Event Timetable

Welcome Address and
Dependability Through Assuredness™ Standard

Allen Brown, President & CEO, The Open Group

Keynote 1

Eric Sweden, Program Director EA & Governance, NASCIO

Spotlight 1

Spotlight 2

The Impact of Big Data on the Enterprise

Michael Cavaretta, Technical Lead, Predictive Analytics / Data Mining, Research and Advanced Engineering, Ford Motor Company

Changes in the cost of processing hardware and storage along with new algorithms has opened up opportunities for deriving value from data. Right now the focus is on social data, but the future is embedded sensors and the Internet of Things. But, Big Data is nothing unless it can support analytics that provide business insights. The challenge is for companies to move beyond tools and technologies, to skills and strategic vision. This talk will highlight Big Data technologies and how companies can use data and analytics across the enterprise with examples from marketing, manufacturing, or product development.

 Michael Cavaretta is Ford Motor Company’s Data Science leader. After receiving his Ph.D. in Computer Science in 1995, he has spent nearly 20 years applying data analytics to business problems. Currently managing the Predictive Analytics Group at Ford's Research and Advanced Engineering division, he has led multiple analytic projects across all areas of the company, including sales and marketing, warranty and quality, manufacturing, and HR.

Spotlight: Healthcare Work Group

The Open Group has initiated a healthcare working group to drive the creation of Boundaryless Information Flow™ through open standards in healthcare. The Work Group is conducting a healthcare transformation workshop on Tuesday, July 16.

Keynote 3

TBA

Using Big Data for improved analytics and actionable insights in Healthcare

Dipali Trivedi, Principal Architect, CloudFountain Inc., US

Big Data enables enterprises to process large amounts of data to drive valuable analytics and improved operations.This technical session will discuss big data use cases in the healthcare vertical and its application to provide better healthcare operations and insights. It will discuss enterprise architecture using big data technologies including HADOOP, Map Reduce, Hive and traditional data source. It will discuss advantages and challenges of the approach.

Key takeaways:

1. Application of big data technologies in health care domain would improve healthcare operations and actionable insights
2. Technical solution using big data technologies
 

Dipali Trivedi is a technologist specialized in building and delivering large scale, high volume transactional software products. For over 10 years, Dipali has been responsible for driving enterprise architecture using open source technologies and SOA patterns to deploy in public or private cloud infrastructure. She has led organizations to adopt big data technology to drive enterprise analytics to convert analytics into actions.

She is currently working as a Principal Architect at CloudFountain Inc. in Boston, MA.

Using Enterprise Architecture to support PCI practices in your organization

David Daniel, Enterprise Architecture Consultant, IBM, US

PCI Compliance can prove to be a tricky undertaking for some organizations. The complexity of the application landscape, as well as the inherent difficulties of data management, give this effort a pain level somewhere between "intense" and "excruciating".

Using the fundamental tenets of Enterprise Architecture, underpinned with concepts of Master Data Management (MDM), organizations can reduce that pain to tolerable levels

EA Support comes in several different forms:
--  In providing business context to understand data and its significance, EA provides scope for understanding the depth, breadth and location and flow of PCI-Related Data.
-- Governance is at the heart of an Enterprise Architecture practice. By providing a consolidated view of an organization's data, and overlaying standards and security driven approaches to data management, EA forms the core for controlling data throughout the enterprise.
--  EA gives form and presence to business related requirements. In doing so, EA provides the core for "Security by Design".

We will take a look at the ways that PCI Data is represented and managed in a typical repository. Those methods lend themselves to the type of analysis that gives actionable information in the management and give your organization a firm foundation for PCI compliance – and surviving a PCI Audit – by doing three things:

Understanding Data
By placing data into its business context, practitioners are able to understand when, where and how PCI-related data is generated, transmitted, stored, archived and destroyed. Traditional data silos can mask sensitive data. Enterprise Architecture, when properly developed, ferrets out those areas and brings them to the forefront.
One of the difficult areas of PCI Audits is establishing the scope of the audit. By bounding data within the payment-related areas, audits are more easily defined.

Controlling Data
In establishing a standard, centralized data mapping, Enterprise Architects build the foundation for strong data governance. Most organizations only think of EA as leading and defining application development and deployment. In fact, if properly designed, EA leads and defines a strong data governance model…just as it would for application solution architects, so it hands off standardized data sets to data developers and infrastructure architects. As requirements form the core of the TOGAF ADM model, so they filter and trace throughout the entire development model and highlight the areas of specific concern for PCI related data.

Protecting Data
By building a trace between the business processes, applications and networking, PCI-related security is not left to chance or interpretation. It is given proactivefront-and-center importance in the construction of the way your organization does business. Over 2/3 of the cost of a typical solution comes from revisions and updates to ensure security and functionality. By building security into solutions from the start, expensive remediation is not necessary.

By building and maintaining a culture of compliance, using EA as its core, you not only significantly reduce risk in your organization, audits become just another element in a successful day's work.

David Daniel is an Enterprise Architecture Consultant with IBM in the US. He has 18+ years experience in the systems engineering and enterprise architecture space, across industries including  defense, manufacturing, heavy-industry, banking, telecom and others. He is an active IBM industry consultant.

Determining High Value IT Initiatives

Sandra Ambrose, Director - Infrastructure Services, SRA International, US

As IT budgets shrink, enterprise architects must increasingly focus on identifying and achieving infrastructure cost savings based on quantified ROI and risk. Typically, the complexity and heterogeneity of infrastructure environments makes optimization difficult but budget pressures necessitate performance improvements. Utilizing portfolio management and enterprise architecture techniques, this presentation describes an approach to identify solutions with "high return" cost savings.

Key takeaways:

• Understanding of the key efficiency levers that can result in reduced costs
• Approach for prioritizing and selecting highest value initiatives

Sandra Ambrose is Director, Infrastructure Services for SRA, International. Previous roles at SRA include Deputy CIO and Technical Director, Homeland Security. She also led the Enterprise Architecture Community of Practice within SRA. Prior to SRA, she was Chief Architect for National Security and Justice programs with IBM.

Simplifying Data Integration in the Healthcare Sector

Ronald Schuldt, Senior Partner, UDEF-IT, US

This presentation highlights an evolving Open Group vocabulary integration standard that simplifies data integration between or within enterprises, within the Healthcare sector. Implementers follow a standardized structured process for harmonizing terms that promote normalization of data models, representing application integration. Adopters of the vocabulary integration standard leverage a language independent universal alias that is reusable for all future data integration efforts. The presentation includes applicable use cases.

Key takeaways:

--  Understand how an open vocabulary integration standard can assist the healthcare sector.
--  Understand the enhancements happening in the evolving standard and how they benefit the healthcare sector.

Ron Schuldt has been involved with The Open Group's Universal Data Element Framework (UDEF) standard since its inception. He has over twenty-eight years experience as a systems engineer for Lockheed Martin working systems design and integration. He has been involved in multiple data interchange standards activities and is recognized as an expert on data standards. He is Chairman of The Open Group UDEF Interested Parties Project and previously served as Chairman of the Electronic Enterprise Integration Committee within the Aerospace Industries Association. Currently, he is a Senior Partner with UDEF-IT, LLC, providing data integration training and consulting services.

Cloud-Based CRM with On-Premises Integration at a Diversified Financial Services Company

Iver Band, Enterprise Architect, The Standard, US

Last year, The Standard, a diversified financial service company, delivered two phases of its enterprise CRM solution for its Employee Benefits Sales and Retirement Plans Service functions. However, many of the data sources and applications necessary for a complete solution remained on-premises, presenting significant application integration challenges. To develop and gain approval for the solution architecture, the project architects combined an internal architecture development method based on elements of the Eclipse Process Framework with the ArchiMate® language and a powerful viewpoint from the TOGAF® Architecture Content Framework. This presentation gives an overview of the solution architecture and the architecture development process, with a focus on application integration. It explores how IT organizations can provide business value by integrating cloud-based CRM with established line-of-business applications. This presentation illustrates how the ArchiMate language can be used to model business, application, technology and information architectures, and how it empowers architects, enhances communication between diverse stakeholders, and complements existing architecture methods.

Key takeaways:

1. Typical enterprise CRM architecture problems and solutions for financial services companies
2. Techniques for integrating cloud and on-premises applications
3. How the ArchiMate language is used to develop and communicate complex solution architectures

Iver Band is an Enterprise Architect at The Standard, a diversified financial services company based in Portland, Oregon, USA. At The Standard, he oversees a portfolio of insurance, asset management, CRM and contact center solutions, and provides leadership and oversight to strategic projects. He is both TOGAF and ArchiMate Certified, and applies these standards to his daily work. He is Vice Chair of The Open Group ArchiMate Forum, and has contributed to the ArchiMate standard and several related Open Group White Papers.

