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Our goals
Sustainable IT Architecture promotes a rating of Information Systems to evaluate organizations on their abilities to leverage the value of their IS Assets based on Reference and Master Data (MDM), Business Rules (BRMS) and Processes (BPM). This approach relies on a IS Foundation based on three stages: modeling IS Assets, governing and executing them. In this video, Pierre Bonnet gives a quick overview of the Sustainable IT Architecture Community's goals. Duration: 04 minutes.
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Maturity Model of IS Intrinsic Value
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Depending on the matury level computed, IS stakeholders should enforce operations as defined in the figure below.
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Two words to understand our goals![]() At Sustainable IT Architecture, we promote a new way of implementing Information Systems and its underlying IT Architecture to improve auditability and traceability of Information: Shared Data, Business Rules and Processes. It means a more open, readable, sustainable approach to govern information within complex organizations. This is a key point to enforce a better risks management in relation to new businesses and the green growth. Indeed, this new way of doing business required a huge growth of informations systems: more databases, more real-time and responsive information management including the Internet of Objects (RFID) and the Global Positioning System (GPS).
Rather than using an approach of hard-coding software meaningful to IT specialists only (IT programing languages, opaque and rigid databases, etc.), companies have a strategic interest in using Business Repositories as the foundation of their IS/IT. It means using Master Data Management (MDM), Business Rules Management System (BRMS) and BPM (Business Process Management) as the spine of their systems. Thanks to these repositories, business users and auditors benefit from governance features allowing a better management of their ref/master data, business rules and processes: authoring, quering, permissions management, version management, auditability, etc. To succeed in this new way of building IS/IT, we state that the linking value of these three repositories must be taken into account: the value of processes depends on the value of business rules, and the value of business rules depends on the value of ref/master data. Thererfore, this is a chain of IS Assets: the strenght of this chain is equal to its weakest link. In other words, it is not valuable to have a strong BPM approach if rules carried out by processes are hard-coded in opaque software. And it is not valuable to author rules in a BRMS if ref/master consumed by these rules are scattered and duplicated within many legacy databases with a low data quality. To enforce new businesses and the green growth (i.e. sustainable economy), we believe that companies must rely on a more sustainable Information Systems. In an increasingly virtual economy in which fuel is the knowledge, managing intangible assets in a more sustainable way (traceability, auditability...) is essential. We also promote a new rating framework (IS Rating Tool) to measure these IS Assets (Master Data, Business Rules and Processes) and obtain a kind of: Standard and poor's applied to Information Systems. This approach should be a regulatory goal to support new businesses and the green growth. Thanks in advance for sharing your opinions with us and we wish you a good journey to the Sustainable IT Architecture. Best regards Pierre Bonnet Founder of the Sustainable IT Architecture |
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