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Enabling Boundaryless Information Flow™

Allen Brown, President & CEO, The Open Group

Boundaryless Information Flow™ is achieved through global interoperability in a secure, reliable and timely manner.  Boundaryless does not mean there are no boundaries -- it means that boundaries are permeable to enable business.

The mission of The Open Group is to drive the creation of Boundaryless Information Flow™ by:

• Working with customers to capture, understand and address current and emerging requirements, establish policies, and share best practices
• Working with suppliers, consortia and standards bodies to develop consensus and facilitate interoperability, to evolve and integrate specifications and open source technologies
• Offering a comprehensive set of services to enhance the operational efficiency of consortia
• Developing and operating the industry's premier certification service and encouraging procurement of certified products

Bio

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).

For over 10 years Allen has been responsible for driving The Open Group’s strategic plan and day-to-day operations, including extending its reach into new global markets, such as China, the Middle East, South Africa and India. In addition, he was instrumental in the creation of the AEA, which was formed to increase job opportunities for all of its members and elevate their market value by advancing professional excellence.

Prior to joining The Open Group, Allen Brown held a range of senior financial and general management roles both within his own consulting firm, which he founded in 1987, and other multi-national organizations.

Allen is TOGAF® 9 certified, an MBA alumnus of the London Business School and a Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants.

To address these challenges effectively we started Enterprise Architecture program.

The goal of this presentation is to share our experience of EA implementation: Our challenge

• Achieve management support – stakeholder management
• Acceptance of the change – impact on existing processes
• Expectation of large IT projects (NIS 2.0 and Consolidation of data centers)

• TOGAF® and ArchiMate® standards adaptation (methodology, trainings)
• Building prerequisites (organization structure, tool)
• Involvement of EA architects in all major projects

Our successes

• Alignment of understanding what EA brings to company
• Common platform for knowledge sharing
• Harmonization of TOGAF ADM with company project methodology

Lessons learned

• Visibility for business helps to gain management support
• Communication to project team is the best way how to adapt change
• Team trust to make the change happen is key factor

Intended audience: CxO, Chief Architects, Architects

Bio

Martin Kobza is Managing Director in Erste Group IT SK which is in-house integrator and development provider for ERSTE with primary focus on Slovenska Sporitelna (biggest retail bank in Slovakia)

The Flemish Government recently awarded its main IT contract to HP Enterprise Services. This contract stands for a new delivery model, where the “As A Service” model is the default for all entities going forward. Infrastructure, platform, applications, workplace as a service are the new services that will enable the entities of the government to transform the current estate towards a modern and “always up to date” model, based on private Cloud delivery models. This mode of operation will require an even stronger business - IT interlock and EA approach than today and the Flemish Government has been investing in its EA standardization approach to facilitate the transition and become even more response to changing citizen’s needs and interaction with the government. In this session we will cover the basics off the new “as a service” model and how EA helps provide the right alignment between business and IT departments. Practical examples will be used throughout the session to demonstrate reality and how entities are using a long term EA roadmap and governance approach to delivering better services faster to its citizens.

Intended Audience: CIOs, Lead / Chief Enterprise Architects, Government Directors or Ministers       

• EA as a way to align business & IT in government context. Best practices for establishing a strategic representation of EA in the board of directors of the entities of the Flemish Government
• Standardized services allow more agility at the business, with the business EA leading the way instead of the IT Architect promoting technical solutions
• Practical examples of entities having developed an EA roadmap that are on track

Bio

Yves Vanderbeken is the HP Enterprise Services Account Chief Technologist and Lead Enterprise Architect for the Belgium Public Sector accounts like Flemish Government, Local Communalities and EANDIS.  (Eandis is an abbreviation that stands for Electricity, natural gas (‘Aardgas’ in Dutch), Networks and DIStribution).

He leads and runs a team of 10+ enterprise architects who are involved in various IT Roadmap and / or critical projects. He remains active by delivering strategic Business IT alignment projects for various domains at the Flemish Government. Besides that, he works together with the Director of Strategy and Innovation on providing innovation and strategy insight for all domains and agencies of the Flemish Government.

Yves typically coordinates, manages and participates in the set up and development of strategic Business – IT roadmap and enterprise architecture (To Be models) with the Client’s Business and Architecture team and across the IT spectrum (Business, Applications and Infrastructure) with Board Level experience.

Yves is a core team member of the Flemish Government Open Data team since 2011. He has defined the technical strategy for setting up the Open Data platform and extracting, transforming and publishing information in a consistent was. He is the co-author of the Open Data Handbook that was published by the Flemish Government in February 2014. He coaches and advises the various departments on their Open Data Master Plan and how to disclose data from their source systems to the Open Data platform, making sure the data is of decent quality and consistent with other datasets.

