General Motors Corporation
"Enabling Enterprise Architecture at General Motors"
General Motors has embarked on an aggressive program to develop an Enterprise Architecture for the Corporation. This program involved developing an understanding of the Framework, implementing a methodology for developing the Framework cell contents, developing a core set of architecture templates for the Framework and methodology, and finally developing a series of composite views to address various constituencies within General Motors. This session will discuss the development and evolution of the program, and the status to date.
"Architecture at e-GM"
One of the most ambitious undertakings at General Motors is the e-GM effort. Not only is e-GM transforming the General Motors buying experience, it is also transforming the business. Mike, one of the founding technical executives of the e-GM effort, will discuss how architecture played a key roll at e-GM, and why it is a key element across all businesses.
"Technology Architecture and the Framework"
General Motors has undertaken an aggressive effort to better understand their technology infrastructure and how its information systems efforts can directly affect the "bottom line" at GM. A parallel effort is being conducted to identify how to better harness the "Intellectual Capital" developed within the information systems organization to benefit not only systems development efforts, but also provide increased value to the Enterprises a whole. This presentation will discuss how the Framework is being used in this effort and results to date.
Boeing Defense & Space
"Architecture at Boeing"
AT&T
"Enterprise IT Architecture Blueprinting"
With the migration to heterogeneous and distributed IT architectures, many IT organizations are confronted with designing and maintaining their own open IT architecture. The Enterprise IT Architecture Blueprinting Methodology provides the IT architecture equivalent to engineering drawings and schematics and is mandatory for the successful definition, design, evolution and communication of an enterprise wide distributed computing environment.
Microsoft
"Microsoft's Architecture Experience"
"The Microsoft Solutions Framework"
This presentation will include an introduction to and overview of the Microsoft Solutions Framework (MSF), how IT projects using the MSF can influence and be influenced by enterprise architectures, and how the MSF relates to the Framework. The presentation will also include applying the MSF to enterprise architectures and a resulting version release approach to enterprise architectures.
Paychex
"Focusing on Architecture Through "Process Models"
Hewlett-Packard
"Building Enterprise Information Architectures"
"Using Time-Tested Truths in the Business Views of the Framework"
The business views of the Framework set strategy, and because they don't deal with technology, they will stand the test of time. This presentation will discuss how the Framework helps get the business issues out on the table.
Johnson & Johnson
"Framework Front-End to the Repository"
Volkswagen
"The Volkswagen Story"
The presentation will provide insight into the practical experience in using EA in a business environment. This will include successes, challenges, usage strategies, lessons learned, and a glimpse into the future of EA at Volkswagen. Specific focus will be on getting Business involvement, "Selling" the effort, Understanding your audience for Enterprise Architecture, and Lessons Learned. Also reviewed will be the "business transformation" that resulted from the Enterprise Architecture effort, and the direct benefit gained by business personnel.
IBM/CGI
"Something Old - Something New"
Allstate Insurance Company
"A Row 2 View of Repository Implementation"
"Models, Models and More Models"
Throughout Allstate Insurance Company's 15 years of data and process modeling, the tools, approaches, and people have changes - but the models have lived on! This presentation describes the ongoing journey to develop data management practices targeted at both the project and enterprise levels - assisted by the Framework. Through the help of infrastructure funding and a strong vision, Allstate has matured its standards and processes and achieved its vision of an enterprise-wide capability for managing information.
The Boeing Corp.
"Using the Framework to Put Boeing Online"
The Boeing Company has embarked on an aggressive schedule to enable its customers and suppliers access to digital content via the world wide web. This presentation will address the issues, problems, challenges and the successful approach through which Boeing provided millions of digital images and terabytes of content worldwide.
"e-Business Reality, Boeing's Successful e-Business Model"
This presentation will describe how Boeing used the Framework in two distinctly different e-Business initiatives. The first, MyBoeing-Fleet.com, is the leading aerospace e-Business portal. The second initiative is the National Imaging and Mapping Agency's recent requirement that contractors to the agency use the Framework for their systems activities. This presentation will provide examples of how Boeing is using the Framework for these initiatives.
