Enterprise Architecture Management

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Enterprise Architecture Management

This capability provides insight into your application and technology portfolios in order to understand and actively manage the applications and technologies that support your business. From there, the capability portfolio management function allows you to align those insights with your organization’s strategic priorities and expected business outcomes.

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Definition

Provides insight into the impact of application changes, business demand, and strategic priorities on your application portfolio while increasing business value through portfolio optimization and reduced cost and complexity.
Allows you to proactively understand and address the business impact and risk of aging technologies and improve compliance to meet your preferred standards.
This planning and analysis function aligns investment and technology portfolios with enterprise strategic priorities to drive optimal performance and advance business capability maturity.

Business Value

We can actively manage and govern our portfolio, and understand what applications support our business.
We can understand how applications are aligned with business priorities.
We can identify functional redundancy in our application portfolio.
We can calculate the costs of individual applications and our overall portfolio.
We can identify at-risk applications to their underlying technologies.
We can evaluate our application portfolio for information security impacts and risk.
We can score and analyze our applications using criteria that reflects our business and technical priorities.
We can plan application retirement and replacements through analysis and develop application roadmap and transition plans.
We can understand what technologies are currently deployed in our environment, and actively manage and govern our portfolio.
We can anticipate and plan for technology risks associated with age and support.
We can support technology standards governance decisions and determinations.
We can create and manage technology roadmaps.
We can evaluate and reduce the technology footprint and complexity in our landscape.
We can plan technology retirement and replacements through data-based analysis and establish technology roadmap and transition plans.
We can forecast resourcing needs.
We can establish a common vocabulary to optimize the quality and speed of decision-making and reduce confusion in cross-organizational discussions.
We can establish explicit governance over the entire body of change and investment portfolios with holistic enterprise oversight.
We can drive significant IT investments with business implications through business strategy as articulated via business architecture.
We can use business architecture to analyze the business model and establish actionable roadmaps, funding, and priorities needed to deliver results ranging from tactical deployments to long-term business transformation.
We can define and track expected business outcomes.
We can leverage lessons learned to continually improve our planning process year-over-year.

Enterprise Architecture Management

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Business Value

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