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Enterprise Architecture:
Making IT Pay

Using EA to Create Business Value, Control Costs, and Generate Real RoI

Washington, DC   Tuesday 21st October - Thursday 23rd October 2003

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About This Event

This highly practical 2-day Conference and series of workshops is aimed specifically at Enterprise Architecture Practitioners and those directly involved in the management and oversight of Enterprise Architecture.

Today’s CEOs know that the effective management and exploitation of Information Technology is the key to business success. An Enterprise Architecture provides the strategic context for the evolution of Information Technology within the enterprise, in response to the constantly changing needs of the business environment.

An effective Enterprise Architecture also enables managed innovation within the enterprise, by enabling the right balance to be achieved between IT efficiency and business innovation. Individual business units can innovate safely in their pursuit of competitive advantage; at the same time, the needs of the organization for an integrated IT strategy are assured, permitting the closest possible synergy across the extended enterprise.

This event focuses on the use of enterprise architecture for the effective creation of real business value. It provides experience-based insight into approaches and methods that have proven effective in developing enterprise architectures around the world. Just as importantly, it also aims to clarify the limitations that exist in this still immature field.

Topics Covered

The overall Conference structure will cover the following key topic areas in the Enterprise Architecture space:

• WORKSHOPS: 
  • Making the Business Case for Enterprise Architecture
  • How to use Enterprise Architecture for Effective IT Outsourcing
  • Value-based best practices at each stage of the EA process:
    • How to Create and Sell a Compelling Architecture Vision
    • How to Manage Architecture Requirements Effectively
    • How to Develop Business Architectures for Real RoI
    • Effective Strategies for Architecture Implementation and Compliance
    • How to Manage Architecture Change
• TUTORIALS: 
  • Understanding the Core Capabilities on which to Focus when Introducing Enterprise Architecture
  • How to Set Up an Internal Enterprise Architecture Practice
  • Innovative Approaches to Architecture Federation and Integration
  • Effective Architecture Governance Strategies
  • Undertanding How to Iintegrate Key Technologies into Enterprise Architecture: Security, Directory, Mobile Computing.
• CASE STUDIES:
  • Enterprise Architecture Frameworks in Practice - Understanding What Different Frameworks Have to Offer, and How to Use the Best of Each
  • Tools for Enterprise Architecture -- not product pitches, but real case studies demonstrating the capabilities of each tool for enterprise architecture.
  • Enterprise Architecture in Specific Vertical Sectors: Government, Finance, Manufacturing
• EXHIBITIONS:
  • Throughout the event there will be exhibitions from leading architecture tools vendors, providing opportunities for hands-on, 1-on-1 discussions and demonstrations 

What Makes This Event Unique

The Open Group is uniquely positioned within the IT industry to bring together the buy side and the supply side to agree the real requirements that the industry needs to address, and effective methods of addressing them.

Within the Architecture domain, The Open Group has been active over the last decade, developing and making freely available its own architecture framework - TOGAF (The Open Group Architecture Framework). Developed by The Open Group's Architecture Forum, TOGAF is today accepted and used around the world as a genuinely open framework for Enterprise Architecture.

The Open Group provides in this unique Conference a forum in which all constituencies and stakeholders in Enterprise Architecture can come together to learn the approaches and methods that have proven effective in developing enterprise architectures around the world. Just as importantly, it aims to clarify the limitations that exist in this still immature field.

What You Will Learn

• Participate in highly practical workshops teaching best practices at each stage of the EA process
• Review in-depth 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.

Who Should Attend?

• Enterprise Architecture practitioners
• Senior Management responsible for Enterprise Architecture oversight, and for IT and architecture governance
• Chief Information Officers
• Product Managers and Engineering Managers of architecture tools
• Systems Integrators
• Designers and Managers of IT infrastructures
• Procurement professionals responsible for selecting IT products and services

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