Philip Venter is an experienced enterprise architect who is currently responsible for sustaining the Enterprise Architecture initiative within Anglo Platinum.

He started his career as an engineer and moved into Information Technology. With his engineering background he was involved in process control and communications engineering. He migrated to the business applications environment in a system analyst and design role. Business intelligence is also an area that he worked in for a while, designing and managing the deployment of business intelligence solutions. With this background in solution architecture he consulted to a number of companies in the transport, manufacturing, power utilities, IT and mining industries.

His current focus at Anglo Platinum is to ensure that the business architecture initiatives deliver value to the business, as well as to enable Application Portfolio Management through Enterprise Architecture.

Philip holds an engineering diploma, B Sc (Computer Science) and a management qualification.

Presentation
Application Portfolio Management Enabled by EA

Anglo Platinum has developed a solid business process capability as part of their initial implementation of Enterprise Architecture in the organisation. The next phase is to extend this initiative into application architecture, with a primary focus on enabling Application Portfolio Management (APM). One of the benefits of this approach is that the business processes will be re-used by linking them to the supporting applications. Growing the EA repository in this fashion provides a consolidated knowledge base of all the organisational elements and their relationships which can then be used by both the business and IT. This presentation will be about some of the challenges faced during the initial development of this capability and the design thereof.

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