Enterprise Architecture Management
IT assets must be viewed in the context of business processes to ensure they are aligned with strategic objectives. The tools of the SAMU Suite provide powerful support for your enterprise architecture management efforts.
| Main challenges | How can SAMU help? |
|---|---|
| Structured view of the Enterprise | SAMU provides a repository of your enterprise architecture objects in the structure you define in your meta-model. |
| Flexible modeling | You can create and maintain your own meta-model in SAMU. It may be based on your strategy, environmental conditions and any reference model. SAMU will allow you to adjust the model anytime if needed. |
| Map IT assets to business processes | Multi-layer relationships and views can be built, which help you to identify links and dependencies between business processes and IT assets. Sophisticated rules can be applied when creating reports allowing you to receive a totally focused view of the problem space. |
| Keep the repository up-to-date | SAMU Repository can be updated by various ways: manual input; synchronization with any other RDBMS; XML API; integration with change and release management processes. SAMU Human Workflow module offers an integrated electronic workflow for your change management processes. |
| Generic and ad-hoc viewpoints | Depending on the context of investigation architecture data stored in the repository can be looked from different viewpoints. With the powerful reporting engine of SAMU you can create your generic reports or compose more focused viewpoints on demand. As for everything in SAMU, you can set access control to reports on a comprehensive manner. |
| Create value for others | Architecture group can supply reports about architecture in a fraction of time for all consumers in their context. These create real business value for all parties. |
| Set and govern policies | Policies for architecture management, user permissions and change processes can be created and enforced in SAMU. On top of it, full audit trail is kept. |
| Communication between IT and business | Having everyone working on the same data from multiple viewpoints sets a common understanding of architecture within the enterprise. Flexible modeling and reporting capabilities lets you to capture and present links and dependencies between business and IT objects. |
