05.08.07 - Avolution presents at EAC'07 in Sydney

Avolution, the market leader in metrics-based analysis of architectures, today announced that on the 15th of August it will keynote present at the fifth annual BTell Enterprise Architecture Conference in Sydney, Australia. The emphasis of this years conference is on regional and international expertise in both business and technical aspects of Architecture delivery.

Research Fellow at the University of Technology, Sydney and Executive Director of Avolution, Dr Tim O'Neill, will deliver a presentation titled "Case Study: Enterprise Modelling at Birmingham City Council (BCC)". Dr O'Neill will also share his experience through a panel discussion titled "Reasons for failure/success of EA programs".

Case Study: Enterprise Modelling at the Birmingham City Council (BCC)
Birmingham City Council (BCC) is one of the largest local authorities in the world and is 1 year into a visionary 10 year / £450M business transformation programme. One of the first initiatives undertaken has been to construct the "Council in a Box" enterprise model as a single-point-of-truth for the Council.

This presentation will briefly cover the Enterprise Modelling (EM) method used to build this model, aspects of the resulting framework and the structure and connectedness of the repository using the ABACUS solution from Avolution. We will also introduce some revolutionary techniques (including descendant architectures, capability space charts and trade-off diagrams) used by BCC to analyse and communicate the trade-offs and benefits of various enterprise-wide initiatives, alternatives or solutions across people, processes and technology.

Key questions explored:

• Is traditional Enterprise Architecture just “Art for Art’s Sake”?
• Why passive modeling to develop “just enough architecture” was the only way forward
• Are all architectures and architecture-models equal?
• The difference between “Impact Observation” and real Trade-off and Impact Analysis
• Managing non-functional requirements like TCO, Performance, Availability and Security

For further details please contact Avolution Sales on sales@avolution.com.au.

About Avolution
Avolution provides the ABACUS® solution which is unique to the enterprise modeling space in that it can create multiple solution alternatives (architectures) and then run various simulations (Discrete Event, Monte Carlo etc) against each alternative for metrics such as Performance, Cost and Agility. In so doing it can recommend the optimal path for investment, with predictive and quantitative certainty. More information is available at www.avolution.eu.

• Build any number of solution alternatives and views all according to a completely flexible meta-model.
• Analyse your architecture(s) for metrics such as; Total Cost of Ownership (TCO), Performance, Availability, Agility and many more.
• View the architecture(s) and the results of any evaluation using advanced techniques such as; 3D, heat maps, capability spaces and trade-off diagrams.