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What are Enterprises Doing?

This is a short list of clients that have engaged EACOE – the Enterprise Architecture Center Of Excellence, for training, consulting, certification, and full engagement services. 

Below are examples of presentation topics, quotes, and testimonials given by our clients. 

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R.E.A.L.

R. - realistic

E. - enabling

A. - actionable

L. - logical

General Motors Corporation

"Enabling Enterprise Architecture at General Motors"

  • General Motors has embarked on an aggressive program to develop an Enterprise Architecture for the Corporation. This program involved developing an understanding of the  Framework, implementing a methodology for developing the Framework cell contents, developing a core set of architecture templates for the Framework and methodology, and finally developing a series of composite views to address various constituencies within General Motors. This session will discuss the development and evolution of the program, and the status to date.

"Architecture at e-GM"

  • One of the most ambitious undertakings at General Motors is the e-GM effort. Not only is e-GM transforming the General Motors buying experience, it is also transforming the business. Mike, one of the founding technical executives of the e-GM effort, will discuss how architecture played a key roll at e-GM, and why it is a key element across all businesses.

"Technology Architecture and the Framework"

  • General Motors has undertaken an aggressive effort to better understand their technology infrastructure and how its information systems efforts can directly affect the "bottom line" at GM. A parallel effort is being conducted to identify how to better harness the "Intellectual Capital" developed within the information systems organization to benefit not only systems development efforts, but also provide increased value to the Enterprises a whole. This presentation will discuss how the Framework is being used in this effort and results to date.

Boeing Defense & Space

"Architecture at Boeing"

  • An active and intelligent application of engineering and architecture disciplines is absolutely required to meet the challenges of the changing defense and space marketplace. John will discuss the current architecture applications at Boeing.

AT&T

"Enterprise IT Architecture Blueprinting"

  • With the migration to heterogeneous and distributed IT architectures, many IT organizations are confronted with designing and maintaining their own open IT architecture. The Enterprise IT Architecture Blueprinting Methodology provides the IT architecture equivalent to engineering drawings and schematics and is mandatory for the successful definition, design, evolution and communication of an enterprise wide distributed computing environment.

Microsoft 

"Microsoft's Architecture Experience"

  • This presentation focuses on Microsoft's experience in leveraging the known Framework concepts as well as identifying research opportunities in the areas where the rules are not yet understood.

"The Microsoft Solutions Framework"

  • This presentation will include an introduction to and overview of the Microsoft Solutions Framework (MSF), how IT projects using the MSF can influence and be influenced by enterprise architectures, and how the MSF relates to the Framework. The presentation will also include applying the MSF to enterprise architectures and a resulting version release approach to enterprise architectures.

Paychex

"Focusing on Architecture Through "Process Models"

  • This session will review the initiatives and experiences of the Paychex Information Technology Architecture team in using the Framework to promote more effective communications between Information Technology and the business divisions within the company.

Hewlett-Packard

"Building Enterprise Information Architectures"

  • Author and Hewlett Packard employee, Melissa C. will discuss the methodology and key deliverables in Row 1 and 2 of the Framework. She will also discuss how HP is using this methodology to improve decision-making on strategic systems initiatives.

"Using Time-Tested Truths in the Business Views of the Framework"

  • The business views of the Framework set strategy, and because they don't deal with technology, they will stand the test of time. This presentation will discuss how the Framework helps get the business issues out on the table.

Johnson & Johnson

"Framework Front-End to the Repository"

  • This presentation looks at using the  Framework to organize business and IT information within the repository and looks at a custom front-end that uses the Framework to access the repository information.

Volkswagen

"The Volkswagen Story"

  • The presentation will provide insight into the practical experience in using EA in a business environment. This will include successes, challenges, usage strategies, lessons learned, and a glimpse into the future of EA at Volkswagen. Specific focus will be on getting Business involvement, "Selling" the effort, Understanding your audience for Enterprise Architecture, and Lessons Learned. Also reviewed will be the "business transformation" that resulted from the Enterprise Architecture effort, and the direct benefit gained by business personnel.

