Dear EA Professional,
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.
Evaluation EA Cafe 12: Architecture with tangible business benefits
Create your free online surveys with SurveyMonkey, the world’s leading questionnaire tool.
EA Cafe 10: The Business Value of Enterprise Architecture, illustrated by a case study.
| March 3, 2011 | ||
| 5:30 pm | to | 7:30 pm |
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.
EA Cafe 9: the pictures
A few pictures taken at the EA Cafe 9 with the topic Enterprise Architecture Reality Check – a case study at Swisslife.
EA Café 9: Cross-Enterprise Architecture Reality Check – A Case Study
| September 30, 2010 | ||
| 6:00 pm | to | 8:00 pm |
About the Topic:
‘Case Study: Cross-Enterprise Architecture Reality Check’ tells the story of Swiss Life’s Germany and Switzerland entities, who previously operated mostly autonomously, but cooperated in a joint program, named Pulse, in 2007 to bring variable annuity life insurance products to Europe through a new shared service center in Luxemburg. The corporation had just strategically reoriented, and would soon have to prove its stability through 2008’s turbulent times in the financial markets. This has truly put the flexibility and “apt competitive cost” of Swiss Life’s enterprise architecture to the test.
We will look at how the compliance requirements and the innovative business model were enabled, building on the existing architectures. Which key lessons can be drawn from the established architecture, after subsequent corporate decisions with deep impact on the organisation, while simultaneously extending the architecture (as well as building a new one) to enable consecutive different-than-foreseen business models in Austria and Switzerland through 2009 and 2010
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
Microsoft will be the host of this Architect Café.
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.
EA Cafe 8: the pictures
A few pictures taken at the EA Cafe 8 about EA and Governance.
EA Cafe 8: Enterprise Architecture Governance
| June 17, 2010 | ||
| 6:00 pm | to | 8:00 pm |
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:
EA Cafe 7: the pictures
2010 March 16th. More than 80 Enterprise Architects and related professionals attended the event “Tools for the Enterprise Architect” with four tool vendors showing their offering. IBM, IDS Scheer, BizzDesign and Mega each gave a 30 minute presentation. Afterwards, there was ample opportunity to network, to drink a glass and eat a sandwich. And to visit vendor booths to ask questions and exchange contact information. A few pictures.
How to access the content of events?
All subscribers to our mailing list get free access to the contents of previous EA cafes. If you did subscribe yet you have not received the password to the page with presentations and results, please send Inge an email and you will get the password soon.
Event 7: Tools for the Enterprise Architect
| March 16, 2010 | ||
| 6:00 pm | to | 8:00 pm |
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
