ITSC Enterprise Architecture Update Creating Best Practices for
ITSC Enterprise Architecture Update Creating Best Practices for building reusable business services Sally Waselik 02 -Dec-2005
EA Council Team • • • Publications – Gerry Grenier Standards - Bob Labelle Computer Society - Bob Care Communications Society - David Alvarez Regional Activities/Membership - Vera Sharoff Technical Activities/Conferences - James Taylor, Mary Ann De Wald • IEEE USA – John Yaglenski • Member and Customer Services - Bill Cook • Information Technology - Sally Waselik, Esther Posen, Nimish Shah, Stephen Beck
EA Council Charter • Define IEEE Enterprise Architecture standards • Build consensus across departments on common application platforms, tools and infrastructure components • Collaborate and build synergies across our technology platforms aligned with our IEEE Goals and Objectives
EA Council Activities and Process • Share priority IT Projects and initiatives across different departments • Identify synergies and opportunities to collaborate • Form sub teams to evaluate technologies • Identify common services and promote re-use • Jointly develop applications or consolidate activities • Share ideas, experiences and technical knowhow
EA components addressed by BMS • Several core future architecture components and framework in place – SOA and Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) • Integration – Data definitions, Cleansing, ETL tools • Data transformation – Siebel and Oracle Financials • Strategic Framework capabilities – Web services • Credit card management, Member profile
2005 / 2006 EA Goals • Define and standardize needs for Enterprise Architecture – Creation of Key templates, etc to assist teams • Design and document IEEE framework for EA • Define EA strategy to a tactical level • Create an inventory for the current application and infrastructure components • Evaluate and document baseline and future architecture for key areas such as: – Portal – Identity Management – Credit card Management (Base lined in 2004) – target for BMS (complete) – Search (2006) – Collaboration • EA Council – Continue to make progress
BMS – EA Accomplishments • Consolidation of Membership applications – ICSS, Sisyphus • Developing common data vocabulary – Data Cleansing, Migration and mapping • Moving towards 360 degree customer view • Developing common web services – Re-usable across departments • Credit card management, Member Profile, Fulfillment, Siebel to Oracle integration, Tax services
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