Enterprise architecture services in Aalto
If you are planning or acquiring a digital solution, developing processes, or creating a service roadmap, our architects are here to assist you!
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Useful information especially for you, who are looking for information on how you can benefit from Aalto's enterprise architecture services.
The enterprise architecture covers e.g. the following areas:
- Compiling an overall view of the university using available information
- Refining ideas and development proposals
- Understanding and visualizing the current state and target state of development areas
- Modeling the impact of change
- Supporting stakeholders in promoting change
How can we help you?
A comprehensive architectural review is needed, especially in the development of Aalto University's IT infrastructure, services and processes, and in related projects.
Examples of customer needs:
- Digitalisation planning (for example digitazing a service process)
- Ideation of services (for example the logical description of a solution)
- Procurement of services and specification of requirements (for example provinding architecture principles and checklists)
- Service development (for example support in roadmapping and evaluating options)
- Support and consultation for planning (for example support in fulfilling the portfolio requirements)
Contact us: it-architecture(at)aalto.fi
Enteprise Architecture asks four questions to help the university to achive its goals:
- Under which principles we operate? –contextual level
- What do we do?- conceptual level
- How do we operate? - logical level
- What do we use to operate? – physical level
In addition to levels Enterprise Architecture can be divided to four domains:
- Business Architecture
- Information Architecture
- Application Architecture
- Technology Architecture
In Aalto, Enterprise Architecture refers to the alignment of business, processes, information, systems in a manner that helps the university to achieve its strategic objectives.
3 scenarios for estimated workload
| Level | Name | Description | Difficulty | Time Required | Service Promise |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Huddle | Consultion based on source material together with the client. Guiding direction, checking the scope of measures. | normal | 1 work day | During the next week |
| 2 | Sprint | Consultion based on source material together with the client in a workshop. Checking interoperability issues | raised | 14 work days | During the next month |
| 3 | Arc Camp | Consultion based on source material together with the client in multiple workshops. The issues at hand are reviewed based on current state, target state and the impact of change. | demanding | 60 work days | During the next quarter |
Contact: it-architecture(at)aalto.fi
Aalto's Enterprise Architecture is centralized in CDO office, but is based on decentralized architecture management model. The centralized architecture team is specifically resposible for managing the institution-wide Enterprise Architecture, linking strategic goal to operations, and managing the information architecture.
Solutions and technical architecture operate in a decentralized model, with primary responsibility luing with subject matter experts in various functions of IT services. In a weekly EA forum facilitated by CDO office architecture team, experts come together to update knowledge on various areas and address current architecture issues.
Enterprise Architecture entities
HERM - Higher Education Reference Model
A capability model made for the use of higher education institutions, which describes what universities do. With the help of the model, it is possible to link, for example, goals, roadmaps, projects and applications to each other.
Digital Aalto Roadmap
This page provides an introduction to Aalto University's digitalization roadmap and a link to the roadmap itself. The roadmap describes the development initiatives that arise from the universitys' strategy and have a connection to digitalization.
Architecture approval
A description of what architectural approval is, at which stage of the project it must be applied for and what material is needed for it.
Enterprise Architecture Principles
Principles are statements of direction that govern selection and implementation related to operations and systems.
IT Services
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