T-Mobile (Sprint)
"Defining the Business Model Scope - Best Practices"
Indiana University
"Formalization of Multi-Level Frameworks"
This presentation depicts the Enterprise Architecture model as a tree of frames. Each frame is the familiar interrogative grid, each cell of the grid contains, recursively, additional frames down to leaves. The formalism also provides mechanisms for connecting framework components down through the recursive levels of detail and down through the grid categories of roles. While the tree of frames expresses the structure of a framework model, these connections express the framework's meaning.
USAA
"Pouring the Foundation for the Information Age"
USAA, a customer-driven company for over 70 years, has aggressively responded to the challenges brought about by the Information Age. USAA recognized that data integrity compromises made through the years, in a furious attempt to develop the needed IT applications, had resulted in an unmanageable data replication environment. The cost of not managing data clearly exceeded the company's 'pain threshold.' Since 1997, USAA has been working on the development and deployment of capabilities that will allow it to effectively manage its data resources; this presentation shares those experiences.
Cardinal Health Corporation
"Data Architecture: Getting from Strategy to Implementation"
A key goal, shared by executives of both the business and the IT organization, is to ensure that implemented systems are truly aligned with the business mission, vision, and goals. By following an architecture approach to the information resource, this alignment can be ensured. In building an information resource that can meet the needs of an ever-changing business environment, the Data Architect's role is truly visionary and instrumental. This presentation will couple a methodology approach with the Framework and show how to build data models that reflect the needs of all participants during the development process. It will also describe the skills required by the data architect throughout the process.
JP Morgan Chase & Co
"Leveraging System Dynamics Modeling in Relationship to Column Five of the Framework"
The presentation will link current business trends, the framework, and System Dynamics modeling. It will describe a sample model which provides support for investing in the development of artifacts as described by the framework. The System Dynamics model as both an example of potential outcomes from column five of the Framework as well providing support for the general investment in producing artifacts across the entire framework.
Humana
"Working Within the Framework: The Designer/Builder/Maintainer's Perspectives"
Terra Industries, Inc.
"Use of Information Engineering to Supercharge the Enterprise Architecture Plan"
The Information Systems Strategic Plan identified major efforts, priorities, the application suite and possible technologies, but Information Engineering set the stage for a deployed architecture, This is a discussion of how architectural thinking is used to pull together a three year plan for data, technical infrastructure and a complete application suite.
IVI Publishing
"New Enterprises: A view from the CEO"
New enterprises have the luxury and opportunity for doing it right, yet many don't take the time to build the fundamental framework to support their long-term growth. "Management is only as good as the information they get" sets the tone for this presentation on how important structure and framework are to information in enterprises.
Telkom South Africa
"Gaps, Releases & Integration - Laying the Foundation for Knowledge Management"
The initial step toward Knowledge Management has three key focus areas: GAP Analysis, RELEASE Management Support and INTEGRATION Strategies. This presentation will describe how the Framework was used as a thinking tool to identify the gaps in the current artifact pool of knowledge, as a means of managing several views of an application for release management, and as an approach to establishing a systems integration plan.
Texaco
"Implementing the Framework through a Project Management Office Function"
As the Project Management Office concept becomes more pervasive in industry, it is time for the PMO to move beyond basic IT project management training and project reporting. The PMO should acquire ownership of all projects in the organization and understand the role of architecture and infrastructure projects within an integrated Strategic Business and IT Plan. In order to monitor the most effective prioritization and successful execution of all projects, the PMO requires a proven model that integrates the different components of a company's evolving architecture. The Framework is such a model and should be used by the PMO to ensure that strategic planning objectives and projects can be mapped to each cell in the Framework and integrated accordingly.
Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield
"Start with Understanding the Business"
As business owners, we are overwhelmed with proposals and approaches for improving the business, most of which fail to focus on what the business is all about and what is required to win. This presentation will address those shortcomings including making changes that allow the business to keep up with a rapidly changing marketplace.
Bank of America
"Using the Framework to Restore Order"
Financial institutions are now beginning to consolidate the systems they acquired through mergers and acquisitions to deepen current customer relationships as well as attract new customers. Heterogeneity of both business and technology however, are hindering their ability to execute and get to success faster. Rationalization of the disparity and diversity is required. The Enterprise Architecture function is being used to guide the rationalization. To meet these expectations with limited funding, the architecture function requires a highly organized and methodical approach. This presentation will explore the architecture program and how it uses the framework to identify and understand the key elements and their relationships.