IBM/CGI

"Something Old - Something New"

  • This presentation addresses the universal general management challenge of changing from the old to the new and shows how the Framework provides the context and the guideposts for that transition.

Allstate Insurance Company

"A Row 2 View of Repository Implementation"

  • This pragmatic presentation shares the repository implementation experiences at both a major marketing research company and a major insurance company. Hear proven truths, common falsehoods and potential pitfalls if working in the world of metadata.

"Models, Models and More Models"

  • Throughout Allstate Insurance Company's 15 years of data and process modeling, the tools, approaches, and people have changes - but the models have lived on! This presentation describes the ongoing journey to develop data management practices targeted at both the project and enterprise levels - assisted by the  Framework. Through the help of infrastructure funding and a strong vision, Allstate has matured its standards and processes and achieved its vision of an enterprise-wide capability for managing information.

The Boeing Corp.

"Using the Framework to Put Boeing Online"

  • The Boeing Company has embarked on an aggressive schedule to enable its customers and suppliers access to digital content via the world wide web. This presentation will address the issues, problems, challenges and the successful approach through which Boeing provided millions of digital images and terabytes of content worldwide.

"e-Business Reality, Boeing's Successful e-Business Model"

  • This presentation will describe how Boeing used the Framework in two distinctly different e-Business initiatives. The first, MyBoeing-Fleet.com, is the leading aerospace e-Business portal. The second initiative is the National Imaging and Mapping Agency's recent requirement that contractors to the agency use the Framework for their systems activities. This presentation will provide examples of how Boeing is using the Framework for these initiatives.

T-Mobile (Sprint)

"Defining the Business Model Scope - Best Practices"

  • The effective application of the  Framework begins with a sufficient completion of the Scope Description (Row 1). This session presents an overview of how this modeling is performed at T-Mobile (Sprint).

Indiana University

"Formalization of Multi-Level Frameworks"

  • This presentation depicts the Enterprise Architecture model as a tree of frames. Each frame is the familiar interrogative grid, each cell of the grid contains, recursively, additional frames down to leaves. The formalism also provides mechanisms for connecting framework components down through the recursive levels of detail and down through the grid categories of roles. While the tree of frames expresses the structure of a framework model, these connections express the framework's meaning.

USAA

"Pouring the Foundation for the Information Age"

  • USAA, a customer-driven company for over 70 years, has aggressively responded to the challenges brought about by the Information Age. USAA recognized that data integrity compromises made through the years, in a furious attempt to develop the needed IT applications, had resulted in an unmanageable data replication environment. The cost of not managing data clearly exceeded the company's 'pain threshold.' Since 1997, USAA has been working on the development and deployment of capabilities that will allow it to effectively manage its data resources; this presentation shares those experiences.

Cardinal Health Corporation

"Data Architecture: Getting from Strategy to Implementation"

  • A key goal, shared by executives of both the business and the IT organization, is to ensure that implemented systems are truly aligned with the business mission, vision, and goals. By following an architecture approach to the information resource, this alignment can be ensured. In building an information resource that can meet the needs of an ever-changing business environment, the Data Architect's role is truly visionary and instrumental. This presentation will couple a methodology approach with the Framework and show how to build data models that reflect the needs of all participants during the development process. It will also describe the skills required by the data architect throughout the process.

JP Morgan Chase & Co

"Leveraging System Dynamics Modeling in Relationship to Column Five of the Framework"

  • The presentation will link current business trends, the framework, and System Dynamics modeling. It will describe a sample model which provides support for investing in the development of artifacts as described by the framework. The System Dynamics model as both an example of potential outcomes from column five of the Framework as well providing support for the general investment in producing artifacts across the entire framework.

Humana

"Working Within the Framework: The Designer/Builder/Maintainer's Perspectives"

  • This presentation focuses on the actual experiences of managing the company's first development project initiated from the high-level architectural plan. Included are discussions of how the models are leveraged for reuse and change management.

