Friday, October 17, 2008 | Modified Wednesday, July 7, 2010 20:14 Pacific/Honolulu
Enterprise Architecture
Enterprise Architecture (EA) is the practice of applying a structured and rigorous framework for organizing and managing an organization’s requirements,information, and technology. It includes addressing process, resource,organizational aspects of an initiative and ensuring that the solution aligns with the organization’s core goals and strategic direction. EAis more than just about technology, but really about organizational transformation and draws upon the disciplines of organizational architecture, knowledge management, performance management, and process architecture to achieve an optimized organization.
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Business Performance Management
Business performance management (BPM) is a strategic-level initiative, normally focused on one or more of the following activities: budgeting, planning, forecasting, reporting, process control and system controls. CFO.com also defines it as a "set of processes, metrics, methodologies, and software tools that allow an organization to forecast, measure, and react to various business drivers and performance indicators - all in service of its overall business strategy." Many BPM initiatives begin with a process focus, then move to looking at the data and information needed to manage those processes. Finally software is selected to support the effort and automate information management tasks .
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Application Development, Integration, & Risk Management
ITK can help manage projects either as a “user advocate”, helping business users to communicate their needs to the development team (see Application Development Support below) or as a “technical project manager”, supporting a business-focused lead project manager (see Application Integration Support and Project Management Assistance below).
However, ITK will also take on smaller application development or maintenance projects that use any of the following technologies: Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Access, Visual Basic for Applications, and PHP.