please find the survey about our 13th EA cafe here: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/RQXJTY6

Take a minute or two to fill in this survey: it helps us to adapt our future events to your needs and wishes. Thanks.

Dear EA professional,

We would like to invite you for our next Architect Café on November 30th. The following topic is covered: Cloud Computing will change the way we work with Enterprise Architecture.

Cloud Computing is one of the IT trends that has a huge impact on the IT industry. In his lecture Martin van den Berg will discuss the impact of Cloud Computing on Enterprise Architecture. He will answer the following questions:

• Is there more need for enterprise architecture if you would purchase services from the cloud?
• Will cloud computing lead to other kind of architectures?
• Will cloud computing lead to a different way we work with architecture?

Martin van den Berg is Architecture Service Line Manager at Sogeti Nederland B.V. and an expert in the area of Enterprise Architecture. He worked as lead architect in organizations like ABN AMRO, ING, Rabobank and Shell. Martin is one of the founders of DYA (Dynamic Architecture) and author of the books “Dynamic Enterprise Architecture, How to make it work”, “Building an Enterprise Architecture Practice”, “SOA for Profit” and “Seize the Cloud”.

Avertim will be the host of this Architect Café.

The Architect Café will be held in the Avertim offices in Brussels. Doors are open as from 17h30 and the presentations will be held from 18h to 20h00 (with networking event after the presentations). If you would like to register, please click here.

We are always looking for interesting presentations, valuable case studies and possible hosting locations. Should you have any suggestions, please let us know.

We are looking forward to meeting you in November!

Best regards,

The Belgian Chapter of a|EA

Proud sponsor of this event: Avertim

Update: the presentations can be found here:

Presentation Cloudsourcing with Architecture – Martin van den Berg

A multidisciplinary approach to business architecture. How SD Worx succeeded in transforming a complicated and fragmented application landscape to a coherent and simplified architecture with tangible business benefits.

We will approach the transformation operation from three different perspectives:

• that of the business manager who is responsible for funding the program and for reaping the benefits
• that of the human interface designer who developed a suitable user interface architecture to support the business process
• that of the architect who modeled the AS IS architecture and envisioned the TO BE application landscape

Each role will be filled in with a speaker:

• Jan Boden is manager of the Central Services and Internal Processes department at SD Worx – KMO. He will speak about the business impact of the transformation operation: business drivers, the business process and the benefits.
• Johan van Maldeghem is human interface designer with experience in describing business processes and developing highly usable interfaces. He will talk about the initial development of the main business application based on a set of scenarios he derived from a set of interviews with real users.
• Peter Doomen is enterprise architect at SD Worx. His experience includes modeling complex landscapes and convincing management to take action. He will sketch the context of the transformation operation and talk about the main architecture principles that form the base of the TO BE application landscape.

Practical
The Architect Café will be held in the Namahn offices in Brussels. Doors are open as from 17h30 and the presentations will be held from 18h to 20h00 (with networking event after the presentations). To register, contact Inge.

Update: the presentations can be found here:

• Architecture with tangible business benefits
• baea_jvm_20110908 (GUI architecture)

Dear EA professional,Our next Architect Café on May 26^th will cover the following topic: An Agile Architecture with Domain Inheritance and Derivations.

No old wine in new bottles: an agile environment requires an agile architecture and the old concepts (like 3 tier, distributed objects and SOA) are not ready for it. The obvious architecture is a thorough integrated one without the architecture becoming a monolith.

This interesting topic is brought to you by Koen Van Exem, Managing Director at INXIN. He has more than 10 years experience with Agile and Lean Software Development. “Dimensional planning” is his contribution to the Agile & Lean range of ideas.

Koen is also Managing Director of Allors, an open source application (platform) that is most suited for Agile & Lean companies.

The presentation of Koen will be followed by a business case presented by Wald Westerlinck. At DSM he ran a program to change the DSM sourcing from local buying community to a global service buying center, from Business group towards Hub structure.

HP will be the host of this Architect Café.

The Architect Café will be held in the HP offices in Diegem. Doors are open as from 17h30 and the presentations will be held from 18h to 19h30 (with networking event after the presentations). If you would like to register, please click here.

We are always looking for interesting presentations, valuable case studies and possible hosting locations. Should you have any suggestions, please let us know.
We are looking forward to meeting you in May!Best regards,

The Belgian Chapter of a|EA

The Belgian Chapter of a|EA

Dear,

First of all best wishes for the New Year!

We at the Belgian Chapter will promote Enterprise Architecture even more in 2011 with 3 Architect Café’s that offer both theoretical and practical cases.

To kick-start our new season we proudly present you on Thursday 3rd March the following topic: The Business Value of Enterprise Architecture, illustrated by a case study.

