Free Event : Delivering Enterprise Architecture with TOGAF and ArchiMate

 

Date and time:
Thursday, November 29, 2012 11:00 am
Eastern Standard Time (New York, GMT-05:00)

Panelist(s) Info:

Bas van Gils, PhD (EA Consultant, BiZZdesign)

Duration:
1 hour

Description:

The Open Group standards for enterprise architecture – TOGAF® and ArchiMate® – are increasingly adopted on a global scale. As these standards converge, more and more organizations use them in conjunction to build an effective EA practice. As with many things: the proof of the pudding is in the eating. In this webinar we will therefore zoom in on the value add of the combination of TOGAF and ArchiMate. In order to cater for a broad audience, we will start with a high-level overview of both standards and then show with practical examples how the standards can be used in conjunction to deliver business value.

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Download Gartner MQ for Enterprise Architecture Tools 2012

Gartner has published Magic Quadrant 2012 for Enterprise Architecture Tools. EA tools are an important asset while executing the vision of Enterprise Architecture. Every EA should be proficient in atleast one the tools. The members and positions in leaders quadrant remain almost same as compared to last year.

Troux is offering free reprint of the report for download. You can download it from here:

http://resources.troux.com/gartnermq?utm_campaign=Gartner-MQ-Homepage-Banner

Free TOGAF 9.1 Documentation–Mobile friendly

Open Group has released TOGAF 9.1 web documentation which has been optimized for mobile and Tablet devices. The documentation is available free for public.

http://pubs.opengroup.org/architecture/togaf9-doc/m/

The Open Group Conference - Cannes, France. April 201

As technologies such as Cloud Computing, mobile, social, and big data/analytics mature (the four pillars), organizations will increasingly look to implement them as part of their Enterprise Transformation projects.  The Open Group Conference in Cannes will provide an opportunity for delegates to:

• Further investigate the use of the four pillars based on real-life experiences and best practices
• Learn how they can be utilized to best affect as part of a standards-based Enterprise Architecture (EA) strategy
• Understand how organizations move from an IT-centric to an enterprise-centric position that includes a more complete view of the business and not just IT?

These will be followed by learning opportunities, including tutorials and case studies, within tracks, such as:

• EA and Enterprise Transformation
• EA Professional Development
• Trusted Technology
• Agile Enterprise Architecture
• Cyber and Cloud Security.

On a lighter note, The Open Group Conference in Cannes will also play host to the third Open Cannes Awards, a fun evening amongst the serious side of the Conference!  Find out more about the Awards and how you can get involved.

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Bank Enterprise Architecture–BIAN and TOGAF come together

The Banking Industry Architecture Network (BIAN) and The Open Group today announced a partnership to integrate their individual industry frameworks for specific use in the banking industry. Mapping together these frameworks will accelerate project delivery, while dramatically reducing IT integration costs.

BIAN and The Open Group have collaborated to produce a white paper, in which the core elements of the two individual frameworks have been projected onto each other. This is a practical document, which will be used by enterprise architects within banks and the vendor community who wish to reap the benefits of both architecture frameworks. There are clear synergies in using BIAN’s Service Landscape in combination with TOGAF ®. When applying TOGAF®, an Open Group standard, in a banking environment, the BIAN content will speed up the work by providing banking-specific architecture content. On the flip side, TOGAF provides a structured approach and adds value to the BIAN deliverables for the project approach and capability to perform.

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TOGAF for absolute beginners

TOGAF is an aid which assist in the field of Enterprise Architecture. It provides guidelines, templates, models, framework, tools, methods, processes, etc which cover the entire lifecycle for Enterprise Architecture, right from setting up EA practice or function within an organization to creating and maintaining Enterprise Architectures.

Lets start with some facts:

• TOGAF - The Open Group Architecture Framework
• TOGAF, an Open Group Standard, is a proven enterprise architecture methodology and framework.
• The most recent version is TOGAF 9.1 which was first published in December 2011.

• First developed in 1995, TOGAF was based on the US Department of Defense Technical Architecture Framework for Information Management (TAFIM)

TOGAF 9.1 can be used for developing a broad range of different enterprise architectures. TOGAF complements, and can be used in conjunction with, other frameworks that are more focused on specific deliverables for particular vertical sectors such as Government, Telecommunications, Manufacturing, Defense, and Finance.

TOGAF assists in creating all four major parts of any Enterprise Architecture:

1. Business Architecture
2. Data or Information Architecture
3. Application Architecture
4. Technology Architecture

Overall TOGAF documentation is divided into 6 parts which also indicate the ways it helps as shown in above figure:

1. Architecture Capability : Guides on how to setup EA practice or function within an organization and its roles & responsibilities.
2. Architecture Development Method (ADM) : This is a core part of TOGAF and provides a step-by-step approach to developing and enterprise architecture.
3. Guidelines & Techniques : Helps in adapting and customizing ADM based on needs.
4. Reference Models : provides two architectural reference models, namely the TOGAF Technical Reference Model (TRM), and the Integrated Information Infrastructure Reference Model (III-RM) as foundation.
5. Enterprise Continuum & Tools : discusses appropriate taxonomies and tools to categorize and store the outputs of architecture activity within an enterprise. The Enterprise Continuum provides a view of the Architecture Repository that shows the evolution of these related architectures from generic to specific, from abstract to concrete, and from logical to physical.
6. Architecture Content Framework : describes the TOGAF content framework, including a structured metamodel for architectural artifacts, the use of re-usable Architecture Building Blocks (ABBs), and an overview of typical architecture deliverables.