Enterprise Architecture – Report

Presentation skills (5% marks)

Unsatisfactory presentation with no clarity, appropriate pause, intonation and is not capable to engage listeners.

Satisfactory presentation with some clarity and pause.

Good presentation with clarity and pause in majority of speech.

Very good presentation with clarity and pause and able to engage listeners for most of the time.

Excellent presentation with clarity, pause, intonation and is capable to engage listeners all the time.

 

 

 

Assessment 2: Report

Due date: Week 12

Group/individual: Individual

Word count / Time provided: 3600 words

Weighting: 40%

Unit Learning Outcomes: ULO-3, ULO-4, ULO-5

 

Assessment Details:

This assessment is designed to assess develop your skills in Enterprise Architecture (EA). You are

required to develop knowledge on EA methodology, EA Framework, data model and emerging EA. In

completing this assessment successfully, you will be able to know major widely accepted Enterprise

Architecture (EA) domains, layers, frameworks and governance, which will help in achieving ULO-3,

ULO-4, and ULO-5.

 

Report: Part-I

ComTech is a diversified, multi-profile company. Essentially, it is a conglomerate company consisting

of three diverse strategic units acting as independent businesses under separate brands in different

industry sectors: Unit Alpha, Unit Beta and Unit Gamma. ComTech is governed from the central head

office, which oversights the three subsidiary business units and their financial performance

indicators, though without any operational interventions. Each strategic business unit has its own

managing director with full discretion and responsibility over its competitive strategy, investment

priorities, budget allocation and ensuing yearly profits.

Unit Alpha is in the food manufacturing business. The unit produces and distributes a variety of

goods including, but not limited to, vegetables, groceries, meat and dairy products. Each of these

product lines requires unique production processes, storage arrangements, transportation

approaches and underlying equipment and is organizationally implemented by a separate

specialized product department. However, these products are delivered largely to the same circle of

customers, including both major retailers and local food shops. All product lines are also served by a

number of common unit-wide functions, e.g. HR, finance, accounting, logistics, legal, marketing and

sales support.

 

 

 

 

Unit Beta competes in the restaurant business with 78 IT staff. Specifically, the unit controls a chain

of small fast-food restaurants occupying the low-cost market niche. In total, the chain includes more

than 80 restaurants located in different geographies and more restaurants are planned to be opened

in the foreseeable future. All restaurants offer same interiors, menus, prices, meals and services to

their customers and imply standardized policies, working procedures and supporting equipment.

However, each restaurant is run separately by a chief manager responsible for its overall financial

well-being and all necessary business processes, e.g. recruiting, training, procurement, cooking,

servicing, cleaning and complaints management. With the exception of Unit Beta’s lean central

office, where chain-wide branding, marketing and other strategic decisions are made, the

restaurants operate independently from each other and even have their own profit and loss

statements.

Finally, Unit Gamma runs a chain of resort hotels. These hotels gravitate towards the high-end price

segment and offer premium-quality services to their customers. Unit Gamma’s competitive strategy

implies improving its brand recognition and achieving consistent customer experience. For this

purpose, the unit’s leadership plans to standardize all customer-facing and, to a lesser extent, back-

office processes across all hotels of the chain as well as all its suppliers and service providers.

Moreover, Unit Gamma also intends to become “closer” to its customers and build lifelong customer

relationships. This strategy requires collecting more information about customers, their individual

preferences and transaction histories, aggregating this information globally and leveraging it for

providing customized services, launching loyalty programs, developing special offers and promoting

personalized discounts.

As an EA manager at Comtech, you are required to write a report that discusses the following:

1. Describe five major roles that STANDARD as EA Artifacts will play in SmartT.

2. Discuss how solution designs as an EA Artifacts should be implemented in Unit Gamma

3. What are the four responsibilities of architecture functions in SmartT?

4. Based on IT staff ratio model and degree of decentralization as a factor, name and discuss architects positions that would be required in Unit Beta.

