Improved SOA Portfolio Management with Enterprise Architecture and webmethods Patrick Buech Product Management, Enterprise Architecture Management Sumeet Bhatia Senior Director, Enterprise Architecture Office
Dear Architect, what Value does IT provide to the Business? 27 June 2011 ProcessWorld 2011 2
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! Keep IT cost under control! What applications are the most important to the processes they support? What applications rely on which vendor? Which applications within my organization can be eliminated? How can we drive standardization? How can we find redundancies? CIO IT Transparency is the foundation to achieve these objectives! Enterprise Architect 27 June 2011 ProcessWorld 2011 3
Typical current situation... Company Strategy Strategy: PPT Business IT Business Processes: Drawing tool Landscape Map: PPT Software & Information Architecture: UML Tool Hard to manage & impossible to analyze! Application Architecture & Standards: Word, PDF System Inventories: Multiple DBs, XLS, individual dev., Access SQL Operation: CMDB 27 June 2011 ProcessWorld 2011 4
Stakeholders-Oriented Viewpoints are Key! 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 & Technologies 27 June 2011 ProcessWorld 2011 5
Where Enterprise Architecture Management can help. EA should support Projects! Business Business Demand Management IT Transformation Planning Project Portfolio Alignment IT Budgeting & Cost Analysis Application Harmonization Technology Standardization Solution Development IT Governance, Risk & Compliance IT Portfolio Transparency IT Infrastructure Consolidation IT 27 June 2011 ProcessWorld 2011 6
Software AGs Enterprise Architecture Solution Integrated business & IT architecture modeling Supports all major EA Use Cases and Frameworks Integrated application and portfolio management Impact analysis across the enterprise Easy to use web-interface to maintain IT inventory Analysis of IT costs charged back of to the business Improved quality of data Reduced time to gather and maintain information Better decision making and problem resolution 27 June 2011 ProcessWorld 2011 7
SOA Portfolio Management 27 June 2011 ProcessWorld 2011 8
Use a service portfolio to prioritize services for your business Build a Library Build a Portfolio Project Project Project Project Business Process Domain Project Project Project Business Process Domain Business Process Domain 27 June 2011 ProcessWorld 2011 9
Telco Achieves Greater Business Alignment Business Value More Innovation Greater Agility 2008 Result Business alignment leading to measurable benefits Strategy: Build service Portfolio 2004 Result A mess of duplicate standards-based interfaces Strategy: Build web services Starting Point A mess of duplicate interfaces 27 June 2011 ProcessWorld 2011 10
Portfolio Management defined Transform redundant IT s into shared Business s Align Business s with Business Processes Link IT spending on maintenance and ongoing operations to Business Value Align IT with Business Objectives value is measured and communicated 27 June 2011 ProcessWorld 2011 11
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 Business Analyze, Design & Plan Application & Portfolio Build, Manage & Run & IT assets 27 June 2011 ProcessWorld 2011 12
CentraSite: Leading SOA Governance Platform for 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 27 June 2011 ProcessWorld 2011 13
Customer Use Cases: SOA Portfolio Management 27 June 2011 ProcessWorld 2011 14
Retrieval of Software s 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 into CentraSite WebUI Operational service information will be provisioned in ARIS by CentraSite automatically Bottom up reuse of operational service data for planning 27 June 2011 ProcessWorld 2011 15
Business s and Business Architecture Bottom up reuse of operational service data for planning Connect imported Software s from CentraSite to Business s Design Portfolio by creating domains and a Business Architecture 27 June 2011 ProcessWorld 2011 16
Business s are used in Business Processes Bottom up reuse of operational service data for planning 27 June 2011 ProcessWorld 2011 17
Identification of Requirements in Business Processes Top Down Identification & Development Required Business has to be realized by a Software! Create a Request in ARIS! A new Business is required! 27 June 2011 ProcessWorld 2011 18
Created Request will be sent to CentraSite Top Down Identification & Development Create requirements specification in ARIS Select desired KPIs & capabilities Include models & reports As result a service request is issued to CentraSite for service development and Lifecycle Governance 27 June 2011 ProcessWorld 2011 19
Management Dashboards 27 June 2011 ProcessWorld 2011 20
Portfolio Analysis Dashboard Operational service information from CentraSite enriched with business context and planning information from ARIS 27 June 2011 ProcessWorld 2011 21
Model-2-Execute Leveraged by SOA Portfolio Management 27 June 2011 ProcessWorld 2011 22
Alignment of Business and IT through Management Integration 27 June 2011 ProcessWorld 2011 23
Model-to-Execute or better Going from Problem to Solution 27 June 2011 ProcessWorld 2011 24
Summary 27 June 2011 ProcessWorld 2011 25
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 Portfolio in ARIS Reuse of services in Business Processes s are customer-driven: developed with business outcomes as their objective Leverage Model2Execute and drive Business Process Improvement value is measured via dashboards Business supports encompasses realizes Process requires Capability provides 27 June 2011 ProcessWorld 2011 26
Business Model to Executable Model Business Model Logical Model Executable Model Business Processes Business s Concise & consistent Accepted by business and IT Software s Concise, complete technical representation of the IT truth Business Process Modeling Enterprise Architecture Management Business Process Automation 27 June 2011 ProcessWorld 2011 27
Key Take Aways and Benefits Systematic transformation aligning IT with business through EA A comprehensive IT landscape view including: Business processes developed in webmethods s registered in CentraSite Linking IT spending to Business Value and IT Governance Ability to do a complete Portfolio Analysis 27 June 2011 ProcessWorld 2011 28
Thank You!