What is Enterprise Architecture?
Enterprise Architecture (EA) is a holistic approach to develop, use, and sustain UCD's digital campus to support business transformation.
EA provides a common language and approach to build holistic understanding of UCD's business, data, application, and technology architectures, and how they enable and support the UCD experience.
How are we doing this?
We are capturing the applications (and underlying technologies) that form UCD digital campus.
At a high level this involves;
- Establishing Digital Governance Framework, Enterprise Architecture Principles and Non-Functional Requirements to help inform, guide and govern the design and deployment of applications across the University
- Creating an Application Portfolio with detailed overview of the applications in use in UCD, including their purpose, ownership, and usage.
- Mapping these applications to Business Capabilities (using the Higher Education Reference Models)
- Capture Data Flows for these applications, including the data objects and interfaces used.
- Applying Application Portfolio Management techniques to determine where investment is needed
- Creating Architecture Roadmaps to outline the future direction of an UCD architecture
Key Business Outcomes
Key Business Outcomes
- Informed decision-making
- Aligning IT investments with business strategy
- Increased communication and efficiency across the business
- Compliance and governance
- Risk management and analysis
- Opportunities to reduce costs
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