What are the hottest topics today in EA, according to discussions at recent Forrester and Gartner conferences?

• boosting the business relevance of  enterprise architecture
• filling the gap between strategy and execution
• accelerating business agility while streamlining costs and complexity

Analysts and customers alike say that one of the key elements of an EA solution is driving business value by extending information throughout the organization. Many of our customers are using the MEGA Suite’s dashboard capability to help them distribute the organization’s collected EA information according to each stakeholder’s perspective, providing each person with the right information at the right time.

This is also one of the key messages from Richard Winnik, our director of Professional Services in North America. Read his article in this issue, Five Keys to Agile EA.   He outlines how Agile EA is easily adapted to your environment and priorities, resulting in business value for your organization.

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The MEGA Team

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Food for Thought

Five Keys to Agile EA

Consulting Best Practices
By Richard Winnik, Director, Consulting MEGA North America

Enterprise architecture is used as the blueprint to describe a company’s structure and operations that helps drive change within the organization. To get the most out of your investment, EA should be efficient, effective, economical and adaptable. This is what we call Agile EA.

Read this eBook to figure out how to implement an Agile EA that is easily adapted to your environment and priorities, one that will create business value for your organization.

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Interactive Dashboards to Visualize Your EA Information

Do you need real-time information on your EA key performance indicators? Would you like to extend your ability to communicate and make fact-based decisions? Are you looking for a way to deliver interactive and easy-to-read business intelligence information, along with aggregated analysis of your EA?

Read this How-To Guide on building interactive dashboards that can help you better visualize and present your EA information

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Where we Have Been

Take Aways from the 2012 Department of Defense Intelligence Information Systems (DoDIIS) Worldwide Conference

By Jacqui Gervais, MEGA International

As we’ve said in the past, an agency’s success relies largely on the technology it embraces. What are the key technology capabilities that you must embrace in order to meet your CIO’s directives? We’ve gathered our notes from this year’s closing remarks at DoDIIS 2012 from Grant Schneider, Deputy Director of Information Management and CIO at the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA). He spoke about the top five critical capabilities of technology in the DIA. Here they are:

• Agility: You need to be able to move nimbly and with finesse. Your data needs to be implemented so it can be used to innovate. Don’t capture data “to just pass”. Leverage the data to make a difference.
• Simplicity: Simple is the hardest to develop, but one of the most important.
• Integrated: How can you make your data useable across the entire agency? Are you taking the appropriate steps to avoid overlapping technologies or mitigate redundant processes?
• Affordable: Are you maximizing the technology that you already have or cutting what is not effective? How are you managing this?
• Secure: In today’s world, unprotected data is unacceptable.

Schneider encouraged members of his team to focus on right now, because it’s important to first see what you have, and then you can build what you want it to be. His advice was to develop good governance and foster collaboration before you roll out a project. 

Reflections from the Gartner EA Summit 2012, London

By Lorne Clark. Head of Consulting, MEGA International – UK Operations

It has been some years since I attended the Gartner event and I was keen to see how it had progressed.
Arriving early, I found the usual series of presentation booths largely empty and only a few people around. Immediate impressions were that things looked pretty similar, but after wandering along the length of the room, it became obvious that some of the usual vendors had either changed names or been replaced by new and different companies.   Taking advantage of the quiet, I took the time to look in detail at the messages that the various booth backdrops were making and the marketing literature. It isn’t often that you see so many different companies from the Gartner Enterprise Architecture Magic Quadrant in the same place and it’s always an eye opener to see what they state they do versus your own perception...

Read the Reflections from the Gartner EA Summit 2012, London by Lorne Clark. Head of Consulting, MEGA International - UK Operations

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Where we Will be

Forrester Enterprise Architecture Forum EMEA 2012

Infusing Enterprise Architecture into Your Business
June 19-20, Paris

Infusing enterprise architecture into your business is your
goal — and infusing business into your EA program is the means to achieve it. The Forrester Enterprise Architecture Forum 2012 will help you evolve toward a business-focused EA program and overcome the barriers of historical perceptions, process gaps, and cultural differences that EA programs often face.

The conference will emphasize vision and the business case for EA's future. Through keynote presentations, case studies, and deep-dive sessions, attendees will be exposed to the best practices for EA. The conference is aimed at showing how companies can better integrate business goals and strategy with their EA programs.
MEGA is a sponsor at this event and will have a stand on the exhibition floor. MEGA will present Dr. Nissim J. Buchs, CTO and Chief Architect at the HP Banking Service Center in Bern, Switzerland to discuss issues around best practices and lessons learned while the company used EA to document and support the development of its SOA-based banking software.
Stay involved with happenings and hot topics at the event on Twitter by following @mega_int and using the event hashtag: #FEAF12 and #CIOF12.
More information about the conference is available on the Forrester Web site.

We’ll be glad to share more news about enterprise architecture in the next edition of our EA Exclusive!

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