This interesting topic is brought to you by Patrick Vandeputte. He holds a Master in Engineering and an MBA and has some 20 years of experience with ICT in various functions. While working for bpost since 2003 he currently leads the Enterprise Architecture team at bpost since 2008. Since then the EA team has been heavily involved in all major business projects and a formal Architecture Board has been integrated as a mandatory quality gate in the E2E demand management process. Last year he initiated an ambitious multi-year corporate EA program ‘WRIGHT’ aiming at better alignment between business and ICT.

RealDolmen will be the host of this Architect Café. Location: De Jachthoorn (Kontich).

Doors are open as from 17h30 and the presentations will be held from 18h to 19h30 (with networking event after the presentations). If you would like to register, please click here.

For the next Architect Café’s, please save the following dates:
- Thursday May 26th 2011 Diegem
- Tuessday Sept. 13th 2011 Brussels

We are looking forward meeting you in March!

Best regards,

The Belgian Chapter of a|EA

PS. We are always looking for interesting presentations, valuable case studies and possible hosting locations.

About the Topic:

About the facilitator:

Erwin Glassée has served as the Pulse program architect through 2008, based in Zürich until mid 2010. Coming from his previous engagement as country enterprise architect for Swiss Life Belgium, he experienced life as an architect at Swiss Life Group both in Rome (physically conveniently located in Zürich) and in the provinces. Erwin has performed previous engagements as consulting IT architect, project manager, business analyst and software engineer (both custom and product software). Erwin is currently ICT Architect and ICT Security Officer at Delta Lloyd Life, starting september 2010.

Practicalities

Dear,

We are proud to present the next Architecture café titled “Enterprise Architecture Governance” on Thursday 17th of June in Brussels.

At the well-known SAP Lounge three speakers will provide some interesting insights regarding this subject.

Steven De Haes is professor Information Systems Management at the University of Antwerp Management School (UAMS) and guest lecturer Information Systems Management at the faculty of Applied Economics of the University of Antwerp. He will start with “Enterprise Governance of IT & Enterprise Architecture: where do they meet?” (6 p.m. – 7 p.m.)

The host of this Architect Café, Deloitte, will continue with “Flexible IT platforms: needs and challenges”. The presentation is given by William Axelsson (Director Deloitte Consulting) and Philip Van Langenhove (Senior Manager Deloitte Consulting)

Doors are open as from 17h30 and presentations will be held from 18h to 20h (with networking event after the presentations). If you would like to register, please click here.

We are looking forward meeting you in June!

Best regards,

The Belgian Chapter of a|EA

Proud sponsor of this event:

The response to the Fifth Architecture Cafe, about practical experiences with EA tools, organized by the BAEA was enormous. Participants asked us to organize a follow-up with more in-depth insight into the various tools that exist and how Enterprise Architects can benefit from using them.

The BAEA board therefore decided to have another Architecture Cafe with tooling as a subject.

We have invited the 4 leading tool vendors IBM, Mega, BiZZdesign and IDS Scheer to give a 30 minute presentation about their tool and to set up a demo booth.

The event will be held at the well-known Business Faculty in Brussels.

Timing

The Belgian Chapter welcomes you as off 17h30 with an appetizing sandwich buffet. Coming on time doesn’t only mean you can enjoy a tasty diner but you can also get acquainted with the demo booths of the different vendors as well.
At 18h00 sharp, the seventh Architect Café will kick off with the following agenda:
18h00 – 18h30: Mega
18h30 – 19h00: IBM
19h00 – 19h30: BiZZdesign
19h30 – 20h00: IDS Scheer

In order to be able to respect the timeline, we suggest you ask your questions afterwards on the demo booth of the vendor.

We look forward meeting you there!

Sponsors

Proud sponsors of this event:

Location and roadmap

Location and roadmap: see http://www.businessfaculty.be/html/default.asp?a=route

Date: Tuesday March 16th, 2010

Registration is necessary.

On 2009, September 16th, Suzanne Robertson, principal of the Atlantic Systems Guild and (co)author of many books and articles about requirements management spoke about Enterprise Analysis and Requirements – how they can benefit from each other. It was a wonderful event with lively discussions and sound answers, attended by 50+ participants.

Who is Suzanne Robertson?

Suzanne Robertson is a principal and founder of the Atlantic Systems Guild. She is co-author of “Mastering the Requirements Process, 2nd edition” textbook, a guide for practitioners on finding requirements and writing them so that all stakeholders can understand them.

Suzanne works with organisations to apply innovative techniques and fresh thinking in all of their systems development activities.

Her work also includes research and consulting on the management, sociological and technological aspects of requirements.

The product of her research and experience is Volere (www.volere.co.uk), a requirements process, template and techniques for assessing requirements quality, and for specifying requirements.

The Volere template description has been translated in many languages, including Dutch and French.

The presentation and the result of this Architecture Café are available for subscribers.