The Art of Enterprise Information Architecture: A Systems-Based Approach for Unlocking Business Insight / Edition 1

by Mario Godinez, Eberhard Hechler, Klaus Koenig, Steve Lockwood, Martin Oberhofer

Overview

Architecture for the Intelligent Enterprise: Powerful New Ways to Maximize the Real-time Value of Information

Tomorrow’s winning “Intelligent Enterprises” will bring together far more diverse sources of data, analyze it in more powerful ways, and deliver immediate insight to decision-makers throughout the organization. Today, however, most companies fail to apply the information they already have, while struggling with the complexity and costs of their existing information environments.

In this book, a team of IBM’s leading information management experts guide you on a journey that will take you from where you are today toward becoming an “Intelligent Enterprise.”

Drawing on their extensive experience working with enterprise clients, the authors present a new, information-centric approach to architecture and powerful new models that will benefit any organization. Using these strategies and models, companies can systematically unlock the business value of information by delivering actionable, real-time information in context to enable better decision-making throughout the enterprise–from the “shop floor” to the “top floor.”

Coverage Includes

• Highlighting the importance of Dynamic Warehousing
• Defining your Enterprise Information Architecture from conceptual, logical, component, and operational views
• Using information architecture principles to integrate and rationalize your IT investments, from Cloud Computing to Information Service Lifecycle Management
• Applying enterprise Master Data Management (MDM) to bolster business functions, ranging from compliance and risk management to marketing and product management
• Implementing more effective business intelligence and business performance optimization, governance, and security systems and processes
• Understanding “Information as a Service” and “Info 2.0,” the information delivery side of Web 2.0

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780137035717
Publisher:	Pearson Education
Publication date:	04/15/2010
Pages:	480
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Mario Godinez, Executive IT Architect and IBM Senior Certified IT Architect (SCITA) within IBM’s Worldwide Information On Demand Architecture team, has spent 15+ years helping IBM customers architect and implement complex enterprise solutions.

Eberhard Hechler is an IBM Executive IT Architect and SCITA within the IBM Information Management Advanced Engagement Team and a member of the IBM Academy of Technology.

Klaus Koenig, an IBM Distinguished Engineer, leads major IBM initiatives in Cloud Computing, Green IT, service lifecycle management, and IT process automation.

Steve Lockwood works in the IBM Software Group as an Executive Architect and IBM SCITA and has 20 years experience in building information-related solutions.

Martin Oberhofer works in the IBM Software Group as an Architect for Enterprise Information Architecture with clients worldwide.

Michael Schroeck, a partner and the Global Business Intelligence (BI) and Information on Demand (IOD) Leader for IBM, Global Business Services, specializes in designing and implementing large, complex BI/IOD solutions.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Ron Tolido xix

Foreword by Dr. Kristof Kloeckner xxi

Preface xxiii

Acknowledgments xxix

About the Authors xxxi

Chapter 1 The Imperative for a New Approach to Information Architecture 1

1.1 External Forces: A New World of Volume, Variety, and Velocity 3

1.1.1 An Increasing Volume of Information 3

1.1.2 An Increasing Variety of Information 4

1.1.3 An Increasing Velocity of Information 4

1.2 Internal Information Environment Challenges 5

1.3 The Need for a New Enterprise Information Architecture 5

1.3.1 Leading the Transition to a Smarter Planet 6

1.4 The Business Vision for the Information-Enabled Enterprise 7

1.5 Building an Enterprise Information Strategy and the Information Agenda 12

1.5.1 Enterprise Information Strategy 13

1.5.2 Organizational Readiness and Information Governance 15

1.5.3 Information Infrastructure 16

1.5.4 Information Agenda Blueprint and Roadmap 17

1.6 Best Practices in Driving Enterprise Information Planning Success 19

1.6.1 Aligning the Information Agenda with Business Objectives 19

1.6.2 Getting Started Smartly 19

1.6.3 Maintaining Momentum 20

1.6.4 Implementing the Information Agenda 20

1.7 Relationship to Other Key Industry and IBM Concepts 20

1.8 The Roles of Business Strategy and Technology 22

1.9 References 22

Chapter 2 Introducing Enterprise Information Architecture 23

2.1 Terminology and Definitions 23

2.1.1 Enterprise Architecture 25

2.1.2 Conceptual Approach to EAI Reference Architecture 27

2.2 Methods and Models 36

2.2.1 Architecture Methodology 36

2.2.2 Information Maturity Model 38

2.3 Enterprise Information Architecture Reference Architecture in Context 41

2.3.1 Information On Demand 41

2.3.2 Information Agenda Approach 42

2.3.3 The Open Group Architecture Framework 44

2.3.4 Service-Oriented Architecture and Information as a Service 47

2.4 Conclusion 50

2.5 References 51

Chapter 3 Data Domains, Information Governance, and Information Security 53

3.1 Terminology and Definitions 53

3.2 Data Domains 55

3.2.1 Classification Criteria of the Conceptual Data Model 56

3.2.2 The Five Data Domains 60

3.2.3 Information Reference Model 63

3.3 IT Governance and Information Governance 64

3.4 Information Security and Information Privacy 67

3.4.1 Information Security 67