Enterprise Architecture Roadmap Development Demystified

Matthew Stuempfle, Enterprise Architect, Red Hat, US

You have the as-is architecture elucidated. You've developed the to-be architecture. You've even completed the gap analysis. Now we need the plan to get us there. We need... a Roadmap.

At the enterprise level, roadmaps can be complex and fraught with challenges of their own even before you begin to execute the work. In Federal and Defense spaces in particular, there is increasing demand to deliver and demonstrate business value quickly while you contain costs amidst seemingly ever-changing budgetary constraints.

In this session you will learn techniques for the development and execution of enterprise-level roadmaps. The specific techniques you will learn include:

-- Roadmap design that eliminates bias and ideology and focuses on delivery of value-added outcomes aligned to your agency's goals and objectives;

-- An outcomes-based roadmap approach to assist with budget-cycle and fiscal year planning;

-- How to asses the cost and impact of achieving specific outcomes as opposed to simply the cost of doing work packages that in of themselves may not deliver direct value to the organization;

-- How to drive roadmap adoption through artifacts that enable straight-forward conversations with stakeholders while taking into account specific business drivers;

-- And how to use these roadmaps as the foundation for budgeting and program management to achieve the desired state.

Note: This session is given by a member of the Enterprise Architecture Practice in the Red Hat IT department with no focus on tools or products that the company offers.

Key takeaways:

-- Proven approaches to roadmap development that reduce ambiguity and bias, allowing efforts to be focused on value added outcomes for the business.

-- Tools that can aid in roadmap development.

-- Alignment of Roadmaps to components of the enterprise architecture including the Performance Reference Model and Service Reference Model for your agency.

Matt Stuempfle has more than 15 years of experience in Information technology. Throughout his tenure he has developed technology strategy, executed large-scale transformation and modernization initiatives, architected technical solutions from inception to implementation, and supported technical sales. He regularly interfaces with client and industry executives. His experience spans multiple industries serving in the role of Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and Chief Architect to drive client business and competitiveness. Matt is a regular speaker at industry conferences on topics such as meeting the future needs of business through the innovative use of technology.

Personalized Medicine, Pharmacogenomics, Healthcare IT and the Revolution in Healthcare as We Know it

Nikhil Kumar, President, ApTSi (Applied Technology Solutions, Inc.), US

Modern medicine, driven by changes in Healthcare IT, IT, genomics, economic factors and legal direction is undergoing the fastest change ever seen in the area. In this presentation Nikhil will provide an overview of the Healthcare Continuum, which includes the pharma, payer, provider, ACO and PBM sectors. He will also cover key drivers and disruptive advances in the space. Some of the topics covered will include a systemic model for pharmacogenmics and personalized medicine, the Healthcare Continuum and interoperability constraints and drivers, the impact of the Cloud, SOA and big data, M2M and wearable computing, security constraints and interoperability constraints. There will be a brief section on the application of the SOA RA to the derivation of architectures for the space.

Key takeaways:

--  Personalized Medicine and Healthcare
--  Healthcare interoperability (CDISC, HL7, Continuaa, etc.)
--  Advance and trends in Healthcare
--  Payer and provider trends, MITA and HCRA
--  Security in Healthcare and Pharma

Nikhil Kumar is a thought leader in Personalized Medicine, Genomics, SOA, Cloud Computing and Enterprise Architecture, with extensive experience in the payer, provider and PBM sectors. His accomplishments include co-chairing the SOA RA Project, large boards, authoring standards, books, and articles, and leading the development of a new PM platform.

Enterprise Architecture Applied in the Financial Sector using TOGAF® 9 as a Reference Framework

Sonia Gonzalez, EA Senior Consultant, Dux Diligens, Costa Rica

The presentation is about a real case application of TOGAF 9 as the base EA framework for the EA practice development in the financial sector in Costa Rica. The case shows the EA practice construction and capabilities development. The first iteration around the main organizational strategic drivers, how the Architecture Development Method (ADM) was applied for the development of the first iteration cycle focused in a high level strategic architecture. This set the basis for the second iteration more focused in a capability architecture that would deliver business benefits after the EA roadmap and migration planning conformance. It also shows the issues around applying TOGAF Architecture Content Framework in a real modeling case and how during the development of the second iteration cycle the model was leverage through the integration of the BIAN reference model.

Key takeaways:

--  Real case about TOGAF 9 adaptations in order to fulfill the organization culture and EA capability development
--  Study case about the whole ADM cycle implemented using an EA tool and integrations with operational tools
--  Reference models leverage and used for the business and service model definition

Sonia Gonzalez has been an Enterprise Architect for more than four years, working in TOGAF® 9 projects for banking and financial industries. She is a senior advisor in Enterprise Architecture, SOA, BPM , Management and Innovation, Information systems design and implementation and IT governance and management frameworks. She has  experience as a trainer and presenter. She has more than 20 year experience in Information systems, Project Management and information systems analysis, design and implementation.

Building an Enterprise Architecture Culture - Government of Canada Case Study

Bill Brierley, Partner and Senior Consultant, Conexiam, Canada

The Government of Canada has established enterprise architecture practice as a government-wide culture. This has been achieved through a series of incremental changes to management practice over the past two decades. The result is a management approach that has strong enterprise architectureunderpinnings. In this talk we will explore the initiatives that havecreated this culture and explore the impact both on governance, management,and the practice of enterprise architecture in the Government of Canada.

Key takeaways:

--  Not all enterprise architecture practice is done by enterprise architects.

--  Effective enterprise architecture practice is done, not talked about.

--  Enterprise architects must be bridge builders

Bill Brierley is a partner and senior consultant at Conexiam. Bill has been leading enterprise architecture teams for close to 20 years. Over the past decade, Bill has been focused on business transformation and developing enterprise architecture as a fundamental management tool. Based in Ottawa, the bulk of Bill's experience is with the Government of Canada. Bill has been deeply involved in the development of both policy and practice of enterprise architecture within the Government of Canada.

Accessible and Affordable Healthcare – the Mobile Way

Srinivas Gundugola, Chief Architect Curam Product Development, India Software Labs, IBM India

With increasing healthcare costs and complex health services delivery environment, Mobile Technologies offer help in delivering these services more effectively and efficiently apart from making them more affordable bringing both healthcare providers, consumers and payers. Mobility makes the service delivery complex where social services and healthcare are getting closer. This talk presents various functional areas, challenges and opportunities that are emerging, in emerging markets particularly.

Key takeaways:

1. Understand the challenges in Healthcare services & possible areas of focus from government as well as private service providers.
2. Areas that could be of focus for IT service providers, mobile application providers

Srinivas Gundugola is the Chief Architect, Curam Product Development, India Software Lab & and is a IBM certified IT Architect and Opengroup Master IT Architect. Srini currently leads the Curam's Family Service Solution suite apart from various other key portfolio solutions for ISL in Social Programs and services domain.

Managing and Recognizing Architecture Debt Within The Financial Services Industry

Wayne Filin-Matthews, Architect Role Owner, Microsoft Corporation, US

As Architecture shifts to reflect the global trends in IT, the correction is forcing the financial services industry to examine the role and the importance of consistency in Architectural rigor and delivery. The architectural debt and trades-offs an Architect will make may have increased longevity and serious consequences for the ability of organizations to exploit technology investments into the future.

Key takeaways:

1. Understanding the trade-off value system importance in both planning and commit through to exploit.

2. The risks to the organization of ignoring Architecture debt and waste

3. The impact to the readiness of roles involved in Enterprise Architecture today.

Wayne Filin-Matthews is the Microsoft Enterprise Services Architect and Consultant Role Owner - the driver and integral part of the Architect and Consultant role evolution which includes Architects and consultants being a key role in the success of Enterprise Services. Wayne is an Open Group Distinguished Architect (Profession Lead) with over 21 years in the industry working across an array of sectors including, public, commercial, finance, healthcare and government and across multiple geographies.

Operational Effectiveness: How Many Tanks Do I Have?

Robert Weisman, CEO / Principal Consultant, Build The Vision Inc., Canada

Operational Effectiveness is a major concern in defence and simple questions as in the title are crucial, but the answer varied with respect to the system queried. The presentation discusses the EA required to address the semantic, cultural and technical challenges associated with the creation of an information sharing environment. The environment was rapidly created in part through the re-use of enterprise continuum artefacts and the effective delivery of capability increments by a joint defence/contractor team. It is a CGI top success story.

Key takeaways:
-- Taking a Capability Based Approach
-- Re-use artefacts to accelerate delivery and reduce risk
-- Identify and understand stakeholder concerns

Robert Weisman has spent more than 25 years in enterprise level planning and implementation for business and IM/IT capabilities, in both private and public sectors in North America, Europe and Australia.

For the past five years Bob has been an active member of the Open Group Architecture Forum, a significant contributor to TOGAF® 9 and President of the Ottawa/Gatineau Chapter of the Association Enterprise Architects (AEA).

