 EAS are pleased to announce that their latest article, 'Calling All SME's Who Need Help Understanding their Business Assets' is published in this week's issue of IT Business Edge. In this article Sarah Smith discusses the issues faced by many CIO's in SME's; namely that they are unable to easily and effectively understand and use the information that exists in disparate systems in their organisation as they often don't have the tools and processes in place, due to the prohibitive cost, and options for addressing these issues.
Read 'Calling All SME's Who Need Help Understanding their Business Assets' by Sarah Smith at IT Business Edge Guest Opinions
 Jonathan Carter and Jason Powell will be speaking at this year's Integrated EA Conference on 9th and 10th March. The Integrated EA Conference is aimed at professional Enterprise Architects, Systems Engineers, CTO's and CIO's with specialist interest in Enterprise Architecture in Government and private sector industry.
Jonathan and Jason will be explaining how ontologies can be exploited with enterprise architecture in their session entitled, 'Exploiting EA Ontologies and Tools to Support Bid Processes'.
Jonathan will also be a panelists for the Panel Session on day 2 of the conference.
Find out more about the Integrated EA 2010 conference.
 EAS are pleased to announce that their latest article, 'Coming out of the Recession: The Role of Enterprise Architecture', is published in the October 2009 issue of the online Architecture and Governance magazine. In this article Alex Mayall discusses the importance of the Enterprise Architecture function to an organisation through the recovery period.
Read 'Coming out of the Recession: The Role of Enterprise Architecture' by Alex Mayall at Architecture and Governance Magazine.
As the sponsor of the Essential Project, we have talked to a number of analysts over the past couple of months, and OVUM Butler Group have recently released a Technology Audit of the Essential Project. We had a very interesting session with their EA analyst, Mark Blowers, discussing both the tool and the open source approach.
 Mark states that OVUM Butler Group 'particularly likes the way the main meta-model is not over complicated by the use a Support Meta-Model, where concepts and relationships are created, exploiting knowledge captured in the Core Meta-Model, to assist management and governance capabilities, such as Strategy Management, Change Management, and Service Delivery. Additional support concepts are planned, including Security and Information Lifecycle Management.'
And that in OVUM Butler Group's view 'An open source alternative is something that organisations should consider if lack of financial resources is preventing the use of a tool, as Butler Group believes it would be unwise to embark on Enterprise Architecture, and impossible to fully realise the benefits, without assistance from a tool specifically designed to support such an approach.'
 OVUM Butler Group customers and subscribers can view a full copy of the report at the OVUM Butler Group website. To find about more about The Essential Project visit the website at www.enterprise-architecture.org.
 
The Executive Summary of
the LEF's research study, "Enterprise
Architecture in the Real World" has been
published, available publically for
download from the LEF
website. (PDF 774.6KB)
EAS's Jonathan Carter
and Jason Powell contributed as part of
the core research team to this research
study, which reviews how enterprise
architecture is being - and should be -
applied in real-world scenarios.
Launching The Essential Project -
March 2009
EAS is delighted to
announce the launch of
The Essential
Project.
The goal of the
Essential Project is to promote the value
that enterprise architecture can bring to
organisations of all sizes and experience
by lowering barriers to entry with a free,
simple, productive and, most importantly,
effective set of supporting tools.
The Essential Project is
the collective name for a set of free, open-source, enterprise architecture support
tools that have been developed for use in
conjunction with a variety of Enterprise
Architecture approaches and frameworks
(e.g. TOGAF, DoDAF, Zachman).
The Essential Project is
not only about the tools. It provides a
useful, active forum for sharing ideas and
experiences of applying Enterprise
Architecture practices to real world
business problems; what works and what
doesn't, best practices, hints and tips
etc. Our aim is to move Enterprise
Architecture away from its often-perceived
ivory tower - of benefit only to large,
complex organisations - to a necessary and
valuable capability in any organisation.
For more information about The Essential
Project, please visit www.enterprise-architecture.org.
 EAS work with LEF to study The Role of
Architecture in the Co-evolution of Business
and IT - February 2008
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/
"Architecture Planning" article
published by Architecture & Governance
Magazine - February 2008
  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:
"Finding Balance and Adding
Value to Projects with Enterprise
Architecture"
"Best Way to SOA" article published by
Conspectus - September 2007
  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:
"If SOA benefits are to be
achieved, organisations must view it as a
strategic, enterprise-wide initiative, says
Jason Powell of Enterprise Architecture
Solutions."
EAS at the Enterprise Architecture
Conference - Europe June 2007
 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.
 - Go to more details about
this case study
presentation.
- Further
details about Enterprise
Architecture Conference Europe
2007 are available on the
conference
website.
Article published by the Evaluation
Centre - Jan '06
 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.
 Go to the evaluation centre website
and view the article*
View the EAS whitepaper upon which
the Evaluation Centre article was
based (PDF, 1MB)
* To view the article you will
need to register for free with the
Evaluation Centre and then visit the
"EAI, Web Services & Software
Development" area.
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 present the role of SOA in
Enterprise Data Integration – Nov
'05
 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.
Printer friendly PDF version
(PDF, 2MB)
 PowerPoint
version with animation
(PPS, 2MB)*
* To view the Speaker Notes,
open the presentation, right-click
anywhere on the first slide and
choose Screen -> Speaker
Notes.
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)."
EAS open new office – Sep
'05
With the business growing strongly, EAS
are pleased to announce the opening of a new
Head Office in Harley Street, London.
More details on our Contact Us page
EAS present architecture management
– April '05
EAS presented at the European Business
Process Management Conference.
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