Roy Irvine is a qualified geologist who has been with Datamine South Africa for the past three years, after a long and varied career with De Beers, where he was responsible for developing standardised software solutions and standard processes across Group Exploration worldwide.

He has been involved in Enterprise Architecture projects for the past 8 years and is driving the EA initiative within Datamine South Africa (10% of his time) by ensuring that all new projects undertaken by Datamine South Africa encompass the key elements of Enterprise Architecture, to ensure a holistic understanding of the project challenges as well as being able to demonstrate the real value that the projects have delivered to the clients.

Presentation
Enterprise Architecture in small companies - it can be done
Enterprise Architecture projects are usually undertaken by dedicated teams of IT professionals, working with Business Process Owners to create and populate various Architectures. A small company such as Datamine South Africa (9 Consultants) is unable to justify such an expenditure, but has still managed to incorporate Enterprise Architecture principles into their new projects. This ensures that all projects are planned, delivered and supported using a standard methodology (which improves with each iteration) thereby reducing the risk of project non-performance to both Datamine and the client.

This presentation will demonstrate some of the techniques used, including the role that small companies can make in creating and shaping Industry Standard Architectures such as the Exploration, Mining, Minerals, Metals Vertical (EMMMv).

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