Van der Merwe to present on business processes in San Diego

San Diego

Paul van der Merwe, consulting and training manager at Real IRM, is to present on business processes and enterprise architecture at the 21st Enterprise Architecture Practitioners Conference in San Diego, being held from 2 to 4 February.

Run under the auspices of The Open Group, which Real IRM represents in South Africa, the conference is the most important event of its kind on the annual enterprise architects' calendar. It brings together the industry's leading practitioners, clients and vendors, and serves as a rallying point for the industry.

"Business process modelling is an accepted best practice and used for business analysis, business process management and service-oriented architecture, or SOA, in organisations," says Van der Merwe.

"In the majority of implementations, these three disciplines are separate initiatives with different frameworks and repositories, although there is a significant overlap. Applying architecture principles can optimise these three disciplines into a single integrated solution that is enabled through business architecture. "My presentation will address this challenge with reference to case studies in South African companies in the financial services, public and mining sectors, as well as reference to TOGAF 9, the coming release of the industry's standard framework for delivering enterprise architecture."

* For further information on the conference, visit: http://www.opengroup.org/sandiego2009-apc/merwe.html