Presentations Archive
The Role of Business Processes in Digital Transformation
Anneke Thorburn discusses how integrating technology across all business aspects requires rethinking business models and processes upfront. This means changing how the business operates, then making sure that clean, quality data is identified and available, and then changing the technologies.
Practicing EA - Personal JOURNEY
Boitumelo Molete, Senior Manager EA at The University of Witwatersrand will draw on her work at the university to discuss her Enterprise Architecture (EA) journey within an educational context. The presentation will include tips on using EA to manage challenges both unique to the practice and to the industry while offering insight into the transformative potential of EA within higher education and other sectors.
TOGAF 10th Edition
Stuart Macgregor's presentation is an overview of the new TOGAF Standard 10th Edition. It focuses on some key aspects, including the new structure of the standard: the Core Standard and the TOGAF Series Guides, as well as the extension of the certification programme. In addition, the presentation looks at the significant updates and enhancements in the 10th Edition and their relevance to us in Africa
Why is Data Integration so Difficult?
Dr Chris Harding explores the data integration context including why data is integrated, what kind of data is integrated, and he looks at the pain points and issues. In addition, Chis reviews the developments in data integration practices and technology, including Data Virtualisation, Data Fabric, Data Mesh, and Data Platforms.
As part of this presentation, Chris also touches on how The Open Group standards; TOGAF, the O-AA (Open Agile Architecture), and the DPBok (Digital Practitioners’ Body of Knowledge) can help and support architects engaged in data integration projects.
How Is Your Agile Today?
In a world where Agile has been elevated to the Ultimate Silver Bullet, with world-leading consultancies establishing Agile consulting teams, Adriaan Vorster takes a slightly irreverent look at what Agile is all about (and what it is not).
By investigating the Agile environment from a Control Systems perspective Adriaan Vorster will attempt to pare concepts to the bone and propose a way of managing complex environments with significant uncertainty by using a simple rule-based approach.
The Open Group 25th Anniversary Global Virtual Event
As The Open Group South Africa, participated in the The Open Group 25th Anniversary Global Virtual Event on 27 October 2021.
This was a celebration of 25 years of the open digital standards produced by The Open Group. The event was hosted in different parts of the world including Shanghai, Mumbai, London, Sao Paulo, San Francisco, Tokyo, Boston and Johannesburg.
Architecture Blueprint for a Global Company Merger
In his presentation, Mark van Bavel, Executive Vice President, Digital Platform Architecture at NTT Limited, will describe how Enterprise Architecture was used to formulate the strategy to both integrate and transform the organisation. Their strategy was to enable the integration, consolidation and digital transformation of the entire organisation. Mark will include details of the architecture approach, technology strategy, blueprint, methodology and tools they used.
Business Insights as a Service - Cultivating Data Citizenship
At this month’s EA Forum, Data Architect, Ana Moreira, will describe how they set up a data architecture for a Data Analytics platform that enables Data Citizenship. She will discuss how the architecture leverages Cloud infrastructure as well as metadata-driven data processing mechanisms to provide speedier delivery to address business requirements
Standard Bank's New Ways of Working
At this month’s EA Forum, Josef has returned to share his experiences at Standard Bank during the past two years. His presentation will focus on business transformation and the role that Programme and Portfolio management have played. He will also touch on culture as the key differentiator and the role that Enterprise Architects can play in guiding the organisation.
The Game Plan Canvas
The Game Plan Canvas is a simple tool for crafting strategies across the IT Value Chain. Based on the popular Business Model Canvas from strategyzer.com, it is composed of 9 building blocks that allow for the development of a common language for strategy development within the Enterprise IT context.
At this month’s EA Forum, The Foshini Group’s Suren Naidoo, will set the context for, and take us through the Game Plan Canvas to show how it can be leveraged for different scenarios.
From Enterprise Alchemy to Enterprise Engineering
An old-fashioned Electrical Systems Engineer considers the requirements, and methodologies, consistent with moving from a state of Enterprise Alchemy towards an Engineered Enterprise.
e-Government Architecture Framework
Through e-Government initiatives, South Africa’s Government seeks to provide improved services, greater public service efficiencies and cost containment. These endeavours meet and have met with varying levels of success since 1998.
In this month’s EA Forum, Romi Vidmar, ESM Architect at SARS, will take us through a newly-proposed framework of twelve architectural artefacts which aims to facilitate the successful use of the Government Wide Enterprise Architecture (GWEA) framework and ICT governance
TOGAF Business Architecture in Practice
As part of the TOGAF 9.2 standard, The Open Group released the TOGAF Series Guides which contain detailed guidance on how to use the TOGAF framework. Included in this set are Guides on Business Models, Business Capabilities, Value Streams, Business Scenarios, and Information Mapping.
At this month’s EA Forum, Michael Payne will provide an overview of these TOGAF Series Guides and show how these support the new TOGAF Business Architecture Level 1 qualification. He will also take us through some of the requirements for establishing a sustainable business architecture capability, as well as some of the considerations and issues Business Architects may face
Putting The Open Group EMMM Models to Work
The Open Group EMMM forum commenced work on mining business models in 2008. Their first published model was the ‘Exploration and Mining Business Process Reference Model’, and was followed by the ‘Exploration and Mining Business Capability Reference Map’. In this presentation, Mike Woodhall will show how these reference models have been used at MineRP as the foundation for their understanding of the mining business. He will also discuss how their employees, clients and ecosystem partners have benefited from this approach.
Security-by-Design in Enterprise Architecture
The strategic importance of Information Security for organisations is gaining momentum. The current surge in cyber threats is compelling organisations to invest in information security to protect their assets. Rushing to protect assets often comes with the expense of excessive technology adoption without a valid strategic foundation. Enterprise Security Architecture is geared to address these issues but is frequently misaligned with Enterprise Architecture.
Debunking Technology Trend Myths
The latest technology trends seem to promise almost magical results….. Artificial Intelligence will take over the world, the Internet of Things is everywhere, and everything is in the cloud. In this presentation, Lead Enterprise Architect, Gerhard Botha, separates the magical from the mythical and debunks the myths surrounding these technology trends so that we can focus on the real value they can deliver.
TOGAF 9.2 - Transforming Business
The latest version of the TOGAF standard has a special emphasis on Business Architecture, Digital Trends, and Business Transformation beyond IT. Stuart Macgregor takes us through some of these changes to the TOGAF® 9.2 standard and discusses how they will benefit us.
An Architect's Framework for Navigating Complexity
It is critical for Architects to use effective decision-making approaches that are adaptable and match the complexity of each situation. Deven Gengan assists architects to execute in more adaptable ways and serve their organisations effectively.
A toolbox of modern management practices for a Digital World
The world is moving faster and traditional methods are not working anymore. Josef Langerman gives an overview of these management techniques and how they can enable organisations to move forward. Enterprise Architecture has a crucial role to play, and we will discuss this contribution.
Architecting Solutions for the Cloud
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the fastest-growing and first IT company in history to reach $10 Billion in revenue. In this presentation, Michael Needham focuses on how Amazon innovates at a break-neck pace through its culture, organisation and technology while still operationally running workloads of 1 Million+ customer.