Presenter

Walter Stahlecker, Fellow, The Open Group, Germany

Walter Stahlecker is a Fellow of The Open Group. His current focus is on modelling, describing and promoting the concept of Enterprise Architecture in the sense of "Architecture of the entire Enterprise".

He has been an active member of The Open Group's working groups and Governing Board (and the preceding X/Open) since 20 years. He initiated the Business Architecture Working Group, the ITAC Program and is a founding member of the Architecture Forum.

In 2006 Walter retired from HP as Director of Industry Standards after 35 years, during which he served as manager (commercial UNIX program) and initiator (System Management part of OpenView, Agilent's digital IC test systems).

Presentation

Architecture of the Enterprise (a holistic view)

The term "Enterprise Architecture" literally means "architecture of an enterprise" for to 95% of people, but is frequently used by IT architects to mean "architecture of IT in context with the whole enterprise". This presentation will describe the holistic meaning of "Enterprise Architecture" and the roles of architects and management in facilitating alignment across the whole enterprise.