Terra Industries, Inc.

"Use of Information Engineering to Supercharge the Enterprise Architecture Plan"

  • The Information Systems Strategic Plan identified major efforts, priorities, the application suite and possible technologies, but Information Engineering set the stage for a deployed architecture, This is a discussion of how architectural thinking is used to pull together a three year plan for data, technical infrastructure and a complete application suite.

 IVI Publishing

"New Enterprises: A view from the CEO"

  • New enterprises have the luxury and opportunity for doing it right, yet many don't take the time to build the fundamental framework to support their long-term growth. "Management is only as good as the information they get" sets the tone for this presentation on how important structure and framework are to information in enterprises.

Telkom South Africa

"Gaps, Releases & Integration - Laying the Foundation for Knowledge Management"

  • The initial step toward Knowledge Management has three key focus areas: GAP Analysis, RELEASE Management Support and INTEGRATION Strategies. This presentation will describe how the Framework was used as a thinking tool to identify the gaps in the current artifact pool of knowledge, as a means of managing several views of an application for release management, and as an approach to establishing a systems integration plan.

Texaco

"Implementing the Framework through a Project Management Office Function"

  • As the Project Management Office concept becomes more pervasive in industry, it is time for the PMO to move beyond basic IT project management training and project reporting. The PMO should acquire ownership of all projects in the organization and understand the role of architecture and infrastructure projects within an integrated Strategic Business and IT Plan. In order to monitor the most effective prioritization and successful execution of all projects, the PMO requires a proven model that integrates the different components of a company's evolving architecture. The Framework is such a model and should be used by the PMO to ensure that strategic planning objectives and projects can be mapped to each cell in the Framework and integrated accordingly.

Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield

"Start with Understanding the Business"

  • As business owners, we are overwhelmed with proposals and approaches for improving the business, most of which fail to focus on what the business is all about and what is required to win. This presentation will address those shortcomings including making changes that allow the business to keep up with a rapidly changing marketplace.

Bank of America

"Using the Framework to Restore Order"

  • Financial institutions are now beginning to consolidate the systems they acquired through mergers and acquisitions to deepen current customer relationships as well as attract new customers. Heterogeneity of both business and technology however, are hindering their ability to execute and get to success faster. Rationalization of the disparity and diversity is required. The Enterprise Architecture function is being used to guide the rationalization. To meet these expectations with limited funding, the architecture function requires a highly organized and methodical approach. This presentation will explore the architecture program and how it uses the framework to identify and understand the key elements and their relationships.

Vitro Finanzas

"A Consulting Firm and Client: Many Uses of the Framework"

  • This presentation discusses the wide and varied uses of the Framework in the consulting/client relationship from recruiting, training sales people, aligning resources with client requirements evaluating and employing tools/methods, and communicating with business users.

General Accident Insurance

"Implementing a Corporate Repository"

  • This presentation will show the use of the  Framework in evaluating the efficacy and efficiency, and in implementing a corporate repository, an integral part of an I/S Architecture, providing a central facility for metadata management and dissemination.

Systems Engineering Technologies

"Designing Quality Databases"

  • Since the mid '80's, IDEF1X has been used to design and build large-scale, integrated databases in a wide range of business and government settings. IDEF1X data models are well-suited to providing architectural representations for Column 1 of the Framework. Different model types support different Framework Rows, and the transformations from row to row reflect decisions which govern the flexibility of the resulting "Functioning System." The model types, transform implications and other development issues will be discussed.

South Bay Group

"Designing User Interface Architectures"

  • The focus of this presentation is on using the  Framework to solve the problems associated with multiple media assets (video, audio, text, animation, graphics) and “user” interface.

Knowledge Partners

"Lucent Corporate Enterprise Model"

  • This presentation discusses the development and initial uses for the various pieces of the Lucent Enterprise Model, developed over a two-year period by the Functional Architecture group. The organization is part of Enterprise Architecture Planning within the corporate CIO office.