 

Report: Part-II

SmartBiz is a large financial and stockbroker company. 8 years ago SmartBiz decided to establish a full-

fledged EA practice to accommodate with the growing problems around non-transparency of its IT

investments and poor business and IT alignment in general. The establishment of EA practice was

successful, and it was completed last 1 year. Due to recent advancement in technologies, SmartBiz

wants to implement Cloud Computing technologies that would empower their staff and customers for

example, implementation of analytical Cloud Computing Technologies that would enable SmartBiz

staff to approve credit card application within 30 minutes of the submission of the application.

However, SmartBiz’s CEO is sceptical towards the implementation of cloud computing technologies.

He believes that the company is only wasting money on the cloud computing technologies as it is

essentially nothing more than a sophisticated collection of data.

As a newly promoted IT manager at SmartBiz, you are required to write a report that discusses the

following:

 

 

 

 

1. Discuss four (4) types of cloud computing that SmartBiz could use or implement.

2. Discuss five (5) challenges that SmartBiz may have with implementation of Cloud Computing Technologies and how the challenges should be resolved.

3. Discuss five (5) characteristics of cloud computing and explain 4 major cloud computing services that you would recommend to be used in SmartBiz.

4. Discuss five (5) ways in which cloud computing may be used in EA practices.

5. Explain ITIL Framework and Discuss five advantages of implementing ITIL framework at SmartBiz

 

Marking Criteria and Rubric: The assessment will be marked out of 100% and will be weighted 40%

of the total unit mark

Marking Criteria Not satisfactory

(0-49%) of the criterion mark)

Satisfactory

(50-64%) of the criterion mark

Good

(65-74%) of the criterion mark

Very Good

(75-84%) of the criterion mark

Excellent

(85-100%) of the criterion mark

Report Part-I: Case Study (40% marks)

Not identifying the problems, provided solution is very weak.

Problems are identified very briefly, provided solution is acceptable but details missing, briefly examine the EA

Most of the problems are identified, provide good solutions, examine the EA but major points are missing

All the problems are identified, provides very good solutions, examines the EA clearly

All the problems are clearly identified, provided excellent solutions and EA very clearly

Report Part-II: (50% marks)

Questions on Report Part II is poorly examine in the relation of EA

Questions on Report Part II is answered but details missing, comparison presented briefly, very briefly examine the relation of EA

Questions on Report Part II is adequately addressed, comparison presented in detail, briefly examine the relation of EA

Shows sound knowledge, identification, comparison presented in detail, comprehensively examine the relation of EA

Shows full knowledge on EA practice, identification, comparison presented in detail, very comprehensively examine the relation of EA

Structure, grammar, presentation, and Harvard style referencing (10% marks).

The report is poorly

organized and

difficult to read –

does not flow

logically from one

part to another. There

are several spelling

and/or grammatical

errors; technical

terms may not be

defined or are poorly

defined. Writing

lacks clarity and

conciseness. Include

few references

without following

Harvard style

reference guidelines

or no reference.

The report shows some organization. At times, difficult to read and does not flow logically from one part to another. There are some spelling and/or grammatical errors; technical terms are generally are poorly defined. Includes Few references with errors.

The report is

generally well

organized and most

of the argument is

easy to follow. There

are some spelling

and/or grammatical

errors; technical

terms are generally

are poorly defined.

Writing is mostly

clear but may lack

conciseness. All

references cited

correctly using

citation style with

some minor errors.

The report is generally well organized and most of the argument is easy to follow. There are only a few minor spelling or grammatical errors, or terms are not clearly defined. Writing is mostly clear. All references cited correctly using citation style.

The report is coherently organized and the logic is easy to follow. There are no spelling or grammatical errors and terminology is clearly defined. Writing is clear and concise and persuasive. Harvard formatting style and citation of references in the body of the report.

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