Plenary - TOGAF® and EA
In 2017, IBM were engaged to review the current and future digital needs of Business in the Community (BITC), to inform the development of a digital strategy. BITC want to see responsible business become the norm for UK business and create healthy communities with successful business at their heart. Their business strategy set out ambitious targets for growth and impact: engaging 75% of FTSE 100 organisations, 10,000 SMEs and measurable regeneration in ten disadvantaged areas. It described the need to move into the digital age, developing an offering that brings responsible business online and enables BITC to service smaller businesses than is currently feasible.
In the first presentation, Oliver White – Transformation Director at BITC will discuss the business context and challenges faced, how the organisation found the experience of developing the digital strategy and how BITC have started to implement the digital strategy.
Partner Presentation (Mon)
TRACK: Case Studies - EA in Action
The Universities and Colleges Information Systems Association (UCISA) is a member-led, open, impartial association that provides a national (UK) and international presence for those responsible for digital and information provision within the High and Further Education sector. The Association is made up of a number of groups (Network, IT Project Management, Information Systems etc.) whose aim is to help promote excellence in support of teaching, learning, research and administration. The UCISA Enterprise Architecture (EA) Community of Practice (CoP) is the newest member of the association and was created to offer support to the growing number of Business and IT Architects working within the sector.However, while the role of domain architects is growing, EA as a practice, and its function of both acting as an ‘umbrella’ architecture and facilitating the link between business and IT still struggles to get established.To help move this process forward the CoP has undertaken a yearlong project to develop a generic HE capability model. The main purpose of the exercise was to create a template designed to highlight all major capabilities required to run a UK university business; focusing on 3 main value streams 1) Teaching & Learning 2) Research 3) Commercial Activity, At which point the outputs are freely available to the sector and can be customised accordingly. The aim was to try and attempt to make the template 80% accurate for all UK universities. This presentation will discuss the process undertaken to produce this model including the use of the ArchiMate modelling language, identify the key learning points, the inputs from those in the sector and commercial contributors and how universities are already putting the outputs to use e.g. for planning, system development & integration etc. In addition, It will address similar experiences in developing reference architectures in higher education and other sectors, and how this differs from creating regular Enterprise Architectures.Key takeaways:
TRACK: Open Platform 3.0™ / AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) technology has moved out of the laboratory and into the marketplace. Products are now offered for use in mainstream enterprise systems, and enterprises are starting to buy them. How should enterprise architects look to use this technology to deliver business value?
Peter Haviland, Syed Hussein and Andras Szakal will discuss the approaches that enterprise architects should take in adding AI to enterprise systems, from the points of view of architects, integrators, and technology vendors. The discussion will be moderated by Ron Tolido.
Coffee (Mon afternoon)
Case Studies - EA in Action
The Czech republic updated its ICT legislation in law no.365/2017, which sets up a mandatory standard for ICT strategy goals and principles and also a requirement for EA modelling for every ICT project. The main discussion is currently finishing - how to set up goals and principles in a National ICT strategy document. The next goal is how to de-compose these principles in ministry ICT strategy .The Czech ministry of Industry and Trade is an offical pilot site for new ICT strategy implmentation, with responsibility to define sub-legislation principles. The Ministry implemented an EA model in the Archimate language and an advanced repository in early 2016, and is using it as the main input for the new ICT strategy version.Key takeaways:
The presentation will illustrate a step-wise approach to the integration of EA Repositories and CMDBs, and address the following key points.
What should be the focus of an EA Repository?
What should be the focus of an CMDB?
Why are both required?
Why do not data overlaps amount to functional redundancy?
What does it mean to integrate an EA Repository with a CMDB? What entities need to be consistent, and what don't?
Relationships: plain traceability VS 1:1 mappings
Lifecycle data:
How to balance technical purity and business value
The human factor:
The audience will:
TRACK: Open Platform 3.0™ / IoT
Web-based services in Smart Cities and other domains are currently domain- and system-specific, which makes it impossible to discover and consume those services on-demand. A major objective of the EU-funded project bIoTope is to provide such on-demand interoperability. This presentation will focus on on-demand Smart Parking systems being implemented for several European cities and car manufacturers.Current web service APIs don't allow interoperability without human intervention. Our new versions of the Open Group standards Open Messaging Interface (O-MI) and Open Data Format (O-DF) bring the necessary machine-readability by using standardised vocabularies such as the Open Data Element Framework (O-DEF). In addition to documenting the APIs in well-structured and standardised ways, it also provides means to annotate data collected in Data Lakes in meaningful ways for further processing and analysis.
Key takeaways:
Software architectures based on microservices are becoming increasingly popular. The Open Group has produced a white paper on Microservices Architecture (https://publications.opengroup.org/w169) and is building on this with work on several microservices topics, including Microservices and the Internet of Things (IoT). The presentation uses a simple example to illustrate this application of microservices.
The full benefits of the Internet of Things are achieved through information interoperability between intelligent devices and other systems. If the machines in a factory can share information with each other and with process control, stock control, and other systems, the factory as a whole can be made more efficient and productive. Virtual data lakes provide information interoperability that is easy to implement. The presentation will develop its IoT example further to explain this.