Institute of Computer Capacity Management

"High-Performance Client/Server"

  • The subject of this presentation is the fundamental dilemma of distributed systems design: when data is shared, performance requires centralization, but when users are dispersed, performance requires data separation and distribution. Using the Framework as a guide, Mr. Loosley determines an architecture for high performance - an overall framework for designing and building information processing applications for the emerging distributed enterprise.

Metadata Management Corporation

"Artifact Aerobics"

  • How much exercise do your enterprise artifacts get?  When "actually doing architecture work," artifacts are created at great expense and effort - often to waste away in dark places. Artifacts need an automated enforcement of a business regime to keep them in shape, toned and useful throughout the business cycle. This presentation will describe a real business regime implemented by a worldwide organization to keep their artifacts robust and productive.

"Someday, You Are Going to Wish' Is Reality"

  • That "someday" comes in the form of mergers, acquisitions, technology investment relevance and shaking off the legacy that is running today's enterprise. This presentation will describe the process of collecting and organizing Framework primitives from available sources. A process will be described that can be used to integrate and aggregate these primitives. Finally, the presentation will describe how different people in the enterprise use the information in their relevant tasks.

Intelligent Solutions

"Using the Framework for the Data Warehouse"

  • The data warehouse obtains its data from existing operational systems and external databases. This presentation applies the  Framework to aid in the development of the governing data models. These models are then used to help the data warehouse team better understand both the target and source environments so that they can properly define the data acquisition, cleansing, transformation and integration process and programs.

NCR Corporation

"Architecture is a Reality at NCR"

  • NCR's IT Services organization has evolved over many years and has evolved into a mature organization with established processes. This presentation will describe the approach to introducing an enterprise architecture in a large corporation and establishing its key role in the development of quality solutions. NCR Services has defined and populated as overall Strategic Architecture; these processes, policies, deliverables, and models will be displayed and discussed in the context of the Information Architecture.

"Getting Architecture Started in a Large Organization"

  • Those who attempt to implement an architectural framework in a large corporation face daunting obstacles. Mike explains an approach for overcoming the obstacles and establishing an enterprise information architecture.

Essential Strategies

"Alphabet Soup (OO, IE, UML) & The Framework"

  • Object orientation rules!  Based on current titles, one might conclude that object orientation has overturned the world of program design as well as that of systems analysis. What is this object-oriented methodology and how is it different from the techniques we have been using for over 29 years? This presentation will discuss how it is different and how it is really the same as that which has been done under the rubric of Information Engineering. In particular, it will describe how UML compares with other object and data modeling techniques.

Knowledge Consultants

"The Row 3 Squeeze"

  • The same pressures that impact business impact the Framework for Enterprise Architecture. Different business situations require emphasis on specific Framework cells with an eye to the entire Framework. Each configuration of cells represents a specific IT solution or response for the business. This focus on specific cells in the Framework effects the resources for systems. It impacts the priority of artifacts, skills needed, and funding. This presentation discusses how to position and focus the lens on the cells of opportunity and assess corresponding impact on IT resources.

South African Breweries

"A Model Approach to SAP R/3 Implementations"

  • South African Breweries Information Resource Management team is recognized as an industry leader in the IRM field. Gartner Group research finds that clients approaching the new century's information requirements by incorporation knowledge management into their enterprise transformation programs will react to business opportunities 50% faster than firms using either approach independently and twice as fast as firms that use neither approach. The IRM process is positioned to make this strategic assumption a reality at SAB.

Universal Data Solutions

"Framework Innovation Changing Healthcare"

  • The healthcare transaction system in this country has not kept pace with the latest changes in technology. onehelathbank.com is addressing this void by using the  Framework to architect as Internet point-of-service settlement system that brings the Patient, Provider, and Payer together at the point of care. Applying the Framework to understand the artifacts within the healthcare industry has enabled us to dynamically deliver customizable functions from pre-assembled components.

