Sustainable IT Architecture
The IS-IT Foundation to leverage your IS Assets
Coupling the Business Repositories MDM, BRMS and BPM is a significant point to improve IS traceability and agility. Even though the connection between MDM, BRMS and BPM still remains an IT concern it provides Business Users with functional features allowing a complete and real IS governance: Version management, Right management, Auditability, Traceability, Reporting, Querying, Authoring... of Master Data, Rules and Processes. The natural path to implement these Repositories is first Data (MDM), second Business Rules (BRMS) and then Processes (BPM). It provides a significant linking value. Indeed, Processes need Business Rules, and the latter need a high level of Data quality : this is a chain of traceability and agility. The implementation of this chain relies on an iterative lifecycle development and start with the MDM. This is what we call the Agility Chain Management System (ACMS). Find out more here.
The Tool to measure your IS Assets
To leverage their IS Governance, companies should assess the quality of their IS Assets based on their Reference & Master Data, Business Rules and Key Processes. To achieve this goal, we deliver the IS Rating Tool. This tool complements with best practices tackling IS-IT governance such as CobiT (Plan and Organize Processes) and CMMI.
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More than 900 members.
July 2010 - the EA-3views
June 2010 - First training day (September 09th)
June 2010 - IS Rating Tool Training
June 2010 - Another book by Pierre Bonnet
May, 2010 - New book by Pierre Bonnet
May, 2010 - Processes Assessment available
March, 2010 - Enterprise Architecture
March, 2010 - Rating preview HTML
June 2010 - First training day (September 09th)
June 2010 - IS Rating Tool Training
June 2010 - Another book by Pierre Bonnet
May, 2010 - New book by Pierre Bonnet
May, 2010 - Processes Assessment available
March, 2010 - Enterprise Architecture
March, 2010 - Rating preview HTML
Welcome to Sustainable IT Architecture
At Sustainable IT Architecture, we promote a new way of implementing Information Systems and underlying IT Systems to improve auditability and traceability of Information (Data, Business Rules and Processes). It means a more open, readable, sustainable approach to govern information within complex organizations. This is a key point to enforce a better risks management in relation to new businesses and the green growth, as this new way of doing business required an extension of informations systems: more databases, more real-time information management such as RFID and the Internet of Objects.
Rather than using an approach of hard-coding software meaningful to IT specialists only (IT programing languages, opaque and rigid databases, etc.), companies have a strategic interest in using Business Repositories as the foundation of their IS/IT. It means using Master Data Management (MDM), Business Rules Management System (BRMS) and BPM (Business Process Management) as the spine of their systems.
Thanks to these repositories, business users and auditors benefit from governance features allowing a better management of their ref/master data, business rules and processes: authoring, quering, permissions management, version management, auditability, etc. To succeed in this new way of building IS/IT, we state that the Linking Value of these three repositories must be taken into account: the value of processes depends on the value of business rules, and the value of business rules depends on the value of ref/master data. Thererfore, this is a chain of IS Assets: the strenght of this chain is equal to its weakest link. In other words, it is not valuable to have a strong BPM approach if rules carried out by processes are hard-coded in opaque software. And it is not valuable to author rules in a BRMS if ref/master data carried out by these rules are scattered and duplicated within many legacy databases with a low data quality. To enforce new businesses and the green growth (i.e. sustainable economy), we believe that companies must rely on a more sustainable Information Systems. In an increasingly virtual economy in which fuel is the knowledge, managing intangible assets in a more sustainable way (traceability, auditability...) is essential. We also promote a new rating framework (IS Rating Tool) to measure these IS Assets (Master Data, Business Rules and Processes) to obtain a kind of "standard and poors" applied to Information Systems. This should be a regulatory goal to sustain new businesses and the green growth.
Thanks in advance for sharing your opinions with us and we wish you a good journey to the Sustainable IT Architecture.
Best regards
Pierre Bonnet
Founder of the Sustainable IT Architecture
Rather than using an approach of hard-coding software meaningful to IT specialists only (IT programing languages, opaque and rigid databases, etc.), companies have a strategic interest in using Business Repositories as the foundation of their IS/IT. It means using Master Data Management (MDM), Business Rules Management System (BRMS) and BPM (Business Process Management) as the spine of their systems.
