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Staying in fighting shape with enterprise architecture

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Technology Category	Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Data Exchange & Integration Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Middleware, SDKs & Libraries
Applicable Industries	National Security & Defense
Applicable Functions	Business Operation Human Resources
Services	System Integration
Challenge	The U.S. Army, one of the largest military forces in the world, faced several challenges. They needed to translate strategic business vision into effective enterprise change more efficiently, guide IT investment decisions to 'to-be' environments, enhance collaboration and support of core missions like HR, logistics, acquisitions and procurement, enable continuous process improvement, and manage rising costs in a constrained budgetary environment. The Army needed a robust strategy for its transformation, considering its 17 end-to-end processes, 1,600 operational activities, 700 systems in its IT portfolio, and four major ERPs. Read More
About Customer	The U.S. Army is one of the largest military forces and one of the largest employers in the world. It has nearly 1 million Regular Army, Army Reserve, and Army National Guard personnel who serve a critical national defense role. The U.S. Army has maintained its elite fighting shape through constant modernization and world-class efficiency. The military of the 21st century is built on data, which is needed for everything from exercise histories, to messaging, to collaborative training. Digitalization is mission-critical for the U.S. Army, and data needs to be in real time, transformed through smart analytics, and updated from a hybrid of IT infrastructures and architectures. Read More
Solution	In 2014, the U.S. Army utilized Software AG’s ARIS platform, a platform already time-tested in other Department of Defense (DoD) projects. ARIS is a core system within the Army’s Enterprise Knowledge Repository (EKR), which acts as a data integration hub pulling in data from the Army Portfolio Management System and DoD System mapping tool, then into the architecture. The EKR supports the data-intensive needs of effective business transformation at the Army by supporting redundancy and road mapping analysis. By adhering Enterprise Architecture into operational activities and other parts of the architecture, powerful and meaningful analytics can be performed. The U.S. Army categorized its data, analyzed its process dependencies, and identified its systems of record against core missions. This involved capturing information spread across disparate systems and in various formats, from email, to PDFs, to databases. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Data Exchange & Integration

Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Middleware, SDKs & Libraries

Applicable Industries

National Security & Defense

Applicable Functions

Business Operation

Human Resources

Services

System Integration

Challenge

The U.S. Army, one of the largest military forces in the world, faced several challenges. They needed to translate strategic business vision into effective enterprise change more efficiently, guide IT investment decisions to 'to-be' environments, enhance collaboration and support of core missions like HR, logistics, acquisitions and procurement, enable continuous process improvement, and manage rising costs in a constrained budgetary environment. The Army needed a robust strategy for its transformation, considering its 17 end-to-end processes, 1,600 operational activities, 700 systems in its IT portfolio, and four major ERPs.

About Customer

The U.S. Army is one of the largest military forces and one of the largest employers in the world. It has nearly 1 million Regular Army, Army Reserve, and Army National Guard personnel who serve a critical national defense role. The U.S. Army has maintained its elite fighting shape through constant modernization and world-class efficiency. The military of the 21st century is built on data, which is needed for everything from exercise histories, to messaging, to collaborative training. Digitalization is mission-critical for the U.S. Army, and data needs to be in real time, transformed through smart analytics, and updated from a hybrid of IT infrastructures and architectures.

Solution

In 2014, the U.S. Army utilized Software AG’s ARIS platform, a platform already time-tested in other Department of Defense (DoD) projects. ARIS is a core system within the Army’s Enterprise Knowledge Repository (EKR), which acts as a data integration hub pulling in data from the Army Portfolio Management System and DoD System mapping tool, then into the architecture. The EKR supports the data-intensive needs of effective business transformation at the Army by supporting redundancy and road mapping analysis. By adhering Enterprise Architecture into operational activities and other parts of the architecture, powerful and meaningful analytics can be performed. The U.S. Army categorized its data, analyzed its process dependencies, and identified its systems of record against core missions. This involved capturing information spread across disparate systems and in various formats, from email, to PDFs, to databases.

Impact #1	Achieved end-to-end business transparency
Impact #2	Effective IT and process redundancy analysis
Impact #3	Improved overall process efficiency

Impact #1

Achieved end-to-end business transparency

Impact #2

Effective IT and process redundancy analysis

Impact #3

Improved overall process efficiency

Benefit #1	Reduced operational costs

Benefit #1

Reduced operational costs

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Staying in fighting shape with enterprise architecture

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