Glaxo Wellcome

"Developing an Enterprise Architecture at Glaxo Wellcome"

  • When three major business areas consolidated into a single division several years ago, it was clear that the traditional way of running GW business was changing. The new organization required timely access to high quality information to insure success. To achieve this an 'architected' approach was identified as essential in meeting the new business needs. Over the past year, we have commenced the development of an enterprise architecture using the  Framework.

The MITRE Corporation

"Architectures ... Principles with Which We Build Things."

  • Principles - not standards - make system development a success. 

Model Systems Corporation

"Framework 101 - The Framework in an Academic Curriculum"

  • "When will the Framework be used in an academic curriculum?" is a frequent question at previous ZIFA conferences. The answer is: Today! In the Data Resource Management Certificate Program of the Univ. of Wash., students learn how to develop and manage company-wide data resources, define data standards and policies, and integrate multiple data resources for organization-wide use - all within the context of the  Framework. Begun in the early '90's as a classroom-based program for working professionals, it has been extended for delivery as a Distance Learning offering.

Northrop Grumman TASC

"Bridging the Framework with Object-Oriented Models"

  • An architecture method was developed using the Framework primitives as the basis for enterprise OO modeling. The Framework perspective primitives were bridges using composite OO models. The models use the OMG UML diagrams to convey a view of the Framework. These diagrams can then be used to design the enterprise and its systems.

Equifax, Inc.

"Manufacturing the Framework Implementation Environment"

  • By design, the Framework is methodologically and technologically independent. In this presentation, a technique will be shared for directly incorporating methods, processes, technology and in general, a software development life cycle into the Framework. The net effect is that the Framework can be implemented and every cell can be understood in the context of the life cycle.

Information Engineering Systems Corp.

"Implementing Enterprise Architecture: Building with 3-Month Increments"

  • The secret to success in implementing Enterprise Architecture is to rive out the build sequence based on Business Plans and Data. This allows key Activities, Locations, and People to be identified. Project plans can also be derived for incremental delivery of data-bases and systems in priority areas. Clive will describe a number of projects where this approach has been used.

"Enterprise Architecture and e-Business"

  • Project plans for most cells of the Framework can be derived directly from data models on entity dependency methods. The use of modeling tools for automatic generation of Enterprise Architecture Project Plans is discussed for two real-life projects: a regional bank and a government department.

Information Engineering Services

"Using Enterprise Architecture for Governance Analysis and Balanced Scorecard"

  • Selling the importance of Enterprise Architecture to Senior Management is difficult. Management consider that Enterprise Architecture is the responsibility of the IT Department. But their active involvement is vital, as they are the real "architects" of the Enterprise. This session shows how Enterprise Architecture directly supports the needs of senior management for Corporate Governance and Balanced Scorecard approaches. The session shows how Enterprise Architecture is used for rapid enterprise compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley driven IT and business governance requirements. It shows how internal controls can be established by senior management using a Governance Analysis Framework (GAF). This is used to document the relationships within an enterprise that support reporting requirements. It is based on a comprehensive organizing framework using the  Framework, as well as proven Enterprise Architecture methods and tools for the documentation and management of the GAF. It ensures that senior management is able to comply with the internal control reporting requirements of Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. It also shows how Enterprise Architecture can be used to support the Balanced Scorecard and Strategy Map approaches used by management.

Glaxo SmithKline

"Linking Enterprise IT Arch. Blueprinting to the Framework"

  • Enterprise IT Architecture Blueprinting (EAB) occupies three cells of the Framework. EAB is the only available notation of its kind. This presentation will describe the notation and identify the relationships to other artifacts in the Framework.

GMAC Residential Funding Corporation

"Did You Make Money for Me Today? Enterprise Architecture in an Entrepreneurial Organization"

  • This presentation will provide a case study of the experiences of GMAC-RFC in developing an Enterprise Architecture Framework. GMAC-RFC is a risk-taking, high-return company that provides securitization of mortgage assets and other financial services. The presentation will discuss the opportunities, the misunderstandings and the outcomes in using the Framework to develop an Enterprise Architecture Framework.

