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Enterprise Architecture
Solution
By providing a complete understanding of both business and IT architecture
views, MEGA provides the means to increase the value of IT and to support
innovation with cost-effective solutions.
The Challenge
Today’s global economic environment is impacting the way businesses run their
operations. Departments and employees must demonstrate their added value:
their profitability, how they improve upon services, and the impact they have on
the bottom line. In this context, IT executives can create value for their company
by supporting business innovation while optimizing limited assets. This can be
achieved through increased collaboration with all stakeholders and more focused
projects.
The MEGA Enterprise Architecture Solution
By providing a complete picture and understanding of systems, processes, and
their interdependencies, enterprise architecture (EA) offers the means to improve
IT governance, optimize business processes, plan change, and increase value for
the business.
MEGA’s enterprise architecture approach is based on leading software,
proven methodologies, and expert consulting services. It provides you with the
appropriate communication capabilities to ensure that your initiative is properly
shared within the organization as well as the management tools required to deliver
tangible, immediate results.
The MEGA enterprise architecture solution adapts to a wide range of projects. It
allows you to effectively:
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Rationalize IT assets
Optimize business processes and cut costs in and across business units
Define and plan major IT initiatives
In addition, it provides support of technology standards and consistent
management of your enterprise data architecture throughout your organization.
Our MEGA EA solution is pragmatic, tailored to your project objectives and
adapted to your environment. Our goal is to make you benefit from our enterprise
architecture approach to solve your specific issue. No more, no less.
BENEFITS
Create sustained value with
your existing company assets
by creating a global picture of
your enterprise’s systems and
processes and their interactions.
Increase enterprise agility by
documenting a current state to
create a baseline for measuring
the impacts of change in your
business and IT architectures.
Accelerate project performance
by sharing and building on
enterprise information in a
consistent communication
framework shared by all
stakeholders.
MEGA Suite Enterprise Architecture Solution
As a recognized enterprise architecture leader for the past two decades,
MEGA integrates all EA practices into a common software platform, providing
the dedicated tools to meet each stakeholder’s objectives.
➞ Three main products are used to perform enterprise architecture initiatives:
MEGA Process for Business Process Modeling and Analysis
Benefits
With MEGA Process, you can understand, streamline and optimize your
business processes and communicate them to other stakeholders.
Business analysts can model many “what if” scenarios to understand the effects
of change before making either small or sweeping modifications to business
operations. The resulting enterprise models help companies effectively analyze
processes and resources together to aid with cost-effective consolidation and
rationalization.
With these models, management can clearly identify who is performing certain
work, including outsourced work to suppliers. This high-level, strategic view
allows auditors, regulators, and executive teams to have all business information
in one place, in easy-to-view formats.
Increase the return on
investment of your business
modeling initiatives by using the
internationally recognized BPMN
standard notation.
Easily identify areas for
optimization and improve
your business performance by
describing and analyzing your
business architecture.
Provide value-added decision
support with a solid understanding
of how the business operates
through easy-to-use predefined
reports.
MEGA Architecture for IT Architecture Modeling
Benefits
With MEGA Architecture, you can build reference maps to describe, analyze, and
manage IT systems, applications and infrastructures.
MEGA Architecture provides IT architects with an IT asset view, and helps them
consolidate and update a consistent picture of applications and the technical
infrastructure. It shows gaps in services, redundancies, the resources that
support different processes, and how every part of the architecture aligns with
business goals.
Consolidate IT resource and
application portfolio information
into a single consistent repository
for complete impact analysis.
Understand the link between
IT and business processes and
identify which IT resources are
critical to your business, and which
are not.
Rationalize your IT assets by
easily analyzing your IT architecture
and identifying application
redundancies and areas of
improvement.
Provide value-added decision
support with a relevant view of
how IT supports business through
easy-to-use predefined reports.
MEGA Portfolio and Planning for IT Transformation Planning
Benefits
With MEGA Portfolio and Planning, you can create portfolios of various
initiatives, and then analyze the data to quickly identify gaps, redundancies, and
overlaps. From there, you can easily define, compare, and select a number of
transformation scenarios to help make informed decisions about your business.
