Christophe Long

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• Christophe Longépé
• How EA has impacted business transformation in
  French companies
• Open Group
• EA Practitioners Conference
• April 23rd 2007

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Agenda

• Introduction
• Short history of IS Urbanism in France
• Presentation of Cigref
• Presentation of Club Urba-EA and its tools of
  urbanism
• EA in French organizations
• 2006 Results of the Observatory of Urbanization
  (Club Urba-EA)
• Case study Risk channel urbanization at SG
• What were the objectives ?
• What was done ?
• What are the results ?
• Appendix
• French publications
• Training programs in French universities

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A short history of IS urbanism in France (1/2)

• IS urbanism started in France 10 years ago
• 1996 Mainly in Bank, Insurance and Telecoms
• 1997 First structured approaches
• 1998 Publication of Urbanisation des systèmes
  dinformation by J.Sassoon
• 2000 Founding of Club Urba-EA
• 2001 Publication of Projet durbanisation du
  S.I. by C.Longépé
• 2002 Quick expansion (Enterprises, Teaching,
  Publications,)

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A short history of IS urbanism in France (2/2)
Today

• Banks, Insurances and Telecoms are quite active
• Industries and Public services started 5 years
  ago
• In most companies on the CAC 40
• Urbanism departments exist
• IS maps are made
• Weaknesses
• Links with business strategy
• Business processes description
• Many publications (cf. appendix 1)
• More and more teaching programs in French
  universities (cf. appendix 2)

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Presentation of CIGREF

• Association of Large Companies
• 127 members
• Mission
• Promoting uses of IS as a factor of value
  creation and source of innovation
• Activities and services
• Sharing and networking
• Publishing reports, newsletters
• Influence
• Training
• Research
• Web site www.cigref.fr

2003
2005
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Presentation of Club Urba EA

• Inter-companies Association
• 60 Large organizations, 90 members
• Missions
• Sharing and networking
• Promotion of urba-EA
• Research
• Production of deliverables
• Activities
• Mardi de lurba (monthly)
• Special events (3 days / year)
• Workshops projects
• Web site www.urba-ea.org

2006
2003
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Tools of Club Urba-EA the Framework
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Tools of Club Urba-EA the IS Urbanization
process
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Tools of Club Urba-EA EA index
6. Urbanization management and communication
1. Knowledge of IS  as is 
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3
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2. Master data repositories management
5. Flows complexity management
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0
4. IS building management
3. Knowledge of IS  to be 
6 axis to understand IS urbanization maturity
(with 2 to 4 criteria per axis)
TO BE
AS IS
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EA in French organizations Global EA Index 2006
Club Urba-EA

• 14 large companies
• In 2006 Air France, CCF, EDF, GDF, Renault,
  RTE, SNCF, Société Générale
• Since 2007 AREVA, AXA, CNCE, La Poste Courrier
  International, PSA, RATP
• In 2006, 40 IS were analysed through the EA index

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EA in French organizationsGlobal EA Index 2006 -
Club Urba-EA
Main results

1. Knowledge of IS as is 50 have been designed
2. Master data repositories management business
   departments not involved
3. Knowledge of IS to be weak, except the
   knowledge of business objectives
4. IS building management migration plan partly
   defined, satisfying governance, urbanists well
   involved in projects
5. Flows complexity management little
   standardization
6. Management and communication suitable
   structures and resources, efforts to be done in
   communication and training

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EA in French organizationsFocus on Axis 2
Master Data Repositories Management
6 sectors
40 IS
Services industry is in the lead
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Case study Risk channel urbanization at SG
(1/4)
SUPPORT DEPT
SUPPORT DEPT
CEO
RISK DEPT
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Case study Risk channel urbanization at SG
(2/4)

• What were the objectives of the study ?

• Optimisation

• Taking into account the implications of Basle 2

• Optimizing the speed of data collection

• Optimizing the regulatory and operational
  reporting processes

• Improving the quality and exhaustiveness of the
  collected data

• Identifying the opportunities for reducing the
  number of data-warehouses in order to improve
  Group coherence and reduce costs

• Communication

• Providing the users with a global vision of the
  Risk Business channel IS

• Constituting the reference framework for the
  investments rationalisation

• Clarifying the target Business channel IS
  positioning with regard to exchange mechanisms
  and repositories

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Case study Risk channel urbanization at SG
(3/4)

• What was done ?

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Case study Risk channel urbanization at SG
(4/4)

• What are the results ?

• Business Risk channel objectives
• Existing architectures
• Target architectures
• Permanent enrichment

An updated framework

• Means of communication for the whole channel
• A common language
• Knowledge available for new projects and for
  process improvements.

What does it bring ?
For the SG Group, better consistency in Risk
Management
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Appendix 1 Bibliography

• Urbanisation des systèmes dinformation. Jacques
  Sassoon. Hermès (1998)
• Le projet durbanisation du SI. Christophe
  Longépé. Dunod (1ère édition 2001 3ème 2006)
• Les systèmes dinformation, art et pratiques.
  Gérard Balantzian. Editions dorganisation (2002)
• Service Web avec SOAP,WSDL,UDDI, ebXML
  Jean-Marie Chauvet Eyrolles Paris (2002)
• La systémique. Daniel Durand, PUF Paris (2002)
• Pratiques de lurbanisme des systèmes
  dinformation. Club Urba-SI. Publibook (2003)
• The Enterprise Architecture IT Project.
  Christophe Longépé. KoganPage (2003)
• Convaincre pour urbaniser le SI. Jean-Christophe
  Bonne et Aldo Maddaloni. Hermès (2004)
• Urbanisation et BPM. Yves Caseau. Dunod (2005)
• Urbanisation du business et des SI, Gérard Jean,
  Hermès (2005)

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Appendix 2 Teaching programs

CNAM
IAE - Sorbonne