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exchange organization working on the future state of Enterprise
Architecture.
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Enterprise
Architecture Best Practices & White Papers
The USA National Association of State
Chief Information Officers (NASCIO),
which represents the chief information
officers (CIOs) of the states, is
pleased to announce the release of
its research brief, Service
Oriented Architecture: an Enabler
of the Agile Enterprise.
The brief identifies what state CIOs
need to know now regarding Service
Oriented Architecture (SOA), including
its business value, the vision for
SOA, SOA governance, SOA as a program
and SOA security.
This research brief, an important
resource for CIOs and state chief
architects, also provides an excellent
overview of SOA for non-technical
government professionals at all levels
of government. SOA promises to be
a significant innovation for state
government that will provide the ability
to pick and choose business and technology
services, and will allow the trade
out of services based on organizational
re-design, new strategic intent, legislative
requirements, or business process
modifications.
“SOA promises to bring significant
business value out of existing IT
assets through increased operational
efficiencies, optimized business processes,
and the ability to adapt and change
quickly,” said Utah CIO Stephen
Fletcher. "Providing flexible
access to information across platforms
and languages can be complex and resource
intensive. Service Oriented Architecture
simplifies this through standard protocols
which treat all platforms equally.
This allows us to offer data services
to a wide variety of business partners
with requests that can originate from
anywhere."
Service
Oriented Architecture: an Enabler
of the Agile Enterprise is avaliable
for download
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Enterprise
Architecture Consulting Services
(EACS) is a proven
source for research & best
practices based EA measurement
tools, EA development &
implementation programs and
strategic advisory services.
Enterprise Architecture Consulting
Services is working close together
with the research people from
the Institute
For Enterprise Architecture
Developments (IFEAD).
In just five years, IFEAD has
developed a world wide position
in the EA research & development
arena with its EA frameworks,
methods, opinions and approaches,
etc.
EACS
has leveraged this understanding
of EA organizational and technological
behavior to develop their surveys
and consulting services to apply
to a wide variety of organizations
with one single purpose in mind:
Enterprise Architecture
is a complete expression of
the enterprise; a master plan
which “acts as a collaboration
force” between aspects
of business planning such as
goals, visions, strategies and
governance principles; aspects
of business operations such
as business terms, organisation
structures, processes and data;
aspects of automation such as
information systems and databases;
and the enabling technological
infrastructure of the business
such as computers, operating
systems and networks.
Enterprise
Architecture Consulting Services
professionals deliver EA advisory
services via the web, at client
sites and at EA leadership conferences
around the world.
EACS;
EA Consulting Services:
Fore
more info about EACS visit the
website at http://www.ea-consulting.com
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OMB
releases EA Assessment
The
Office of Management and Budget has the second
version of its Enterprise Architecture Assessment
Framework. Agencies have until Feb. 28 to
submit their EA materials under this guideline,
according to a memo issued by Richard Burk,
director of the Federal Enterprise Architecture
Program Management Office.
Last
year, OMB announced it would evaluate
how well agencies complete and utilize their
EAs to save money, improve services and meet
their missions overall. OMB will use this
assessment to evaluate agency EAs as part
of the second quarter 2006. President’s
Management Agenda Scorecard.
Version
2.0 of the assessment framework supersedes
Version 1.5, published last year. While Version
1.5 focused on gauging how well agencies completed
their baseline EAs, Version 2 looks at how
well an agency actually uses its EA, and what
results the agency gets from the EA.
Download
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Is
proud to Announce the Report 'Trends in Enterprise
Architecture' 2005
How
are Organizations Progressing?
Results
of the Third Measurement
This report presents the results of the third
electronic survey, executed by the Institute
For Enterprise Architecture Developments (IFEAD)©,
2005, on the progress of Enterprise Architecture
(EA) usage & implementations in several
organizations all over the world.
This
third survey is part of a yearly recurrent
survey to measure the progress and developments
in Enterprise Architecture. The survey is
based on a 25 questions survey, addressing
geographical aspects, branch aspects, EA implementations
aspects as well about tools and methodologies
used in Enterprise Architecture programs and
the role of architects in organizations.
Where
possible an overview will be given of the
results of 2005, 2004 and 2003 and an analysis
and explanation of exceptions. All geographic
areas are represented in the survey as well
as different sizes of organizations. All the
source information is copyrighted and based
on the EA Survey's 2005, 2004 and 2003 executed
by the Institute For Enterprise Architecture
Developments (IFEAD) 2005.
