The best way to understand business capabilities is to look at our ENVISION EA business capability maps, which span Ivanti’s ability to discover, secure, manage and service enterprise architectural networks and applications. Only after the appropriate business capabilities and company initiatives to achieve them are uncovered, does the technical side of translating them into technology features and solution architectures emerge. They are able to converse in business terms and continually bring the conversation back to business capabilities and objectives. A great Enterprise Architect has deep business acumen AND technical acumen. The most important philosophical approach is talking primarily about business capabilities and not technology. How do you shift the conversation to business capabilities? Enterprise Architecture is the group that is looking at the big picture, consolidating/simplifying systems, building common, reusable services that drive both strategy and innovation. Heterogeneous EnvironmentsĮvery IT group in business today is dealing with numerous technologies, numerous architectures and in many cases, synthesizing enterprise footprints across companies, product lines or even businesses that are actively acquiring other companies - Ivanti customer environments are heterogeneous. Enterprise Architecture balances numerous business functions into an optimal matrix/tensor and thus is actively engaged in the comprehensive business transformation and shared data effort. One siloed business function cannot create an amazing end-to-end customer experience. To create an amazing end-to-end experience, all business functions must work together and be aligned. True digital transformation and subsequent innovation should be anchored on “experience” - employee, customer and partner experience. Enterprise Architecture should be actively engaged in the data coordination effort to facilitate optimal digital strategy and innovation. Improving data architecture requires everyone to work together, agree on data owners, data stewards, data definitions, data security, et al. If each business function in your company is trying to solve their data challenges separately, your data will be silo’d, inaccurate and untrustworthy. Data is a Shared AssetĮvery business function needs data and often requires the same data, such as customer, transaction (history) device, end/touch point & employee. Having an Enterprise Architecture practice is critical for three key reasons.
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