Organizations need enterprise architecture for two main reasons:
1 is very important for the survival and success of enterprises.
Effective enterprise structure is very important for the survival and success of enterprises, and it is an indispensable means to gain competitive advantage through it. Today, CEOs have realized that effective management and utilization of information through information technology is the key to the success of enterprises. Enterprise architecture just solves this problem, which provides a strategic context for the evolution of enterprise IT systems and enables enterprises to cope with the ever-changing business environment.
2. Manage enterprise innovation.
Enterprise architecture enables you to balance the relationship between IT efficiency and business innovation, and manage innovation. Every business unit can innovate in a down-to-earth way and gain its own competitive advantage. At the same time, IT can ensure the overall IT strategic needs of the organization and realize the closest cooperation within the enterprise.
What prompted us to develop enterprise architecture?
Usually, the reason for developing enterprise architecture is that key personnel in the organization have problems that need to be dealt with through IT systems. These people are often called "stakeholders" in the system. The role of the architect is to deal with these concerns, develop an architectural view, show how to deal with concerns and needs by identifying and refining the needs of stakeholders, and show the trade-offs to be made to reconcile potential conflicting concerns between different stakeholders.
Without enterprise architecture, it is impossible to consider and meet all these problems and needs.
In recent years, with the deepening of enterprise informatization, how to establish an effective mechanism to integrate IT with business, that is, to generate corresponding business value through better IT operation and improve core competitiveness, has become an urgent problem for enterprises. Enterprise Architecture (EA) which integrates strategic development, business and IT systems came into being.
Enterprise architecture has a long history, and there are many successful cases in Europe and America. The most successful practice is that the enterprise structure has been incorporated into the bills of European and American governments. Practice shows that EA can help enterprises to maximize IT benefits and avoid repeated investment and information islands through business architecture blueprint. However, at present, Chinese enterprises are still in the stage of learning and exploring EA, and only a few enterprises completely adopt the methods and ideas of enterprise architecture design to plan, implement and manage IT systems. It will take some time for China enterprises to have truly mature information knowledge and practice. The introduction, publicity and promotion of enterprise structure are of great significance to enterprises or governments in China.
Reasons for choosing TOGAF as the framework of enterprise architecture
TOGAF is an architectural framework, in short, it is a tool to assist the development, acceptance, operation, use and maintenance of architecture. TOGAF has been used by 80% of Forbes 50 companies, and it supports an open and standard SOA reference architecture.
The open group began to formulate system architecture standards at the request of customers in 1993, and published the architecture framework of the open group (TOGAF) in 1995. TOGAF is based on the Information Management Technology Architecture (TAFIM) of the US Department of Defense. It is based on an iterative process model and supports best practices and a set of reusable existing architectural assets. It allows you to design, evaluate and establish the correct organizational structure. The key of TOGAF is architecture development method (ADM): a reliable and effective method to develop enterprise architecture that can meet business requirements.
TOGAF is developed by more than 300 members of the Open Group Architecture Forum, including the world's leading IT customers and suppliers, representing the best practice of architecture development. Using TOGAF as the architecture framework will allow the consistency of architecture development, reflect the needs of stakeholders, adopt best practices, and provide appropriate consideration for current needs and possible future business needs.
Architecture design is a complicated technical process, especially for designing heterogeneous and multi-vendor architectures. TOGAF plays an important role in helping to eliminate the mystery and risk of architecture development process. TOGAF provides a value-added platform that enables users to build truly open system-based solutions to deal with their business problems and needs.
Who will benefit from using TOGAF?
Any organization that undertakes or plans to undertake the design and implementation of enterprise architecture to support critical business applications will benefit from the use of TOGAF.
Organizations seeking "borderless information flow" can use TOGAF to define and implement structures and processes that can access integrated information within or between enterprises.
Organizations that use TOGAF to design and implement enterprise architecture ensure the standardization of their design and procurement, which can promote the realization of open systems, thus realizing the benefits of open systems and reducing risks.
The Development and Influence of TOGAF in China
20 10 3 18, IDC, a world-renowned market consultancy, officially released the Future Report of Architecture Enterprises-2010 Enterprise Architecture China Manager. According to the report, more than 70% of large enterprises in China have started to build enterprise frameworks, and TOGAF is the most recognized and accepted framework at present. More than half of the enterprises have already understood the TOGAF framework method, and 37.5% enterprises will choose TOGAF framework when building enterprise architecture. When considering the framework method, enterprises are most concerned about five important factors: whether the technical foundation of the architecture is business-oriented, whether it is an open architecture, whether it can be implemented on the ground, whether there are successful cases and whether it has the ability to support SOA. This is the characteristic, advantage and value of TOGAF framework.
