About this event
This two-day conference will address the key issues and challenges
that enterprise architects and executives overseeing enterprise
architecture face today. The conference will focus on how enterprise
architecture
can best contribute to creating real business value, provide experience-based
insight into the approaches and methods that have proved most effective
for developing enterprise architectures around the world, and clarify
the limitations that exist in this emerging field.
Enterprise architecture is becoming an essential function in most
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. In this event, The Open
Group provides a forum for all key constituencies and stakeholders
to come together and explore new ways to solve problems, share best
practices, and network with peers.
The conference will take 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.
Conference outline
- 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 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
- Effective architecture governance strategies
- Understanding how to integrate key technologies into
enterprise architecture
- 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 -- the capabilities of
existing tools for enterprise architecture, and innovative approaches
to tool interoperability
- Enterprise architecture in specific vertical sectors: government,
commercial and finance
- EXHIBITIONS:
- Throughout the event there will be exhibitions from leading
architecture tools vendors, providing opportunities for hands-on,
one-on-one discussions and demonstrations
About the organizer
The Open Group is uniquely positioned within the IT industry to
bring together the buy side and the supply
side to agree on the real requirements
that the industry needs to address, and effective
methods of addressing them.
Within the enterprise architecture domain, The Open Group has
been active for over a decade, developing and
making freely available an architecture framework and methodology
- TOGAF. Developed by
The Open
Group's Architecture Forum, TOGAF is today
accepted
and used around the world as a genuinely open framework
and method for enterprise
architecture.
What you will experience
- Participation in highly practical workshops teaching
best practices in the enterprise architecture process
- Review of in-depth case studies from organizations which put theory
into practice, learning from them what works and what doesn't
- Demonstrations and presentations on leading tools supporting open methods
for enterprise architecture
- Networking with leading architecture experts, vendors, and peers in
the enterprise architecture field
Who should attend?
- Enterprise architecture practitioners
- Chief information officers and senior management responsible for IT
and enterprise architecture oversight
- Designers and managers of IT infrastructures
- Product managers and engineering managers of architecture tools
- Systems integrators
- Procurement professionals responsible for selecting IT products and
services
