MooD® Transformation Technology, from the Salamander Organization, combines the ability to build architectures, define and manage change programmes, increase performance and create business intelligence solutions - all based on a common Enterprise Business Model. And now Salamander’s latest technology solution powered by MooD, Business Orchestration®, lets the major decisions and design activity for SOA take place in the context of the business architecture.

MooD achieved certification for TOGAF 8 in March 2007. Salamander has previously achieved numerous awards for its technology including the IEE Innovation Award, the Queen’s Award for Enterprise and Innovation 2004 and the Architecture Prize in the 2006 Enterprise Architecture Challenge, with the Open Group & Architecting the Enterprise.

Enterprise Business Model – a compelling approach

Salamander uses its MooD Technology to deliver three service offerings through its Enterprise Business Model: Take Control, Transform and Optimise.

Take Control

The software focus of this service is architectural, focused on the assembly, validation and analysis of the Enterprise Business Model.

Key attributes of the software applied for this purpose include:
• its ability to be 'domain specific' at a business level - configured to work in the language of the industry or business, or to fit particular or a combination of standards for the business
• the visual accessibility of the models produced – in high quality graphics for direct use by business people
• dynamic linking of model to run time systems.

Transform

The software enables sustainable transformation by supporting the design of alternative futures for different aspects of the business, the testing of how these will function and be aligned to deliver better business value, and managing the decision making and tracking of initiatives that might deliver these changes. Key attributes of the software for this purpose include:
• the capacity for generating and comparing alternative futures across the whole range of architectural 'lines of development', and tracking changes to these different scenarios
• the ability to “pre-orchestrate” new business behaviour, and then drive and manage the strategy, design and implementation of SOA technology platforms to deliver the required functionality.

Optimise

The software enables an architectural performance framework to be established and made active through real-time connections into other systems and data.

Key attributes of the software for this purpose include:
• enterprise scale scorecards and dashboards constructed from the business architecture, and integrated with live systems and data to provide monitoring, alerting and operational
• response across the whole business architecture business-relevant on-line interactive systems driven from the Enterprise Model.

MooD and Enterprise Architecture Frameworks

Salamander and its partners are using MooD in a range of enterprise architecture initiatives around the globe in the private sector with organizations such as HP, Shell and TNT, and the public sector with organizations including the UK Ministry of Defence (MOD). MODAF is the MOD’s Architecture Framework and Salamander has developed a MODAF blueprint which is currently being deployed across a number of projects within both the defence business space and battlespace.
By synthesizing business architecture methodologies with a range of open architecture and technology standards, MooD has become the first truly business-driven Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) solution, delivering business value through aligning the strategy, design and integration of SOA environments.

Contact

To learn more about MooD technology and the consulting services from Salamander please contact us at info@tsorg.com or by calling +44 1904 717 300.

More information on The Salamander Organization and MooD Technology can also be found at www.tsorg.com (external link).

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