EA Analytics and Reporting
The industry is going through a massive transformation, which can be roughly described as 'digital acceleration'. Industry research shows that many organizations are not experiencing the speed of change they would expect. It became apparent that without a mechanism of assessing how and where a change would cause impacts, any business initiative becomes an increasingly difficult, lengthy and costly effort. The business demand is quite clear: the decision making approach which proved to be effective in the areas of financial and operational reporting and analytics should be extended and spanned across the entire enterprise. It should also include the products, processes, applications, physical infrastructure and much more i.e. everything which could be impacted by a change.
While any business-related decisions rely on the customer, financial and operational data, the decisions regarding a company’s inner workings require a different source of data i.e. enterprise model to allow a holistic and cohesive view of the organization. Thus, the enterprise model becomes the primary source of essential information for multiple parties across the organization where it can find a great number of uses:​
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Searches and dashboards to show statistics and heat maps for capabilities, processes, applications, technologies, hardware.
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Interactive cause-effect analyses to find affected business processes, application integrations, data, data flows, network traffic, deployments, etc.
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Rationalization and optimization of data stores, software applications and application portfolios, services, networks and infrastructure.
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Vendor decisions: vendor consolidation, selection, vendor locking-in.
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Business capability maps, business process optimization, business collaboration.
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Decisions for M&A (Mergers and Acquisitions) or divestitures and much more.
We will establish the necessary environment and seed a basic model with the data extracted from the corporate systems. We will demonstrate how this will bring immediate value. The model may start evolving through contributions from Solution Architects and from automated data extracts from the corporate systems.