The system abruptly stopped functioning, leaving nearly , passengers stranded throughout the US in the run-up to Christmas. An EA solution offers the required support for determining the responsibilities and roles relevant to IT security. Quality mechanisms ensure that the data stays current and will be available in the right context in case of a security audit or incident.
With the help of EA, you can base your technology decisions on reliable, up-to-date facts. Most companies are much better at introducing new technologies than at retiring them. Even government agencies are not immune to this.
The IRS also had to pay Microsoft for post-retirement support contracts to be provided with critical security updates. Thanks to your EA Inventory it is easy to keep on top of IT components that are no longer supported and thus signify a risk. In LeanIX you can report on those applications that are at risk because the underlying IT components are out of their lifecycles. View of the technology risk of an application landscape :. Figure 4: Business impact of technology obsolescence.
While compliance does cost money and in terms of technology requires an accurate view of applications and technology, the cost of non-compliance is usually higher.
As a rule of thumb, experts say that the cost of non-compliance is 2. An up-to-date EA Inventory does not only provide you with reliable data that you can use to document your compliance with regulations.
The LeanIX Survey Add-on can also help you to create ad-hoc or regular surveys for the appropriate staff to maintain accurate information about, for example, the use of sensitive data by applications.
Enterprise Architecture can become a driver for innovation across the organization. Free up your mind for innovation: By simplifying efforts for documentation, governance, and reporting the business can focus on driving change and making Cloud, Big Data, and Digitization a success. Modern development methods like DevOps rely on access to information and the reuse of services. By automating, where possible, the documentation in IT inventories of all new services, their lifecycles, and interfaces, you can achieve faster compliance with regulatory requirements.
New employees also benefit as they have all the information about their IT environment necessary for their onboarding easily available. But even independently working teams have to work towards a common goal and need access to information about their IT to be efficient. Zalando uses a team of Enterprise Architects to serve as a link between the various teams and programming languages.
They are responsible for filling the gaps and enable the developers to have full responsibility for their software. Break down monolithic structures and engage your employees inside and outside of your IT organization to use the collaboration features of your EA tool. Develop a common language with all stakeholders to avoid misunderstandings and pick up speed. They also describe the case of an engineering company. This kind of collaboration dramatically enhanced the group's ability to deliver expertise.
Organizations comprise people, organizations, things, processes, goals, policies, rules, events, locations, and so on. For large organizations, it is impossible for people to retain and work with so many variables and bring about meaningful change unless information about them is documented through EA.
When the system is changed to meet a new requirement, errors will often occur in unexpected places as the full information had not been available before the change. This not only increases the time to make changes but also makes people reluctant to initiate change.
Kearney study reveals that companies can increase their EBIT by 3 to 5 percentage points on average with the help of systematic complexity management. By providing all relevant information in an accessible format in your EA inventory employees can access data about the enterprise and its technology landscape whenever the need arises.
Enterprise Architecture can make an important contribution to decreasing the complexity within the enterprise and therefore allowing it to become more agile. A month may not seem like such a long time but you can achieve a lot in 30 days. You want to focus on activities that deliver some early results to keep the enthusiasm by your management for your EA initiative going while also giving you a sound basis to build on.
Concentrate on these five steps that will pave the way to an immediate clean-up of your portfolio information and thus jump-start your Enterprise Architecture efforts. Having reliable information about your IT landscape is the basis for all your future activities. Inspect your existing data sources and formats and clean up their content. Remove any data that is outdated or irrelevant. Assign content owners and quality check your data with them. Once your data is refined, you can upload a sample to your EA inventory to test it.
If it works out, you can complete the data migration. Leveraging data extraction features of existing tools can make it easier to create your inventory. Involve your content owners to improve your data quality and do not forget to test a sample.
Once you have your basic inventory, it is easy to invite more users to get involved in maintaining the information. Assess your portfolio focusing primarily on business criticality, functional and technical fit. Business criticality identifies the appropriate service level and disaster recovery requirements and can be rated as:.
Functional fit shows how well applications meet the business requirements today and in the near future. Ratings range from:. Technical fit focuses on whether there is a need to replace services, software, or hardware with respect to business requirements today and in the near future. This will already give you enough data for the first analysis of their relevancy to the business and hence which applications should be invested in and which should be divested.
Invite everybody to keep track of planned measures in your EA solution and encourage debate about them using the collaboration features. Everybody is in the know all the time. The high-level assessment of business criticality, functional fit, and technical fit you have implemented earlier gives you an invaluable communication instrument for the business and IT to spot improvement opportunities at a glance.
If you added lifecycle information to your applications and technologies, you can easily produce roadmaps of what will happen in your IT landscape that is available to every user. When you have collected some key data, a lot of improvement ideas will jump out at you, for example rationalizing your applications, filling gaps in IT support, or consolidating your application hosting. Assess all your ideas by their impact and ability to implement them quickly.
Define your first projects in your EA tool tracking value, risk, budgets, and status. Projects should not last longer than three months. A good place to start is to identify and divest your redundant applications using the portfolio analysis described above. Others you will want to invest in, as they are critical to the success of the business. Business Capabilities encapsulate what a business is doing right now and what it needs to be doing to implement its strategy.
Business Capabilities can help you to identify redundancies, spot risks, and develop solutions, which is why it is crucial for you to develop your Business Capability Map. Start thinking about the major capabilities that your business needs to operate. The first level should only be the critical ones, most companies have around capabilities on the highest level.
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This will make sure you and other stakeholders can clearly see and copy the added value of working with EA. In the EA example, these 7 benefits will be the outcomes of the use cases specified.
The EA example will clearly show how things work. Read here all about Enterprise Architecture. The EA example will focus on the application of theory and not on reiterating theory. The EA example will contain an EA dossier in a single document.
So it might be that the document will grow to a significant number of pages. If we are going to create a single document to contain a minimum viable Enterprise Architecture, many of these dossier documents are put inside of it.
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