EA Landscape in South Africa

Wynand VorsterProduct ManagerFriday, October 30, 2009

Agenda

•Survey Overview and introduction •EA Survey objectives•EA Survey results•Q&A

IMPACT ANALYSIS & AGILE BUSINESS

Sun Tzu notes, superior commanders succeed in situations where ordinary people fail because they obtain more timely information and use it more quickly.

The Art of War for ExecutivesDonald G. Krause

GARTNER ON METADATA MANAGEMENT

• Top 10 Priorities for CIO’s in 2008 forward from Gartner– Green IT– Unified Communication– Business Process Modeling– Metadata Management– Virtualization 2.0– …

What did we focus on ?

• Business Agility and IT Alignment– Impact Analysis reduces time, cost and risk– Change Management eases implementation

• Regulatory Compliance– MiFD, SOX, Basel II demand consistent standards– Traceability reports provide insurance

Ensure all holes are found/covered Reduces impact of an audit

• Foundation for SOA– Depends on consistent integration– Repository of Assets aligned to Process

What do we understand ?

• What do we Know?– Business Goals and Strategy– Requirements and Use Cases– Business Process Modeling and Process Orchestration– Information Architecture (Data and Databases)– Application Architecture (Business Logic)– Technology Architecture (Infrastructure)

• EA= Bringing it all together

Sybase EA Survey Results

Survey ResultsQuestion: Who here completed the Survey ?

Survey Results - Initiatives

•Sporadic Adoption•Revived programs

• No initiatives ? •Lack of urgency

•Dodo Birds in the mix ?•Adapt of die

Survey Results - Industry

Survey Results - Roles

•Roles•Variety of roles

•EA Focus per role•Architects / CXO

•High level buy-in

Survey Results - Geography•Geographic Spread

•Focused on Gauteng•Importance of Geographic spread• Organization Maturity

Survey Results – Value of EA

Survey Results - FrameworksQuestion: Who uses which framework ?

Survey Results - Tools

Question: Are EA Tools necessary from implementing a successful EA strategy ?

Survey Results – Documenting and Impact analysis

•Not important ?•Why not ?

EA Forum Survey – Feedback / Q&A

• EA Forum Survey– Level of EA Adoption is high– More organizations at a level of maturity than expected– Still a large amount of organizations that are “confused “ by EA.

• What additional information would you like to see ? – Questions ?– Annual Survey

"Survival is ultimately dependent on the ability to change and evolve". These days it is put a little more succinctly. "Adapt or die“ – Charles Darwin

Survey Results – EA Forum