Objective of Meeting
Summary
Outputs
Next Steps
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Architecture Practitioners'
Conference
The full proceedings of this Conference are available on
CD-ROM. Please refer to www.opengroup.org/bookstore/catalog/t043.htm.
Objective of Meeting
At the New Orleans Conference The Open Group Architecture Forum hosted a two-day
Architecture Practitioners' Conference, which complemented and followed on from the
Plenary Conference on Boundaryless Information Flow, which occupied the opening
day-and-a-half of the week.
Enterprise architecture is becoming an essential function in many organizations,
providing strategic context for the evolution of information technology within the
enterprise, in response to the changing needs of the business environment. It also enables
organizations to maintain the right balance between permitting innovation and catering to
the integration needs of the extended enterprise.
Unlike other enterprise architecture conferences which focus on the strategic value of
enterprise architecture, the two-day Architecture Practitioners' Conference was a
conference organized by enterprise architecture practitioners, for enterprise architecture
practitioners, and those directly involved in the management and oversight of enterprise
architecture. It was a conference about best practice in enterprise architecture today,
with members and non-members alike coming together to share insights and perspectives
on how to improve the practice, and how to maximize the value.
The sub-theme of the Architecture Practitioners' Conference series is "Making
IT Pay: Using Enterprise Architecture to Create Business Value, Control Costs,
and Generate Real ROI", and in line with that theme the New Orleans Conference
focused particularly on how enterprise architecture can best contribute to creating real
business value. Many of the sessions provided experience-based insight into the approaches
and methods that have proved most effective for developing enterprise architectures around
the world, and helped to clarify the limitations that exist in this emerging field.
The conference 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.
The conference underlined the role of The Open Group Architecture Forum in providing a
truly global forum in which IT architects from all sectors of the industry -- IT
customers, systems vendors, tools vendors, and major integrators -- can come together to
discuss best practice in enterprise architecture, hone their skills, share experiences,
and learn from each other.
Summary
The agenda for the Architecture Practitioners' Conference covered 36 individual
sessions and 27 presenters, structured into 8 tracks across 2 parallel streams. The event
provided a wealth of current case study and tutorial material, summarized below.
Keynote Address
Jan Popkin, CEO and Founder, Popkin Software
Popkin Software has sponsored all of The Open Group Member Conferences and Architecture
Practitioners' Conferences in 2004, and it was therefore highly fitting that Jan Popkin
should be the one to deliver the Keynote Address for this final conference of 2004.
In his keynote, Jan:
- Discussed how an enterprise architecture can be a decision support tool in the
commercial and government markets
- Addressed the different faces of enterprise architecture for portfolio management,
technology investment strategies, and IT architecture
- Examined the emergence of SOA and its relationship to architecture
- Discussed the role of TOGAF 8 in helping organizations to attain business value
Track #1A: Enterprise Architecture Practice and Profession
- What is Architecture?
Len Fehskens, Hewlett-Packard
Track #2A: Architecting the Secure Enterprise
- Enterprise Architecture for Information Security
Erik Johansson, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
Track #1B: Setting Up and Running an Enterprise Architecture Practice
- Setting Up and Running an Enterprise Architecture Practice Based on TOGAF
Judith Jones, Architecting-The-Enterprise Limited
- Benchmarking Study on Effectively Managing Enterprise Architecture
Daniel Yellin, IBM and Wai Fong Boh, Carnegie Mellon and Nanyang Universities
Track #2B: Architecting Identity Management
- The Practice of Identity Management Architecture
Ron Williams, IBM
- Integrating Wireless Networks with Identity
Rakesh Radhakrishnan, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Birds-Of-a-Feather (Tuesday Evening)
- The IT Architecture Profession
Moderators: Walter Stahlecker, HP and Andras Szakal, IBM
Track #1C: Enterprise Architecture Scope, Objectives, and Stakeholders
- Enterprise Architecture, Solution by Solution
Len Fehskens, Hewlett-Packard
- Identifying the Stakeholders for Enterprise Architecture
Chris Greenslade, Architecting-The-Enterprise Limited
Track #2C: Enterprise Architecture Case Studies: Government Sector
- Case Study: Using TOGAF to Define an Architecture Framework for the Torpedo
Enterprise Advanced Modeling and Simulation (TEAMS) Initiative
Judy Cerenzia, Penn State University
- Case Study: US General Services Administration (GSA)
Ed Harrington, Data Access Technologies, Inc.
