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Enterprise Architecture Training Courses by Tonex

COURSE NAMELENGTH
Architecture Modeling with UAF (Unified Architecture Framework) | UAF Workshop2 days
DoDAF 2 Training- Hands-on Project Based DoDAF Training3 days
DoDAF Certification, Project-based Hands-on DoDAF Training Courses3 days
DoDAF Training- DoDAF 2.02 Migration Training3 days
DoDAF Workshop – Business Process Management with DoDAF 2.03 days
Enterprise Architecture Training3 days
Introduction to DoDAF Training3 days
Introduction to SoS Operational Test and DoDAF3 days
MODAF (UK Ministry of Defence Architectural Framework) Training3 days
NAF Training – NATO Architecture Framework3 days
NASCIO Training – NASCIO Enterprise Architecture Development Training2 days
Systems Engineering with DoDAF Training3 days
UAF Training | Hands-on Project Based Unified Architecture Framework (UAF) Crash Course3 days
Unified Architecture Framework (UAF) Fundamentals2 days
Unified Architecture Framework (UAF) Migration Training | UAF Migration Training2 days

Advanced Software Safety Architecture Workshop by Tonex

Enterprise architecture (EA) is vital in guiding digital transformation efforts within an organization.

Enterprise architecture provides a detailed overview of the internal systems, processes, and data flows, enabling organizations to identify improvement areas and innovation opportunities

Enterprise architecture is the conceptual framework that helps organizations align their business objectives with IT infrastructures and technology capabilities. It provides a strategic approach to designing, planning, and managing organizational structure process, Information systems, and technology infrastructure to achieve its goals effectively and efficiently.

Many feel the greatest benefit of EA is how it can provide a holistic view of the organization, enabling decision-makers to understand how different business and technology landscape components are interconnected.

EA helps in identifying gaps, redundancies, and opportunities for improvement. It also helps optimize operations, enhance efficiency, foster innovation, and adapt to changing business needs and Technological advancements.

Another key benefit of Enterprise Architecture is that it allows organizations to decrease complexity.

Complex systems that are difficult to manage can cause many errors as well as reduce efficiency. EA emerged as a solution to the complexity of systems in organizations. Consequently, decreasing the complexity of systems is one of the biggest expectations of an organization from Enterprise Architecture.

Analysts point out that Enterprise Architecture simplifies the management of systems with the right tools. It also reduces systems complexity by detecting and stopping processes that do not contribute to targets.

Enterprise Architecture also puts a stop to wasted time, which fattens the bottom line. EA saves time for IT staff as it enables the optimization of IT tools and processes.

Enterprise Architecture also prevents bigger problems by enabling the causes of problems to be detected faster. This reduces the loss of time and workforce caused by disruptions.

This results in significant resource and cost savings. In addition, EA saves IT budget by optimizing IT infrastructure.

Other benefits of Enterprise Architecture include:

  • Improving adaptability to changing demands or market conditions
  • Supporting organization changes for redesigns and reorganization
  • Making it easier to evaluate architecture against long-term goals
  • Facilitating collaboration with project management
  • Giving views of IT architectures to those outside of IT
  • Optimizing the use of organizational assets
  • Helping with the unification of processes in IT

Enterprise Architecture Training by Tonex

Tonex Enterprise Architecture Training and Certification, for detailed agenda CLICK HERE.

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A DoDAF architectural description of a system comprises a set of descriptions, or views, that are linked to each other, and that each contain information about the system from a particular perspective.

In DoDAF, these perspectives are called products.

DoDAF classifies products according to their specific architectural attributes in three views: the Operational View (OV), the Systems View (SV), and the Technical Standards View (TV). Certain aspects of a system’s architecture are best described by all three views.

The DoDAF combines overview and summary information, and definitions of DoDAF product terminology in a view called All Views (AV).

DoDAF is designed to enable you to describe the structure of, and the relationships between, the components of an operational environment. To do this, DoDAF defines elements such as nodes, needlines, services and information exchanges. It then provides rules that you use to model an operational environment to demonstrate how nodes cooperate and interact with each other to meet a mission objective.

DoDAF helps System Architects, Systems Engineers, Software Developers, and others who seek to transition from traditional systems development processes that are document-based and code-centric, to Model-Based Engineering processes that are requirements-driven and architecture-centric.

All major U.S. DoD weapons and information technology system acquisitions are required to develop and document an enterprise architecture (EA) using the views prescribed in the DoDAF. While it is aimed at military systems, DoDAF has broad applicability across the private, public and voluntary sectors around the world, and represents one of a large number of systems architecture frameworks.

The Object Management Group produced the Unified Profile for DoDAF/MODAF (UPDM) to develop a modeling standard that support both the USA Department of Defense Architecture Framework (DoDAF) and the UK Ministry of Defense Architecture Framework (MODAF). 

 

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Tonex makes $6.7 million donation to EA Center

The Center for Enterprise Architecture (EA) at Penn State’s College of Information Sciences and Technology (IST) has received a donation valued at $6.7 million from Tonex, a company that provides training and consulting services to a wide variety of industries. The donations will support curricular development in the field of enterprise architecture at IST.

