After the enterprise architecture overview in the previous presentation, the presentation I am currently attending focuses on IDS Scheer's approach to enterprise architecture management.
The presentation is given by Dirk Maurer, who is responsible for IDS Scheer’s enterprise architecture management solution. He starts off the session with characterising the current state in many companies. He says that many different tools are used for the various aspects of planning, building, and implementing an enterprise architecture. However, today the tools are not integrated nor do they share a common meta model. This makes it not just hard to exchange data between the different tools, but it hinders business and IT experts to work together efficiently.
This problem is well known as the business-IT divided. Many enterprise architecture frameworks like Zachman, TOGAF, and ArchiMate exist trying to bridge the business-IT divide. ARIS supports those enterprise architecture frameworks by providing a method to represent the different viewpoints and abstraction levels defined by them. This helps users to jump start their enterprise architecture effort, because they do not have to define on their own how to actually implement an enterprise architecture framework like Zachman, TOGAF, and ArchiMate. Dirk points out that this reduces the efforts needed for EA governance and that customers value this integrated approach.
Dirk goes on in his presentation discussing IT architecture management and the different tasks involved. Based on that he shows how the new version of ARIS IT Architect supports the different tasks. For example, if a new IT system must be developed, requirements must be extracted from the different stakeholders. ARIS allows modelling requirements in a visual manner and to link requirements to other objects in the ARIS business modelling repository. This includes linking requirements to company objectives, data objects, risks, capabilities, systems, business services, and key performance indicators (KPI).
Dirk also shows new functionalities for analysing key performance indicators (KPI). In addition, requirements can be grouped into projects, which can be related to programs and measures. Even though ARIS is not a project management tool, it allows planning projects by modelling the overall project plan in a time-line.
There are many more new or improved features in ARIS IT Architect like IT portfolio management. This solution is already deployed at Volkswagen/Audi. Dirk summarises quickly the solution deployed there. After lunch, there will be a dedicated presentation where Volkswagen/Audi shares their experiences with ARIS IT portfolio management.
Dirk also mentions the integration with BMC. BMC provides a comprehensive software solution for IT operation management like monitoring running IT systems and incident management. Probably Dirk could go on for another hour talking about the ARIS solution for enterprise architecture management. However, as time is up the session ends and participants are now having lunch.
Dear Stein,
My question is , enterprise architecture management include governance, if there is no EA governance in a company, its EA should fail despite how nice the framework is. it is difficult to fulfilled by architecture tools, did ARIS can do this and do this in practice and real customers?
Hi Samsonren,
you are absolutely right here: A tool like ARIS can only support you in doing EA governance, but EA governance is first of all the task of management. So if you don’t put measures for EA governance in place, the best tool and framework will not be able to support you. However, a tool like ARIS can support you in establishing EA governance. For example, it can provide the necessary data to the involved stakeholders like having an overview of the IT landscape. Also, currently IDS is working on a general governance engine, which will help you to describe governance processes for your modelling artefacts. For example, in case a new model of your IT landscape must be approved, the governance engine will route it to the responsible manager and ask for approval.
Mon, 11/17/2008 - 21:37
Dear Rahab,
The 4-phased AVE procedural model is in fact a meta model.http://www.ids-scheer.com/ave.
This means, you can only apply AVE by its usage in a specific scenario, which we call ARIS Solution Scenarios, such as Business Process Transformation (http://www.ids-scheer.com/en/ARIS/ARIS_Solutions/Enterprise_BPM_Scenario/45470.html) or Process-Driven Business Intelligence (http://www.ids-scheer.com/en/ARIS/ARIS_Solutions/Process_Intelligence__Performance_Management_Scenario/7722.html).
From that perspective some Expert papers might help you to better understand AVE when seeing how our ARIS Solutions build their roadmap and deliverables by applies the AVE concept and principles:
http://www.ids-scheer.com/en/ARIS/ARIS_Software/ARIS_Expert_Paper_Library/5527.html
Hope this helps.
Cheers
Rune
Hi
From Bahram Najedy
If it's possible please guide me how can i take some info about ARIS Value Engineering in DETAIL
i tried to download Agility Book about AVE but aufortunatly i couldn't get more detail about it.here at now i'm working BPM for IKCO company
PLEASE GUIDE ME
best regards
Tue, 08/11/2009 - 10:32
Dear Bahram,
I appreciate your hunger for ARIS Value Engineering.
But the book you are referring to wouldn't provide with details about ARIS Value Engineering (AVE). It contains a bunch of articles where AVE could be applied and which customers achieved success using it.
You probably have read on our web site that AVE is a reference model of IDS Scheer, which we apply in our projects. But the downside is, that we don't sell that knowledge, because it is one of our most valuable assets.
So my suggestion for you is to either join IDS Scheer, as BPM consultant you are very welcome. Or let's work jointly in a project, so that you gain that know-how you are seeking for in the daily project work.
Cheers
Rune
Sebastian:
Thank you for the update.
"Dirk also shows new functionalities for analysing key performance indicators (KPI). In addition, requirements can be grouped into projects, which can be related to programs and measures. Even though ARIS is not a project management tool, it allows planning projects by modelling the overall project plan in a time-line."
Does this imply KPIs analysis can be done inside IT Architect now? Which version is this feature available in? How I can invoke this functionality within IT Architect?
I'm also interested in learning more about the requirement bundling and project timeline modeling capabilities (other than the project schedule model).
Thanks.
