Key aspects of design authority roles in University of Greenwich

This presentation deals with the Enterprise architecture of University of Greenwich, UK. The three aspects of design authority roles of the university have been discussed in the presentation. This presentation focuses on providing basic concept of Enterprise Architecture and overview of University of Greenwich.

Overview of University of Greenwich

The University of Greenwich is located in the United Kingdom. An Enterprise Architecture helps in advising business organization for engaging in their university. This university includes 38,906 students in which 17,450 students are overseas and 20,646 students are studying in the UK. Out of them 78 %, students are undergraduate and 22% students are postgraduate. The University involves three rich campuses including the Old Royal naval College, Avery Hill and Medway at Chatham.

Enterprise Architecture is a practice that helps in analysis, planning, design and implementation of various strategies in business organization. It applies architecture and principles for guiding organizations in setting up goals and objectives for executing strategies in the market (Drews et al. 2017)

Enterprise architecture helps in maintaining overall strategies included in the business organizations including security of data and information, systems and applications. This enterprise has been a man made complex system that have helped in maintaining human, political, software, hardware and social behavior of organization (El-Sheikh, Zimmermann and Jain 2016). In an enterprise of any appreciable size it is impossible for a single person to understand the way the parts all work together let alone understand its position in relation to the system of other organizations that form its environment or to determine how it can evolve.

Enterprise architecture deals with various business architectural components for maintaining the structure of the organization. The technical architecture of the organization deals with the platform, system management and network systems. These components help in maintaining and monitoring activities of organization. The strategic mission and objectives of the company is controlled by enterprise architecture (Erl, Merson and Stoffers 2017). The goals and objectives of the company help in maintaining the development of the company in the market. The use of different principles and policies help in providing proper approach to various project of organizations. All processes and functions are maintained by enterprise architecture of the institution.

Enterprise Performance Management

Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) is a combination of processes and applications designed to translate the business strategy to KPIs and to measure, analyze and predict organization performance. EPM adds value to the business by focusing on how an organization develops, implements and monitors strategic plans (Gong and Janssen 2017). EPM helps in aligning the organization’s processes across functions and directing resources to achieve the objectives.

Enterprise architecture helps in maintaining overall strategies included in the business organizations including security of data and information, systems and applications. An enterprise is one of the most complex man made systems and is comprised of human, political, social, software, hardware and technology components (Hesse et al. 2017). In an enterprise of any appreciable size it is impossible for a single person to understand the way the parts all work together let alone understand its position in relation to the system of other organizations that form its environment or to determine how it can evolve.

Concept of Enterprise Architecture

The security architecture helps in involving in security roles of data and information of the organization.

Enterprise Architect can be used to model the security controls maintained as a list of elements in the repository and when new architectures are created, the applicable controls could be applied to aspects of the architecture such as applications, technology devices, communication paths and more. Significant reuse can be achieved by the use of Patterns, and the use of existing building blocks that have already been certified as compliant with the controls (Jugel, Schweda and Zimmermann 2015).

Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) is a collection of processes and applications designed to translate the business strategy to KPIs and to measure, analyze and predict organization performance. EPM adds value to the business by focusing on how an organization develops, implements and monitors strategic plans. EPM helps in aligning the organization’s processes across functions and directing resources to achieve the objectives (Moser et al. 2017).

Four aces framework

Four Aces is University of Greenwich’s EPM implementation methodology developed with rigor of six-sigma process and tested in real-life situations. It include various aspects of EPM engagement starting with initiation of customer environment for EPM readiness using the homegrown “SIMPOSM” tool, analyzing the existing environment for different business needs, aligning overall solution architecture to enterprise application and finally achieving or implementing the required solution (Proper, Hoppenbrouwers and van Zanten 2017).

Enterprise Architect integrates Requirements Management with other software development disciplines, by creating requirements directly in the model. Requirements Management is built into the core product, solving many of the issues of traceability, interdisciplinary team divisions, integration with change and configuration management systems.

The enterprise architecture consists of different requirements including stakeholder requirements. The stakeholders are the people who are directly or indirectly relates to the company. In this context, the University of Greenwich have fulfilled requirements of stakeholders. It have provided advices to many business organizations to invest in the university. The Student Union University of Greenwich has helped in engaging students for delivering student experiences. This helps in empowering students for having life changing experiences in the university (Zimmermann et al. 2014). The SU has been active in the design of the Avery Hill sports pitches and the new Dreadnought development, which will be their new home. Society and club membership is presently at an all-time high, and there is more student representation on programmers and university-wide groups and committees than ever before.

Conclusion

It can be concluded that the use of enterprise architecture have helped in maintaining organizational structure of the University of Greenwich, UK. The three aspects of design authority of the university has been defined in the presentation. The different requirements of enterprise architecture has been discussed in the presentation. The stakeholders of institutions has been playing an important role in maintaining various authorities and duties of the university. This have helped in providing various services to the students and clients of the university.

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