Enterprise Architecture
Become a high-performance organization.
TIME TO VALUE
Our EA management solution empowers your project teams to ramp up, roll out and reach your goals faster. The solution goes far beyond products to give you not only the technology—but also the methodologies to jump start your initiative, no matter how large or small. You get analyst-recognized products along with the knowledge and best practices that have been utilized by our consulting teams for many years. Enhance the solution even more by adding Industry.PerformanceREADY best-practice processes, content and frameworks to expedite your industry-specific goals.
PRIME METHODOLOGIES
Starting an important initiative may feel like a daunting task unless you have done it many times before. That is exactly the benefit of our Prime methodologies. You benefit from the best practices and methodologies time-tested by your peers in thousands of similar initiatives.
Prime (Process Improvement Methodology) is a process-driven methodology for implementing best practice solutions. Based on long-term consulting experience, industry expertise and Business Process Excellence best practices, Prime consists of an implementation and deployment process for the entire business solution and project life cycle. An inventory of assets, including best practices, guidelines, tools and templates, enables you to execute detailed project steps and generate predefined deliverables.
Prime for EA provides a management practice and governance model as well as the baseline architecture for all architecture domains. You also gain a way to facilitate the integration of EA management and project management. Definitions of architecture standards and methodologies are based on ARIS best practices. Industry standards, such as TOGAF, DoDAF, NAF and Archimate, are supported as well. Strategic application and technology portfolio management is a core focus along with the alignment of program and projects with your organization’s strategy and objective.
Key assets include:
- An EA use-case template to describe how EA management is used with ARIS and other solutions to support a specific business case or solve an identified issue
- Application evaluation reports, which provide templates for requirements and data gathering at project start
- A report on project risk evaluation/target architecture, which acts as a template to define tasks and project outcomes
INDUSTRY.PERFORMANCE READY
Build your solution faster and at a less cost with optional Industry.PerformanceREADY. These ready-to-use best-practice processes and frameworks—based on 20+ years of industry experience—enable you to get value faster from your solution.
Predesigned processes and architectures: Industry.PerformanceREADY ships with an industry reference model in ARIS based on best practices for specific industry and cross-industry processes, such as Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Supply Chain Management (SCM), human resources, finance and real estate. Reference models are in many languages and cover more than 30 industries.
Best-practice Key Performance Indicators (KPIs): Predefined KPIs and process monitoring parameters allow you to focus on delivering real and measurable business value for each project. Industry.PerformanceREADY ships with 1,500 KPIs from all process areas. Solution-specific ROI calculators identify time-to-value before a project starts. Benchmark data is available from our partner, APQC.
Predesigned data objects and forms: Streamline your Master Data Management (MDM) projects with Industry.PerformanceREADY that ships with a full range of data objects. Predefined forms help reduce time and effort in scoping and implementation.