OTS Inc.

"Data Warehousing in Context of the Framework"

  • Data Warehousing has gained popularity as a strategic enabler of business success. However, many organizations are beginning to realize that their data warehousing investments have created yet another "island" of technology and data, compromising the true value of the solution. The reason for this is that, while focused on integrating and organizing data, the majority of data warehouse practitioners have not embraced the Framework as its architectural foundation. The presentation will demonstrate how to apply the Framework to create the context necessary to ensure that data warehouse investments provide enterprise-wide returns much greater than the value of information as the result of queries of the data warehouse.

InfoAdvisors, Inc.

"Defining a Profession with the  Framework"

  • This presentation will map several current professional designations against the Framework, as well as discuss career implications for professionals working in information technology, including professional responsibility, right to practice, protection of the public, common bodies of knowledge, certification, and licensure. Ms. Lopez will also discuss current trends in IT licensure and certification and how the Framework could be used as a basis for defining a profession. and its specializations.

Tinwisle Corporation

"Frameworks: Comparison and Correspondence for Three Archetypes"

  • We examine three distinct framework structures that are used to organize the models of an enterprise: the Framework, the framework of the ISO 15704:2000 and ISO/DIS 19439:2002 standards, and the US Department of Defense Architecture Framework (C4ISR) Version 2. These approaches are distinguished not only by their structural appearance but also by their intended use. The frameworks share a common meta-meta model and are found to be complementary or composite rather than competitive in the enterprise domain. Each approach serves a specific yet distinct essential need in the effort to understand and realize a successful enterprise.

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP

"Instantiating Row 3, Column 3 of the Framework"

  • To counteract the impulsive tendency in organizations to model "at will", the three-zone model was developed to provide consistency and uniformity of architectural models in the information security and technology spaces, building on link-to attributes present in application and information architectures, respectively. The model exposes minimal elements - zone, site, technology, facet, tier - through which the story of data and technology residency are told, juxtaposed against the backdrop of INFOSEC risk mitigation.

Soloris

"Balanced Scorecards Provide a Global Data Model for CRM Data Warehouse"

  • This presentation will discuss a CRM Lighthouse initiative at Envision Financial and propose a new global model for financial services.

Profit Science LLC

"20 Years of Enterprise Architecture for Fun, Profit, and Quality Information"

  • This presentation will address those keys elements that can make your Enterprise Architecture, using the Framework a success. This presentation will enable attendees to understand the fundamentals for a successful Enterprise Architecture initiative, and the value it can deliver in an age when rapid delivery, outsourcing, and overseas development are part of the environment.

Titan Corporation

"The Security Knowledge Matrix"

  • During the history of IT, most enterprises have been playing "catch-up" in their attempts to secure information systems that are already operational or in advanced stages of development. By contrast, this presentation will focus on how to break the "catch-up" cycle by insuring that the knowledge of information security requirements and the system "artifacts" needed to create a secure system and computing environment are gathered and/or created as an integral part of an EA initiative to be used in subsequent systems development efforts.

Rand Afrikaans University

"Why Enterprise Architecture is an Imperative"

  • This presentation explains the absolute requirement for Enterprise Architecture as a sustainable business venture. We will combine the observations that led to Lehmans Laws and the observations of Brooks as expounded in No Silver Bullet with the study of thermodynamics and the principles of chaos theory and dynamical systems to show why this is an absolute requirement. The complexities of managing a purposeful dynamic open system with a high inertia closed system has led to the development of a chaometric approach to system maintenance, that is presented as a reliable measure of the state of an information system.

Link Consulting

"Business and Information Systems Alignment using the Framework"

  • This presentation addresses the problem of Business and Information Systems (IS) Architectures Alignment using the  Framework. We propose a set of artifacts for each Framework cell, a model for its representation and a methodology that defines the sequence of completing each cell. We have developed a tool that supports the above. We have focused on the Business and IS perspectives, both on a professional level in several Portuguese organizations and on an academic level in the Information Systems Department of Lisbon Technical University.