“We thank Tonex for this generous donation. Donations of this type add to our ever growing pool of software, hardware and course content resources. This unique collection of resources will help ensure that our programs remain on the leading edge,” said Dr. Brian Cameron, executive director of the Center for Enterprise Architecture.

Tonex provides instructor-led, hands-on, customized Enterprise Architecture training and certification courses and certificate programs for professionals and managers in business and government organizations.

Enterprise architecture, Cameron said, is the process of translating business’ vision and strategy into effective operational planning. By integrating the various dimensions of an organization, an enterprise architect takes a company’s business strategy and defines an information technology system to support that strategy.

Some of the Enterprise Architecture Training Objectives:

  • How to create an integrated and comprehensive departmental process for EA;
  • Reduce redundancies in these separate approaches;
  • Map to the Enterprise Architecture efforts of your organization
  • How EA ca be developed to a detail level that ensures the efficient management of Department IT resources,
  • What Interior Enterprise Architecture is; A New Approach
  • How to refocus and align with the overall Enterprise Architecture (EA) Reference Models
  • More about Performance, Business, Data, Service and Technology Reference Model related to Enterprise Architecture (EA) frameworks
  • How to build a Business Architecture Team (BAT)
  • How to work with Business layers of Architecture (e.g., Performance and Business Reference Models)
  • How to build a Technical Architecture Team (TAT)
  • How to work with Technology Layers of Architecture (e.g., Technology Reference Model, etc.)
  • Incorporating Existing Business Area  artifacts into unified Architecture
  • Steps towards establishing EA governance
  • How to ensure IT investments adhere to the EA.
  • More about poor modernization blueprints: Few enterprises had a business-driven enterprise architectures, a roadmap that showed what IT investments will be used to better improve performance
  • ore about Paving Cowpaths: Enterprises automated management problems, instead of leveraging e-business to fix them
  • Redundant Buying: Multiple agencies bought the same item, instead of driving economies of scale or creating one-stop points of service
  • Program Management: Few delivered on time, on budget
  • Islands of Automation: customers have to deal with multiple segments to get service, instead of going to a single point of service website or call center
  • Poor Cyber Security: IT security is seen as an IT or funding issue, instead of agency management issue
  • Identify common functions, interdependencies, interrelationships, and evaluate barriers to information sharing
  • Implement in a way that addresses both the opportunities and risks of a “networked” environment
  • Leverage technologies to achieve benefits of interoperability while protecting societal values of privacy and intellectual property rights, etc.

Topics Covered

The Enterprise Architecture training is intended to serve as a guide and roadmap to enterprise engineers, enterprise architect, business and technology transformation people and other practitioners responsible for, or involved with, architecting in an enterprise context. It will also provide guidance with strategy making and business planning.

  • Learn about different Enterprise Reference Architecture and Methodology
  • Enterprise Architecture Frameworks and Methodologies
  • Enterprise Architecture guidelines in ISO 15704:2000
  • Modeling Enterprise Architectural vision
  • Understand business objectives, drivers & principles
  • Understand technology objectives, drivers & principles
  • Enterprise Integration, and its mapping, traceability and relationship to other enterprise frameworks
  • Modeling as a means for defining the requirements for enterprise change when it comes to enterprise transformation and alignment
  • Requirements to developing the Enterprise Architecture master plan including architectural design of the changed and transformed enterprise (AS-IS vs. TO-BE) with techniques for architecting the desired change
  • A Synergistic Assessment of the Enterprise Architecture Frameworks and architectures
  • Planning, Discovering and Modeling Enterprise Engineering Project Processes
  • Enterprise Architecture Framework for Agile and Interoperable Virtual and Federated Enterprises
  • Activity-Based Methodology for Development and Analysis of Integrated Architectures
  • Business Process Modeling as a Blueprint for Enterprise Architecture
  • Enterprise Architecture in the Government and Military
  • Enterprise Architecture Governance and Management
  • Understanding and Communicating with Enterprise Architecture Users and Stakeholders
  • Stakeholder Communications and Engagement
  • The Role of Change Management in IT Systems Implementation
  • Managing Enterprise Architecture Change
  • Transformation and Value Realization
  • Maturity of IT-Business Alignment
  • The Integrated Enterprise Life Cycle
  • Enterprise Architecture, Investment Management, and System
  • Promoting Net centricity through the Use of Enterprise
  • Implementation and Deployment
  • Enterprise Architecture as an Enabler for E-Governance
  • Federated Enterprise Resource Planning
  • Network-Based View of Enterprise Architecture
  • Information Systems Architecture for Business Process Modeling
  • Technology and Service-Oriented Architectures
  • Enterprise Architecture within the Service-Oriented Enterprise
  • A Fundamental SOA Approach to Rebuilding Enterprise Architecture
  • Business Networking with Web Services
  • Full Life Cycle of Business Collaborations
  • Enterprise Architecture Roles and Responsibilities
  • Characteristics of an Effective Enterprise Architect
  • Key Characteristics of Enterprise Architects

 

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