Kingdee, as the representative of China Open Group, introduced international enterprise architecture standards for the first time and devoted itself to popularizing TOGAF knowledge and application in China.
Internationally, TOGAF has been proved to be flexible and efficient in building enterprise IT architecture. The launch of TOGAF will have an important impact on the domestic software industry. Prior to this, domestic software companies rarely participated in the formulation of international standards, resulting in a low overall level of domestic software and a large gap with foreign software. After TOGAF is introduced, it will promote the domestic management software to keep pace with foreign advanced technology architecture.
TOGAF will help domestic enterprises greatly save costs, increase the flexibility of business models, be more personalized and on-demand, improve the application level of information systems, and promote the innovation of customers' business models. At the same time, TOGAF is not only a set of standards, but also a method that can bring the best management practices. Kingdee can help domestic enterprises connect with foreign best practices through TOGAF.
Domestic institutions providing TOGAF training
TOGAF training is conducted by an authorized training center designated by China Branch of Open Group. At present, the training institutions mainly include:
Jindie group education training center
Kingdee Group Education and Training Center has established a nationwide TOGAF examination system by using its own examination center and more than 100 branches. As of June 20 1 1, Kingdee Group Education and Training Center has successfully held 20 Chinese training courses and 16 TOGAF Chinese certification examinations, which has trained more than 160 China first-batch TOGAF enterprise architects for enterprises and society.
Faculty: Kingdee Group Education and Training Center relies on the top-level architecture expert resources of China Branch of Open Group, and has a strong faculty headed by Dr. Chu Youhong, chief technology officer of China Branch of Open Group and chief enterprise architecture expert of Kingdee, and Dr. Teng Teng, SOA technical director of China Branch of Open Group and dean of Kingdee Middleware Company Research Institute.
Training materials: The teaching materials used by Kingdee Group Education and Training Center are exclusively authorized by Open Group, including Chinese version of TOGAF Chinese training courseware, TOGAF9 manual, TOGAF9 pocket book and TOGAF9 glossary.
TOGAF training courses of Kingdee Group Education and Training Center include basic courses (2 days) and appraisal courses (5 days). The course focuses on TOGAF case teaching, and will teach open group enterprise architecture cases and templates, as well as examples of enterprise architecture tools and software.
Peking university Ruan informatization consultation Yu training center
As the Beijing Research Base of National Information Resource Management and the co-organizer of CIO class in Peking University, Peking University Software has accumulated rich information knowledge and resources. On June 5438+065438+ 10, 2009, Peking University Software was invited to attend the Open Group2009 Global Conference and delivered a keynote speech, which aroused great interest and extensive discussion among representatives from all countries. At the same time, Peking University Software signed a strategic cooperation agreement with QRS (Rapid Response) and FEAC, the main certification training institutions of Open Group. The training and certification system of soft enterprise architecture in Peking University was formally established.
Subsequently, Peking University Software, QRS and FEAC jointly carried out TOGAF9 and FEA certification training, and held a series of China Architects Development Salons on a regular basis, aiming at establishing a neutral and open communication platform for domestic enterprise architects, and jointly promoting the deepening application of enterprise architecture EA methodology in domestic information construction with well-known institutions and experts at home and abroad.
While introducing foreign excellent EA methodology, Peking University Software put the localization of enterprise architecture on the agenda. On 20 10, Peking university software made a breakthrough in the field of e-a: after several months of painstaking research by the architecture expert group, it successively developed Chinese teaching materials TOGAF and FEA, and then carried out Chinese certification training on open group architecture framework and federal enterprise architecture.
As of July, 20 10, * * More than 60 CIOs and heads of information departments of governments and enterprises have participated in TOGAF and FEA certification training of Peking University Software, and obtained the global registered architect qualification. The influence of enterprise architecture in China is expanding, and the team of internationally certified architects is also growing rapidly.
On September 20 10, Peking University Software launched a 13-day EA study and investigation project in the United States, and called architects to the United States to carry out project case studies to understand the best practices and effects of EA application in American institutions. Understand the essence of enterprise architecture through direct communication with EA master. For Nord stron, this is a great leap in international exchange and cooperation in the field of enterprise architecture.
Peking University Software will always devote itself to the research and promotion of enterprise architecture, truly integrate EA methodology with the reality of informatization in China, and make contributions to the realization of borderless information flow and core competitiveness of government and enterprises.