Yves is widely experienced as senior Enterprise Architect with a main focus on technology and business alignment. He is an all-round IT person with 23+ years of experience in Enterprise / Systems / Business / Application / Infrastructure Architecture, Technology Office, Innovation, Proposal & Presales work, Management functions, Project & Team leading, Analysis and Programming.

His main business area of expertise is in government (5+ years), finance (7 years), manufacturing (7 years), chemical and heavy machinery.

Enterprise Architecture in Slovak Public Administration

Slovak citizens, businesses and public administration organizations expect the public administration to function properly, securely and provide adequate service. They expect that the public administration offer state-of-the-art services with high quality, that are secure and available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. They further expect their complex requests (life events) will be solved online and immediately. Additionally the public administration should not require information already available and reduce the administrative burden. Users expect not to be fooled. They look for the public administration that act actively and decisively against the fraud and enforces legislation, regulation, licenses and suchlike based on the real data and feedbacks. They also expect that the public administration will costs no more than necessary and transparently demonstrate that it carry out its tasks efficiently, using and modernizing it’s resources accordingly. 


Public administration is a complex, multi enterprise organization that needs to respond to big amount and variety of changes. To address them and many other challenges it has (some of them mentioned above), we have started to focus more and more concentrated, on building and maturing the central public administration architecture function. This should create a common motivation, base, frame, principles and methodology for any segment and solution architecture through the Slovak public administration. We want to connect and integrate current “islands” into one, coherent, enterprise that is manageable, effective and available in its function. To support and effectively perform this Enterprise Architecture institutionalization we have customized open architecture standards - TOGAF® and ArchiMate®. 


In this presentation we will share our vision, experiences, first steps, achievements and also failures in a field of Enterprise Architecture institutionalization in Slovak public administration. We will share (on a high level) our short and long term motivation, goals, architectural vision and a rough architecture roadmap. We will also demonstrate why and how we are using open architecture standards -- TOGAF®, ArchiMate® -- and why we think that it is important.

Intended Audience: Government Directors or Ministers, CxOs, Lead / Chief Enterprise Architects, Program and Project Managers, Enterprise Architecture in Slovak Public Administration

The Concept of Czech Public Administration Enterprise Architecture

Jaroslav Strouhal, Deputy Minister of the Interior for Information and Communication Technology, Czech Republic
Pavel Hrabě, University of Economics (VSE), Prague

This presentation will summarize all proposed aspects of structure and implementation roadmap of Government Enterprise Architecture of the Czech Public Administration as one of matters of Public Administration Reform.

The presentation will discuss the results of multiple case studies conducted in 2013 at 14 agencies, from different levels of Czech Public Administration from central Government to local municipalities. The results of the studies will demonstrate the wish of agency managers to use GEA as a manner of exploration, understanding and PA reform. It will also show their desire to use best practice for building architectural artifacts and share their own results with others

The presentation will summarize the requirements of study participants on EA framework adaptation and localization, like translation from trusted Best Practice resources such as TOGAF® and ArchiMate® to Czech language, simplification, complementing it with practical Czech examples and with various accelerators, e.g. Process Capability Hierarchy or Application Architecture Reference Model.

Intended audience: Managers, Public Sector Officers, Enterprise Architects

Key Takeaways:

• Czech public administration already achieved significant success in building eGovernment infrastructure and now wants to deploy National Enterprise Architecture as a manner of further exploration, understanding and reform of public administration and its IT support.

• Building of whole operational environment of Czech National EA, including all adaptation and localization, legislation, institutions, resources and knowledge transfer will be a long-term program which needs smart and feasible implementation roadmap to achieve both, quick and final benefits.

• For some industries, e.g. Public Administration, is definitely needed to simplify EA frameworks like TOGAF and to equip it with concrete Best Practice content like Application Architecture Reference Model, introduced here also modeled in the ArchiMate language.

Jaroslav Strouhal studied at the Charles University in Prague. After graduation, he worked shortly at a private law firm and then he became a civil servant. In 2003 to 2010, he worked at the Office for representation of the state in property matters as the Director of the Department of property implementation. In 2010, he became the 1st Deputy of the Director General of the Office for representation of the state in property matters. At the beginning of 2014, Jaroslav Strouhal was appointed the Deputy Minister of the Interior for Information and Communication Technology.

Pavel Hrabě, University of Economics (VSE), completed studies of the ČVUT FEL Prague in 1989. In 2009, Pavel completed his doctoral studies on EA at the University of Economics, Prague. After graduation he began working as an analyst in the Faculty Hospital in Prague Motol. He was the branch manager in banking and sales/ marketing manager in various companies. Since 1995 Pavel has worked at SAP ČR, initially as a consultant of SAP R/3 module SD, then Retail and CRM. He has been working as a solution architect and management consultant for big customers. Since 2007, Pavel has specialized in advising on IT strategy and EA.

