Enterprise Architectures Meets The Challenges

The Real IRM Solutions' proven approach to Enterprise Architecture provides a sustainable competitive advantage and is designed to assist organisations meet the following challenges:

  1. How to balance the delivery of immediate business-value while developing a longer-term strategic capability. This strategic capability holds the promise of making the organisation more responsive to change through the detailed understanding of business processes, the alignment of Business and IM, and the coupling of Knowledge Management with Enterprise transformation programs.
  2. How to achieve strategic competitive advantage, by moving from narrowly-defined technical architectures to holistic Enterprise Architectures that encompass the business, information, data, application and domain architectures.
  3. How to support concurrent modelling initiatives and prevent the Enterprise Architecture process from becoming a bottleneck in the delivery of projects.
  4. How to implement modelling and documentation standards across multiple projects, while simultaneously reducing costs and ensuring the re-use of models.
  5. How to maintain models once they have been developed, and to ensure that broad-based access to these models (and the information contained within them) is facilitated. The models need to become the documentation.
  6. How to accelerate the capture of existing and new models in order to reach a "critical mass" of content that supports cross-functional business contributions such as Knowledge Management, Risk Management and Organisational Design.
  7. How to "demystify" the architecture development process, so as to enable IT users to build genuinely open systems-based solutions and accelerate package implementations according to their business needs.
  8. How to move from a static business and IT strategy to a dynamic, "living" strategy that is continually maintained by the Enterprise Architecture process.
  9. How to transfer knowledge from software implementation partners to company staff in a modular format that is easily transportable, reduces risk and effectively shrink-wraps the application implementation for global reuse.
  10. How to apply the Enterprise Architecture capability in order to accelerate business integration and knowledge transfer thereby increasing the business-value derived from Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A).

Latest News

Stuart Macgregor, CEO of Real IRM, participated in a roundtable podcast discussion on global trends in enterprise architecture (EA) at The Open Group’s Boston EA Practitioners’ Conference in July 2010. Other panellists included Allen Brown and Chris Forde from The Open Group; Eric Boulay from Arismore in France, and Mats Gejnevall from Capgemini in Sweden. Dana Gardner, principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions and ZDNet blogger moderated the discussion.

Real IRM presented our first ArchiMate course from 12-13 July to a full class. The delegates were excited to learn the new language and their feedback rated the course highly with particular emphasis on their enjoyment of the practical exercises and case study.

Real IRM has scheduled further ArchiMate 1.0 Foundation courses in August and October. For more information, go to http://realirm.com/promotions/archimate-foundation-training
 

The speaker for the July 2010 EA Forum is Jan Mentz, Senior Lecturer at UNISA. He is currently completing his PhD on the definition of enterprise architecture and has some interesting insights to present on the topic. He will discuss some of the problems with defining EA, highlight the issues that stem from EA’s foundation in information systems and IT, and consider the usefulness of ISO/IEC 42010:2007 as a basis for defining EA.

The EA Forum seminars are scheduled for 27, 28 and 30 July in Pretoria, Johannesburg and Cape Town.

Johan Schoeman, Enterprise Architecture (EA) Consultant at Real IRM, will be presenting at the Software AG Process Forum event on 12 August 2010 in Johannesburg. His presentation, “Stakeholder-driven Enterprise Architecture” will focus on the importance of following a stakeholder-driven EA approach. 

Real IRM will be presenting COBIT Foundation and Implementation courses from 7 to 10 July 2010, in Johannesburg. The trainer, Mike Shortt, is one of only three qualified and accredited ISACA COBIT trainers in South Africa.

Real IRM's Chief Executive, Stuart Macgregor, is in London this week speaking at IRM UK’s Enterprise Architecture Conference (EAC) Europe 2010. He is presenting “The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF™): A Comprehensive Overview” as a pre-conference seminar on Wednesday, 16 June and then “Delivering Value from EA, from the Board Room to the Rock Face” as part of the main conference agenda on Friday, 18 June.

For more information on these and other presentations at the EAC Europe 2010, go to http://www.irmuk.co.uk/eac2010/agenda.cfm

Stuart Macgregor, CEO of Real IRM, has recently returned from London where he participated in the COBIT 5 development workshop. He worked as part of a team of three on the deliverables for "Define IT Strategy" and "Manage Enterprise Architecture”. 

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