EA Landscape in South Africa Wynand Vorster Product Manager Friday, October 30, 2009.
EA Landscape in South Africa - The Open Group
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EA Landscape in South Africa Wynand Vorster Product Manager Friday, October 30, 2009
Transcript of EA Landscape in South Africa - The Open Group
EA Landscape in South Africa
Wynand Vorster Product Manager Friday, October 30, 2009
Agenda
•Survey Overview and introduction
•EA Survey objectives
•EA Survey results
•Q&A
IMPACT ANALYSIS & AGILE BUSINESS
Sun Tzu notes, superior commanders succeed in situations where ordinary people fail because they obtain more timely information and use it more quickly.
The Art of War for Executives
Donald G. Krause
GARTNER ON METADATA MANAGEMENT
• Top 10 Priorities for CIO’s in 2008 forward from Gartner – Green IT
– Unified Communication
– Business Process Modeling
– Metadata Management
– Virtualization 2.0
– …
What did we focus on ?
• Business Agility and IT Alignment – Impact Analysis reduces time, cost and risk
– Change Management eases implementation
• Regulatory Compliance – MiFD, SOX, Basel II demand consistent standards
– Traceability reports provide insurance
Ensure all holes are found/covered
Reduces impact of an audit
• Foundation for SOA
– Depends on consistent integration
– Repository of Assets aligned to Process
What do we understand ?
• What do we Know? – Business Goals and Strategy
– Requirements and Use Cases
– Business Process Modeling and Process Orchestration
– Information Architecture (Data and Databases)
– Application Architecture (Business Logic)
– Technology Architecture (Infrastructure)
• EA= Bringing it all together
Sybase EA Survey Results
Survey Results Question: Who here completed the Survey ?
Survey Results - Initiatives
0
5
10
15
20
25
30
35
40
45
Currently Next 12 - 18months
Next 3 - 6months
Next 6 - 12months
None
44
7 11
4
34
•Sporadic Adoption •Revived programs
• No initiatives ? •Lack of urgency
•Dodo Birds in the mix ? •Adapt of die
Survey Results - Industry
0 5 10 15 20
1 0 0
9 0
3 0 0 0 0 0
3 0
17 0 0 0
9 1
3 0 0 0 0
2 0 0 0 0 0
1 0 0
3 3
0 1
0 4
0 0
5 0 0 0 0
6 0 0 0
1 0
12 1
0 We operate in all of the above
Transport
Telecommunications / CellularprovidersSystems Integrator
Software provider
Software Development
software
Service Provider
Retail / Wholesale
Publishing
Provide software developmentservices and consultingProfessional services
Pre Payment
Parastatals / Utilities
Survey Results - Roles
0
5
10
15
20
25
30
35
40
10 10
8
37
34
1
CXO
Database Professionalor Enterprise Architect
Independent BusinessAnalyst
IT Architect
IT Director or Manager
Senior Data Architect
•Roles •Variety of roles
•EA Focus per role •Architects / CXO
•High level buy-in
Survey Results - Geography
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80 75
8 7 5
17
8 10
33
6
Gauteng
Mpumalanga
Limpopo
North West
Kwazulu-Natal
Free State
Eastern Cape
Western Cape
Northern Cape
•Geographic Spread •Focused on Gauteng
•Importance of Geographic spread • Organization Maturity
Survey Results – Value of EA
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
align business and ITstrategies
organisations achievebusiness agility
in implementingregulatory compliance
77
63
41
15
28
45
8 9
14
(1 - Very important, 2 - Somewhat important, 3 - Not important at all)
1 2 3
Survey Results - Frameworks
0
5
10
15
20
25
30
35
40
45
0
44
2 2
29
1 1 1 1 1
27
Zachman Framework
TOGAF
FEAF
DODAF
Building own
ITIL
Microsoft
Government Wide EntepriseArchitecture
Question: Who uses which framework ?
Survey Results - Tools
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
no yes
77
23
Question: Are EA Tools necessary from implementing a
successful EA strategy ?
Survey Results – Documenting and Impact analysis
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
no yes
61
39 0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
no yes
68
32
•Not important ? •Why not ?
EA Forum Survey – Feedback / Q&A
• EA Forum Survey
– Level of EA Adoption is high
– More organizations at a level of maturity than expected
– Still a large amount of organizations that are “confused “ by EA.
• What additional information would you like to see ?
– Questions ?
– Annual Survey
"Survival is ultimately dependent on the ability to change and evolve". These days it is put a little more succinctly. "Adapt or die“ – Charles Darwin
Survey Results – EA Forum