This
report 'Trends in Enterprise Architecture
2005' can be downloaded from this site (2.27Mb
pdf).
©
Copyright, Institute For Enterprise Architecture
Developments (IFEAD), 2005 – All Rights
Reserved. No part of this report may be reproduced
or transmitted in any form or by any means,
electronic, mechanical, including photocopying,
recording, or by any information storage and
retrieval system, without the express written
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A
Review with dramatic results of the
US FBI’s Trilogy IT
Modernization Program
A
report recently released by the Computer Science
and Telecommunications Board (CSTB), which is empowered
by the National Research Council, points out planning
flaws in the FBI's Trilogy program. It is a rare
and deep look into a failed promise to quickly modernize.
The report concludes that, after many improvements,
the program is not yet on track to success.
'The
number one problem is the FBI's enterprise architecture.
They didn't have one,' said Mr. Orr a member
of the CSTB , who noted problems with the project's
data architecture as well. Naturally, this is expanded
upon in the full report.
The
report notes that management of enterprise architecture
design cannot be farmed out of an organization,
nor can it be entrusted solely to a CIO within an
organization. True management buy-in is also needed.
The senior leadership of the FBI needed to be directly
involved in creating this strategic view and supporting
its implementation.
Download
here the full report 2079Kb PD
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By
Tim Bass, Silk Road; bass@silkroad.com and Roy Mabry,
DoD OCIO ASD/NII; roy.mabry@osd.mil
The
business- and mission-driven objectives of service-oriented
architectures depend on the dynamic interaction
of collaborative integrated operations in a federated
operational environment. The theme of this paper
is that integrated operations can and should be
considered service-oriented nodes in a dynamic information
environment. In the Department of Defense, this
dynamic information environment has often been referred
to as “the global information grid” or
simply “the grid.” We describe enterprise
architecture reference models as a dynamic abstract
reference environment for net-centric collaboration
between the service-oriented “nodes on the
grid.” The complex, dynamic interaction of
service-oriented nodes in the net-centric environment
creates an opportunity to view enterprise architecture
as a taxonomy of well-defined systems architectures
governed by a set of enterprise architecture reference
models.
Download
this paper here (PDF 553 Kb)
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US-Government
Agency EA documents collection
GCN's EA Resource Center tracks development of federal
agency systems blueprints using the Federal Enterprise
Architecture as a template. Links
to each agency's key enterprise architecture documents
and models now available.
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Microsofts
Architecture View
This
document is intended for business, software, and infrastructure
architects who want to understand Microsoft's approach
to enterprise, application, and technology architectures.
It covers architectural terminology, patterns, concepts,
and definitions as a series of views or levels of
architecture.
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How
Differentiate Enterprise Architects from Engineers
& Designers
Architecture
in the world of Enterprise Architects is addressing
3 major areas in a holistic way: The area of construction,
the area of function and the area of style. Style
is reflecting the culture, values, norms and principles
of an organization. Most of the time, the term architecture
is dealing with construction and function, without
any attention of the style aspect, while the style
aspect reflects the cultural behavior, values, norms
and principles of that organization in such a way
that it reflects the corporate values of that organization.
So my statement is that Architecture differentiate
from Engineering and Design by the fact of explicitly
incorporating and reflecting the style characteristics
in the results of the work of an Architect. So don't
call every designer or engineer, architect, because
it are different roles with different capabilities.
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US-GAO
defines Enterprise Architecture benchmarks
Responding
to agency requests, the General Accounting Office
has updated its guide on enterprise architectures
with expanded metrics to measure how well an agency
succeeds in implementation.
The
update, "Information
Technology: A Framework for Assessing and Improving
Enterprise Architecture Management," (426Kb pdf)
provides benchmarking tools for agencies to plan and
measure their efforts in developing enterprise architectures.
It also provides guidelines for the Office of Management
and Budget to evaluate agency efforts.
The
report was updated using feedback from the release
of the first version, published February 2002 and
entitled, “Information Technology: Enterprise Architecture
Use Across the Federal Government Can Be Improved.”
This
update expands the performance measurements identified
in the first report. It defines attributes critical
for success and offers a matrix to gauge how mature
an agency’s architecture is.
The
report defines an enterprise as any activity that
an agency executes. The architecture characterizes
how that activity is structured.
