Pre-Conference Programs (optional)
Boot Camp: SAP Enterprise Architecture Framework
Tuesday, October 16 · 8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
The SAP Enterprise Architecture Framework for enterprise SOA, which is based on TOGAF, is aimed at supporting SAP customers. Attendees in this full-day intensive session will learn why the version 2 of the SAP Enterprise Architecture Framework represents a unique value proposition for SAP customers and how this can act as a business enabler for the whole enterprise. Understand how SAP Enterprise Architecture Framework ensures that the reality of the implemented enterprise is aligned with management's vision and strategy; helps address hot topics such as business innovation, TCO, governance and compliance; serves as a common backbone for all enterprise SOA-related services; and is fully consistent with SAP's range of tools and assets. Program attendees will receive a complimentary copy of Enterprise Architecture as Strategy.
Agenda
- What Are the Drivers and Benefits of Enterprise Architecture (Both to Business and IT)?
Why TOGAF as a foundation for the SAP Enterprise Architecture Framework?
- The SAP Enterprise Architecture Initiative
A Full Package: Team, Methodology, Tools, Service Offering, Training, and Certification
- Why Choose the SAP
Enterprise Architecture Framework as Reference for Architecture Framework? A Real-Life Case Study of the
Enterprise Architecture Framework Implementation at Royal & Sun Alliance
Learn how the SAP Enterprise Architecture Framework provided RSA with guidance and recommendations regarding the possible strategic approaches for HCM and their FSA (Financial Services Authority) reporting. Discover how the enterprise architecture effort helped RSA to identify short, medium, and long-term benefits and why RSA decided to adopt the SAP Enterprise Architecture Framework as their future standard framework.
- The Enterprise Architect as the IT Hero. What Are the Differentiating Features of the SAP Enterprise Architecture Framework and How Can They Leverage Business Innovation, TCO, and Compliance?
Find out how the SAP Enterprise Architecture Framework ensures that the reality of the implemented enterprise is aligned with management's vision and strategy. Thanks to its unique features, the SAP Enterprise Architecture Framework will help you make the difference. Learn about the SAP Enterprise Architecture Framework process, accelerators, metamodel, specific mappings, and other distinctive capabilities.
- Meeting the Needs of Stakeholders: How to Structure the Architectural Information Thanks to the SAP Enterprise Architecture Framework
This session will demonstrate how the SAP Enterprise Architecture Framework can be utilized to address different stakeholders groups' concerns, e.g. "What functionality does this application support?", and “Which processes will be impacted by this project?”
- SAP Enterprise Architecture: A Governance Model to Ensure the Successful Adoption of Enterprise SOA
Enterprise architecture governance is aimed at ensuring the successful alignment of enterprise architecture with business and IT strategies, and with the IT delivery organization. Attendees will learn:
• Why governance is a major factor to ensure the successful adoption and integration of an enterprise architecture approach
• The dimensions that must be defined to ensure the success of enterprise architecture in a business-focused organization
• How enterprise architecture governance fits into the SAP Enterprise Architecture Framework to provide tangible benefits for the enterprise
- How the SAP Enterprise Architecture Framework Supports an Enterprise SOA Roadmap
Learn about the three levels of architecture, the limitations about the different SOA approaches, and how the SAP Enterprise Architecture Framework methodology can help you to support service-oriented architectures. This session will also describe the enhancements that SAP Enterprise Architecture Framework brings to enterprise SOA roadmaps and how the methodology integrates with the SAP delivery method.
- What Are the Key Tools Relevant to Enterprise Architecture and How to Use them: Live Demonstration of the Use of SAP Enterprise Architecture Framework and ARIS
This session will show why enterprise architecture tools are important when managing an enterprise architecture, how the SAP
Enterprise Architecture Framework methodology
provides additional tooling extensions and how a reference implementation of the
methodology
was implemented in ARIS IT Architect.
- Enterprise SOA Extended Service Session: Realizing the Benefit of Your Enterprise SOA Plan
How you can get a green light from your executives to start an enterprise SOA program? Are you interested in leveraging business benefits with enterprise SOA but you don't know how to demonstrate the value of the program? Where do you start in order to model enterprise services? These are the questions that enterprise SOA extended services address in a very pragmatic way. This presentation will be based on several real-life customer examples.
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