Carl Chilley is an acknowledged industry expert in enterprise, service-oriented and systems architectures. Carl is frequently called upon to produce innovative solutions to difficult and complex problems, particularly those spanning the whole of the enterprise domain. Carl has also been instrumental within Xansa in extending and enhancing the Method abc framework to cope with complex business problems and introducing the notion of Enterprise Architecture and the related Service Oriented Architecture. Carl has worked on several large architecturally-focused assignments where the need to deliver effective solutions has been paramount. Such projects span the market place and include banking, insurance, public sector, pharmaceuticals, defence and the automotive and aerospace industries. More recently, Carl has focused on the need to define integrated solutions for Xansa's business transformation programmes. Taking forward his own expertise and experience and combining it with the impressive depth of experience and capability of his colleagues, Carl has helped shape Xansa's theoretical and practical approaches to enterprise architecture, as well as applying them.

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Why Enterprise Architecture Is So Much More Than IT

Enterprise Architecture is often seen by IT folk as an upward evolution from IT Architecture, encompassing "more stuff", some of it non technical. A consequence of this proposition is to believe that everything can be modelled and therefore controlled i.e. architecture as deterministic engineering phenomena. The thesis of this presentation is to make the case for Enterprise Architecture as a set of often disparate concerns that include IT but are not governed by it i.e. architecture as non-deterministic sociological phenomena.

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