As Principal Consultant and CEO of Build The Vision Inc., Bob both practices Enterprise Architecture and provides in-house training for Enterprise Architects leading to TOGAF 8 and 9 certification.

Robert has an MSc in Computer Science and is a Professional Engineer and Project Management Professional.

Welcome Address

Allen Brown, CEO, The Open Group

Keynote

David Nash MD, MBA, Dean of Jefferson School of Population Health

Spotlight

Healthcare Transformation Panel

Moderator: Allen Brown, CEO, The Open Group

Panelists: Larry Schmidt, HP; Terry Blevins, MITRE; Jason Uppal, QRS; Jim Hietala, The Open Group

Keynote: Challenges and Opportunities for Big Data in Healthcare

Larry Schmidt, Chief Technologist - Americas Health and Life Sciences Industries, HP, US

Most industries can leverage Big Data and the appropriate analytics to improve margins, predict results, reduce fraud and obtain competitive advantage. Metrics which reveal the business impact of Big Data often are tied to a financial performance. While the Healthcare industry can certainly measure Big Data's value through financial impact, Healthcare also measures value through human impact. Big Data, and its surrounding information architecture is a technology enabler for improving the health of a population, discovering new treatments to disease and implementing best practice through evidence based protocol. In Healthcare, Big Data saves lives!

This session will cover some of the challenges the Healthcare industry faces when deploying Big Data solutions. It will feature how Big Data is being leveraged to improve Healthcare discovery and delivery.

Key takeaways:

--  Understand the sources of Big Data within the US Healthcare delivery model

--  Gain appreciation for the types of Big Data that exist in Healthcare delivery

--  Understand how technology and standard advancement and the following of protocol impacts the value of Big Data in Healthcare

--  Understand Big Data's role in improving the health, patient safety and lifespan of individuals

Larry Schmidt, an HP Fellow, is the Chief Technologist for the Health & Life Sciences (HLS) industries within the Americas Office of the Chief Technologist (CT). Schmidt, an enterprise architect and Distinguished Systems Engineer (SE), provides innovation, thought leadership and architecture expertise to HP clients within the HLS and Financial Services industries.

Note: This session will extend to 11.45.  The introduction to the workshop sessions will commence at 11.45.

A Framework for Application Quality Measurement in Support of Financial Services Transformation

Chris Manuel, Worldwide Director of Partner Solutions, CAST, US

Leading successful business transformation in Financial Services is directly correlated to the ability of IT to fuel innovation, whether by introducing new systems or improving and enhancing existing ones. Yet, more so than any other industry, the application landscape of Financial Services organizations is a complex collection of heterogeneous technologies, legacy and contemporary systems, custom applications, and third party COTS. As a result, the impact that IT has on business transformation activities can be constrained by a lack of insight and control over the application portfolio. This session will present a framework for measuring structural quality and then leveraging the resulting data to better plan, execute, and maintain your IT systems in support of the transformation required by the business.

Key takeaways:
1. Understand the role application structural quality plays in either constraining or enabling transformation initiatives
2. A three-step program for leveraging a structural quality measurement program to:
    a. Plan and initiate transformation activities
    b. Prevent software risk during implementation
    c. Manage the TCO impact after the transformation
3. A real life case study of how a major financial services institution leveraged a structural quality measurement program to fuel transformation, taking application development activities from 70% maintenance to 70% innovation.

Chris Manuel, worldwide director of partner solutions at CAST, has 17 years of experience working for system integrators, specifically in the area of application services and outsourcing. He has held leadership positions with global system integrators including Wipro and Fujitsu. Chris is PMP, ITIL Practitioner, and ITIL Foundation certified.

Overcoming Legacy in Smarter Planet and Smarter City Transformation

Boris Vishnevsky, Distinguished ITA, IBM, US

Computing and IT legacy continues and pose substantial challenge to satisfying evolving business demands with modern IT capabilities. IT Legacy slows the progress. Addressing IT legacy challenges with a disciplined and well rationalized approach can accelerate the adoption of new technologies transforming the business into a smart business and planet into a smarter planet. Emerging technologies must be applied in a way that will prevent these capabilities becoming legacy in short or long term.

Key takeaways:

-- Computing and IT Legacy will continue and present substantial challenge to how modern IT Capabilities can be applied to support Business needs

-- These legacy challenges can not be ignored and must be addressed with a disciplined and well rationalized approach

-- Modern solution must be developed with long term vision to avoid becoming "a new legacy" in a short or long term.

Boris Vishnevsky is recognized and well respected within the IBM business and technical community, not only for his technical expertise and innovative technical solutions, but also for his ability to apply modern technology to solve complex business problems. Mr. Vishnevsky is presently leading IBM xBrand engagements with focus on Smarter Planet Transformation, software strategy, business process analysis and optimization, BigData Analytic. Mr. Vishnevsky is actively collaborating with NYU and IBM research.
 

Using TOGAF® to Establish a People Enablement Capability within a Strategic Transformation Project - a Banking Case Study

Louw Labuschagne, Managing Partner, CS Interactive Training, South Africa; and Elize  Labuschagne, Partner, CS Interactive Training, South Africa

The Client Challenge:

A major financial institution in South Africa initiated a Strategic Improvement Project to improve speed to market of new products and improve quality of systems developed within the institution by re-designing their Systems Development Lifecycle and adopting best practice methods and an integrated suite of tools.

We got involved in the project when the project came under pressure after tradition change management approaches failed due to specific constraints in the environment:
1. Tool vendors were used to provide tool training without specific method context.
2. The employees in the organisation have vastly different backgrounds and a lack of basic object-oriented principles prohibited the adoption of the method, which also require a practitioners to have a working knowledge of UML.
3. 1200 people were directly affected by the change in the method and tradition training and change management techniques could not be rolled out fast enough.
4. Internet bandwidth constraints prohibited the use of tradition cloud-based online training.
5. Limited budget were available to implement a solution due to the previous investment into the techniques that did not work.

The new SDLC method is updated on a regular basis to incorporate lessons learned on innovation projects and thus the organisation required a sustainable internal people enablement capability to continuously update and deliver the training curriculum.

Our Approach:

In the presentation we will explain how we used an architectural approach to design a capability within the constraints set by the project. We will explain how we applied TOGAF to analyse and design the curriculum, processes and tools required to create a people enablement capability in support of the Strategic Transformation Project that developed the new SDLC method for the Financial Institution.

The Result:

We will share the results of the project and show how it was possible to deliver 4500 training interventions in 9 months and how we combined technology with traditional approaches to create a blended learning approach using a Virtual Learning Environment that is supported by the internal HR team. Finally we will share lessons that we learned during the project.

Key takeaways:

1. The importance of including people enablement as part of the architecture design during transformation projects
2. How TOGAF can be used as to define and implement a capability within an organisation
3. Key lessons learned / pitfalls to avoid when tackling the people enablement component of a transformation project

Louw Labuschagne is currently the managing partner of CS Interactive Training, a niche training company specialising in the development of interactive learning material for professionals working in information intensive environments. He is passionate about all aspects of information management and had the opportunity to act as strategist, architect, speaker, trainer, analyst, modeller and developer within this field over the past 17 years within the Financial, Mining and Government Sectors.

Elize Labuschagne is a partner at CS Interactive Training, a niche training company specialising in the development of interactive learning material for professionals working in information intensive environments. Elize is a solutions architect & e-learning specialist with more that 15 years of experience within the financial and educational sectors. She is currently responsible for the design and rollout of CS Interactive Training's virtual learning environments within corporate environments.

Mastering variances in data governance/architecture practices to incorporate Big Data

Neal Fishman, Program Director - Integration Forensics, IBM, US; Trinette Surles, Sr. Big Data Architect, IBM, US

Many data governance programs are established in order to bring people and projects into some form of alignment ­ a corporate singularity. The singularity may be perceived as necessary to support an internal or external standard, a regulation, a compliance need, or simply to support the notion that 'one' is better. From a pragmatic standpoint, a data governance program must also adopt policies and procedures to handle dispensations and waivers due to time constraints, cost, organizational geography, conflicting standards or objectives, etc. Offering to support waivers can prevent rogue and under-the-wire projects.

As organizations adopt projects involving big data, many data governance practices and data architectures are being disrupted. Managing waivers is one practice a data governance program or data architecture team can embrace to avoid a fragmented IT department.

Key takeaways:

-- The need to manage variances and waivers
-- Incorporating waivers into a Data Governance and Data Architecture practices
-- Expiring variances and long-term architectural planning

Neal Fishman is the program director for integration forensics within IBM's software group and leads a group of architects for the Big Data Industry Team. Neal is the author of "Viral Data in SOA: An Enterprise Pandemic" and the coauthor of "Enterprise Architecture Using the Zachman Framework".

Trinette Surles is a Senior Big Data Architect focused on the Public Sector. Trinette works worldwide helping government agencies manage complex data strategies and incorporate advanced analytics.

