Enterprise Architecture - Recent Threads

How to remove users from JAZZ Team Server.

Madhu — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 08:35:01 GMT

There are many users who are registered in JTS , and we need to delete the users from JTS who don't need access anymore.

We were able to archive the user, but could not find the option to delete.

Can you please suggest the ways to delete the user?

Webinar recording: Developing an Enterprise Architecture Practice using IBM Rational System Architect and TOGAF 9

Sam Courtney — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 13:48:34 GMT

This webinar recording offers a possible option to use System Architect and TOGAF 9 to help establish an EA practice within an organization. Approximately 55 minutes long.

https://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/iwm/web/signup.do?source=dw-c-wcsdpr&S_PKG=500029779

APG TOGAF 9 and 8 to 9 Bridge WBT year end discount of 25%!

Sam Courtney — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 14:38:47 GMT

Add TOGAF® 9 certification now to your architect toolkit! Also, upgrade your TOGAF® 8 certification to TOGAF® 9, before it’s too late. The Bridge exam will expire on October 31, 2013 so if you need to take that, now is the time to get started. If you miss the Bridge exam, you will have to take the full exam to get your TOGAF 9 certification.

Receive 25% discount on APG TOGAF 9 Certification Training Web-Based Tutorials:
This offer is extended to anyone until 12/31/2012 using our preferred promotion code “APG-2012-DEC” to receive a 25% discount on student tuition and 20% discount on TOGAF 9 certification exam vouchers.

Save $400 and pay only $1,295 per person for 4 days of world-class enterprise architecture training and become TOGAF 9 Certified! This price includes full training course content and voucher required to take The Open Group certification exam. The Bridge training cost including the exam voucher is discounted to $765 using the same discount promo code.

Want to test drive APG’s TOGAF training? Access APG’s Introduction to Enterprise Architecture web-based
training (WBT) right now. Absolutely free! Sign up at www.aprocessgroup.com/free-ea-training.

Email APG Sales at sales@aprocessgroup.com for
more information, or call toll-free: 1.800.787.4028 x23
(+1.651.204.9282 for international callers).

A Corso success story with IBM!

Giles Hearn — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 10:52:51 GMT

"IBM had a low maturity for leveraging reference architectures and was really struggling with increasing maintenance/dev costs and troubled projects. With the assistance of Corso, we were able to identify where significant cost savings could be made in the testing cycle. Consistency in deliverables, documentation, language, and solution method now positions IBM to better identify defects and delivery risks.

Enterprise architects can now work much more productively with management teams, because we’re all speaking the same language.

In one project, the ability to re-use just one architecture diagram saved approximately $80,000 on solution design by eliminating about 90 days of work.

The Corso plugins have really changed the game for us by building on the existing strengths of IBM Rational System Architect."

Read the full case study here or http://www.corso3.com/customer-success/

Roadmapping with IBM Rational System Architect and ArchiMate

Giles Hearn — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 13:37:10 GMT

Want to learn about an EA tool with real roadmapping capabilities? Please join Corso's new webinar, "Roadmapping with IBM Rational System Architect and ArchiMate®"

We will be demonstrating our new add-on, which provides:

Plateau and Gap Analysis
Milestone and Status Views
Heatmapping and Time-based Analytics

Only a few places left so register now!

https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/7651185107162653184

IBM Employees - TOGAF 9 Certification Online Training information

Sam Courtney — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 16:07:48 GMT

IBM has an internal course offering for all employees who wish to get certified in TOGAF 9. This course is offered through the IBM learning system called Talent@IBM (use to be called Learning@IBM).

IBM courses use the following codes:

KL14510G - TOGAF 9 Certification Online Training (Level 1 & 2 Combined) (For new certification)

KL14511G – TOGAF 9 Bridge Online Training (for TOGAF 8 certification holders)

Just as an FYI, the TOGAF 8-9 Advanced Bridge exam will be retired on October 31, 2013, so if you need to take that, now is the time to get started. If you miss the Bridge exam, you will have to take the full exam to achieve TOGAF 9 certification.

Open Group information on TOGAF 9 certification:

http://www.opengroup.org/togaf9/cert/docs/indiv.tpl

Please contact Sam Courtney if you need further details!

System Architect 11.4.2.2 update released today

Giles Hearn — Fri, 21 Dec 2012 08:53:03 GMT

System Architect 11.4.2.2 released today

System Architect, the market leading Enterprise Architecture tool from IBM, has been updated today. The new version is 11.4.2.2

This is a service pack for 11.4.2 and contains the following:

DoDAF 2.0 enhancements

Enhanced relationships between matrices so more than one relationship is supported
New CV-01 Blueprint diagram provides a new capability view
New DoDAF 2 explorer relationship reports

NAF enhancements

New NAF explorer relationship reports
Enhanced relationships between matrices so more than one relationship is supported

MODAF enhancements

Enhanced relationships between matrices so more than one relationship is supported

This release also includes a series of defect fixes.