Swisscom Mobile

"Business Architecture at Swisscom Mobile"

  • At ZIFA 2003, Indivudals from Swissom Mobile presented Swisscom's approach for Technical Architecture and Governance (Framework Rows 3 and 4). This is the other half of the story. Swisscom's approach to Business Architecture, (Framework Rows 1 and 2), establishing the Business context within which Technology Architecture and governance are affected.

Aetna Inc.

"Why & Wherefore: Specifying Enterprise Workflow form a Correct Architectural Context"

  • Specifying architectural requirements for Enterprise Workflow Management is fraught with perils. Enterprise Workflow is not just about Column 2's process assumptions, nor is the motivational model express in Column 4 sufficient for effective enterprise deployment.  This presentation describes primitive influence by and for workflow and lays out some templates for the"Mighty Must."

Strand and Donslund

"Enterprise Architecture at Denmark's Largest Retailer"

  • COOP Nordic, the largest Nordic retailer, is the result of a merger 2002 of COOP in Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. This presentation describes the use of Enterprise Architecture and the Framework in COOP Denmark before the merger and in COOP Nordic during the ongoing process of planning and implementing the future information systems and IT infrastructure.


Federal Government Agencies

American Bureau of Shipping

"Creating 02K Using the Framework & Business Rules"

  • The American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) launched a project in 1998 to re-engineer its worldwide core business process to survey/inspect ships. ABS selected a Framework-based business rule methodology developed by Business Rule Solutions, Inc. to organize and guide its requirements development process. This presentation describes the successes ABS has achieved in using the Framework and the business rule approach, and shares some of the lessons learned.

Canadian Federal Government

"Modeling Complexity in Public Health Using the  Framework for Enterprise Architecture"

  • The Info-structure Division of the Centre for Surveillance Coordination, within Health Canada, has been utilizing the Framework for Enterprise Architecture for modeling complexity within the realm of Public Health.  Through the application of a systems-based methodology, the Public Health System is viewed as a series of sub-systems. Several instances of these sub-systems have been modeled both contextually and conceptually in order to illustrate and define sub-system boundaries, variables, intra-sub-system relationships and areas of inter-sub-system interaction (highlighting alignment and discontinuity).

U.S. Air Force

"Federated Architecture for the US Air Force Operational Support Enterprise”

  • The US Air Force Medical Service is developing its Enterprise Architecture based on the  Framework in a federated architecture environment. Federated architecture is a practical approach for any enterprise with a multiplicity of diverse business units. This presentation discusses how the Air Force is engaging its senior leadership in EA and applying the Framework concepts of enterprise engineering, primitive and composite models, cell slivers, and "sameness."

Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce

"Customer's Perspective of the Architectural Approach to Information Management"

  • Models are typically seen as useful for information management purposes. However, experience with Row 2 models shows that they are as vital for defining and managing the enterprise itself, as for depicting information requirements in systems implementations. This presentation recounts the experience of a major Canadian financial services operation using these models.

US Bureau of Land Management

"Leading Change and Fighting Fires"

  • The Bureau has worked on defining the Enterprise Architecture for over 3 years through two loosely coordinated efforts: a top-down business-driven effort to define the current and future architecture and a bottom-up effort to define the Technical Reference Model. This session describes the "fire-fighting" efforts in obtaining sufficient resources, committing to a complete definition of the desired architecture, and defining the transition plan leading to the future.

Air Mobility Command, USAF

"Models for Managing"

  • The United States Air Force has defined a set of architectures to smartly apply information technology to their mission and business processes, improving Air Force performance and reducing cost. This presentation will relate the Air Force architectures to the Framework, discuss the architecture planning process and their incremental legacy migration approach.