EA and Enterprise Transformation in IBM Finance

Rajamanickam Ponmudi, IT Architect, IBM, US

Music is nothing but various sounds in synchronization with time. Enterprise Architecture (EA) is nothing but Information Technology in synchronization with Business priorities. Architecture Diagrams, Architecture Blueprints, Architecture Roadmaps etc., are like Musical Operas captured at a point in time. The Architecture lines are drawn with life. This needs to be absorbed, understood, critically analyzed, followed and challenged if necessary.

IBM's EA is built on the EPF (Enterprise Process Framework) wherein all the business processes of IBM are captured under 15 different process frameworks. APQC (American Productivity and Quality Center) guidelines have been extensively used in developing our process framework. Wherever possible, the guidelines have been taken from APQC and where there are differences, deviations have been accepted. If we step back and compare, one can say there is an 80-20 rule applied.

IBM's EA deals with Macro level entities of IT while prooviding enough details or links to drill down to Micros level details. Blueprint, Roadmap, Target Architecture, Current Architecture etc., are macro level entities of a typical EA. All these entities or components, on a need basis, can provide granular details like application details, information system details, data flows, Data Warehouse details, deployment details etc., This is achieved by using the powerful IBM Rational Systems Architect tool.

If IBM sneezes, they say, the World gets cold. In reality, it is the IBM Finance applications that sneeze. The Finance applications provide the windows to view the IBM's overall performance. The reveevenues, expenses, assets and liabilities of IBM with a market capitalization of more than $200 Billion, are captured, consolidated, maintained, analyzed and reported by a suite of applications in Finance. A periodic reporting to Wall Street has a significant influence on IBM's share price.

Several years ago a blueprint was developed for driving efficiency, developing Strategic solutions, supporting enterprise initiatives and setting directions in Finance applications portfolio. This architectural effort along with an Enterprise Initiative called "Blue Harmony" helped Finance IT achieve maximum benefits in terms of developing and adapting WW solutions in several business process areas, deploying package solutions in niche areas and in-house solutions wherever needed.

The Finance blueprint is the framework on which the Finance application architecture is developed supporting 12 detailed business processes like General Ledger, Fixed Assets, Treasury etc., In IBM's Finance Archithitecture (which is a part of EA in IBM), one can get a macro level picture of the vision of Finance five years from now as Target Architecture blueprint, a roadmap that provides details of how we plan to reach there. Number of applications, classification of an application (Strategic, Tactical or Legacy), Business Criticality (vital or non-vital etc.,), Support for WW business process, single instance or multi-instance, single code or Geo based code, Scalability, Reliability etc., are key parameters that are constantly monitored by proper Enterprise Governance processes at various stages of the life cycle of the application.

A complete transformation of entire Finance business process needs by a single packaged solution or by all in-house development is neither practical nor realistic. Based on the Enterprise Initiatives, availability of solutions, business priorities and the investment to be made, usually a mix and match of packaged solutions and in-house applications is not uncommon in the industry and IBM Finance is no exception to this. IBM Finance is being transitioned from in-house to SAP based solution for General Ledger under the Enterprise Initiative BH, is using WSS for all Treasury needs while Finance Planning has mixture of in-house and vendor solutions. Cognos Analytics are extensively used within Finance from basic reporting to complex Cube based (dimensional model) analysis. In fact, IBM Finance took a lead in this area and helped establishing a Center of Excellence for the Enterprise IBM for all Cognos related efforts.

Classification of applications is critical within our EA since numerous decisions are taken based on the application category. All IBM business applications have been classified as Strategic or Tactical or Legacy using very stringent criteria and there has been a consistent message across the enterprise that the Legacy applications should be sunset. No spending on legacy applications, exception approval requirements, no new development of non-strategic apps etc., are criteria that is rigorously applied within Finance to ensure Finance is in sync with our EA governance model.

Being the Lead Architect for IBM Finance IT in IBM, CHQ, I am the liaison between Finance community and Enterprise Architecture Community for the creation and maintenance of Target Architecture and Roadmap. I am also a voting member in the Enterprise Architecture Council.

With proper executive approval, I will also be able to share more details on the architecture diagrams, EA & Finance relations, statistics related to Application Portfolio Maintenance, etc.

In summary, IBM Finance being part of IBM EA, has transformed itself in a very impressive way over the last 7 years.

Key takeaways:
1.By embracing the IBM's Enterprise Architecture and following the principles, guidelines, metrics and the governance model of EA, IBM Finance Architecture has been extremely successful in its mission.
2.Creating a Target Architecture and a Roadmap to achieve the target are critical.
3.A strong Governance model at Enterprise level and a process that implements the Governance criteria is vital for the success of EA as well as Finance Architecture.

Rajamanickam Ponmudi has several years of experience in strategizinng, architecting, designing, and managing the development of very large enterprise-wide applications. He provides thought leadership in the area of technollogy strategy, development methodologies, quality assurance, complex system testing processes, application architecture, database design, application development, and performance tuning. His IT experience includes more than 10 years in IBM and more than 10 years with TOP 100 worldwide multinationals.
 

Cloud Computing Model as Service Oriented Architecture

Yan Zhao, President, ArchiTech Consulting, US

This presentation will discuss cloud computing from the evolution of service orientation point of view. It will discuss cloud computing models, the prior-arts, and the evolution path in federal government from Federal Enterprise Architecture, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), and Service Oriented Infrastructure (SOI) or Federal Infrastructure Optimization Initiative, to Cloud Computing. It will also discuss the current trend of the new generation IT operating model, as well as the related business impact. While cloud computing is contributing to the enterprise evolution towards service orientation and shared services, appropriate business management and operation mechanisms must be in place in order to practice successfully, e.g. suitable business models, service models, service structure, funding models, operation models, operation structure, as well as lifecycle and governance. This presentation intends to provide a holistic view for the cloud computing evolution and shared service adoption in Federal Government.Key takeaways:

1. Cloud computing is an effort of continuous evolution in Federal Government towards service orientation and shared services, with efforts from Federal Enterprise Architecture, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), and Federal Infrastructure Optimization Initiative.
2. Cloud computing is a conceptual evolution from many of our past efforts, such as grid computing, utility computing, virtualization, distributed computing, SOA, SOI, Web Service, Application Service Provider (ASP), Internet Service Provider (ISP), etc. New technologies and solutions will add more efficiency during marching in the direction.
3. Appropriate business management and operation mechanisms (e.g. suitable business models, service models, funding models, operation models) must be in place in order to practice cloud computing and shared services successfully.
4. Shared service domain is a sub-domain in an enterprise, which should be appropriately identified and implemented

Yan Zhao, Chief Architect, ArchiTech Consulting

An enterprise level chief architect, strategist, innovator, and executive for Fortune 500 companies, as well as an entrepreneur and a professor, Yan Zhao has over 20 years work experience across academia, corporate research, software industry, and consulting service. She has a Ph.D. in Computer Science. She has 6 patents granted, 4 patents pending, a number of invention disclosures and technical publications.

Case Study: Enterprise Architecture and Strategic Planning at Nationwide Insurance

Zahid Hossain, Director of Enterprise Architecture, Nationwide Insurance, US; and Chris Armstrong, President, Armstrong Process Group, Inc., US

 This session will review how Nationwide Insurance has continued implementing its TOGAF-based Enterprise Architecture (EA) practice to support business and IT strategic planning. The speakers will begin with a description of the context in which the EA practice was called to action to provide a fact-based and architecture-grounded position for performing strategic planning activities. The session will describe how Nationwide extended the TOGAF Architecture Content Metamodel to address key stakeholder viewpoints for the Board of Directors and Business/ IT Executive Management, including integrating the EA repository with the General Ledger for application financials. One essential feature is an enterprise-wide business capability reference model that is used as a foundation for board-level investment decision analysis: How much money do we spend in IT to support a particular business capability? Why does it cost more to support a particular capability than another? Are high levels of spending related to application complexity, application age, technical debt, process duplication, or business channel diversification? The session will also describe how Nationwide has exploited business intelligence/analytics to provide financially grounded executive EA dashboards. The speakers will also discuss their continuing success stories, challenges, and lessons learned. This session will provide new developments since presenting the initial case study in early 2012.

Key takeaways:
--  How to elevate EA to Board of Directors
--  TOGAF adoption best practices
--  EA tool implementation best practices

Zahid Hossain is Director of Enterprise Architecture at Nationwide Insurance.

Chris Armstrong, President of Armstrong Process Group, Inc., is an internationally recognized thought leader in enterprise architecture, formal modeling, process improvement, systems and software engineering, requirements management, and iterative and agile development. Chris represents APG at The Open Group, the Object Management Group and the Eclipse Foundation.

