Keynotes

Tuesday
13 June
09:15 - 10:30

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KEYNOTE: Enterprise Architecture or Just More of the Same?
John Zachman, President, Zachman International

For many people, the Zachman Framework is a foundation stone for Enterprise Architecture; for others, it seems complicated and impractical. In this new presentation, John Zachman will show how the Framework actually simplifies reality by promoting the creation of primitive models of the enterprise that separate out independent elements yet maintain the relationships between them. He will also show how the Framework helps to gain a more complete and balanced understanding of organizations and indicate how these primitive models can support the implementation of more agile systems and businesses. It takes a major mind shift to grasp this idea; and without this level of understanding, architects are likely doomed to continue to do ‘more of the same’.

• The practical value of normalization (one fact in one place)
• How the Zachman Framework meets the needs of different stakeholders
• The relationship between architectural primitives and implementation composites
• A three-dimensional depiction of the enterprise as a hologram
  

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John Zachman Zachman International To Speaker's Bio

Tuesday
13 June
13:15 - 14:15

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Ever-increasing business and technology complexity has made enterprise architecture professionals a key part of the contemporary IT organization. Their charter is daunting: and includes the creation of standards for technology selection and implementation that will best support enterprise goals, deliver high quality, save money, enable simple integration, minimize risk, and provide stability. For many, the battle is lost after the initial work has been completed — when the architecture group seeks the compliance of the wider community. It is then that they find that not only is buy-in not guaranteed, but it is unlikely to be obtained. After the difficult work of defining information, application and technology strategies and choosing standard architecture elements, architects discover that governance is actually the hard part.

• Where does enterprise IT architecture fit into the management process?
• Why are so many IT organizations struggling with a knowing-doing gap?
• Why is a deliberate approach to governance key to implementing enterprise architectures? This presentation will include examples of best practices.
• Why should architects be focusing on simplification?

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Alex Peters Principal CIO Group Forrester Research To Speaker's Bio

Wednesday
14 June
09:00 - 10:00

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KEYNOTE: Strategic Consideration for Open Source in the Enterprise
Daniel Lange, IT Strategy & Innovation, BMW

Open Source Software (OSS) is making a major impact on the IT landscapes of many corporations. Apache web-servers have some 70% of the market and Eclipse has taken over the Java Integrated Development Environment (IDE) market at such a tremendous pace that you can now get your favourite IDE from Sun or Oracle for free, too.

The cost savings are real but most corporations still want support from IBM or HP, never compile Linux themselves and if they did, would lose that valuable promise of support.

But OSS is not just about cost-saving. Architects need to get better acquainted with new license and development models and with the opportunities that OSS brings, such as increased interoperability or reduced vendor lock-in. Participating in an OSS community to achieve these benefits brings new challenges such as helping that guy in Uzbekistan with your people’s work time and selling this activity to upper management. This presentation will describe these challenges as well as outlining how to build a plan on what to do with OSS in your enterprise and what issues to focus your attention on.

• Open Source licenses from a corporate perspective
• Opportunities and Threats in Open Source Software
• Market evolution estimation
• Building an Open Source Strategy
• Examples of strategic and architectural practices at the BMW Group
  

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Daniel Lange IT Strategy & Innovation BMW To Speaker's Bio

Wednesday
14 June
13:45- 14:45

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KEYNOTE: BPM: The Tie that Binds Enterprise Architecture
Roger Burlton, Founder, Process Renewal Group

True enterprise architectures cover all aspects of all business capabilities, not just its technologies. This includes gaining and exploiting knowledge about many domains as viewed from many perspectives. A critical link among them and the path to alignment across Zachman Framework columns and traceability down its rows are business processes. This presentation asserts that processes act as the prime organizer of aligned and traceable architectural models when it comes to delivering an optimally functioning enterprise.

With the emergence of new standards for Business Process Management Systems (BPMS), the growing role of processes in Model Driven Architecture (MDA) and the undeniable connection between processes and Service-oriented Architecture (SOA), we have the opportunity to build more versatile enterprises that employ infrastructural components that are reusable and can be assembled into solutions fast under a process choreography layer. Without an Enterprise Architecture, builders will have to hand craft unique components and the links among them one process at a time at the expense of the adaptability of the enterprise and the satisfaction of its stakeholders.

This session will deal with the insidious role of process in synchronizing Enterprise Architectures and business solutions.

• Strategic Intent
• Stakeholder Analysis and Process Strategy
• Process Architecture and Process Models as Glue
• Process Notations, Metamodels and the Global Standards Debate
• Managing the Alignment among Zachman Cells
  

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Roger Burlton Founder Process Renewal Group To Speaker's Bio