Thanks to these repositories, business users and auditors benefit from governance features allowing a better management of their ref/master data, business rules and processes: authoring, quering, permissions management, version management, auditability, etc. To succeed in this new way of building IS/IT, we state that the Linking Value of these three repositories must be taken into account: the value of processes depends on the value of business rules, and the value of business rules depends on the value of ref/master data. Thererfore, this is a chain of IS Assets: the strenght of this chain is equal to its weakest link. In other words, it is not valuable to have a strong BPM approach if rules carried out by processes are hard-coded in opaque software. And it is not valuable to author rules in a BRMS if ref/master data carried out by these rules are scattered and duplicated within many legacy databases with a low data quality. To enforce new businesses and the green growth (i.e. sustainable economy), we believe that companies must rely on a more sustainable Information Systems. In an increasingly virtual economy in which fuel is the knowledge, managing intangible assets in a more sustainable way (traceability, auditability...) is essential. We also promote a new rating framework (IS Rating Tool) to measure these IS Assets (Master Data, Business Rules and Processes) to obtain a kind of "standard and poors" applied to Information Systems. This should be a regulatory goal to sustain new businesses and the green growth.
Thanks in advance for sharing your opinions with us and we wish you a good journey to the Sustainable IT Architecture.
Best regards
Pierre Bonnet
Founder of the Sustainable IT Architecture
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What
is
valorization of Information Systems?
 To guarantee the IS to be fully
gauged, three types of value must be
distinguished: Use Value
of IS, Business
Value of IS, Intrinsic Value
of IS. The IS
Intrinsic
Value is stronger when IS Assets are not hard-coded only
within opaque software. In other words, the more Data, Rules and
Processes are managed through business repositories (MDM, BRMS, BPM)
the more the rating
goes up. Read
more now.
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Note
to
Information Systems stakeholders
 All Stakeholders of Information Systems should be aware that mastering Knowledge, Governance and Technology of Data, Rules and Processes are vitally important for companies. All these IS Assets should be managed through Business Repositories as described by the Sustainable IT Architecture (MDM, BRMS and BPM). Get a quick understanding of this approach by reading the mapping CobiT Governance Framework to IS Rating Tool (Plan and Organize processes). |
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Assess
your Information System
 Find out how the IS Rating Tool matrix allows to measure the performance of your IS Assets based on Reference and Master Data, Business Rules and Processes. For each cell of this matrix, the IS Rating Tool provides a set of questions to assess its intrinsic value. Read more here. |
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Does
your ERP become a complex system?
 To enforce a better management of ERP upgrades, all customizations must be pushed to business repositories outside ERP, in other words within MDM, BRMS and BPM. To achieve this approach a Model-driven MDM must be deployed first. Read more here. |
Our latest book - quick view of key concepts
Find out a quick presentation of key concepts explained by Pierre Bonnet (Founder of Sustainable IT Architecture) in his new book "Enterprise Data Governance - Reference and Master Data Management - Semantic Modeling", ISTE - WILEY.
Free Download (PPT, 4 Mb).
Fourth cover and link to order the book
Book by Pierre Bonnet. ISBN: 978-1-84821-182-7 - Publication Date: June 2010 - ISTE - WILEY
In an increasingly digital economy, mastering the quality of data is an increasingly vital yet still, in most organizations, a considerable task. The necessity of better governance and reinforcement of international rules and regulatory or oversight structures (Sarbanes Oxley, Basel II, Solvency II, IAS-IFRS, etc.) imposes on enterprises the need for greater transparency and better traceability of their data.
All the stakeholders in a company have a role to play and great benefit to derive from the overall goals here, but will invariably turn towards their IT department in search of the answers. However, the majority of IT systems that have been developed within businesses are overly complex, badly adapted, and in many cases obsolete; these systems have often become a source of data or process fragility for the business. It is in this context that the management of “reference and master data” or Master Data Management (MDM) and semantic modeling can intervene in order to straighten out the management of data in a forward-looking and sustainable manner.