Developing Government & Defense Applications Securely

Tony Carrato, WW Solution Architect, IBM Industry Solution Engineering, IBM, US

Government and defense users depend on the systems they employ performing as intended, without surreptitious flaws having been introduced in the development process. Such software should be developed to meet appropriate security expectations. It should also undergo testing by a team which is independent of the programming team having inspected the application to ensure that it complies with those expectations and government customer requirements. However, it isn't simple to put in place the processes, education and tooling which are needed to meet those expectations. In this session, members of IBM's Industry Solutions Engineering team, which produces both platforms and applications for defense and government customers will share what their teams do, in educating their people, establishing processes for secure development and verification and what technology they use to support the people and process elements of development. Attendees will learn about education for architects and developers, to enable them to design and build secure applications. They will understand what are an appropriate set of criteria for secure applications and will learn about the technical tools used in IBM to enforce these processes.

Key takeaways:

Attendees will learn about education for architects and developers, to enable them to design and build secure applications. They will understand what are an appropriate set of criteria for secure applications and will learn about the technical tools used in IBM to enforce these processes.
 

Tony Carrato is a Solution Architect in IBM Software Group's Industry Solutions team. He is responsible for working IBM customers, business partners and IBM Research on designing and implementing Smarter Cities solutions. Tony is a member of the Steering Committees of both the Security Forum and the SOA Work Group, as well as a member of the Cloud/SOA Security team. He is also an Open Group certified distinguished IT architect. Tony has over 30 years of IT experience, as a developer, network administrator, security architect and solution architect.

Mike Moomaw is the Chief Architect for IBM Defense Solutions and for the Smarter Cities platform architecture. Previously Mr. Moomaw managed the Federal CTO Design team and lead the Federal Technical Affinity Group for Enterprise Service Management. Before joining IBM, Mr. Moomaw was a senior member of the management team at the Application Service Provider USi with roles including Chief Technical Architect, VP of Application Operations and VP of Advanced Engineering. Mr. Moomaw also had architecture roles working with US Federal clients at Silicon Graphics and the IBM Advanced Automation System for the FAA.

Financial Services Transformation through Gamification

Jitendra Maan, Lead Architect - HiTech, Tata Consultancy Services Ltd., India

Being an emerging business practice, gamification is going to the mainstream to promote and transform financial services portfolio. With the consistent focus on customer behavior and end-user experience, there is a paradigm shift in thinking about how game design elements and frameworks revolutionize the finance domain and create an engaging, motivating experience. Business scenarios for gamification are wide spread ranging from customer service and support to finance communities and collaboration applications. Discussion would also cover the gamification best practices that can help make banking and financial services more exciting, more interesting and engaging, which in turn increases customer engagement and satisfaction.Discussion would also highlight the key differentiators on gamification approach and initiatives in the context of financial business strategies and objectives.

Key takeaways:
a. Enterprise Gamification - Key challenges, benefits
b. Implementing gamified elements i.e. mechanics and dynamics in financial applications
c. Gamification design framework and platforms for financial
d. How Gamification fits into financial business strategies

Jitendra Maan, a versatile IT professional with 17+ years of wide spectrum of experience across various domains in IT Industry and he is currently working in a leading role to drive Social Computing Center of Excellence in HiTech ISU with a focus to position Social Computing Solutions and Offerings to address customer needs. Jitendra practices technology consulting, enterprise architecture and evangelizes Social initiatives within TCS and has successfully delivered technology solutions for globally distributed clientele. Jitendra has shared thought leadership as a speaker in various international conferences/forums including WiMoA/ICCSEA, NeCoM and others. Jitendra has also published paper in various international AIRCC (Academy and Industrial Research Collaboration Center) journals and he is also a member to professional bodies like PMA (Project Management Associates), IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers). Jitendra is also certified in Project Management (CIPM) by the Project Management Associates (PMA), India and he has successfully achieved the standards of TOGAF 8 Certification program.
 

Cloud Computing: Overcoming Risks and Security Issues through better Governance

Steve Else, CEO, EA Principals, US

This presentation will feature some lessons learned from large government, quasi-government, and non-profit organizations related to rolling out enterprise cloud solutions effectively. In addition, the topic of Secure Cloud Computing will also be addressed in general and through some case studies, highlighting some best practices.

Key takeaways:

-- The U.S. government mandate for agencies to tackle Cloud initiatives is leading to valuable lessons learned about the importance of governing these initiatives from the very start in light of predictable risks -- these are shared
-- Similarly, lessons learned about more secure Cloud Computing are emerging overall and will also be shared
 

A passionate participant in EA, IT and systems engineering professional communities, Steve Else is CEO of EA Principals, a Gold Member of The Open Group. He is also the Founder and Chair of the Washington DC Chapter of the Association of Enterprise Architects, and Assistant Director of Knowledge on the Technical Operations Board of the International Council on Systems Engineering.  A former U.S. Air Force pilot and Air Force Attache in Paris, France, Steve is married and lives in Alexandria, VA.

Standards that can help

ING and the Road to Cloud Services

Corjan Bast, Global Product Manager, ITpreneurs, Netherlands; and Conor Lynch, Senior Communications Manager, ING Group, Netherlands

Cloud computing promises a more flexible "services" model for IT systems that puts the business unit at the center of the process. However, this will not happen overnight as the people, processes, and technology need to support this change program.

ING Group, the global financial organization adopted a cloud strategy, resulting in substantial savings in cost while also providing for greater control of the IT Infrastructure, newer technology, improved stability, and making the organization more agile.

During this session will look at why ING focused on "Readying the workforce", a component in the adoption phase that many organizations seem to forget. ING chose an approach whereby they skilled staff to gain an understanding of the key principles of virtualization and cloud computing ensuring that the workforce has the right skill set and competencies to be able to grasp the benefits that cloud computing provides.

Former CTO, Tony Kerrison said that "Establishment of internal cloud competences is critical to be able to successfully leverage cloud services". And that's exactly what we'll be looking at during this session.

Key takeaways:

--  Understand the impact of cloud computing on the organization and on the various roles WITHIN the organization
--  Understand the importance of preparing the workforce for cloud computing
--  How to develop internal cloud competencies

Corjan Bast is a Global Product Manager at ITpreneurs, developing the growing portfolio of Cloud training offerings that help organizations implement IT frameworks. He works with experts in organizations that drive industry-accepted best practices and collaborates with industry professionals to publish articles and deliver presentations on the latest cloud trends.

Conor Lynch is Senior Communications Manager at ING. Conor is a Communications consultant with over 16 years experience with creating and implementing successful communication campaigns for the likes of IBM, McAfee, Lenovo and Citrix and currently for ING.

End to End Security in Government Enterprises

Sreeparna Pal, TCS, India

This talk presents an overview of of End to End Security Modeling in Large Government Projects. It highlights the different phases of Security Architecture Formulation starting from Analysis of Business Environments, Global & Local scenarios and their effect on Security, the stakeholder analysis and determination of the Security Strategy keeping in view the entire ecosystem. It also highlights the complete life cycle of Security Implementation from design through implementation, testing, deployment and monitoring once the architecture is defined.

Key takeaways:

--  Impact of Business Environment & Global Scenarios on Security Strategy
--  Importance of Security in Government Enterprises
--  Complexity of Testing & Monitoring in Government Projects
--  Security Best Practices

Sreeparn Pal is an SOA Solution Architect with TCS Corporate SOA Technology Excellence Group. She has 16+ years of rich IT experience in TCS. She has worked extensively in Architecting, Solutioning & Delivery using SOA, portal and Java, J2EE in domains like Healtcare, Smart Metering, Insurance, retail & engineering. She is a Master Certified IT Architect from The Open Group and an active member of Open Group Cloud Computing Work Group.

Summary and review of workshop sessions – next steps

Big Data and Enterprise Architecture - Building New Customer Views in Banking

Rainer Gimnich, Executive IT Architect, IBM, Germany

Big Data approaches provide new business value along with new functionality on large and diverse kinds of data, often with real-time analytics speed requirements.

Big Data is used in several business areas in Banking, predominantly in building a customer-focused enterprise. Existing customer profiles can be significantly more rich and precise when, for example, internal documents and mails are analyzed and the results are added to the profile. This holds even more for external data such as documents of any kind, social media data or streamed data (e.g. market data/reports). These offer a wealth of information on existing or prospected customers. If properly and timely analyzed, they can provide significant information for
- contacting potential new customers,
- providing new, high-value services to customers (attrition),
- growing business with existing customers based on detected new needs.

Building Big Data solutions involves a set of new technologies (e.g. fast search, text analytics, entity resolution) and new management approaches, e.g high-level requirements, rich functional provisioning and more end-user initiative and exploration.

The development of a new, productive Big Data solution is typically done in an Enterprise Architecture context. Using TOGAF®, it is interesting to see how Business / Application / Data / Technology Architectures develop in a Big Data approach, and how the target solution architecture integrates with existing systems and advances the Enterprise Architecture.

