EA Frameworks

  • Sasol - Functional Excellence...a year later Jhb and Pta
    At last year's EA practitioners conference in Johannesburg, Sasol presented their Functional Excellence (FE) programme and the role fullfilled by Enterprise Architecture. Functional Excellence is an enterprise-wide programme that has brought about significant savings for Sasol.
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  • COBIT® 5.0 and TOGAF® 9: EA Governance Made Practical Durban
    In his presentation, Stuart Macgregor, CEO at Real IRM, discusses governance as the key to entrenching enterprise architecture (EA) into an organisation and realising business benefit from it. He touches on the mapping between COBIT and TOGAF® with specific focus on the control points required to sustain a business-appropriate EA Practice. In addition, Stuart offers some insight into COBIT 5 and...
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  • COBIT® 5.0 and TOGAF® 9: EA Governance Made Practical
    In his presentation, Stuart Macgregor, CEO at Real IRM, discusses governance as the key to entrenching enterprise architecture (EA) into an organisation and realising business benefit from it. He touches on the mapping between COBIT and TOGAF® with specific focus on the control points required to sustain a business-appropriate EA Practice. In addition, Stuart offers some insight into COBIT 5 and...
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  • Business Value from Information and Data Architectures
    In his presentation, Janakies Louca, Management Information Systems (MIS) Architect at South African Breweries (SAB), takes us through his experiences of establishing an architecture practice for MIS and then running various architecture projects using TOGAF® as their methodology. He shows how SAB have used architecture to bring clarity and visibility to the critical information and data designs...
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  • Transition Architectures
    This presentation focuses on the JD Group’s Transition Architectures which document incremental states of architecture within an organisation so as to identify and manage the scope of work during a period of change. These Transition Architectures are based on the TOGAF®9 framework and principles, and the presentation shows the components used when defining them.
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  • Business Value from Information and Data Architectures - CPT
    At the July EA Forum Janakies Louca, Management Information Systems (MIS) Architect at South African Breweries (SAB), will take us through his experiences of establishing an architecture practice for MIS and then running various architecture projects using TOGAF® as their methodology. Janakies will show how SAB have used architecture to bring clarity and visibility to the critical information...
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  • Business Value from Information and Data Architectures - JHB
    At the July EA Forum Janakies Louca, Management Information Systems (MIS) Architect at South African Breweries (SAB), will take us through his experiences of establishing an architecture practice for MIS and then running various architecture projects using TOGAF® as their methodology. Janakies will show how SAB have used architecture to bring clarity and visibility to the critical information...
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  • Business Value from Information and Data Architectures - PTA
    At the July EA Forum Janakies Louca, Management Information Systems (MIS) Architect at South African Breweries (SAB), will take us through his experiences of establishing an architecture practice for MIS and then running various architecture projects using TOGAF® as their methodology. Janakies will show how SAB have used architecture to bring clarity and visibility to the critical information and...
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  • Architecture Enabling KING III Compliance
    This presentation focuses on the new KING III code and the key requirements that can be enabled by EA and IT Governance; namely the development and maintenance of an IT Charter/policy that follows a formal Internal Control Framework, and the maintenance of Business / IT alignment and its documentation in a formal IT Strategy.
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  • The CMDB; “a Collection of the Chaos in the IT Environment”
    In his presentation Alryn Smit questions whether the IT terms, Configuration Management, Asset Management, Inventory Management, Service Management and CMDB are understood within themselves or whether they are being used too generically in a bid to address other issues in the organization.
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  • Why “Primitive” Models?
    John A. Zachman will present an introduction to the Sample Models for each of the cells of the Zachman Framework as well as define the utility of the single-variable, "Primitive" models required for engineering an Enterprise. The presentation will explain why few people (Enterprises) have attempted to actually DO Enterprise Architecture and will also discuss the critical need for the...
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  • TOGAF® / GWEA Case Study – SEDA’s Approach to EA
    This month’s EA Forum is a look at how SEDA developed an Enterprise Architecture Anchor Model that is in line with the Government Wide Enterprise Architecture (GWEA) version 1.2. It touches on the work that was done and how the various frameworks and methodologies - particularly TOGAF® 9 and the Zachman Framework - were used.
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  • An overview of the GWEA Framework
    The South African government embraced TOGAF® 8.1 in early 2008 as an architectural guideline and is now the first public sector entity to formally adopt and adapt TOGAF® 9 for Enterprise Architecture (EA) delivery in government. The framework that resulted is referred to as the Government Wide Enterprise Architecture (GWEA) Framework. This presentation is a discussion on the creation and...
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  • Taking TOGAF® Forward
    Where is the information?
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  • TOGAF® 8.1 and COBIT 4 Mapped
    This presentation highlights the findings of the CobiT 4 - TOGAF® 8.1 mapping exercise and why these are important to Enterprise Architects and those tasked with implementing IT governance in their organisations.
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  • Zachman Re-invented
    In November 2005, John Zachman introduced an updated framework with its accompanying standards. Here are some of the exciting developments and changes that were made to the framework.
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  • TOGAF®
     TOGAF® The Open Group Architecture Framework, is an industry standard architecture framework that may be used freely by any organization wishing to develop an information systems architecture for use within that organization. It has been developed and continuously evolved since the mid-90's by representatives of some of the world's leading IT customer and vendor organizations,...
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  • Exploration, Mining, Metals and Minerals Forum
    The Open Group has convened a global forum, the Exploration, Mining, Metals and Minerals Vertical (EMMMv), to create reference models for the exploration and mining industry for metals and minerals.
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