Taken together, virtual data lakes and microservices are a powerful software platform for applications development for the Internet of Things.
Networking Reception
Open Sessions (Mon)
Members Only Meetings
In the second presentation, James Conway – Senior Technology Strategy & Innovation Consultant at IBM will discuss how the TOGAF ADM was applied, the development and use of a component business model to understand the organisation needs and use of complementary design thinking methods to better understand the users of BITC technology.
TRACK: Digital-First Enterprise Architecture
The world is becoming increasingly digital at an unprecedented pace. Starting from lifestyle, preference of consuming products and services, the way of working, interacting and doing business - every aspect has experienced fundamental shift, and the list is ever increasing. Almost each enterprise is on a transformation journey.
Customer behaviour and expectations have undergone dramatic changes too. For example: functional richness / completeness is considered as given with aspects like ease of interaction, simplicity of experience and personalised relevance takes over as differentiation.
Thus, architecting massively technology-enabled successful digital business is a pleasure and challenge at the same time. The role context, charter and expectation for architects and strategists have changed at pace:
TRACK: Open Process Automation
“The Internet of Things”: As more and more intelligence is pushed to the periphery – to the edge – with the expectation of greater performance to meet ever-growing needs, more reliance will be placed on sensing of what is going on “at the edge”. After all, “intelligence” can only act on the data and information it has, so a “smart” periphery means more sensing at the periphery. When it comes to “IoT”, this is considered a given. But, what exactly does that mean in an industrial context? How will this trend impact industrial process manufacturing plants? As the Open Process Automation Forum undertakes moving process automation into the future of open platforms, it will need to take on what this impact may be. This paper discusses industrial sensing from a historical, current-use, and future trends approach to address what sensing and the Internet of Things means to Industry.Key takeaways:1. What sensing means in a process industry setting2. What role sensing will play in the IoT of industrial plants3. Impact to the current developments in the Open Process Automation Forum to take under consideration.
Coffee (Tue morning)
Digital-First Enterprise Architecture
Open Process Automation
Networking Dinner Event (Tue)
TOGAF® User Group
Panelists:
Lunch (Wed)
Training Tutorial
The TOGAF Essentials 2018 training course will allow attendees to gain up-to-date knowledge and an understanding of the changes introduced to the TOGAF Body of Knowledge in 2018. The session will cover both the updated standard and documents in the TOGAF Library.
Attendees who are TOGAF 9 Certified will also be eligible to earn an Open Badge credential by taking an online examination after the event.If you have a pass for The Open Group London then this session is free to attend. If you are just attending the tutorial then the price is £95.3:30 - 4:00 PM Coffee break4:00 - 5:30 Tutorial continued
IT Management Professionals Day
The industry is filled with the promises of Digital Transformation, but what is the reality for IT management professionals who have to balance the investments of the past with the innovation of the future? This presentation outlines explores the question from three perspectives:
Is your IT function’s way of working still based on one dominant standard or framework or have you adopted a multiple methods approach? Are you under-utilizing the potential that current standards and frameworks offer or are you expecting too much from them? How are they going to help you with transforming – and automating – your IT function to cope with the demands of the digital enterprise? How will your transformed IT operating model deliver better, cheaper and faster IT services that are aligned with your business goals? This presentation explores the potential value of standards and frameworks, and common pitfalls in their application. You’ll get a better grip on various standards and frameworks and other bodies of knowledge and movements, including Agile, BiSL Next, BRMBOK, Business Model Canvas, COBIT, Cynefin, DevOps, DPBOK, ISO 20000, ISO 38500, IT4IT, ITIL, Lean, Lean Product Development, Operating Model Canvas, Service Science, VeriSM and Wardley Mapping.
With the emergence of the “as a service delivery” model, increased consumption of cloud services, enterprise IT quickly needs to move to leveraging interlocking solutions across an ecosystem. The session discusses the issues and impact on service management practices due to the changing landscape and organisational capability required to successfully integrate and orchestrate services while providing a unified user experience.
Digital Transformation, fueled by new platform technologies and methodologies, results in a need to move beyond the traditional IT management consensus. This has created a need need for a new, more comprehensive body of knowledge and possibly standards intended for the new Digital Business Professional (both business and technology) who designs and delivers digital services and leads all aspects of Digital Transformation. The Open Group has met this need by publishing the Digital Professional Body of Knowledge (DPBOK) driven the Digital Practitioners' Workgroup. The DPBOK lays out the motivations for developing a Digital Professional Body of Knowledge (DPBOK) and the principles for integrating existing product, project, service, and data management, Enterprise Architecture, and IT governance guidance in the context of current digital practices.
Learn how DPBOK can be leveraged by C-level executives who are planning a Digital Transformation, and used by other organizations (e.g., consultants and trainers) to prepare and supply skilled people to drive a digital transformation.
Key takeaways: 1. Business stakeholders and practitioners understand how they can better understand the digital market drivers and learn how to effectively use it to define their processes and downstream requirements 2. IT stakeholders and practitioners understand the new Why's (a sum of business' why and how) that will drive IT as a business going forward and with this understanding how would IT as a business digitally transition people and skillwise to deliver value for a digital market.
Open Sessions (Thu)