Vitro Finanzas
"A Consulting Firm and Client: Many Uses of the Framework"
This presentation discusses the wide and varied uses of the Framework in the consulting/client relationship from recruiting, training sales people, aligning resources with client requirements evaluating and employing tools/methods, and communicating with business users.
General Accident Insurance
"Implementing a Corporate Repository"
This presentation will show the use of the Framework in evaluating the efficacy and efficiency, and in implementing a corporate repository, an integral part of an I/S Architecture, providing a central facility for metadata management and dissemination.
Systems Engineering Technologies
"Designing Quality Databases"
Since the mid '80's, IDEF1X has been used to design and build large-scale, integrated databases in a wide range of business and government settings. IDEF1X data models are well-suited to providing architectural representations for Column 1 of the Framework. Different model types support different Framework Rows, and the transformations from row to row reflect decisions which govern the flexibility of the resulting "Functioning System." The model types, transform implications and other development issues will be discussed.
South Bay Group
"Designing User Interface Architectures"
The focus of this presentation is on using the Framework to solve the problems associated with multiple media assets (video, audio, text, animation, graphics) and “user” interface.
Knowledge Partners
"Lucent Corporate Enterprise Model"
Institute of Computer Capacity Management
"High-Performance Client/Server"
The subject of this presentation is the fundamental dilemma of distributed systems design: when data is shared, performance requires centralization, but when users are dispersed, performance requires data separation and distribution. Using the Framework as a guide, Mr. Loosley determines an architecture for high performance - an overall framework for designing and building information processing applications for the emerging distributed enterprise.
Metadata Management Corporation
"Artifact Aerobics"
How much exercise do your enterprise artifacts get? When "actually doing architecture work," artifacts are created at great expense and effort - often to waste away in dark places. Artifacts need an automated enforcement of a business regime to keep them in shape, toned and useful throughout the business cycle. This presentation will describe a real business regime implemented by a worldwide organization to keep their artifacts robust and productive.
"Someday, You Are Going to Wish' Is Reality"
That "someday" comes in the form of mergers, acquisitions, technology investment relevance and shaking off the legacy that is running today's enterprise. This presentation will describe the process of collecting and organizing Framework primitives from available sources. A process will be described that can be used to integrate and aggregate these primitives. Finally, the presentation will describe how different people in the enterprise use the information in their relevant tasks.
Intelligent Solutions
"Using the Framework for the Data Warehouse"
The data warehouse obtains its data from existing operational systems and external databases. This presentation applies the Framework to aid in the development of the governing data models. These models are then used to help the data warehouse team better understand both the target and source environments so that they can properly define the data acquisition, cleansing, transformation and integration process and programs.
NCR Corporation
"Architecture is a Reality at NCR"
NCR's IT Services organization has evolved over many years and has evolved into a mature organization with established processes. This presentation will describe the approach to introducing an enterprise architecture in a large corporation and establishing its key role in the development of quality solutions. NCR Services has defined and populated as overall Strategic Architecture; these processes, policies, deliverables, and models will be displayed and discussed in the context of the Information Architecture.
"Getting Architecture Started in a Large Organization"
Essential Strategies
"Alphabet Soup (OO, IE, UML) & The Framework"
Object orientation rules! Based on current titles, one might conclude that object orientation has overturned the world of program design as well as that of systems analysis. What is this object-oriented methodology and how is it different from the techniques we have been using for over 29 years? This presentation will discuss how it is different and how it is really the same as that which has been done under the rubric of Information Engineering. In particular, it will describe how UML compares with other object and data modeling techniques.
Knowledge Consultants
"The Row 3 Squeeze"
The same pressures that impact business impact the Framework for Enterprise Architecture. Different business situations require emphasis on specific Framework cells with an eye to the entire Framework. Each configuration of cells represents a specific IT solution or response for the business. This focus on specific cells in the Framework effects the resources for systems. It impacts the priority of artifacts, skills needed, and funding. This presentation discusses how to position and focus the lens on the cells of opportunity and assess corresponding impact on IT resources.
South African Breweries
"A Model Approach to SAP R/3 Implementations"
Universal Data Solutions
"Framework Innovation Changing Healthcare"
The healthcare transaction system in this country has not kept pace with the latest changes in technology. onehelathbank.com is addressing this void by using the Framework to architect as Internet point-of-service settlement system that brings the Patient, Provider, and Payer together at the point of care. Applying the Framework to understand the artifacts within the healthcare industry has enabled us to dynamically deliver customizable functions from pre-assembled components.
