture teams like businesses
• What can we learn from “extreme programming”? – A vital economic lesson for architects
• How big should “The Big Picture” be? – The economics model applied
• What is architecture? And who make decisions? – A lesson about authority and consulting
• “Top down” approach does not always suit architecture -- The lure and hidden traps
• Reframing our way out of “rat holes” - Useful reasoning/facilitation devices for dealing with complex architecture problems
  

Wednesday
9 June
10:45–12:00

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CASE STUDY

This presentation describes how the Ministry of Defence, Singapore (MINDEF) implemented Enterprise Architecture as a discipline to ensure strategic alignment of IT investments. We will discuss how we worked EA into our Corporate IT Portfolio, the resultant federated approach, and how we focused on EBA and ESA in this first year. We will also describe the evolution of our EA Governance framework and share our first year results and lessons. To wrap up, we will briefly share our roadmap for the near future.

The intent of this presentation is to provide a step-by-step case study of how an organisation initiated EA development, in an attempt to answer the question: “I know what EA is, but what do I do first?”

• Case study: Initiating EA in a big organisation
• Integrating EA with Portfolio Management
• Federated EA implementation Approach
• EA Governance Framework
• Moving beyond senior management buy-in to gaining doer ownership
  

Wednesday
9 June
10:45–12:00

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As organisations develop enterprise architecture frameworks more suited to their own specific requirements, there is a pressing need for models that fully support the delivery of an enterprise architecture. This presentation introduces BPMN and examines how it can be used to create these models:

• A brief introduction to the Business Process Modelling Notation
• Examine how the notation contributes to the delivery of an enterprise architecture framework
• Examine how true alignment between the business intent and IT can be achieved and demonstrated by producing executable code

Wednesday
9 June
10:45–12:00

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The business application portfolio must evolve in harmony with enterprise architecture principles and processes. Choices to buy or build next generation application systems must be linked to clear statements of business strategic value. Engineering efforts must leverage service-oriented architectures that enable flexible, standards-based integration — and deliver required horizontal and vertical functionality. Doing so requires that enterprise business and information architectures mature, and that organizations improve traditional organization, governance, and application delivery processes. Best-practice organizations have learned how to make the case for this ambitious approach toward rationalizing their IT investment portfolio. What have they learned? How can your organization leverage these lessons? This presentation will address:

• Leveraging META Group's Process and Technology Model to develop a service- oriented architecture
• Implementing application delivery strategies that can be understood by senior management
• "Rightsizing" the application portfolio for shared infrastructure via consolidation, rationalization, and strategic sourcing
  

Wednesday
9 June
13:00–14:15

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CASE STUDY

The Government of Canada has been pursuing an aggressive IT program since the late 90's which has its roots in the Government of Canada's Common infrastructure Initiative, Secure Channel project, and Enterprise Architecture Program. The presentation will cover our progress and learning's from these beginnings and the evolution to support of business transformation.

• Key drivers for the Enterprise Architecture Programme
• Success stories and Lessons Learned
• Driving the Architecture Forward to the Future

Wednesday
9 June
14:15–15:15

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CASE STUDY

ING's key to success is a strategy built on customer focus enabled by a unique flexible organisation, delivering products for Banking, Insurance and Asset Management. Enterprise Architecture presents unique challenges for a company with more than 50.000.000 clients in 65 countries world-wide. In today's highly competitive financial services industry, meeting and exceeding customer expectations is paramount.

ING Corporate IT developed an ING Architecture Framework as a prerequisite for the ING standard architectural language. The Standards and Guidelines for architectural products, processes and governance and organization, will enable: Lead Architects to understand the products that are developed by the 3 regions (ECs, Executive Centers) Europe, Americas, Asia Pacific. The process of architecture management is embedded into the domain of strategic and tactical activities. Guidelines for architecture-organization and governance will support the transparency of Architecture Management.

