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Next Meeting April 2nd, 2008 at 6:00pm Location:
Microsoft Office
Great Valley Corporate Center
45 Liberty Blvd., Suite 210
Malvern, PA 19355
Map Modeling the Enterprise Do you understand the virtual spider web that exists within your data center? Do you know how many different yet redundant, licensed applications are being used to support the same business functions? Do you know what applications will be impacted if a given server fails, including the applications on live servers that require resources from the failed one? Do you know what assets are at risk due to loss of version support or because the technologies they require are at risk? Do you know the full impact to existing assets when introducing new technologies? Do you have a clear path to the future? Can you see a direct correlation between the IT assets and the business functions they support? Are your architectural assets readily available for and updated by project development efforts? Are you leveraging shared assets, providing sufficient guidance on their use, and ensuring that new development adheres to established guidelines? Is adhering to your guidelines easier than not doing so? These and other questions will be addressed in our session on “Modeling the Enterprise.” A case study will be presented in which Enterprise Architect, a UML modeling tool, was extended to efficiently capture the different architectural views (business, application, information, integration, technology, deployment, operational) for use in strategic planning and project development.
Terry Merriman has been designing systems for almost 30 years. He has consulted for companies in the banking, insurance, pharmaceutical, and automobile domains including UBS, JP Morgan Chase, Aetna, Skandia, MetLife, The Hartford, ACORD, Wyeth, and Subaru of America. He works with companies to improve their architectural and development processes and tool usage and works “on the front lines” to help teams leverage those processes and refine them in the face of real work.
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