Glaxo Wellcome
"Developing an Enterprise Architecture at Glaxo Wellcome"
When three major business areas consolidated into a single division several years ago, it was clear that the traditional way of running GW business was changing. The new organization required timely access to high quality information to insure success. To achieve this an 'architected' approach was identified as essential in meeting the new business needs. Over the past year, we have commenced the development of an enterprise architecture using the Framework.
The MITRE Corporation
"Architectures ... Principles with Which We Build Things."
Model Systems Corporation
"Framework 101 - The Framework in an Academic Curriculum"
"When will the Framework be used in an academic curriculum?" is a frequent question at previous ZIFA conferences. The answer is: Today! In the Data Resource Management Certificate Program of the Univ. of Wash., students learn how to develop and manage company-wide data resources, define data standards and policies, and integrate multiple data resources for organization-wide use - all within the context of the Framework. Begun in the early '90's as a classroom-based program for working professionals, it has been extended for delivery as a Distance Learning offering.
Northrop Grumman TASC
"Bridging the Framework with Object-Oriented Models"
Equifax, Inc.
"Manufacturing the Framework Implementation Environment"
By design, the Framework is methodologically and technologically independent. In this presentation, a technique will be shared for directly incorporating methods, processes, technology and in general, a software development life cycle into the Framework. The net effect is that the Framework can be implemented and every cell can be understood in the context of the life cycle.
Information Engineering Systems Corp.
"Implementing Enterprise Architecture: Building with 3-Month Increments"
The secret to success in implementing Enterprise Architecture is to rive out the build sequence based on Business Plans and Data. This allows key Activities, Locations, and People to be identified. Project plans can also be derived for incremental delivery of data-bases and systems in priority areas. Clive will describe a number of projects where this approach has been used.
"Enterprise Architecture and e-Business"
Information Engineering Services
"Using Enterprise Architecture for Governance Analysis and Balanced Scorecard"
Selling the importance of Enterprise Architecture to Senior Management is difficult. Management consider that Enterprise Architecture is the responsibility of the IT Department. But their active involvement is vital, as they are the real "architects" of the Enterprise. This session shows how Enterprise Architecture directly supports the needs of senior management for Corporate Governance and Balanced Scorecard approaches. The session shows how Enterprise Architecture is used for rapid enterprise compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley driven IT and business governance requirements. It shows how internal controls can be established by senior management using a Governance Analysis Framework (GAF). This is used to document the relationships within an enterprise that support reporting requirements. It is based on a comprehensive organizing framework using the Framework, as well as proven Enterprise Architecture methods and tools for the documentation and management of the GAF. It ensures that senior management is able to comply with the internal control reporting requirements of Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. It also shows how Enterprise Architecture can be used to support the Balanced Scorecard and Strategy Map approaches used by management.
Glaxo SmithKline
"Linking Enterprise IT Arch. Blueprinting to the Framework"
GMAC Residential Funding Corporation
"Did You Make Money for Me Today? Enterprise Architecture in an Entrepreneurial Organization"
This presentation will provide a case study of the experiences of GMAC-RFC in developing an Enterprise Architecture Framework. GMAC-RFC is a risk-taking, high-return company that provides securitization of mortgage assets and other financial services. The presentation will discuss the opportunities, the misunderstandings and the outcomes in using the Framework to develop an Enterprise Architecture Framework.
OTS Inc.
"Data Warehousing in Context of the Framework"
Data Warehousing has gained popularity as a strategic enabler of business success. However, many organizations are beginning to realize that their data warehousing investments have created yet another "island" of technology and data, compromising the true value of the solution. The reason for this is that, while focused on integrating and organizing data, the majority of data warehouse practitioners have not embraced the Framework as its architectural foundation. The presentation will demonstrate how to apply the Framework to create the context necessary to ensure that data warehouse investments provide enterprise-wide returns much greater than the value of information as the result of queries of the data warehouse.
InfoAdvisors, Inc.
