Jeremy Caine is a Senior IT Architect with IBM Global Business Services. He leads the design and delivery of solution architectures on large business transformation and system integration programmes.

Jeremy is an experienced methods practitioner and part of the IBM worldwide architectural teaching team.

Presentation

Enterprise Architecture and Brownfield

Brownfield Development is a significant asset in an Enterprise Architecture governance system. The majority of IT change projects are not Greenfield developments. Many enterprises have ageing legacy information systems whose internals are not fully understood yet they support critical business process and embody key enterprise knowledge.

A strong semantic information knowledge base about these systems is the most fundamental part of a robust Information and Application Architecture. Brownfield provides a model and process for discovering system knowledge so that it can inform enterprise governance. An understanding of what you have is the enabler for establishing what an enterprise wants to do and what it can do.

This session introduces Brownfield and its importance in managing an Enterprise Architecture. We discuss the importance of semantic and information description standards and how they are combined. Creating strategies for creating benefit from key industry standards such as UDEF, RDF, OWL and KDM are essential. In the complicated legacy world integrating Brownfield technologies and methods into governance solutions represent a key investment. The introduction of these techniques and technologies create a scalable and manageable environment to enable business and IT transformation in complicated legacy system landscapes.

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