This book shows how company executives and IT managers can take these new challenges, as well as the advantages of using reference and master data management, into account in answering questions such as: Which data governance functions are available? How can IT be better aligned with business regulations? What is the return on investment? How can we assess intangible IT assets and data? What are the principles of semantic modeling? What is the MDM technical architecture? In these ways they will be better able to deliver on their responsibilities to their organizations, and position them for growth and robust data management and integrity in the future.
Find out a quick presentation of key concepts explained by Pierre Bonnet (Founder of Sustainable IT Architecture) in his new book "Enterprise Data Governance - Reference and Master Data Management - Semantic Modeling", ISTE - WILEY.
Free Download (PPT, 4 Mb).
Fourth cover and link to order the book
Book by Pierre Bonnet. ISBN: 978-1-84821-182-7 - Publication Date: June 2010 - ISTE - WILEY
In an increasingly digital economy, mastering the quality of data is an increasingly vital yet still, in most organizations, a considerable task. The necessity of better governance and reinforcement of international rules and regulatory or oversight structures (Sarbanes Oxley, Basel II, Solvency II, IAS-IFRS, etc.) imposes on enterprises the need for greater transparency and better traceability of their data.
All the stakeholders in a company have a role to play and great benefit to derive from the overall goals here, but will invariably turn towards their IT department in search of the answers. However, the majority of IT systems that have been developed within businesses are overly complex, badly adapted, and in many cases obsolete; these systems have often become a source of data or process fragility for the business. It is in this context that the management of “reference and master data” or Master Data Management (MDM) and semantic modeling can intervene in order to straighten out the management of data in a forward-looking and sustainable manner.
This book shows how company executives and IT managers can take these new challenges, as well as the advantages of using reference and master data management, into account in answering questions such as: Which data governance functions are available? How can IT be better aligned with business regulations? What is the return on investment? How can we assess intangible IT assets and data? What are the principles of semantic modeling? What is the MDM technical architecture? In these ways they will be better able to deliver on their responsibilities to their organizations, and position them for growth and robust data management and integrity in the future.
Find out the IS Rating Tool Course
What you will learn with this course: IS/IT impacts of the boom in data management, pitfalls of EA frameworks, meaning of IS Assets, meaning of IS Use Value, IS Intrinsic Value and IS Business Value, business triggers to start the IS restructuring based on a holistic use of MDM+BRMS+BPM, functioning of the IS Rating Tool with its Matrix crossing three domains of assessment (Knowledge, Governance, IT) with the three types of IS Assets (Data, Business Rules and Processes), use of the Data Assessment part of the IS Rating Tool.
See here.
What you will learn with this course: IS/IT impacts of the boom in data management, pitfalls of EA frameworks, meaning of IS Assets, meaning of IS Use Value, IS Intrinsic Value and IS Business Value, business triggers to start the IS restructuring based on a holistic use of MDM+BRMS+BPM, functioning of the IS Rating Tool with its Matrix crossing three domains of assessment (Knowledge, Governance, IT) with the three types of IS Assets (Data, Business Rules and Processes), use of the Data Assessment part of the IS Rating Tool.
See here.
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Companies Members
They collaborate with us to support and share knowledge about the Agility Chain Management System and the IS Rating Tool.
To accelerate the adoption of ACMS and IS Rating Tool we need your support:
- Systems Integrators can benefit from this web platform to give information about their added-values based on ACMS and IS Rating Tool,
- User Companies can show their interests in ACMS and IS Rating Tool, publish and share lessons learnt and therefore contribute to the effort of the community.
We need your involvement, don't hesitate to contact us to be added in the Companies Members List.
Thanks in advance.
See the detailed list of Companies Members here.
They collaborate with us to support and share knowledge about the Agility Chain Management System and the IS Rating Tool.
To accelerate the adoption of ACMS and IS Rating Tool we need your support:
- Systems Integrators can benefit from this web platform to give information about their added-values based on ACMS and IS Rating Tool,
- User Companies can show their interests in ACMS and IS Rating Tool, publish and share lessons learnt and therefore contribute to the effort of the community.
We need your involvement, don't hesitate to contact us to be added in the Companies Members List.
Thanks in advance.
See the detailed list of Companies Members here.