Key takeaways:

-- Big Data can realize some of the "business dreams" in a company, e.g. building new kinds of customer profiles.
-- Building Big Data solutions requires a combination of new technologies and can be challenging for IT professionals.
-- Big Data solutions interact with existing systems and advance the Enterprise Architecture in new ways.
 

Rainer Gimnich is an Executive IT Architect in IBM. He is a member of the worldwide Big Data Industry team, working with clients to define relevant use cases and support Big Data solution implementations. Prior to this assignment, Rainer has worked in the IBM SOA Advanced Technologies team and run several large SOA implementation and legacy transformation projects.
 

Building Government Information Exchanges Using National Information Exchange Model (NIEM)

David Webber, Information Architect, Oracle Corporation, US

NIEM—the National Information Exchange Model—is a community-driven, government-wide, standards-based approach to exchanging information.

Government information exchanges face a raft of challenges from technical to legal; and from private internal use to open public needs. Understanding and managing this is key for success. Also knowing what technologies are being successful and how to approach building teams that can deliver rapid results. A selection of government and healthcare related examples will be presented.

Key takeaways:

--  Attendees will understand the challenges of information exchanges today and how NIEM approaches building such exchanges using XML.

--  Attendees will be informed on techniques and best practices.

"NIEM connects communities of people who share a common need to exchange information in order to advance their mission."

"Used in all 50 states and internationally, NIEM is available to everyone. It is a consistent starting point—which includes a data model, governance, training, tools, technical support services, and an active community—that assists users in adopting a standards-based approach to exchanging data.

When it matters most—protecting citizens, responding to disasters, monitoring prescription drug abuse, identifying welfare assistance eligibility, or providing support services to children and families—NIEM provides quick access to accurate, complete, and actionable information."

David Webber is an Information Architect with Oracle and a member of the NIEM NTAC (NIEM Technical Architecture Committee).

Forestry Protection Using TOGAF®

Peng Chen, Senior VP & CTO, Chengdu GKHB Computer System Co., Ltd., China

The presentation shows an interesting solution for forestry protection: TOGAF used as methodology, fire and smoke auto-recognition, panda tracking, and emergency management. Main technologies we adopted are: TOGAF, IOT, pattern recognition, data mining and data fusion based C3I.

Key takeaways:
--  TOGAF case study
--  Fire emergency and precious species protection
--  Emergency management
 

Peng Chen is a TOGAF® certified architect, Vice Chairman of AEA Chengdu, and Senior VP and CTO of GKHB. He has a Masters degree in computer science. Several papers published in technical journals. 70+ IP including 10 patents. 50+ big projects experience.

Future Technologies Panel

Moderator: Dave Lounsbury, CTO, The Open Group

The objective of this track is to identify emerging business and technical trends that will shape enterprise IT, including:

• Perspectives on what business and technology trends will impact IT and EA in the next 5-10 years
• Points of potential disruption - what will change the way we do business
• What actions should we be taking now to prepare for this future? 

Speakers will be asked to give a presentation, and participate in a panel session to discuss conclusions.

Practical Risk Quantification -- It changes things

Jack Jones, Co-founder and President, CXOWARE, Inc., US

Ready for a paradigm shift? In this session Jack will discuss the basic concepts underlying the Open Group's Risk Taxonomy Standard and how they can be used to help "cross the bridge" between security and business leadership. Be forewarned though — some aspects of this approach will challenge conventional wisdom. So bring an Open mind (pun intended) and a healthy degree of skepticism (to make it fun).

Key takeaways:

--  Familiarity with The Open Group Risk Taxonomy Standard
--  An understanding of how the Taxonomy Standard can be used to communicate information security value to business executives
--  Dispelled myths regarding risk quantification

Jack Jones is a three-time CISO, specializing in security and risk management for twenty-two years. He received the 2006 ISSA Excellence in the Field of Security Practices award, and in 2012 was honored with the CSO Compass award for leadership in risk management. Author and creator of the Factor Analysis of Information Risk (FAIR) framework.

An Enterprise Architecture Framework for Education based on TOGAF®

Education and its impartation could be viewed broadly as an extended organization with common interests in learning and developing the personalities of an important set of stakeholders ­ those who study there. Constantly supporting and improving academic and non-academic outcomes is of great importance for a robust educational system. At SNA, we recognize this and have developed a methodology based on TOGAF® called TOPAgile for Education - TAFE.

TAFE aims to provide a solid foundation for the impartation of education by bringing about greater coordination among the members of the management, stakeholders, teachers, parents and students. It provides for a way to build a robust and agile platform for addressing key challenges in the field of education and build up a strong mechanism for developing integrated and sustainable response systems for each of these challenges.

TAFE supports greater agility across educational platforms by facilitating greater access to information while maintaining data privacy and security. TAFE ensures that all respective views and viewpoints of the principal stakeholders involved around an extended educational enterprise are kept in perspective. At heart is an attempt to leverage the best from cross-industry practices for deployment of business, technology, communications architectures.

We would like to present our experiences in developing such an agile architecture in terms of :

--  Recognizable architectures in the field of education(Indian context)
--  Importance of agility in education and how EA can develop this capability
--  How EA can contribute in enhancing performance metrics referred to in the student report cards

Shammi Samson Bhandaru has wide experience in the field of consulting in Communication, IT, Advertising, Education. He has focused efforts in the last couple of years in leveraging the best practices across industry in consulting assignment on education. He is a TOGAF® 9 certified Enterprise Architect and trainer.

Suresh Done is President of SNA Technologies. He has more than 23 years of experience in IT and Engineering. Suresh is a TOGAF® 9 certified Enterprise Architect, consulting and training on Enterprise Architecture. He has worked in many industries including Automotive, Health, Telecom, Banking, Retail and Government sector. Suresh Done is also the Co-Founder and Chairman since its inception of the highly successful AEA Michigan Chapter.

Future Technologies Panel

Moderator: Dave Lounsbury, CTO, The Open Group

The objective of this track is to identify emerging business and technical trends that will shape enterprise IT, including:

• Perspectives on what business and technology trends will impact IT and EA in the next 5-10 years
• Points of potential disruption - what will change the way we do business
• What actions should we be taking now to prepare for this future? 

Speakers will be asked to give a presentation, and participate in a panel session to discuss conclusions.

Insider Threats - Persistent and Preventable

Bob West, CSO, Intelligent ID, US

Insider threats are some of the most overlooked threats and potentially the most damaging to an organization. From Wikileaks to DuPont, information leakage can cause significant financial and reputational damage. Most organizations protect themselves from external threats but have no strategic approach to addressing threats inside the organization. This presentation will delve into insider threats, the impact they have and how to address them.

Key takeaways:

In order to address insider threats, organizations must have:
1) A robust security architecture that is integrated with the organization's technology architecture
2) A comprehensive incident response process
3) Relationships with law enforcement
4) Visibility at the executive and board levels

Bob West is a frequent speaker on the subject of information security and risk, intellectual property theft, cloud computing, mobility, and on global policy issues such as payment fraud and critical infrastructure. He serves on multiple advisory boards, has served on the board of management for the Jericho Forum, is is a member of the IT Sector Coordinating Council.

Implementing a Successful EA Capability Using the TOGAF® Framework and the ArchiMate® Modeling Language - Theory, Practice, Tooling and Case Examples

Henry Franken, CEO, BizzDesign, Netherlands

A complete approach to enterprise architecture (EA) requires:
1) a method for implementing and governing the practice for constructing and using architectures.
2) a framework describing architectural viewpoints;
3) a language for architectural descriptions and communication;

The Open Group's TOGAF® 9 standard is the leading method for EA development, including a process, techniques and best practices. The Open Group's ArchiMate® standard is the leading graphical language for integrated EA modelling, describing the business, application and technology layers and their relationships. Moreover, ArchiMate provides strong features for modelling the motivation for the architecture (e.g., stakeholders, concerns, goals, principles and business requirements, etc.) and the implementation and migration planning (e.g. plateaus, gaps, workpackages, etc).

We show how TOGAF and ArchiMate provide and actionable EA capability:
--  TOGAF and ArchiMate together offer a comprehensive and complete approach to EA;
--  ArchiMate facilitates modeling the deliverables prescribed by TOGAF;
--  The ArchiMate core and its extensions cover all the aspects that TOGAF addresses.

We will demonstrate that TOGAF and ArchiMate are a perfect basis for a tool supported Enterprise Architecture practice. This will be done on the basis of a concrete example from the financial sector. The case concerns IT-legacy rationalization due to the merger of three previously independent insurance companies. The new company wanted to rationalize their IT applications portfolio, to simplify the application landscape, improve consistency and reduce maintenance costs. The demo shows elements of this case. 