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'InfoCitizen'
European Enterprise Architecture Project
2001-2003
InfoCitizen project aims at:
• establishing a common Enterprise Architecture
among the participating EU countries tested in representative
public administration segments, and
• deploying a distributed, Internet-based information
system that supports the above for all actors involved
(citizens, administrations, private sector), building
on emerging technologies (e.g. mobile agents, middleware,
xml) and solving incompatibilities and complexities
that exist today.
To
achieve this, InfoCitizen employs concepts from the
fields of public administration, enterprise architectures
and systems integration, generic process and data
modelling and metadata standards (e.g. xml) in order
to classify and organize information regarding a citizen/business
oriented process in all participating countries.
The
addressed domain for the InfoCitizen project is the
achievement of a highly interoperable organisational
model for the European Public Administrations and
the development of the corresponding IT infrastructure,
facilitating services at two levels:
- the
inter-Administration level; concerning communications
and interactions between Public Administrations
(A2A, i.e. Administration to Administration)
- the
Administration to Citizen level; concerning communications
and interactions between Public Administrations
and citizens (A2C, i.e. Administration to Citizen).
Info
Citizen Project Presentation (1027Kb) 
Project
Document
This
deliverable is separated into two parts: At the first
part a user scenario has been identified (Marco's
case) and requirements analysis of all four user-partners
(Schmelz-Germany, Thessaloniki-Greece, Colleferro-Italy,
Tres Cantos-Spain) together with detailed descriptions
of the business processes performed by each one during
the scenario execution are documented using the UML
notation. At the second part we lay out the scoping
of the project and propose requirements for building
the InfoCitizen architecture. Prerequisites for developing
a pan-European approach have been also included in
this part. At the second part we lay out the scoping
of the project and propose requirements for building
the InfoCitizen architecture. Prerequisites for developing
a pan-European approach have been also included in
this part. (1166Kb)
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Downloads
State
of the Art Analysis
This
report presents the State-of-the-Art of methodologies,
frameworks and technologies that InfoCitizen may imply
in order to achieve the goal of Integration and Interoperability
among European Public Administration organizations.
It is structured in three main parts presenting (a)
conceptual (design) ideas, (b) technical (implementation)
ideas and (c) cases of relevant projects/initiatives
from the European Union and the USA. (1097Kb)
Business
Processes
In
this report the user partners of the INFOCITIZEN consortium
identified and agreed upon the business areas for
which they are to a large degree responsible and which
are of major significance to them. These areas pertain
to: Registration, Work Permission, Social Services,
Booking of Services. The general description documents
the respective public administration unit that each
user partner corresponds to, namely a municipality
in three countries and a prefecture in a fourth. This
documentation leads to a high-level understanding
and ability to compare (i.e. commonalities, differences)
amongst the corresponding administrative units for
the participating countries. The selected process
areas were then described by their respective processes.
Each such process was both documented textually and
analyzed by building ARIS business process models.
(2083Kb)
Report
on InfoCitizen Enterprise Architecture prototpye (NEW)
The
InfoCitizen European Architecture is the conceptual
basis for the InfoCitizen system and its components.
It contains the necessary models and descriptions
that have been developed in order to fulfil the requirements
analysed in WP1 and that meet the goal of developing
an interoperable system integrating business processes
in European Public Administrations. The InfoCitizen
European Architecture is divided into three parts:
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The conceptual part, defining the business processes,
information objects and the basic interoperability
mechanisms (InfoCitizen Conceptual Architecture).
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The technical description, defining the structure
of the InfoCitizen Platform, its various components
that compose the platform as well as the interrelationships
amongst them (InfoCitizen Technical Architecture).
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The system description, detailing the software-technical
consequences and limitations exposed by the overall
architecture.
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Enterprise
Architecture Score Card
Today
the area of (enterprise) architecture in the virtual
digital world will become more and more full-grown.
So the focus is changing to the quality of the work
of enterprise architects. How can we review the results
of the work of (enterprise) architects and how can
we review their process. Can we define quality criteria
to validate the products and results from other architects?
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'The
Uncontrolled Distribution of Components'
The
rise of distributed information systems generates
new challenges in system development. During the design
phase one needs to answer the question “how do I partition
my information system, where do I place the components
and how do these components depend on each other ”.
In order to solve this distribution problem, one needs
to survey the entire information system, including
its environment, and consider the additional design
criteria from a distribution perspective.
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