For more details, and to download the installers, go to
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg24034108

Best Regards
CORSO

The Open Group, Newport Beach 2013 - Early Bird ends on January 4th.

Giles Hearn — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 13:11:42 GMT

The Open Group, Newport Beach 2013 | Early-bird ends on January 4th!

Balboa Bay Club, Newport Beach, CA, US
January 28-31, 2013
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Big Data – The Transformation We Need To Embrace Today

♦ Contending with Big Data within your Enterprise
♦ How does Big Data enable your Business Architecture?
♦ What does the Big Data revolution mean for the Enterprise Architect?
♦ Real-time analysis of Big Data in the Cloud
♦ Security challenges in the world of outsourced data.
♦ Architectural view of Security for the Cloud.

Information
http://www.opengroup.org/newportbeach2013

Program
http://www.opengroup.org/events/timetable/1252

Venue and transport
http://www.opengroup.org/event/open-group-newport-beach-2013/venue-transport

URL to LinkedIN
http://www.linkedin.com/groups/ArchiMate-50758

System Architect Success Story: Nationwide cuts project costs by 20 to 30 percent

Sam Courtney — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 18:11:12 GMT

An enterprise architecture repository based on IBM Rational software improves access to information

Business need:
Nationwide wanted to create an enterprise architecture repository that would improve the consistency, completeness and availability of IT information used in impact analyses.

Solution:
The company worked with IBM Advanced Business Partner Armstrong Process Group, Inc. (APG) to create an enterprise architecture repository using IBM® Rational® System Architect software.

Benefits:
Nationwide has reduced the amount of time required for impact assessment from three months to less than one month. Cost estimating, which in the past required an entire month, now takes just one day.

http://www-01.ibm.com/software/success/cssdb.nsf/CS/RNAE-8Z4R23?OpenDocument&Site=corp&cty=en_us

Gartner Inc., EA Tools report, 2012: IBM Rational viewed as a business winner in Leader quadrant!

Sam Courtney — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 17:45:05 GMT

Gartner Inc. -- one of the software industry’s leading analyst firms -- has endorsed our enterprise architecture (EA) tools strategy, centered on the Rational System Architect family.

According to Gartner:

Rational System Architect suite is “a robust, feature-rich, mature product with rich configurability to meet user requirements”
As a tool targeting senior executive users, Rational Focal Point is a product and portfolio management tool that complements System Architect

http://www.gartner.com/technology/reprints.do?id=1-1CVXD3X&ct=121119&st=sb

Simulator

Steve T — Wed, 29 Aug 2012 10:03:05 GMT

I'm interested to know if anyone has used Simulator and if so, what does it do for you?

I'm puzzled to what use it has to be honest...

Cheers,
Steve T

Discover what's new in System Architect 11.4.2

Sam Courtney — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 22:46:54 GMT

System Architect, the market leading Enterprise Architecture tool from IBM, now has improved integrations, extra capabilities and a new ArchiMate 2.0 extension, plus:

TOGAF 9.0 enhancements
Updated Business Motivation Model (BMM)
Improved OSLC Workflows and Rich Hovers
Improved Workspace Merge

http://corso3.web12.hubspot.com/discover-whats-new-in-system-architect-1142/?goback=.gmp_2266144.gde_2266144_member_143155645

Webinar recording from Open Group - Using TOGAF to Deliver DoDAF 2 Capabilities

Sam Courtney — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 20:32:49 GMT

This webinar will discuss how to use TOGAF Architecture Development Method (ADM) to drive the development and use of DoDAF 2 architectures for delivering new mission/program capabilities.

http://new.livestream.com/opengroup/DoDAF12/videos/1978996

Open Group Advanced DoDAF 2.0 webinar - July 26th

Sam Courtney — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 15:42:28 GMT

Part 3 of a three-part series, this webinar will look at
• Tool interoperability and Physical Exchange Specification (PES)
• Unified Profile for DoDAF and MODAF (UPDM)
• Driving systems engineering with SysML and related methods
• Driving solution delivery with UML and related methods

https://opengroupevents.webex.com/ec0606l/eventcenter/enroll/join.do?confViewID=1002691082&theAction=detail&confId=1002691082&path=program_detail&siteurl=opengroupevents

Article link - Here's how to better leverage TOGAF to deliver DoDAF capabilities and benefits

Sam Courtney — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 22:50:12 GMT

In today’s environment of competing priorities and constrained resources, companies and government agencies are in even greater need to understand how to balance those priorities, leverage existing investments and align their critical resources to realize their business strategy. Sound appealing?

