Enterprise Architecture Practitioners' Conference –
Paris
Objective of Meeting
The Enterprise Architecture Practitioners' Conferences are organized by enterprise architecture practitioners, for enterprise architecture practitioners, and for those
directly involved in the management and oversight of enterprise
architecture.
The Enterprise Architecture Practitioners' Conference in Paris
addressed some of the key issues and challenges that face enterprise
architects today. In this highly practical three-day conference and series
of workshops, members of The Open Group and non-members alike came together to share insights and perspectives on
best practices in enterprise architecture, and the key issues and challenges that
enterprise architects face
today.
The conference underlined the continuing role of The Open Group in providing a
truly global forum in which enterprise architects from all sectors of the industry can come
together to discuss best practice in enterprise architecture, hone their skills,
find new ways to solve problems, share experiences, and learn from each other.
Summary
The agenda for this Enterprise Architecture Practitioners' Conference covered
71 individual presentations, structured into a plenary plus 18 streams across up to 4 parallel
tracks.
The event provided a wealth of current case study and tutorial material,
summarized below.
The presentations referenced below are freely available only to
members of The Open Group and conference attendees.
The conference plenary focused on the key role of enterprise
architecture in driving enterprise transformation. It analyzed how
enterprise architecture can be used as a catalyst for achieving business advantage; reviewed experience to date,
presenting a number of excellent case studies of enterprise transformation
managed with an alignment of business goals and IT architecture; and
discussed the maturity of enterprise architecture after years of
functional architecture.
In so doing, it assisted CIOs, enterprise architects and strategists,
senior managers, analysts, and industry experts in understanding the key
role of enterprise architecture as a catalyst for enterprise
transformation.
The plenary featured a number of important presentations covering case
studies of enterprise architecture driving enterprise transformation:
Welcome Address Allen Brown, President & CEO, The Open Group
Keynote: French Urbanism Welcomes Enterprise Architecture: The Alliance of Business
Modeling and Architecture Governance to Drive Business Transformation Eric Boulay, Président Directeur Général, Arismore opened
the first day of the conference with a keynote address on
"urbanism" as a key concept in the French IT industry,
explaining the relevance to enterprise architecture. France has a
long tradition in "urbanism" since late 1990s. This
presentation compared the top-down French approach, from business
perspective to the technical layers, and the bottom-up Anglo-Saxon
approach typified by The Open Group work on TOGAF, which started
from technical frameworks (prior to TOGAF 7) and migrated to a genuine
EA framework.
How EA has Impacted Business Transformation in French Companies Christophe Longépé, Group Enterprise Architecture Director,
Societe Generale reviewed the key role of enterprise architecture
as a catalyst for business transformation in French companies. After
outlining the history of "IS Urbanism" as a discipline in
France, and the roles of CIGREF and the Club Urba EA, Christophe provided an overview of the state of EA in French companies. He went
on to explain the “EA Index” tool, which evaluates the maturity of
the EA process in enterprises, and the results of a recent study based
on a panel of French Companies using the EA Index, illustrating
the current situation in France.
Enterprise Architecture to Serve Orange and its Business Jean-Luc Lucas, Managing Director Service Platforms, France
Telecom has spent most of his career with France Telecom Group.
As Director responsible for the design and development of IT
infrastructures and solutions, he was in charge of the ACHIMEDE
program that rebuilt France Telecom's Information System using IP
technologies. Jean-Luc is today a recognized expert on largescale IT
projects and IS architecture. This presentation focused on the
convergent Orange fix/mobile internet strategy, and showed how
enterprise architecture is a powerful tool to realize the convergence
of different existing services and to create new convergent services.
Enterprise Transformation
– Aligning Business Goals
& IT
Architectures
Marc Fiammante, Distinguished Engineer & Chief Architect, SOA
Engagements, SOA Advanced Technology Team, IBM Software Group is
an IBM Distinguished Engineer and world-wide chief architect of the
SOA engagements delivered by IBM's SOA Advanced Technology field
architect team. Marc reviewed a number of important SOA
projects delivered in the past few years, focusing on the transition
from a technical approach to a business approach, and linking the SOA
approach to a maturity model. Finally, he described the
method used to link business and IT, and gave a number of
"anti-patterns" – approaches to avoid.
Taking Architecture to the Application Level Junkyo (Jack) Fujieda, President & CEO, ReGIS Inc., a
global research and consulting firm, leads all activities related to
The Open Group in Japan. Jack gave a presentation explaining
the need to take architecture from the (high) enterprise level to the
application level.
The Bridge of Architecture and Implementation via Assurance of
True Requirements Kazuaki Minami, Senior Research Project Director, Automotive
Software Platform & Development Process, Toyota-ITC (Japan) gave
a presentation on the need to bridge architecture and implementation
via the assurance of true requirements. Kazuaki has been
responsible at Toyota for research into automotive software platforms
and software development processes.
Agile Enterprise Architecture for ERP Ron Tolido, CTO Continental Europe & Asia Pacific,
Capgemini; Franck Lopez, Global Director, Enterprise Architects
Field Services, Global Strategic Initiatives, SAP gave a joint
presentation on the SAP Enterprise Architecture Framework, which is an
extension of the TOGAF architecture framework specifically designed to
support the effective adoption of packaged solutions in the
Service-Oriented Enterprise, and which had been the result of
extensive collaboration between SAP, Capgemini and IDS Scheer.
Launch of the Organization Architecture
Work Group Allen Brown, President & CEO, The Open Group closed
out the day by officially launching The Open Group Organization
Architecture Work Group.
Spearheaded by Capgemini and other platinum members of The Open Group,
this
initiative is working to provide a forum in which to explore
Organization Architecture in business terms. An inaugural open meeting of the
The Open Group Organization Architecture Work Group was announced for
the Wednesday of this conference.
The conference streams in Paris provided experience-based insight into the approaches and
methods that have proved most effective for developing architectures around the
world.
The various conference streams delivered innovative viewpoints,
practical insights, and case study presentations by a diverse range of EA
professionals from both vendor and customer organizations.
These streams took a highly practical, hands-on approach, combining presentations and
discussions on best practices with interactive workshops, case study reviews, and
demonstrations of the latest tools.
STREAM #1: SOA & Enterprise Architecture
Host: William Estrem, Principal, Metaplexity Associates
The presentations, tutorials, and workshops at the meeting, and the associated
discussions and panel sessions, all provided participants with a wealth of
experience-based insight into current best practice in enterprise
architecture, from leading
experts and practitioners around the world.
Participants at this unique event were able to:
Participate in highly practical workshops and tutorials teaching best
enterprise architecture practices
Review case studies from organizations who have put theory into practice, and learn from
them what works and what doesn't
See demonstrations and presentations on leading tools supporting open architecture
methods
Network with leading architecture experts, vendors, and peers in the
enterprise architecture field
Next Steps
This Fourteenth Enterprise Architecture Practitioners' Conference was a great success,
confirming the global need for this unique series of events.
The next Enterprise Architecture Practitioners' Conferences will be held in
Austin, TX, July 23-25,
2007, in association with The Open Group Member Meetings, July
23-27.
If you are interested in presenting at Austin, or at other Enterprise Architecture
Practitioners' Conferences, then please contact John
Spencer, APC Manager at The Open Group.