Effective EA Using TOGAF® and ArchiMate®

1. a method for implementing and governing the practice for constructing and using architectures
2. a framework describing architectural viewpoints
3. a language for architectural descriptions and communication

The Open Group's TOGAF® 9 standard is the leading method for EA development, including a process, techniques and best practices. The Open Group's ArchiMate® standard is the leading graphical language for integrated EA modelling, describing the business, application and technology layers and their relationships. Moreover, ArchiMate provides strong features for modelling the motivation for the architecture (stakeholders, concerns, goals, principles and business requirements) and the implementation and migration planning (plateaus, gaps, work packages, etc).

We show how TOGAF and ArchiMate provide and actionable EA capability:

• TOGAF and ArchiMate together offer a comprehensive and complete approach to EA
• ArchiMate facilitates modeling the deliverables prescribed by TOGAF
• The ArchiMate core and its extensions cover all the aspects that TOGAF addresses

We will demonstrate that TOGAF and ArchiMate are a perfect basis for a tool supported Enterprise Architecture practice. This will be done on the basis of various concrete examples from different industries.

Key take-aways:

• To the point overview of TOGAF, ArchiMate, and its fitness for purpose for a tool supported Enterprise Architecture practice.
• Case examples of using TOGAF and ArchiMate

Bio

Dr. Harmen van den Berg is a partner and co-founder of BiZZdesign. BiZZdesign offers complete and integrated solutions (tools, methods, consultancy and training) to design and improve organizations, from enterprise architecture to process management.

Harmen van den Berg studied mathematics at the Utrecht University, and did his PhD at Twente University. He was an assistent professor at Twente University, and scientific researcher at Telematica Instituut. At BiZZdesign, Harmen developed methods and techniques for business process engineering and enterprise architecture, and applied these as consultant at various organizations. Harmen is now responsible for Enterprise Architecture and training development. Harmen has authored several publications on EA and BPM, and is chair of the Dutch ArchiMate Usage working group. He is ArchiMate-certified, and trainer of TOGAF and ArchiMate courses. Harmen is a speaker at many EA-conferences, like LAC, EAC, EAM, EAMKON, SEACON, and The Open Group.

1. Changing the business and running the business.
2. Changing the business value is described and the main focus is put on running the business.

Peter Filip, Enterprise Architect, Tatra Banka

Tatra Bank, as a top three player in the Slovak banking market, has a strong ambition to promote and replace competitors at first place in more KPIs.  Tatra Banka has formulated a clear vision, strategy and differentiating aspect on the market. The bank formulated it into the "brand promise".  However, achieving this promise needs many improvements in the bank behavior. One of the changes that is helping to be better bank was the introduction of structured and corporate-wide adoption of EA governance. The fact is, that EA is not the core business of the bank, so on the journey of EA implementation the bank has utilized many knowledge from outside of organization. One of two major sources of knowledge were open standards related to the EA.

Peter Filip has been working in previous years as Enterprise Architect responsible for reintroduction of EA governance in third largest bank in Slovakia. This activity includes changes in enterprise processes (SDLC, change management, demand management, release, etc.) positions and organization structure review and corrections, setup of KPIs, education of people, knowledge base setup, metamodel definition and tool selection and implementation. After the basic EA governance was established, his responsibility was to deliver the value of EA mainly in two areas important for the bank, time to market improvements and costs management. 

Previous career includes solution architect position in many key largebank projects (front end strategy and implementation, crm strategy and implementation, internet banking, loan origination platform), project management role in various projects, leading department of IT analysts, designing SDLC processes. The majority of his professional experience has been working on client side of the IT business, but Peter also has exerience experience on the vendor side.  Peter's education was finalized by a master degree at faculty of theoretical informatics at Commenius University in Bratislava.

1. EAM Initiation (Organization, Framework, Architecture Model)
2. EAM Automation (EA Tool selection, EA Data Capture, EA Reporting)
3. EA Service Performance Reporting (EA Repository Integration with Operational Data, Enhancing EA Reporting)

• Overview of the evolutionary approach in building the desired state of EAM
• The vision of extending the EAM reporting with operational data of the company

Bio

Michal Fabrici is a partner and founder of Fabrici Management Consulting, company providing services of Strategy and Management, Enterprise Architecture Management, SOA and Integration, Business Process Management and IT Development.  With more than 20 year experience within the IT and/or Business assignments worldwide, Michal has been focused on EAM, SOA and Integration and BPM.  Michal is TOGAF® 9 and ArchiMate® 2 certified.

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