It turns out that this is the fundamental goal of establishing an Enterprise Architecture (EA) capability. In fact, we have seen some of our clients position EA as the Enterprise Decision Support capability – that is, providing an architecture-grounded, fact-based approach to making business and IT decisions.

http://www.sys-con.com/node/2313426

Great article on DoD future efforts for EA

Sam Courtney — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 22:46:23 GMT

DoD Gearing Up for the Cloud, Mobility

The Department of Defense is on the cusp of several major technology initiatives designed to bring its infrastructure into the 21st century. As you would expect, the cloud is poised to play a major role in this process. DoD recently issued a broad outline of its plans, which seems to shift the focus away from data center- and enterprise-centric development and deployment toward one that stressed agility, cost-reduction and the needs of stakeholders.

http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/cole/dod-gearing-up-for-the-cloud-mobility/?cs=50801

Open Group Webinar (Monday, June 25th) - TOGAF® Architecture Change Management: Migrating from DoDAF 1.5 to DoDAF 2.0

Sam Courtney — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 14:23:53 GMT

Title: TOGAF® Architecture Change Management: Migrating from DoDAF 1.5 to DoDAF 2.0
Cost: Free
Date: 25 June, 2012
Time: 17:00 GMT Summer Time; 12:00pm Eastern Daylight Time; 11:00am Central Daylight Time; 9:00am Pacific Daylight Time
Description: This session will include:
- A review of TOGAF ADM Phase G: Architecture Change Management
- Capability-driven architectures
- DoDAF 2.0 Metamodel (DM2)
- Architecture partitioning
- Architecture viewpoints
- Mapping from DoDAF 1.5
- Viewpoints and “Fit for Purpose”

System Architect approved for TOGAF(R) 9 Open Group Tool certification

Sam Courtney — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 14:14:03 GMT

See below link for listing that includes the Open Group TOGAF 9 tool certification - System Architect has just been added to this list.

APG also offers a course that supports use of the TOGAF 9 framework using System Architect:

http://www.aprocessgroup.com/training/course_01_0618.asp

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We are pleased to announce another product certified within the TOGAF® 9 Tool certification program, bring the current total to 4 certified products

http://www.opengroup.org/certifications/togaf9-program/ts-register

What EA Framework do you use and why did you choose it?

Sam Courtney — Fri, 04 May 2012 22:36:19 GMT

To help kick off this forum, I was wondering what framework you are using and why you chose it. This would include such structures as DoDAF, TOGAF, Zachman, FEAF, PEAF, NASCIO, Gartner, etc.

Please include a brief description of your domain with your answer and any other basic details to help others understand your criteria for choosing the framework you have implemented around. If you do not use a framework, please reply with that as well and reasons why you have not or when you plan to choose one.

Thanks - Sam

Penn State's online Enterprise Architecture (EA) programs

Sam Courtney — Thu, 24 May 2012 22:41:12 GMT

Graduate Programs in Enterprise Architecture

Enterprise architects are responsible for translating a business’ vision and strategy into effective operational planning. Earning your master’s degree or a graduate certificate in Penn State’s enterprise architecture programs can help you gain the skills you need to navigate the challenges today’s organizations face.

In these online EA programs, you'll learn from Penn State College of Information Sciences and Technology faculty with corporate experience, and your coursework will focus on more than just the technocentric side of enterprise architecture. Courses in the EA program cover an array of disciplines, including business and engineering, information sciences, and project management, to give you a broader, more comprehensive framework of knowledge.

http://www.worldcampus.psu.edu/enterprise-architecture-graduate-programs?cm_mmc=ENTERPRISE+ARCH+11-12-_-Dice.com-_-Email:Paid-_-DiceEmailLandingPageLink+%28DIC40643%29

EA Forum introduction

Sam Courtney — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 19:38:38 GMT

This forum is designed to cover the EA solutions offered by Rational which would include System Architect, Focal Point and Asset Manager. If you feel additional products should be added to the list plz note them here and we will address those requests. You can also post requests here for other solutions that involve integrations of products such as Application Portfolio Management or Strategic Planning.

Article by John Zachman

Sam Courtney — Fri, 18 May 2012 15:52:34 GMT

Cloud Computing and Enterprise Architecture

http://www.zachman.com/ea-articles-reference/55-cloud-computing-and-enterprise-architecture-by-john-a-zachman