Presentations Archive
Usability and Eye Tracking
This presentation provides insight into the work taking place in UNISA‘s usability laboratory. It includes examples of usability and eye-tracking studies and their results, and shows how a focus on usability and user-centred design improves delivery of the various layers of an enterprise architecture.
Moving From Checkmate to Archimate
The aim of this presentation is to introduce the Archimate Language to South African architects with a special focus on describing the key elements of the notation. A sample set of domain viewpoints described by ArchiMate is also discussed and explained.
Business Requirements, Use Cases, and EA Assets…
This presentation describes how Nedbank has improved the quality of business requirements by using an Enterprise Architecture approach to identify and create processes from which use cases are defined and automatically generated for solution development.
Life Assurance Industry EA Event
Event took place during July 2008 at Emperors Palace, Johannesburg, South Africa.
Solution Architecture for Eskom Distribution
Following on from Shannon Naidoo’s successful presentation at the Enterprise Architecture Practitioners’ Conference in June, this presentation outlines the history of Solution Architecture modelling at Eskom Distribution. Particular emphasis is placed on the usage of the Solution Architecture domain and examples of solution models representing various views of the application and/or integration are discussed.
Benchmark for IT Architects
The Open Group has developed an IT Architect Certification (ITAC) programme in response to the growing demand for IT Architects with a proven track record of success. The programme sets an independent, industry-wide standard for IT Architects that validates their skills, experience and success in architecting solutions across the whole lifecycle.
The Role of EA in ICT Strategy
Anglo Platinum used principles developed by their EA practice to guide the development of their ICT Strategy. This included both the directing and organising of the ICT function.
An Academic Perspective of Enterprise Architecture
The White Paper on Higher Education (cited Bender et al., 2006a:14) is partly a strategic document that aims to transform the current higher education system
Driving EA Change in Your Organisation
Architecture-related projects and programs often encounter difficulty in mastering the issues pertaining to change, people and leadership. There are several key principles of effective change management that make a difference in these projects.
Making Business Process Management Work
Debswana Diamond Mine is making sense of the intricacies around business process management with the objective of understanding, implementing and continuously improving their business processes.
EA Delivers Demonstrable Value
Armscor is reviewing their existing application portfolio in pursuit of reduced costs and improved business alignment. Their Management Board requested the URS be generated from their established enterprise architecture capability.
What Technology Awaits Us in 2010?
Pawel Wuzyk positions the requirement for a technology roadmap in terms of IT Governance as defined by CobiT. Gerhard Botha presents key technologies and technology trends that will impact businesses in the next five years and beyond.
Business Architecture In Practice
This is a practical insight into Business Architecture from varying perspectives, including an overview of the Business Architecture initiatives in Nedbank and Anglo Platinum; their approaches, challenges and successes.
Business Architecture In Practice
This is a practical insight into Business Architecture from varying perspectives, including an overview of the Business Architecture initiatives in Nedbank and Anglo Platinum; their approaches, challenges and successes.