atco transformed their enterprise architecture to support

ATCO IT | Enterprise Architecture

ATCO transformed their Enterprise Architecture to support business growth and how the process of evaluating technology capabilities helped them define strategic direction in business.

ESRI Canada User Conference May 16, 2019 Ross Phillips I.S.P.


Things to Cover

The Opportunity

Tools Developed

Benefits


The Opportunity

• Business needs better alignment with IT

• Finding their own solutions - Good

• Not up to IT standards - Bad

• IT may already have a solution – Good

• IT Late to the game

• The “No” shop


Tools to Support the Opportunity

• Buy vs Build methodology

• Cloud First strategy

• Quicker to implement

• More Agile

• Implement Building Code

• Component Business Model

• Application Capability


Buy Vs Build

• Buy products from proven vendors.

• Take advantage of Business Community to drive vendor changes.

• Your not that unique, take advantage of vendor change processes.

• COTS – Commercial off the Shelf

• Configure vs Code


Cloud First

• Look at moving workloads to the cloud.

• Limit Cloud vendors for easier integrations

• Make Cloud vendors strategic

• Keep workloads close to strategic cloud selections

• Take advantage of Storage options that are included with current products i.e. SharePoint, One Drive, etc.

• Make use of Proof of Concepts to prove out solutions at a low cost.


Building Code

• High level list of best practices for IT business, applications, data, security, new technology as it relates to our company. Eg:

• Nimble enough to provide guidance for Infrastructure between applications but not limiting.

• Always ready but never complete (constantly evolving).


Component Business Model

• Defines company core needs

• Describes needs in detail

• Organizes needs by business lines

• Defines company customers internal and external

• First step to map business needs to technology needs.


Component Business Model - Boundaries


Tools/Process (CBM)

• Shows business IT capabilities/needs

• Narratives associated with each box


Application Capability


Benefit - Bringing it all together

• Map business processes to current Technology Capabilities

• Show Gaps between business needs and technology.

• Provide mechanism to develop longer term technology roadmaps focusing on these gaps.


Credits

• Alan Skiffington/Mark Kennedy – Vision, Concept, Guidance

• Collette Jubinville – Component Business/Application model - EA

• Cathy Wylie – Application Model, Enterprise artifacts - EA

• Darcy Lalor IBM Distinguished Engineer – Building Code, EA Mentor


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