(Unfortunately Mr. Harrington was unable to present for personal reasons.
However, he kindly made available his presentation.)
Track #1D: Business Architecture
- TUTORIAL: Business Process Architecture
Joe Francis, Hewlett-Packard
Track #2D: Enterprise Architecture Case Studies: Commercial Sector
- Case Study: Using TOGAF to Define a Service-Oriented Architecture
Stacey Darnell, Tanager, Inc.
- Case Study: Introducing Enterprise Architecture to a Customer Organization
Klaus Niemann, ...act! Consulting, Germany
- Case Study: Component Business Modelling (CBM), and How it Maps onto
Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA)
Ian McCall, IBM
- Case Study: Architecture and Implementation Governance
Eric Boulay, Arismore, France
Track #1E: Enterprise Architecture and Business Value
- Introduction to Value Systems Architecture
Matthew K. Hettinger, Mathet Consulting, Inc.
- Measuring the Business Value from Enterprise Architecture
Judith Jones, Architecting-The-Enterprise Limited
- Deriving Value from Enterprise Architecture
David Ritter, ProForma Corporation
Track #2E: Enterprise Architecture Infrastructure Support
- The Role of the "Meta SIB" in Enterprise Architecture
Bill Estrem, Metaplexity Associates
- EA Frameworks: TOGAF / DODAF Alignment
Rolf Siegers, Raytheon
Track #1F: Enterprise Architecture - Business and Data / Information
Architecture
- TUTORIAL: Business and Data / Information Architecture
Judith Jones, Architecting-The-Enterprise Limited
Simon Dalziell, Architecting-The-Enterprise Limited
Track #2F: Architecting Information Quality
- BPM Facilitates the Assurance of Enterprise Information Quality
Matt Smith, Popkin Software
- Architecting Security in the Storage Layer
Rajesh Radhakrishnan, OpenWave Systems
Track #1G: Enterprise Architecture Transformation / Implementation
- Enterprise Architecture and Strategic Planning
Vish Viswanathan, CC&C Solutions
- The Architecture Planning Process
Vish Viswanathan, CC&C Solutions
- Enabling Decision Making using Enterprise Architecture
Srikanth Narasimhan and Paul Wood, Cisco Systems
Track #2G: Enterprise Architecture Tools
- ProVision
David Ritter, ProForma Corporation
- Popkin System Architect - Tool Support for TOGAF
Matt Smith, Popkin Software
- TOGAF8 Support in the Metis EA Software
Christian Holmboe, Computas A/S
- Envision = MC2 for the Enterprise
Leon Stucki, Future Tech Systems
Track #1H: Enterprise Architecture Realization / EA and the Operational
Environment
- Measurement of EA Success - Metrics and Key Performance Indicators
Klaus Niemann, ...act! Consulting, Germany
- Using Enterprise Architecture and ITIL to Reduce Cost and Complexity in the Data
Center
Ramesh Radhakrishnan, Sun Microsystems
- TOGAF and ITIL - A Comparison
Judith Jones, Architecting-The-Enterprise Limited
Outputs
The presentations, tutorials, and workshops at the meeting, and the associated
discussions, provided participants with a wealth of experience-based insight into current
best practice in enterprise architecture, from leading experts and practitioners.
Participants at this unique event were able to:
- Participate in highly practical workshops teaching best practices in the enterprise
architecture process
- 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 methods for
enterprise architecture
- Network with leading architecture experts, vendors, and peers in the enterprise
architecture field
Next Steps
This Third Architecture Practitioners' Conference was a tremendous success, and
confirmed the need for this unique event on both sides of the Atlantic. The next
Architecture Practitioners' Conference will be held in Dublin, Ireland, 25-29 April 2005,
under the title Enterprise ArchITecture Europe 2005.
Interested in presenting or participating at the Dublin Architecture
Practitioners' Conference? Contact John
Spencer, Director of The Open Group Architecture Forum.
Links
Members: A full report will
be available on the Architecture
Forum members' web site.
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