MEGA IT Planning allows for the planning of major IT change programs and the
creation of an IT roadmap to align with the business goals. It allows you to build
in-depth scenario comparisons and impact analyses in order to deliver accurate
forecasting of the impacts of change within the IT operation.
Synchronize IT plans with
enterprise strategy and identify
business objectives to drive
priorities for IT transformation
projects.
Consolidate enterprise IT asset
portfolio information consistently
in an enterprise repository that can
easily be shared and accessed by
all stakeholders.
Manage effective transitioning
between current state and future
state architectures thanks to
flexible tools, methodologies and
services.
➞ Depending on the scope of your project, you may enrich your platform
with the following products:
MEGA Business Strategy allows you
to describe company strategy in depth
at each level of the organization and
evaluate its alignment with enterprise
architecture assets and business
initiatives. It provides all the necessary
features to describe an organization’s
goals and strategies based on the
Business Motivation Model (Object
Management Group framework).
MEGA Control and Risk
With MEGA Control and Risk, you
can describe risks, controls and
regulatory compliance requirements
and relate them to your business
and IT architectures. This provides a
global vision of your operational risks
within your organization, including
your IT operations.
MEGA Database Builder
With MEGA Database Builder, you
can align conceptual, logical and
physical data models, and maintain
consistency and traceability between
them. MEGA Database Builder
assists you in building overall data
architecture, from business data
definitions to database design. It
ensures the complete traceability
of data of all nature, whether of
business data descriptions or
database models.
The MEGA Suite Enterprise Architecture Platform
The MEGA Suite EA platform is
built on a common repository, which
is a valuable asset for storing and
managing information.
The repository benefits from
sophisticated design that has been
refined over years of expertise and
includes the following standard
services:
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Team collaboration, with support of a
concurrent, multi-user platform
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Web site and document deliverables
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Standalone, client/server and thin
client/server deployment possibilities
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Metamodel extensibility
Impact analysis, automatically
calculated for every object
MOF Compliance
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eTOM with MEGA eTOM Accelerator
TOGAF with MEGA for TOGAF
DoDAF with MEGA for DoDAF
NAF with MEGA for NAF
Archimate with MEGA for Archimate
Platform customization
The MEGA enterprise architecture
platform can be adapted to your
specific context with:
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MEGA Publisher: document
and Web site generation and
customization
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MEGA Exchange: interoperability
with third party tools and API access
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MEGA Supervisor: repository
administration, user management,
confidentiality
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MEGA Studio: repository, diagram
and user interface customizations
Communication and Collaboration
Collaboration is key to project success. The MEGA Suite provides communication
and collaboration tools for sharing information with decision-makers and
empowering all stakeholders in the organization.
MEGA Advisor
With MEGA Advisor, you can
consolidate and communicate real-time
enterprise information via a Web portal,
allowing company-wide audiences to
benefit from EA projects. MEGA Advisor
provides a full Web-based interface
to the repository to communicate
with stakeholders according to their
roles and responsibilities. Decisionmakers take advantage of appropriate
dashboards and analysis tools to
ensure easy governance of IT and
enterprise assets.
MEGA Suite
Libraries
MEGA TeamWork
With MEGA TeamWork, you can
include all stakeholders in the EA
management process through welldefined governance. MEGA TeamWork
helps EA project teams circulate
repository content, review and approve
requests, track changes and decisions,
and manage and control project
waivers and exceptions.
The MEGA Suite is composed
of four categories of products:
Modeling tools, Control tools,
Transformation tools and
Communication tools.
The Modeling tools support projects
ranging from process analysis
to risk and control mapping to
application analysis and design.
Because the MEGA Suite is
modular, each tool may be used
independently or combined with
other tools, depending on your
project context. All products are
based on a common repository and
share the same platform services.
Implementing a
pragmatic approach to
support your project
The MEGA consulting EA practice
Expert business consultants ensure
the appropriate management of
your EA programs at the right pace
to fit your business objectives:
- Implementing the tools, methods
and frameworks as required from
the start.
- Simplifying roles and
responsibilities, defining simple
collaboration processes and
structuring the team according to
deliverables, models and pace.
- Defining ground rules around
the EA practice and providing
basic information about EA in the
company, such as objectives, the
operating model and rules for
engaging a project.
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