Assignment on Application of Enterprise Architecture

Running head: - APPLICATION OF ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE
APPLICATION OF ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE
Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author Note

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Table of Contents
1. Introduction:...........................................................................................................................3
2. Part-1: EA Program Management:.........................................................................................4
2.1. Governance and Principles:.............................................................................................4
2.2. Support for Strategy and Business:.................................................................................5
2.3. EA Roles and Responsibilities:.......................................................................................6
2.4. EA Program Budget:.......................................................................................................7
2.5 EA Program Performance Measures:...............................................................................7
3. Part-2: EA Current Architecture Summary:...........................................................................8
3.1. Strategic Goals and Initiatives:.......................................................................................8
3.2. Business Services and Information:................................................................................9
3.3. Systems and applications:.............................................................................................10
3.4. Technology Infrastructure:............................................................................................11
3.5. IT Security:....................................................................................................................12
3.6. EA Standards:................................................................................................................13
3.7. Workforce Requirements:.............................................................................................13
4. Part-3: EA Future Architecture Summary:..........................................................................14
4.1. Future Operation Scenarios:..........................................................................................14
4.2. Planning Assumptions:..................................................................................................15
4.3. Updating Current & Future Views:...............................................................................16
4.4. Sequencing Plan:...........................................................................................................17
4.5. Configuration Management:.........................................................................................18

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5. Conclusion:..........................................................................................................................19
6. References:...........................................................................................................................20

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1. Introduction:
Dell is a company that had been founded in the year of 1984 in the state of Austin,
Texas by Michael Dell. The starting budget of the company was $1000 and carried a unique
vision of how technology in the modern era shall be designed, sold as well as manufactured.
Later on, the company grew to have a customer base of more than a count of 5.4 million
along with an annual IT budget of $1 billion every year1. Since the initial phase, the company
has made a large mark within the field of computer industry by shipping more than a count of
10,000 systems to customers from more than a count of 180 countries worldwide. Following
this, the company not only remained a primary manufacturer of computers, but also started
provisioning customers with IT related solutions and helped the company grow from one
country to another. However, to create the process for achieving the objectives of the
organization, there was a particular need to rationalize the existing IT infrastructure. This
particular procedure of transformation had the primary inclusion of improving the efficiency,
reducing costs as well as enforcing the common standards. As a reason, the Enterprise
Architecture team began working towards the establishment of an enterprise vision2. This
blueprint for the enterprise architecture highlighted all the necessary information that is
associated with the organization such as the likes of strategy, business processes, objectives,
operating model, goals, information assets as well as governance. As a reason of driving the
new enterprise architecture system for Dell, this discussion has been carried out that has the
primary inclusion of creating the entire EA management plan considering the necessities of
the organization. In addition to this, this report also highlights the newer processes that shall
be involved to improve the efficiency of the enterprise in terms of business.
1 Nikpay, Fatemeh, Rodina Binti Ahmad, Babak Darvish Rouhani, Mohd Naz’ri Mahrin, and Shahaboddin
Shamshirband. "An effective enterprise architecture implementation methodology." Information Systems and e-
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2. Part-1: Program Management of EA:
2.1. Principles and Governance:
Every corporate firm shall have the inclusion of a primary corporate governance that
refers to a key factor towards getting directed to a direction of success as well as getting
controlled. Having a specific governance as well as principles helps an enterprise to maintain
the underpinning of the integrity as well as efficiency of all the services that occur within an
organization on a daily basis3. On the other hand, having the inclusion of a poor governance
as well as principles will hamper the company’s potential leading towards financial
difficulties and even towards a bad reputation of the company to be precise. Some of the
governance and the principles that shall be followed by Dell in regards to the enterprise
architecture plan shall include the likes of accountability, fairness, transparency as well as
responsibility.
i) Fairness is the common term that refers to the equal treatment of all the
stakeholders that have a direct and an indirect association to Dell, to let them
know of every little event that takes place within the premise of the organization.
ii) Accountability is the primary term for the activity of putting forward an
explanation regarding the actions or any kind of conduct that Dell shall take, or
has taken towards business of the same.
iii) Responsibility is in regards to the board of directors that have been provisioned
with the full responsibility of utilising the powers and taking the blame for
anything that goes out of hand at the same time4.
3 Bakar, Nur Azaliah A., S. Harihodin, and Nazri Kama. "Assessment of enterprise architecture implementation
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4 Hope, Tom, Eng Chew, and Rajeev Sharma. "The Failure of Success Factors: Lessons from Success and
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ACM SIGMIS Conference on Computers and People Research, pp. 21-27. 2017.

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iv) Transparency is to always convey all the events that are taking place within the
company to the board of directors along with the stakeholders to maintain a
transparent business activity.
2.2. Support for Strategy and Business:
Strategy I regards to a business organization refers to the primary methods that are
followed by the company on regular basis to meet the demands of the objectives and the
needs of the customers belonging to the organization5. Business strategy in common terms is
the basic blue print of the organization that the enterprise follows to get hold of the daily
productivity and end with positive outcomes in the end.
The enterprise architecture puts forwards the strategy to review the essential
capabilities as well as to stick to the strategic plan that is built for supporting the business
pillar of the organization. This particular plan has a typical focus upon the business that shall
be acquired by Dell in three to five years from the present situation. This model for strategy
provisions Dell to look for gaps that are present within the organization, and then follows
with an interaction with the necessary solutions that shall fill such gaps6. This acts as a
primary helping hand towards making the business architecture stick to the strategy that has
been created and supports no deviation from this plan. Hence, it can be stated that this
Enterprise Architecture plan shall optimize all the business procedures of Dell and in turn,
equip such procedures to the business strategy of the organization.
2.3. EA Roles and Responsibilities:
This enterprise architecture plan will carry out the following responsibilities of Dell,
5 Niemi, Eetu, and Samuli Pekkola. "Using enterprise architecture artefacts in an organisation." Enterprise
Information Systems 11, no. 3 (2017): 313-338.
6 Dang, Dinh Duong, and Samuli Pekkola. "Systematic Literature Review on Enterprise Architecture in the
Public Sector." Electronic Journal of e-Government 15, no. 2 (2017).