A Framework to Support Digital Transformation
This chapter proposes a lightweight enterprise architecture framework which serves the demands of enterprise architects being confronted with a digital transformation scenario with an agile development approach. This framework therefore emphasizes the ada
- PDF / 1,076,950 Bytes
- 26 Pages / 439.37 x 666.142 pts Page_size
- 30 Downloads / 262 Views
A Framework to Support Digital Transformation Oliver F. Nandico
Abstract This chapter proposes a lightweight enterprise architecture framework which serves the demands of enterprise architects being confronted with a digital transformation scenario with an agile development approach. This framework therefore emphasizes the adaptability and the possibility for propagation of change throughout the defined architecture instead of addressing all possible concerns of all stakeholders. The framework itself is roughly based on TOGAF 9.1 and uses definitions of its content metamodel and follows ADM.
7.1
Changed Role of IT and the Enterprise Architecture in the Times of Digital Transformation
“IT no longer supports the business, IT is the business”. This subtle play on words shows the role change information technology underwent in recent years. There is a growing part of enterprises and organizations, where information technology is in the core of the business, where IT not just supports but enables new or enhanced offerings. We call this evolution—or better, looking at the time frame—revolution “Digital Transformation” or “Digital Business Transformation”.
7.1.1
Changed Role of the Architect
“Digital Transformation” sets a new challenge for the enterprise architect: She has now not just to align the IT with the demands from the business but to enable and even invent new business opportunities. So the architecture capability of an organization gets an active part in shaping the business. The architect no longer sits in
O.F. Nandico (&) Capgemini, Munich, Germany e-mail: [email protected] © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016 E. El-Sheikh et al. (eds.), Emerging Trends in the Evolution of Service-Oriented and Enterprise Architectures, Intelligent Systems Reference Library 111, DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-40564-3_7
113
114
O.F. Nandico
her office awaiting demands or requirements from the business, but is part of the leadership team shaping the new, digital transformed enterprise. The architect does not only change her role in respect to the business, but to the IT as well. She needs not to just support, but to enable IT development for Digital Transformation.
7.1.2
Services as Atomic Building Blocks of the Architecture
Though there is an upheaval in enterprise architecture from this high perspective, the general approach and toolset of enterprise architecture has not changed so much. The old virtues of service oriented architecture still prevail, as using services, i.e., self-contained pieces of work with a focused business purpose, as the atomic elements for any architecture. Today, service-oriented architecture is the generally accepted standard for architecture work, which does not need any further discussion. If one wants to describe, what an information system does, she or he will start with describing its intended services. There is still an ongoing discussion on the definition of services, their granularity, technical aspects like SOAP versus REST and the need for additional elements
Data Loading...
