CLP Power: Utility of the Future

Award Winning Enterprise Architecture

Objective: The CLP enterprise architecture team needed to update their architecture to set their organization up for growth. They moved from a project-siloed, application-centric architecture to a future fit architecture built around re-usable business capabilities. At the same time they built an architecture roadmap for a successful smart meter rollout.

About CLP Power Hong Kong: CLP Power provides electricity to more than 80% of Hong Kong’s population and is transitioning rapidly to renewables. Its business strategy is centered around Decarbonization, Decentralization, and Digitalization.

University of Edinburgh

Preparing to Succeed

Use Case: To bring together all metadata across the university into a single-source truth. Helping to enhance scenario analysis and build reliable roadmaps, keeping stakeholders informed of time critical decisions.

About University of Edinburgh: Considered one of the leading universities worldwide, The University of Edinburgh has a rich history and noted alumni including Olympic champions, novelists, and prime ministers. Founded in 1582, The University of Edinburgh is the sixth oldest university in the United Kingdom.

Webinar: Modern Woodman

Enterprise Strategy & Project Execution with Balanced Scorecard

One of the nation’s largest fraternal financial services organizations, Modern Woodmen of America serves nearly 730,000 members throughout the United States and manages over $17 billion in assets. Modern Woodmen relies on its EA team to help outline business strategies and determine clear routes to outcomes. The team uses Balanced Scorecard and the Business Motivation Model to capture decision-making and roadmap changes. They also use ABACUS to provide senior management with overviews of strategies and projects.

Webinar: Enstar

Mastering Data: Creating an Effective EA Repository

By transforming your repository into a single source of truth, you help avoid data silos and allow business leaders to make informed data-driven decisions. During this webinar, the enterprise architecture team at leading global insurance company Enstar explores the key steps used to harvest their data into an effective EA repository helping to create value and master their data.

Webinar: Man Group

Understanding your Application Landscape and What’s Important to your Organisation

Use Case: To meet the ever-changing requirements of the business, and to fully understand the application landscape and where the associated risks lie

Solution: Man Group walk through their application modeling journey incl. their challenges, solutions, and future use-cases they aim to support. Focusing on 3 key areas: Defining what is important and to whom, Identifying and modeling criticality, and Using algorithms to remove timely data inputs and provide quick insight into high-risk activities.

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Ameritas

Financial Services (Insurance and Employee Benefits)

Use Case: US insurance and financial services giant Ameritas wanted to eliminate spreadsheet sprawl and establish an authoritative source that could be referred to company-wide to guide cybersecurity, regulatory compliance, technical debt reduction and strategy.

Solution: The team is using ABACUS to integrate data from operational systems, to run impact analysis and to provide self-service access to compliance information. They have built an  up-to-date inventory of data, applications, servers and operating systems. They generate architectural artifacts including infrastructure diagrams, application integration diagrams, application catalogues and roadmaps. Employees from the CIO to datacentre operators, are kept informed using enterprise architecture data.

Webinar: Amsterdam City Council

Use Case: To support the ongoing digitalization of local government in an effective and timely manner, architects benefit from a shared knowledge base.

This presentation provides insight into the ongoing journey of the architecture team of the City of Amsterdam towards this goal including the use of ArchiMate, Integrations and the move from primarily projects to also landscape contribution.

Webinar: NXP

Modeling and Self-Service Dashboards to Support Business and IT Stakeholders

NXP is a world leader in semiconductor, automotive, industrial IoT and communications technologies. See how their EA team use a combination of ABACUS Enterprise together with ABACUS Studio to support a wide group of users and stakeholders by creating tailored dashboards for specific stakeholders and business area and using process maps, treemaps, graph views and catalogues to communicate information and provide valuable insights

Sophos

Tackling Cybersecurity Risk with Enterprise Architecture

Use Case: Sophos needed to ensure cybersecurity best-practice and secure clients’ trust by identifying potential risks within the business.

Solution: Using ABACUS, Sophos identified six steps to efficiently identify and reduce cybersecurity risks: security catalog setup, risk/security scoring, roadmapping, risk mitigation, visualization application landscapes and business capability maps, continuous risk reduction.

Jackson Life Insurance

Financial Services (Insurance)

Use Case:Tackle technical debt across 200+ systems. Calculate costs and risks associated with complex application code, outages, security breaches and unsupported software.

Solution: Over a period of only 6 months the team centralized technology and application data in ABACUS and ran cost and risk algorithms on their enterprise architecture models. By managing the risks associated with technical debt and legacy systems strategically, they quickly identified hard dollar savings and ways to improve IT capacity and efficiency.

Reliance Industries

Conglomerate

Use Case: Manage and transform a massive IT landscape comprising 3000+ processes and 1500+ applications spread over 10,000+ servers.

Solution: Reliance Industries is India’s largest private sector business enterprise and amongst the Fortune 500 companies. It’s businesses span 4G Digital Services, organised retail, and energy and petrochemical products. RIL has adopted a tailored TOGAF metamodel, and is using ABACUS to co-ordinate its architecture and IT management.

Coventry Building Society

Light Touch for Heavy Lifting

Objective: To enhance their IT strategy and migrate successfully from Sparx and PowerPoint into a single source of truth. Ensuring the team are well positioned to deal with the demands of 2020: the move to remote working, increasing service expectations, technology transformation and changing demand of customers.

About Coventry Building Society: The Coventry Building Society is the second largest building society in the United Kingdom with total assets of more than £49 billion. The society provides a range of Mortgage and Savings products and solutions to over 1.5m members, keeping their members at the heart and focus of their company.

Technology EA Successes eBook

Achievements & Successes From Technology Enterprise Architects

Explore how a leading UK security software firm compared risk scorings using ABACUS algorithms and discover how tailor made meta-models allowed world leading semiconductor and technology company, to encompass both project and program management, and architecture to add value.