Wednesday
9 June
14:15–15:15

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CASE STUDY

This double session workshop looks at some of the practical considerations of designing an enterprise architecture roadmap for an organisation that doesn’t fit the “orthodox” mould for large businesses; it does not have top-down directive strategy and is highly federated. The discussion will consider the primacy of organisational and cultural priorities over the technological deterministic position, e.g.

• Enterprise Architecture within a highly federated culture, with strongly devolved decision–making throughout the organisation
• Enterprise Architecture where the measurement of value isn’t simple profit & loss accounting
• Where the expressed corporate strategy does not imply a requirement for Enterprise Architecture but where we can still see the potential benefits

Wednesday
9 June
14:15–15:15

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CASE STUDY

The presentation will consider the need for Enterprise Architecture (EA) in Government and how the Inland Revenue (IR) approached this. The IR business is supported by Organisational and IT assets providing a range of capabilities that may not be fully exploited particularly when the wider context in which they operate is constantly changing. The enterprise modelling was needed to help the IR understand its current capabilities and how the asset base might be further exploited/changed in order to meet the long-term vision. The presentation will cover the approach to building up the model and explain how the setting up of a Business Design Office within the IR has helped establish the modelling approach. Demonstrations of the IR Enterprise Model will be included in the presentation.

The presentation will take the following structure:

• EA in Government (Inland Revenue)
• What did the IR need to do?
• How did we feel Metis® could help?
• Selling the concept within the Department
• Introducing the tool into the Departmental process/Business Design Office

Wednesday
9 June
14:15–15:15

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Engineering efforts must leverage service-oriented architectures that enable flexible, standards-based integration and deliver required horizontal and vertical functionality. Doing so requires that enterprise business and information architectures mature, and that organizations improve traditional organization, governance, and application delivery processes. The lure of both web services and service-oriented architecture (SOA) development and implementations approaches promises an integrated view of IT components to serve the business. This presentation exposes and discusses the potential and reality of SOA today and tomorrow.

• Building the adaptive organization via Web services and service-oriented architectures
• Looking ahead to the future of service-oriented architectures
• Getting benefits from the service-oriented architecture
  
  

Wednesday
9 June
15:30–16:30

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CASE STUDY

IT is essential to the strategy, which must be properly aligned to sufficiently define the target business model/architecture for ING Europe. This presentation will explore:

• Business architecture of ING Europe and governance
• The advantages of the UML class model for business modelling
• IT architecture of ING Europe and governance
• Organising IT within ING Europe

Wednesday
9 June
15:30–16:30

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CASE STUDY

This double session workshop looks at some of the practical considerations of designing an enterprise architecture roadmap for an organisation that doesn’t fit the “orthodox” mould for large businesses; it does not have top-down directive strategy and is highly federated. The discussion will consider the primacy of organisational and cultural priorities over the technological deterministic position, e.g.

• Enterprise Architecture within a highly federated culture, with strongly devolved decision–making throughout the organisation
• Enterprise Architecture where the measurement of value isn’t simple profit & loss accounting
• Where the expressed corporate strategy does not imply a requirement for Enterprise Architecture but where we can still see the potential benefits

Wednesday
9 June
15:30–16:30

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Service Oriented Architectures offer many potential benefits to application architects. These same benefits such as re-use, speed of development and low cost of ownership are now also available to integration architects through the introduction of the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB). Sonic Software introduced the ESB concept which provides standards-based applications integration services such as messaging, content-based routing, transformation and business process modelling - all via a service-oriented approach. This presentation will introduce the concept of the Enterprise Service Bus and look at just how ESB users have changed the economics of integration for their organisations.

• What is an ESB and why is it different?
• What does an ESB solution consist of?
• How does the ESB change the economics of integration?
  

Wednesday
9 June
15:30–16:30

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• Understanding frameworks and triggers for modeling
  adaptability and managing uncertainty
• Applying governance models for federated service delivery and
  architectures
• Determining the organizational investment necessary for
  driving adaptive, service-oriented delivery

Wednesday
9 June
16:30–17:00

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