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Managing
Director, act! Computing, Germany
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  Biography
Klaus Niemann has more than 20 years experience with
the design of complex IT-architectures in the telecommunication
and financial sector. He worked as system designer,
software architect, consultant, project  manager and
enterprise architect in several positions and for a
wide range of clients. Klaus holds a diploma in computer
science from the Technical University of Berlin. In
the 80s his main focus was on distributed systems,
telecommunication and banking networks in Europe as
well as in the far east. In the 90s he worked on the
introduction of object orientation to large organizations
and then focused on client/server architectures. He
frequently gave professional training sessions, published
several articles and a book on client/server architecture,
and also became a frequent speaker to conferences.
He founded …act! consulting in 1998 with special
emphasis on enterprise architecture management.
As enterprise architect and project manager he was
involved in a variety of projects mainly in the financial
sector. He developed an enterprise architecture framework
for the German market and is hosting the architecture
management day, a series of events, where architecture
managers from large German IT-organizations share their
experience.
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Presentation
Strategic IT-Planning based on systematic evaluation
of enterprise architectures
Systematic evaluation of IT assets is on top of the agenda,
whenever we are talking about large scale projects, about
mergers, about optimizing IT’s efficency and effectiveness.
How many evaluations of your IT landscape have you done,
how many of them are outdated, how many are useless now?
How much effort do you spend on yearly portfolio planning?
And how much effort do you spend on systematic evaluation
and optimization of your existing application portfolio?
Enterprise Architecture Management is the foundation of
effectice IT-Governance. Enterprise Architecture delivers
the necessary insights and provides the CIO’s management information
system. An integrated EA approach delivers value to the CIO’s
desk, based on
- structured and model-based documentation of IT assets,
- analysis and evaluation of strength and weakness,
- and application
portfolio planning.
Business is in focus here: Do we deliver appropriate IT
support to the most important business products and processes?
How do we measure and optimize that? How do we get guidance for
IT-Governance in a highly volatile business environment?
Efficient IT-alignment is based on operationalization
of business goals and strategies. Strategic IT-planning needs
the information, that is delivered through he process
of EA documentation, evaluation and planning.
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