"Defining a Profession with the Framework"
This presentation will map several current professional designations against the Framework, as well as discuss career implications for professionals working in information technology, including professional responsibility, right to practice, protection of the public, common bodies of knowledge, certification, and licensure. Ms. Lopez will also discuss current trends in IT licensure and certification and how the Framework could be used as a basis for defining a profession. and its specializations.
Tinwisle Corporation
"Frameworks: Comparison and Correspondence for Three Archetypes"
We examine three distinct framework structures that are used to organize the models of an enterprise: the Framework, the framework of the ISO 15704:2000 and ISO/DIS 19439:2002 standards, and the US Department of Defense Architecture Framework (C4ISR) Version 2. These approaches are distinguished not only by their structural appearance but also by their intended use. The frameworks share a common meta-meta model and are found to be complementary or composite rather than competitive in the enterprise domain. Each approach serves a specific yet distinct essential need in the effort to understand and realize a successful enterprise.
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
"Instantiating Row 3, Column 3 of the Framework"
To counteract the impulsive tendency in organizations to model "at will", the three-zone model was developed to provide consistency and uniformity of architectural models in the information security and technology spaces, building on link-to attributes present in application and information architectures, respectively. The model exposes minimal elements - zone, site, technology, facet, tier - through which the story of data and technology residency are told, juxtaposed against the backdrop of INFOSEC risk mitigation.
Soloris
"Balanced Scorecards Provide a Global Data Model for CRM Data Warehouse"
Profit Science LLC
"20 Years of Enterprise Architecture for Fun, Profit, and Quality Information"
This presentation will address those keys elements that can make your Enterprise Architecture, using the Framework a success. This presentation will enable attendees to understand the fundamentals for a successful Enterprise Architecture initiative, and the value it can deliver in an age when rapid delivery, outsourcing, and overseas development are part of the environment.
Titan Corporation
"The Security Knowledge Matrix"
During the history of IT, most enterprises have been playing "catch-up" in their attempts to secure information systems that are already operational or in advanced stages of development. By contrast, this presentation will focus on how to break the "catch-up" cycle by insuring that the knowledge of information security requirements and the system "artifacts" needed to create a secure system and computing environment are gathered and/or created as an integral part of an EA initiative to be used in subsequent systems development efforts.
Rand Afrikaans University
"Why Enterprise Architecture is an Imperative"
This presentation explains the absolute requirement for Enterprise Architecture as a sustainable business venture. We will combine the observations that led to Lehmans Laws and the observations of Brooks as expounded in No Silver Bullet with the study of thermodynamics and the principles of chaos theory and dynamical systems to show why this is an absolute requirement. The complexities of managing a purposeful dynamic open system with a high inertia closed system has led to the development of a chaometric approach to system maintenance, that is presented as a reliable measure of the state of an information system.
Link Consulting
"Business and Information Systems Alignment using the Framework"
This presentation addresses the problem of Business and Information Systems (IS) Architectures Alignment using the Framework. We propose a set of artifacts for each Framework cell, a model for its representation and a methodology that defines the sequence of completing each cell. We have developed a tool that supports the above. We have focused on the Business and IS perspectives, both on a professional level in several Portuguese organizations and on an academic level in the Information Systems Department of Lisbon Technical University.
Swisscom Mobile
"Business Architecture at Swisscom Mobile"
At ZIFA 2003, Indivudals from Swissom Mobile presented Swisscom's approach for Technical Architecture and Governance (Framework Rows 3 and 4). This is the other half of the story. Swisscom's approach to Business Architecture, (Framework Rows 1 and 2), establishing the Business context within which Technology Architecture and governance are affected.
Aetna Inc.
"Why & Wherefore: Specifying Enterprise Workflow form a Correct Architectural Context"
Specifying architectural requirements for Enterprise Workflow Management is fraught with perils. Enterprise Workflow is not just about Column 2's process assumptions, nor is the motivational model express in Column 4 sufficient for effective enterprise deployment. This presentation describes primitive influence by and for workflow and lays out some templates for the"Mighty Must."
Strand and Donslund
"Enterprise Architecture at Denmark's Largest Retailer"
COOP Nordic, the largest Nordic retailer, is the result of a merger 2002 of COOP in Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. This presentation describes the use of Enterprise Architecture and the Framework in COOP Denmark before the merger and in COOP Nordic during the ongoing process of planning and implementing the future information systems and IT infrastructure.
