Enterprise Architecture Applications and Performance Management Report

This report provides a comprehensive overview of the enterprise architecture of the University of Greenwich, UK. It begins with an introduction to Enterprise Architecture and its role in business organizations, followed by an overview of the university itself, including its student population and campuses. The report then delves into the concept of Enterprise Architecture, its components, and its strategic importance in maintaining data security, system management, and alignment with business objectives. Part B focuses on Enterprise Performance Management (EPM), outlining its role in translating business strategy into KPIs and monitoring organizational performance, including security and performance roles. Part C details the Four Aces framework, the university's EPM implementation methodology, and the importance of enterprise requirement management, including stakeholder requirements. The report concludes by summarizing the key findings and emphasizing the significance of enterprise architecture in the university's organizational structure and stakeholder engagement. The report includes references to support the information presented.

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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
Overview of University of Greenwich............................................................................................3
Concept of Enterprise Architecture.................................................................................................3
Enterprise Performance Management..............................................................................................5
Four aces framework.......................................................................................................................9
Enterprise requirement management...............................................................................................9
Stakeholders Requirements...........................................................................................................10
Conclusion.....................................................................................................................................12
References......................................................................................................................................13

Introduction
This presentation deals with the Enterprise architecture of University of Greenwich, UK.
The three aspects of design authority roles of the university have been discussed in the
presentation. This presentation focuses on providing basic concept of Enterprise Architecture and
overview of University of Greenwich.
Part A
Overview of University of Greenwich
The University of Greenwich is located in the United Kingdom. An Enterprise
Architecture helps in advising business organization for engaging in their university. This
university includes 38,906 students in which 17,450 students are overseas and 20,646 students
are studying in the UK. Out of them 78 %, students are undergraduate and 22% students are
postgraduate. The University involves three rich campuses including the Old Royal naval
College, Avery Hill and Medway at Chatham.
Figure 1: University of Greenwich
(Source: University of Greenwich, 2018)

Concept of Enterprise Architecture
Enterprise Architecture is a practice that helps in analysis, planning, design and
implementation of various strategies in business organization. It applies architecture and
principles for guiding organizations in setting up goals and objectives for executing strategies in
the market (Drews et al. 2017)
Figure 2: Enterprise architecture
(Source: Drews et al. 2017)
Enterprise architecture helps in maintaining overall strategies included in the business
organizations including security of data and information, systems and applications. This
enterprise has been a man made complex system that have helped in maintaining human,
political, software, hardware and social behavior of organization (El-Sheikh, Zimmermann and
Jain 2016). In an enterprise of any appreciable size it is impossible for a single person to
understand the way the parts all work together let alone understand its position in relation to the
system of other organizations that form its environment or to determine how it can evolve.

Figure 3: Components of enterprise architecture
(Source: Erl, Merson and Stoffers 2017)
Enterprise architecture deals with various business architectural components for
maintaining the structure of the organization. The technical architecture of the organization deals
with the platform, system management and network systems. These components help in
maintaining and monitoring activities of organization. The strategic mission and objectives of the
company is controlled by enterprise architecture (Erl, Merson and Stoffers 2017). The goals and
objectives of the company help in maintaining the development of the company in the market.
The use of different principles and policies help in providing proper approach to various project
of organizations. All processes and functions are maintained by enterprise architecture of the
institution.
Part B
Enterprise Performance Management

Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) is a combination of processes and
applications designed to translate the business strategy to KPIs and to measure, analyze and
predict organization performance. EPM adds value to the business by focusing on how an
organization develops, implements and monitors strategic plans (Gong and Janssen 2017). EPM
helps in aligning the organization’s processes across functions and directing resources to achieve
the objectives.
Enterprise architecture helps in maintaining overall strategies included in the business
organizations including security of data and information, systems and applications. An enterprise
is one of the most complex man made systems and is comprised of human, political, social,
software, hardware and technology components (Hesse et al. 2017). In an enterprise of any
appreciable size it is impossible for a single person to understand the way the parts all work
together let alone understand its position in relation to the system of other organizations that
form its environment or to determine how it can evolve.

Figure 4: Layered approach
(Source: Hoyland et al. 2014, pp. 59)
The security architecture helps in involving in security roles of data and information of
the organization.
Enterprise Architect can be used to model the security controls maintained as a list of
elements in the repository and when new architectures are created, the applicable controls could
be applied to aspects of the architecture such as applications, technology devices, communication
paths and more. Significant reuse can be achieved by the use of Patterns, and the use of existing
building blocks that have already been certified as compliant with the controls (Jugel, Schweda
and Zimmermann 2015).

Figure 5: Security Roles
(Source: Menchaca et al. 2015, pp.51)
Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) is a collection of processes and applications
designed to translate the business strategy to KPIs and to measure, analyze and predict
organization performance. EPM adds value to the business by focusing on how an organization
develops, implements and monitors strategic plans. EPM helps in aligning the organization’s
processes across functions and directing resources to achieve the objectives (Moser et al. 2017).

Figure 6: Performance Roles
(Source: Pena, Correal and Miranda 2017, pp. 149)
Part C
Four aces framework
Four Aces is University of Greenwich’s EPM implementation methodology developed
with rigor of six-sigma process and tested in real-life situations. It include various aspects of
EPM engagement starting with initiation of customer environment for EPM readiness using the
homegrown “SIMPOSM” tool, analyzing the existing environment for different business needs,

aligning overall solution architecture to enterprise application and finally achieving or
implementing the required solution (Proper, Hoppenbrouwers and van Zanten 2017).
Figure 7: Four Aces Framework
(Source: Wehling et al. 2016)
Enterprise requirement management
Enterprise Architect integrates Requirements Management with other software
development disciplines, by creating requirements directly in the model. Requirements
Management is built into the core product, solving many of the issues of traceability,
interdisciplinary team divisions, integration with change and configuration management systems.

Figure 8: Requirement Roles
(Source: Zarvić and Wieringa 2014)
Stakeholders Requirements
The enterprise architecture consists of different requirements including stakeholder
requirements. The stakeholders are the people who are directly or indirectly relates to the
company. In this context, the University of Greenwich have fulfilled requirements of
stakeholders. It have provided advices to many business organizations to invest in the university.
The Student Union University of Greenwich has helped in engaging students for delivering
student experiences. This helps in empowering students for having life changing experiences in

the university (Zimmermann et al. 2014). The SU has been active in the design of the Avery Hill
sports pitches and the new Dreadnought development, which will be their new home. Society
and club membership is presently at an all-time high, and there is more student representation on
programmers and university-wide groups and committees than ever before.
Figure 9: Stakeholders Requirements
(Source: Zimmermann et al. 2015)