Introducing the Enterprise Architecture Toolkit

Mike WalkerArchitecture StrategistArchitecture Strategy TeamMicrosoft Corporation

Agenda

What is Enterprise Architecture?

Challenges in Enterprise Architecture

Announcing the Microsoft Enterprise Architecture Toolkit (EATK)

Purpose of the EATK

EATK tooling alignment

Demo

Enterprise ArchitectureIt Is…

A function that spans IT, Business and Operation lines to optimize the enterprise to fulfill the strategic mission of the organization

Performed By…Enterprise Architects, Solution Architects, Domain Architects

Executes Within…Governance Frameworks, Operation Models, Review Boards

That Produces…Information that is used to support decisions in the enterprise.

Creates processes for implementing or augmenting new and existing technologies

A baseline architecture roadmap

Library of Architecture Patterns and Standards

Processes to create Technology Life Cycles

Challenges

Little industry definition of the role of an Architect

Loose standards adoption

Competing or conflicting Frameworks

Enterprises do not understand their assets

Legacy technology hinders forward progress

Challenges with Tools

EA Tools are Niche and Fragmented

Source: http://www.enterprise-architecture.info/EA_Tools.htm

Consolidate EA Tooling

Community Strategy Management Repository

Modeling

Enterprise ArchitectureToolkit

Objectives of EATK

Rationalize in terms of scenarios

Leverage existing enterprise tooling for your EA practices

Empowerment of EA’s for reporting, self-service workflows and inherent governance

Addresses EA organizations that:

Need pragmatic guidance and tooling

Want to ease IT governance

Have little money to spend on EA tooling

In need of a “solution accelerator”

EATK Scenarios

Architecture Creation

Collaborative Solution Architecture

Architecture Visualization

IT Strategy Management

Total Cost of Ownership

Principles, Policies and Standards Management

Repository Capabilities

Core of the EA Reference Architecture

Supports all the scenarios

Provides critical data to expose meaningful data to the EA

Bridges together several LOB and Operational Systems

Information Model is Federated

Existing meta-data schema’s exist today that may be able to be leveraged

EATK Repository

Building blocks for EA Meta-Data Repository

Services Layer for Information Access

Bridges Existing MS Assets such as:

Portfolio Mgmt. (Project Server)

Operational Mgmt (MOF)

IEEE 1471 Based XML Schema

Project Management

Application Portfolio Mgmt

Architectures

Configuration Management

Incident Management

Development

Business Architecture

Community CapabilitiesBuilding communities and collaboration is

key to the role of an EA

Architecting Solutions is a collaborative

effort

Scenarios Include:

Architecture Development –

Coordination with project teams and

domain architects.

Architecture Reviews – Aid for ARB’s

and project teams

Creation of organizational governance –

Principles, Policies, Standards and

design patterns.

Information sharing

Rewards Program (e.g., List of Top

Architects)

“…85% of a the typical S&P 500

company’s market value is the

result of intangible assets. These

intangible assets is the result of

it’s people, it’s human capital…

It’s no longer what you own that

counts but what you know …”

Craig Symons, Forrester

Research

Strategy Capabilities

Facilitation of Strategy Development

Strategies are put together by understanding:

Key Business Imperatives

Uncontrollable External Forces (Competition, Natural Disasters, Economic)

Business and IT Capabilities

Current Assets

Community Buy-In

“Research consistently reveals that when companies institute a portfolio approach, IT expenditures

decline by 15% to 20% without significant negative impact”

- Bryan Mazlish, Robert Handler “IT Portfolio Management Step-by-Step: Unlocking the Business Value of

Technology”

Management Capabilities

EA Process injection into the SDLC process

Application Portfolio Mgmt Process

Architecture Review Board Process

Must provide mechanisms to pull metrics form all sources

Principle, policy and standards development process

Design Patterns development

EA KPI/Dashboard

Architecture Documentation

CIO Magazine: State of the CIO

2007 Surveyhttp://www.cio.com/state/survey_slideshow/index.html

Modeling Capabilities

Modeling is the core to

architecture activities at all

levels:

Business Architecture

Application Architecture

Domain Architectures

Visio is widely used as modeling

tool of choice

EATK Enhances on Visio’s built-

in Capabilities

Architecture

Meta-Data

EATK Portal

Lists

Visio

Libraries

Architecture

Word Task Panes

MOSS Presentation Services

Web Parts FormsLists Project Parts

MOSS Application Services

Collaboration- Ent. Search- Presence

Human Workflow Services (WF)

PSI Forwarder

Project Server

Project Server Interface

Business Objects

Data Access

Outlook Web PartsOpen

Extensibility

Windows SharePoint Services (WSS 3.0)Base Services (RMS | Document Libraries)

Forms Server

WSS ContentWSS

ConfigProject Server

Architecture Meta-data Store

Web

Services

Portal

Call to Action

You got posters at the conference. Hang them up!

Keep your eyes out for the Beta Release of the EATK

Review the Enterprise Architecture Portal on MSDN (http://msdn.microsoft.com/architecture/EA )

Talk to your Account Mgr about the EATK POC program

QUESTIONS?

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