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EAS are delighted to announce that they are working with The Leading Edge Forum to study 'The Role of Architecture in the Co-evolution of Business and IT'. This study seeks to determine the extent to which organisations today are making use of Business and IT Architectures to guide their operational, tactical and strategic decision-making and will make recommendations on good practice in this increasing critical area. The report is due August 2008. For more information about this project or to participate in the research, see the LEF website at http://lef.csc.com/architecture/
 

EAS are pleased to announce that our latest article, "Architecture Planning", has been published in Volume 4, Issue 1 of Architecture & Governance Magazine.

John Mayall explains what an Architecture Plan is and its importance in ensuring that Enterprise Architecture adds value to your organisation.

Architecture&Governance magazine:

EAS have an article published in the September 2007 edition of Conspectus magazine - Enterprise Integration, SOA and Web Services.

In this, Jason Powell looks at what the right approach should be for introducing SOA into an organisation.

Conspectus:

In conjunction with Schroders, EAS will be presenting the ‘Effective use of EA in Project Delivery’. EAS are providing Enterprise Architecture (EA) support to Schroders, who are in the process of delivering one of the major projects currently under way in the City - replacing a legacy portfolio accounting system. The EA effort is a core element of Schroders’ overall change programme but is also seen as a vital support capability for the successful delivery of this business-critical project. As such, EAS and Schroders have adopted a very dynamic approach, with the focus on supporting projects whilst also meeting the wider strategic EA needs of the organisation.

EAS's Jason Powell explains how Enterprise Architecture  (EA) can play a key role in the adoption of SOA.  Similarly, if an EA capability doesn't already exist, an SOA initiative is the ideal opportunity to build one.

Evaluation Centre Abstract:

"Organisations must view SOA as a strategic, enterprise-wide, joint initiative between business and IT if they want to achieve benefits, says Jason Powell of Enterprise Architecture Solutions, in our EAI Centre."

EAS's Jonathan Carter presented 'The Role of SOA in Enterprise Data Integration' at the DAMA conference in London on 8th November; part of the Data Management and Information Quality Conferences.

Conference Abstract:

"For any large organization a 'top-down', enterprise view of information is essential for managing the data that is inevitably shared across diverse systems. However, in practice this has proved difficult as the multiple views of data are often specific to the technology with which the data is managed, e.g. RDBMS, XML Schema. The concept of the Service provides an approach to regain a single view by separating the 'what' (Information) from the “how” (Technology)."

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