Key take-aways:

-- To the point overview of TOGAF, ArchiMate, and its fitness for purpose for a tool supported Enterprise Architecture practice.
-- Example description of a transformation case in finances, the applicability of TOGAF and ArchiMate for rationalizing an IT applications portfolio

Henry Franken M.Sc. Ph.D, is CEO of BiZZdesign and chair of The ArchiMate Forum at The Open Group. Henry is a speaker at many conferences. Henry has co-authored several international journal and conference publications and Open Group whitepapers.

At BiZZdesign, Henry is also responsible for research and innovation. Alignment with and contribution to open standards are key. BiZZdesign has contributed to and edited the ArchiMate 2 specification. BiZZdesign is involved in the workgroup working towards the next version of TOGAF® and its further hand-in-pocket alignment with ArchiMate®.

BiZZdesign offers native tooling, certification training and consultancy for TOGAF® and ArchiMate®. BiZZdesign offers complete and integrated solutions (tools, methods, consultancy and training) to design and improve organizations. Business models, enterprise architecture, business requirements management and process business analysis and management are important ingredients in the solutions.
 

Platform 3.0 - How to maximize the connected cloud, social media networks, big data, mobility and the Internet of things

Mark Skilton, Director - Strategy Office, Global Infrastructure Services, Capgemini, UK

This session will take a look at how virtualization, cloud, social media, big data and mobility and embedded devices is evolving into the next era of connected devices, data, platforms and services. This is fundamental shift in the way business, customers and providers are working in sales , marketing , customer experience. Services, products and supply and sourcing issues

Businesses as a result of this change have potentially a number of issues which Platform 3.0 is seeking answers including:

--  How to prioritize the different technologies for your business usage scenario needs?

--  How to navigate between contracts and integration of suppliers to maximize benefits for all and avoid lock in and lock out?

--  How to develop the right platform strategies for your business and customers?

--  Which devices and services should you be looking at?

--  How to assess and pick the right transition and transformation path?

--  How to measure and govern the different systems and priorities?

These technologies come with different standards, capabilities and platforms. They represent a new range of potential competitive advantages for your business. New ways to market, sell, develop and compete as well as optimize your infrastructure and costs.

We explore what changes these may be driving in Enterprise Architecture and what a new initiative Platform 3.0 from The Open Group might mean from a Consumer and Provider perspective.

--  How will Enterprise Architecture need to consider multiple systems and architectures across a span of control that may include other Enterprise Architectures?

--  How do different workloads on platforms and devices need to consider integration and orchestration and an extended set of service oriented architecture capabilities?

--  How do different technologies evolve into a digital ecosystem of solutions that providers can maximize for their customers?

--  How does new innovation adoption and new technology get evaluated and brought into the platform environment?

Mark Skilton is Director for Capgemini, Strategy CTO Group, Global Infrastructure Services. His role includes strategy development, global delivery readiness and creation of Centers of Excellence. He is currently author of the Capgemini University Cloud Computing Course. Mark has published a number of articles on Cloud Computing through The Open Group including CIO.com, ZDnet.com, CloudComputingJournal.com and guests on iTunes Cloud Blogs and is co-chair of The Open Group Cloud Computing Work Group, Cloud Business Artifacts Project. He is a regular conference speaker and panel member on Cloud Computing thought leadership.

Practical Lessons Learned from Implementing "Quantitative Risk"

Marty Miracle, Chief Strategy Officer, CXOWARE, Inc., US

The speaker will provide insight into the challenge of trying to build and integrate quantitative risk programs within companies.

Key takeaways from this session will include:

1. Do your homework: FUD is dead
2. Learn the Business: Not just the org structure
3. Be a Translator: Learn the models and frameworks
4. Learn to Articulate Your Value: You never know who can use your skills

Marty K. Miracle is the Chief Strategy Officer at CXOWARE, and has established quantitative based Risk programs at many large financial services companies. As a Certified FAIR Master Practitioner, Marty is a recognized authority on quantitative risk management. Marty received his MBA in InfoSec from James Madison University.

Modeling the Business Capabilities to Data Entities

Neil Sanford, Asst Director, Sanofi, US

Working on a convergence program to optimize our business processes and IT landscape, we found that a functional architecture has been extremely helpful. It allows us to link our Business Capabilities with our Applications and Data Entities. To do this modeling we utilized the ArchiMate® modeling language. This presentation will be a shared success story we had in modeling our architecture.

Key takeaways:

--  Modeling the functional architecture.
--  Modeling the Business Capabilities and connecting them to your IT landscape.

Neil Sanford is an Enterprise Architect in the Technology & Information Management team within Sanofi's R&D Group. He has been with Sanofi over 12 years, with experience in both IT and Business development and analysis. He is currently working on completing his Master's degree in Enterprise Architecture from Penn State.

Emerging Technology Insertions and Enterprise Architecture

TJ Virdi, Senior Enterprise Architect, The Boeing Company, US

The use of emerging technologies in business solutions is driving the enterprise transformation and has disrupted traditional business and IT practices of enterprises. While still striving for the overarching goal for reducing overall cost, enterprises are under increasing pressure to deliver enterprise business solutions rapidly to achieve business agility. To take advantage of emerging technologies, enterprises must transform their business and IT practices, roles, and skills to address the desire for nimble enterprise architecture. Enterprise must have an effective strategy, guidelines, and implementation approach to protect against business disruption.

This presentation provides a pragmatic approach of using TOGAF® to enable architecture for an enterprise ecosystem that delivers modular business capabilities and highlights ways to infuse emerging technologies. Enterprise ecosystem must provide an inherent built-support to enable effective business collaborations among the participants of enterprise ecosystem.

Key takeaways:

--  Impact of emerging technologies on architecture of enterprise ecosystem
--  A pragmatic approach of using TOGAF® to enable architecture for an enterprise ecosystem

Tejpal (TJ) Virdi works for The Boeing Company as Senior Enterprise IT Architect. TJ is primarily responsible for architectural leadership, aligning vision and strategy with enterprise information systems. Prior to joining Boeing, TJ worked in Healthcare IT industry for 15.5 years in creating and managing innovative solutions. TJ is co-chair of the Open Group Cloud Computing Work Group and regular speaker at conferences. TJ holds an MBA, Bachelor of Science degree and TOGAF 9.0 certified.

TOGAF® Viewpoint on Risk Management

Michael Grahovac, IBM, US

This presentation provides an understanding of Risk Management from the Architect perspective. It is intended for Enterprise, Business, and IT Architects.

Key takeaways:
1. Explain Risk Management objectives
2. Identify Risk Management elements in terms of the TOGAF Architecture Development Method (ADM)
    --  Business Architecture
    --  Information Systems Architectures
    --  Technology Architecture
3. Identify Potential Architectural Risk Management Tools and Techniques 

Michael Grahovac is a PMI Certified Project Management Professional with MBA and expertise aligning resources, business processes, and cultures to achieve strategic objectives across organizational and international boundaries. He has a successful track record of creating innovative solutions and proposing implementation plans; managing teams, vendors, politics & technology; and building relationships to ally the principals involved. He has excellent client management skills with a keen sense for new business and follow-on revenue development; and  international business skills with experience in London, England; Jeddeh, Saudi Arabia; Sydney, Australia; and Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. He also has Fortune One core industry experience in Retail, Fortune 500 core industry experience in Professional Services, Telecommunications, HealthCare, Insurance, and Finance.
 

Aligning Solutions Architecture (UML) with ArchiMate® for Enterprise Architecture

Martin Owen, CEO, Corso, UK

Enterprises committed to aligning their process and systems investments with their business strategies work at multiple architectural levels defined by the TOGAF® standard. Enterprise architectures are used for high level direction-setting and strategic planning, while solution architectures guide the design of implementation projects. The ArchiMate visual modeling language standard is a natural choice for enterprise architectures, since it supports representations that span the business, information systems and technology domains. For solution architectures, the Unified Modeling Language (UML), a standard of the Object Management Group, provides a wide range of views, concepts and relationships. For efficient and precise alignment between the enterprise and solution architectures, ArchiMate and UML integration is necessary. As architects evolve an enterprise architecture iteratively, this integration ensures a smooth transition of architecture models between ArchiMate and UML.

In this presentation, we discuss aligning ArchiMate for enterprise architectures and UML for IT solution architectures. In addition, we explore several other integration approaches for the benefit of enterprise and solution architects and the analysts, designers and developers that must consume their work.

Key takeaways:

--  How to align enterprise and solution architectures using ArchiMate and UML
--  Various integration approaches for the benefit of enterprise and solution architects.
 

Martin Owen has spent over 20 years in Enterprise Architecture and is a co-author of the original Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) standard. Martin has run teams driving the product directions, strategies and roadmaps for the Enterprise Architecture tools at IBM including Rational System Architect and Rational Asset Manager.

Big Data and Its Role in Information Management

Stephen G. Bennett, Executive Principal, Oracle, US

Big Data is a term applied to data sets whose size, structure, and acquisition speed is beyond the capability of conventional software tools used for capturing, ingesting, managing, and processing data. Combined with the complexity of analysis and commercial imperative to create value from it, Big Data has led to a new generation of technologies, tools, and architectures.

