Biography Graham has 29 years industry and 14 years academic experience in Information Systems, Strategy and Architectures. He has authored books on Advanced System Delivery, Project Management, Data Management and Strategy. His research interests include linking business and IT strategy, advanced methods, meta modeling, architecture frameworks and knowledge representation. He founded Inspired fourteen years ago, is co-author of the rich Inspired Enterprise Architecture Frameworks and is the architect of the Archi tool, a new breed of web/repository based collaborative EA management solution now generating widespread interest. Archi is unique in being web centric and extremely adaptable with framework/meta model changes applied at runtime creating new interface, analysis, reporting and modeling capabilities instantly via the use of patterns.

Presentation
Enterprise Architecture Management Tools:
Requirements, Design and Application of a comprehensive web-based solution (Archi)
Enterprise Architecture Management is vital to achieving agility, reducing risk, increasing effectiveness and efficiency in today's pressured organisations. Historically, support has been sought in ad-hoc tools (Word, Excel, Access, Visio) or CASE modeling tools originally intended for software, process or data modeling. These lack some essential elements to effectively manage frameworks, document current architectures, develop future scenarios and manage initiatives towards achieving goals: especially when it comes to gaining buy in from non-technical executives and collaborating with sponsors, decision makers and "owners" of various architecture dimensions.

This talk discusses the requirements for a successful EA tool; how these differs from previous approaches; the design of one such "new generation" web/repository based tool capable of supporting a variety of frameworks and user categories. The talk will conclude with a demonstration of unique capabilities followed by questions and discussion.