Patrick Buech
Product Management, Enterprise Architecture Management Sumeet Bhatia
Senior Director, Enterprise Architecture Office
Improved SOA Portfolio
Management with Enterprise
Architecture and webMethods
“What applications are the most important to the processes they
support?”
Typical CIO Objectives, Questions and Pain Points
“How can a business get more value out of IT with less
investment?”
“IT has to be fast, flexible and aligned to the business.
How?”
“Deliver Better ROI to the
Business with Reduced Risk!” “How can we drive standardization?”
“How can we find redundancies?”
“Which applications within my organization can be eliminated?”
“What applications rely on which vendor?”
“Keep IT cost under control!”
IT Transparency is the foundation to achieve these objectives!
Company Strategy
Business
IT
Business Processes: Drawing tool
Landscape Map: PPT
Application Architecture & Standards: Word, PDF
Software & Information Architecture: UML Tool
Strategy: PPT SQL Access System Inventories: Multiple DBs, XLS, individual dev., …
Typical current situation...
Hard to manage
&
CIO/ CTO/ IT Executives
IT Strategy, Time to Market, Business-IT Alignment, Evaluate &
Control IT Cost Enterprise Architects IT Landscape Planner IT Portfolio Planning, Standardization & Harmonization IT System Manager, Technology Architects Maintain/ Describe Business Applications &
Where Enterprise Architecture Management can help.
EA should support Projects!
Business Demand Management
Business Demand Management
IT Transformation Planning
IT Transformation Planning Project Portfolio AlignmentProject Portfolio Alignment
Application Harmonization Application Harmonization Technology Standardization Technology Standardization Solution Development Solution Development IT Portfolio Transparency IT Portfolio Transparency IT Infrastructure Consolidation IT Infrastructure Consolidation IT Budgeting & Cost Analysis IT Budgeting & Cost Analysis IT Governance, Risk & Compliance IT Governance, Risk & Compliance
Business
Business
Software AGs
Enterprise Architecture Solution
Integrated business & IT architecture modeling
Easy to use web-interface to maintain IT inventory
Supports all major EA Use Cases and Frameworks
Improved quality of data
Reduced time to gather and maintain
information
Better decision making and problem
resolution
Impact analysis across the enterprise
Integrated application and portfolio management
Use a service portfolio to prioritize services for your
business
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A mess of duplicate interfaces
Starting Point
Strategy: Build web services
2004
A mess of duplicate ‘standards-based’ interfaces
Result
Strategy: Build service Portfolio
2008
Business alignment leading to measurable benefits
Result
More Innovation Greater Agility
Service Portfolio Management defined
Transform redundant IT Services
into shared Business Services
Align Business Services with
Business Processes
Link IT spending on maintenance
and ongoing operations to
Business Value
Align IT with Business Objectives
Service value is measured and
Software AG enables SOA Portfolio Management
Prioritize services that need to be built based on your EA
Account for deployed
services in your overall EA
Enrich your EA dashboards with operational info of your SOA infrastructure
Make better investment
decisions based on KPI’s of your SOA deployment
Document the value of IT to the
Analyze, Design & Plan Application & Service
Portfolio
Build, Manage & Run Service & IT assets
CentraSite: Leading SOA Governance Platform for
Service Lifecycle Management
Single, comprehensive product for both registry and repository Graphical, easy to use impact analysis to manage dependencies Flexible organizational modeling
and metadata modeling
End-to-end, event driven lifecycle management of services & policies
Tight integration with runtime policy enforcement points
Retrieval of Software Services from CentraSite
into ARIS
Direct search and import capabilities from CentraSite in ARIS Retrieved services visualized in ARIS models automatically Direct navigation from imported software services in ARIS intoCentraSite WebUI
Operational service information will be provisioned in ARIS by CentraSiteautomatically Bottom up reuse of operational service data for planning
Business Services and Business Service
Architecture
Connect imported Software Services from CentraSite to
Bottom up reuse of operational service data for planning
Design Service Portfolio by creating domains and a Business Service
Business Services are used in Business Processes
Bottom up reuse of operational service data for planningIdentification of Requirements in Business Processes
Top Down Service Identification & DevelopmentA new Business Service is required!
A new Business Service is required!
Required Business Service has to be realized by a Software Service! Create a
Service Request in ARIS!
Required Business Service has to be realized by a Software Service! Create a
Created Service Request will be sent to
CentraSite
Create requirements specification in ARISSelect desired KPIs & capabilities
Include models & reports
As result a service request is issued to CentraSite for service development and Lifecycle GovernanceTop Down Service Identification
& Development
Service Portfolio Analysis Dashboard
Operational service information from CentraSite enriched with business context
and planning
information from ARIS
Operational service information from CentraSite enriched with business context
and planning
Model-2-Execute
Alignment of Business and IT through Service Management
Integration
Model-to-Execute
Achieve real Business IT Alignment
through SOA Portfolio Management with Software AG
Reuse of CentraSite managed operational services in ARIS Build, optimize and manage a business aligned Service Portfolio in ARIS Reuse of services in Business Processes Services are customer-driven: developed with business outcomes as their objective Leverage Model2Execute and drive Business Process Improvement Service value is measured via dashboards‘supports’ ‘encompasses’ ‘realizes’
Business Model to Executable Model
• Business Processes • Business Services • Concise, complete technical representation of the “IT truth”Business Model Logical Model Executable Model
• Concise & consistent • Accepted by business
and IT
• Software Services
Business Process Modeling
Enterprise Architecture Management
Business Process Automation
Key Take Aways and Benefits
Systematic transformationaligning IT with business through EA
A comprehensive IT landscape view including:Business processes developed in webMethods
Services registered in CentraSite
Linking IT spending to BusinessValue and IT Governance
Ability to do a complete Service Portfolio Analysis