Mohamed Ganie studied computer science at the University of South Africa for four years. After this, he continued his studies for a further two years at Technikon South Africa in the field of electrical engineering. Since then, the majority of his working experience has been Armscor and Telkom South Africa.

During his time with Telkom he worked in a variety of positions. These included IT Desktop Technician; IT Systems Administration; IT Networking and Network Administration; IT Programming and Database Design; IT Information and Data Warehousing; and Business Process Redesign.

Mohamed has spent four years with Armscor and is currently involved with the initiation, implementation and maintenance of Enterprise Architecture and with ICT Infrastructure Renewal based on business needs.

Presentation
Using Enterprise Architecture in the Defence Industry
Armscor developed an enterprise architecture in 2005 to provide a technical foundation for an effective IT strategy, which in turn, is at the core of any successful modern business strategy. Enterprise architecture addresses this need by providing a strategic context for the evolution of the IT systems in response to the constantly changing needs of the business environment. In 2006 the Management Board approved a project to define the user requirements for replacing the total application portfolio using the enterprise architecture capability. This project was successfully concluded within six months defining the user requirements using the EA capability with the functionality to generate a standard user requirement specification from the EA repository. The approach to this unique capability and additional benefits derived from this will be presented in this paper.

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