Securities and Exchange Commission

"Enterprise Architecture: Utilizing a Congressional Mandate"

  • SEC's charter is to implement securities-related legislation. The primary product that is managed by the SEC is information. To understand this information and flow, Enterprise Architecture is essential. The Clinger-Cohen Act provided the SEC with the authority to embark on the Enterprise Architecture effort. This presentation shows the efforts and results from the Enterprise Architecture project which has already provided tremendous insight and promises to be a valuable asset to the SEC.

Sandia National Laboratories

"Use-Cases for Enterprise Architecture - a Value-Based Perspective"

  • "You cannot cost-justify Enterprise Architecture," but you may be able to value-justify Enterprise Architecture. This is the fundamental premise of this presentation.  A use-case analysis approach is applied, in which the most significant activities of Enterprise Architecture become the Use-Cases.  Each Use-Case is summarized, and its goal identified. Because each Use-Case is a composite of primitives, those primitives that comprise the Use-Case are also identified. Further detailing of these Use-Cases characterizes the roles of participants and ultimately leads to the enumeration of the value accrued to those participants. Once the Use-Cases have been detailed in this manner, the value proposition can be synthesized.

USAF Medical Services

"The Framework Concepts and Tools at Work on a Health Information Resources Service (HIRS)"

  • Major Alford will discuss the role of the Framework in implementing a Health Information Resources Service and how end users will use the Framework to browse for information.


State, County, and City Government Agencies

City of Oakland

"A Municipal Emergency Response Application"

  • A case study will be presented that uses the Framework to document and track the design, development and implementation of a citywide application for emergency response.

State of Washington

"Using the Framework to Manage Data and Activities"

  • This session discusses the speaker's new five-schema concept to provide a common data and activity architecture.

Lower Colorado River Authority

"The Framework as a Management Tool at LCRA"

  • Flexible, well-managed information technology is key to responding to business change in today's competitive environment. This includes project management, working with governance groups; managing the corporate infrastructure; methodologies for application development, procurement and maintenance; and managing the deliverables and documentation that result from all these activities.

Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

"Architecture: From Plan to Implement"

  • This presentation describes a model-driven approach to Enterprise Architecture from planning to implementation. The discussion includes the results realized regarding reliability, maintainability, reusability and reduction of development and operational costs for both I/S and the enterprise.

City of Toronto

"Leveraging Row 1 Constructs to Develop a Security Framework"

  • Strategic planning is fundamental to the success of enterprise information security programs. Locating security-related initiatives within a "good practices" information security framework and assuring alignment between corporate risk mitigation strategies and generally accepted information security concepts are essential ingredients for effective governance, stewardship and risk management. The information security framework is expressed in terms of a reference architecture specification in which information security principles are encapsulated. A semantic model of the reference architecture specification was developed at the City of Toronto.

Minnesota Department of Transportation

"Achieving an Enterprise Focus: Success and Challenges in the Minnesota Department of Transportation."

  • This presentation will focus on Mn/DOT's experience in putting in place the critical success factors for Information Resource Management: Executive leadership, policies, standards, models and plan, and organization and skill base

Ohio Bureau of Worker's Compensation

"Why & How to Adopt an Enterprise Architecture"

  • Mr. Genders will discuss the issues that caused the Ohio Bureau of Worker's Compensation to make very dramatic changes in its approach to providing IS services to the bureau. He will then discuss the obstacles that must be challenged and the strategies for driving an organization to a more rational IS approach.

Province of Ontario

"Enterprise I & IT Architecture in the Ontario Government"

  • The Enterprise Information and Information Technology (I & IT)  Architecture Project, approved in February 1998, is a government-wide initiative that addresses the Ontario government's overall I & IT requirements.  The goal of the Architecture project is to develop a business-driven, Enterprise-wide I & IT Architecture based on the Framework, and it is evolving into a common language for both business and IT.

Case Study Presentations

WATCH: Decommissioning Software and Technologies with the EACOE Enterprise Architecture Methodology

 
 

WATCH: Using The EACOE Enterprise Architecture Methodology To Architect Your Hybrid Cloud Strategy

 

WATCH: Architecting for the Cloud and the Cloud Repatriation Movement