This session will cover the architecture of a Big Data initiative not as a standalone project but as a new and integral part of an overall information management architecture including Master Data Management (MDM), Data Warehousing (DW), and Information as a Service.

Key takeaways:

--  Big Data is not a silo-ed initiative
--  Big Data is part of an overall business analytics discipline
--  Big Data is a new and integral part of IM
 

Stephen G. Bennett is a 28-year experienced technologist focused on providing thought leadership, best practices, and architecture guidance around SOA, Information Management, and Cloud Computing.

Stephen is an Open Group board member, a published author and has spoken at several conferences. He has co-chaired a number of working groups including SOA Governance and TOGAF®.

He has delivered technology management and enterprise architecture consulting to many enterprise customers. Before becoming a consultant, Stephen was involved in delivering enterprise-wide mission critical systems within the investment banking industry.

Invisible & Negative Stakeholders

Dave Hornford, Principal Consultant, Conexiam, Canada

Limiting stakeholders to the visible, the supportive and those whose power you want to use is common. So are failed architecture projects. Effective enterprise architecture requires real stakeholders are identified and their real concerns are addressed. Even if they are hostile or indifferent. Business transformation, especially in Finance and Government, is filled with invisible, hostile & indifferent stakeholders ­ lets explore how we found and addressed them.

Key takeaways:
1 - spotting invisible & hostile stakeholders
2 - crafting an architecture that addresses the real set or real requirements
3 - when to wear body armour to meetings

Dave Hornford is a practicing enterprise architect - he focuses on assisting his clients develop their EA capability. Dave is a partner in Conexiam, which delivers EA and EA roadmaps, leads strategy-driven transformation projects and enhances clients' in-house EA capability. Dave is active in The Open Group, currently Chair of the Architecture Forum and co-chair of TOGAF® next release project.

Workshop: Big Data -- Impact and Survey on Architecture and Business

Kapil Bakshi, Senior Architect, Cisco Systems Inc., US

 Big Data refers to when data sets get so large and varied that traditional techniques of analytic just do not apply. This session will review the motivation for the study of Big Data and insertion into the third Platform. Including Definition, Taxonomy, Attributes, Use cases, Case study, technology Landscape and current standards. Also implication on current Enterprises and Business Value. This will be an interactive session to discussion impaction of large Data set and analytic on member base.

Key takeaways:

--  Attendees will be able to understand the basicsand underpinnings of Big Data, with a review Technology Tools for large Dataset technologies.

--  Attendees will also learn how to leverage Big Data architectures in their Enterprises.
 

Kapil Bakshi works for Cisco Public Sector, leading and setting strategic direction of solution spaces like Big Data, cloud computing and enterprise architecture. Kapil Bakshi is a native of the Washington, D.C., area, and holds bachelor's degrees in electrical engineering and computer science from the University of Maryland, College Park; a master's degree in computer engineering from Johns Hopkins University and an MBA from the University of Maryland, College Park. Bakshi has held several positions within the IT industry, including at Cisco, Sun Microsystems and Hewlett-Packard.

Reasoning for Architects

Miha Kralj, Senior Director, Microsoft Corporation, US

Translating business intent into technology solutions is a complex cluster of cognitive activities expected from an architect. To perform valid and traceable requirements analysis, architects need to be strong in logical conclusions and critical thinking. Without strong reasoning skills, architects often revert to marketectures or leaps of faith where technical recommendations are stated without explicitly traceable logical chain.

This session will show best practices in premises examination, facts validation, checking for logical fallacies and packaging/presenting the conclusions or outcomes.

Key takeaways:

--  Understand reasoning process
--  Improve logical conclusions of proposed ideas

Miha Kralj is a Senior Director in the Enterprise Strategy and Architecture unit, leading strategy, architecture & planning consulting within Microsoft Services. With broad skills and competencies in planning, designing and supporting complex IT solutions, he is establishing offerings that deliver superior returns on information technology investments. As a board certified Distinguished IT Architect, Miha focuses on architectural and technical leadership, with a particular emphasis on their transformative power when applied on the global scale. With Microsoft since 1998, Miha gathered his experience across various countries in Central and Western Europe, New Zealand, Australia, South-East Asia and Americas. He currently resides in Redmond, WA, where he enjoys the gloomy and cold weather of the US Pacific Northwest.
 

Break Free of Data Clutter

Penelope Gordon, Co-founder and Chief Strategist, 1Plug Corporation, US

The rise of social media (the Too-Much-Information-Age) coincident with easy access to cloud storage is creating a data morass which is slowly drowning companies and individuals. The demise of the Storage Specialist and the rise of cloud-enabled data collection and analysis is exacerbating the deluge. Timely and relevant data analysis helps ensure good decisions; promiscuous processing of all incoming data (indiscriminately collected) helps ensure analysis paralysis. This session will explain breaking free of this data swamp by adapting physical organization techniques and best practices for archiving physical data to the exigencies of the data lifecycle. Less data clutter results in improved decision outcomes since decisions are based on a better balance of quantitative and qualitative analyses and intuition; disruptive innovation - and the long-term financial sustainability that it promises - is stymied by an over-reliance on quantitative analysis. In addition to a more sustainable data lifecycle, individuals no longer have virtual folders of emails and links saved "for later" generating guilt and anxiety and inhibiting productivity.

Key takeaways:

--  Reduce data clutter to ensure good decision-making, improve decision outcomes, and to increase the sustainability of the data lifecycle

--  Better balance quantitative analysis, intuition, and qualitative analysis and remove inhibitors to disruptive innovation

--  Improve personal productivity

Penelope Gordon specializes in emerging technology (including cloud) adoption strategies and portfolio management of early stage innovation. While with IBM, she led innovation, strategy, and product development efforts for all of IBM's product and service divisions and helped to design, implement, and manage one of the world's first public
clouds.

Business Architect: Critical Role for Enterprise Transformation

Harry Hendrickx, CTO / Enterprise (Business) Architect, HP, Netherlands

The recent wave of innovations forces organizations to transform. Current business models easily become irrelevant, unresponsive and unready. However, successful change is difficult. In literature failure rates of change efforts of over 70% have been shown. This article contends that business architecture practice can contribute substantially to increase the success rate of enterprise transformations. Two reasons for this. First it provides traceability between strategy and an actionable plan through a stable and controlled set of indispensable concepts. Thus it contributes to the weakest area in transformations: strategy implementation. Second it provides rigor in defining what the right work / right way is, by which it enables purposeful, intentional, consistent communication of an organization's busisisiness model over time by which it resolves s a big challenge in enterprise transformations: alignment of the transformation need, internal context and transformation approach. This article summarizes the major challenges in enterprise transformation, discusses the evolution and desired state of business architecture practice and finally it shows how that practice contributes to resolving those challenges.

Key takeaways:

--  Business architecture practice is proposed to use a controlled or standardized language.

--  The experience gained with this approach has demonstrated that the conceptualized role of the business architect is not only a critical role in enterprise transformation, but is also critical in business technology governance processes.

--  Business architecture is most effective if embedded as a continuous role contributing to business planning, IT portfolio Management, Enterprise Architecture Development.

Harry Hendrickx is a recognized expert in the strategic planning of large enterprise transformations and governance. During his 26 years in the IT industry, Harry has held leadership roles focused on IT technology adoption, aligning IT with business operations, and business architecture and standardization. He is the author of articles and books on these topics and has presented his work at many international conferences. Harry has a Masters in Economics and a PhD from Tilburg University.
 

Building blocks of Cloud Interactive Ecosystem Language

Vladimir Baranek, Co-Chair of CIEL Project / Deloitte Consulting, US

This Presentation is focused on detail description of building blocks and associated hierarchy of symbols developed for Cloud Interactive Ecosystem Language (CIEL) aligned with Glossary proposed in new whitepaper for CIEL. Introduction is further extended to short definition of Infosymbolism as a semantic based, pattern oriented symbol sets, extending CIEL by pattern classes and symbols preference attributes.Key takeaways:

--  Fundamental understanding of CIEL layers and building elements
--  Recognition of Abstration points as Semantic based symbols encapsulated in Infosymbolism

Vladimir Baranek is a technology evangelist with more than 23 years of experience leading global professional services, consulting, and delivery organizations. He focuses on transformational change through translation of organization objectives into actionable plans. Results-oriented focus on organizational and operational efficiency and effectiveness to deliver bottom-line measurable results. As a customer engagement change advocate, Vladimir approaches transformation through technology sourcing, cloud computing, global shared services, enterprise systems, and optimization of IT as a Service as a result of infrastructure virtualization, application modernization, and reshaping end-user computing. Vladimir's extensive global experience includes work in 22 countries with projects spanning all over the world.