VEA is a global service provider and partner that delivers solutions for business process management, IT portfolio planning, and enterprise architecture using ARIS and Alfabet. VEA advises clients throughout their BPM, ITPM, and EA initiatives to enable planning and architecture. VEA has enabled over 100 global customers as the only third-party provider of accelerators for effective deliverables and information delivery. VEA's services are managed through a Center of Excellence to ensure advanced platform support.

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VEA: ARIS and Alfabet Journey Together - ITPM, BPM and EA
Zach Bennett – CEO & Chief Architect, Visual Enterprise Architecture
Dr. Ulrich Kalex - SVP Product Line Management and R&D, Software AG

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Business Process Management, IT Portfolio Planning
& Enterprise Architecture Solutions
May 2015
Visual Enterprise Architecture
Global Presence
Delivered Projects in
22 Countries and 3 Languages
Experience
SAG Service Partner with
8+ Years of Alfabet Experience
15+ Years of ARIS Experience
Practical Expertise
Strategic BPM
Enterprise Architecture
IT Portfolio Management
Global Headquarters
Darien, CT
Miami, FL
Pune, India

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 VEA Delivers Services and Solutions for Business Process Management, IT Portfolio
Planning, IT M&A, and Enterprise Architecture using Digital Platforms
 We Advise our Clients throughout the BPM, ITPM and EA maturity lifecycle to
successfully enable both Planning and Architecture Initiatives
 VEA is the ONLY third-party provider of Accelerators to support
effective deliverables and information delivery for business stakeholders
 VEA has Enabled more than One Hundred (100) Global Customers
including the largest customers in North America.
 VEA Remote Services managed by our Center of Excellence (CoE)
facility ensures advanced platform support with dedicated SLAs
 VEA is Recognized as Premier Partner & Global Service Provider (2004)
 VEA has Direct Access to Product Managers and Specialists
Visual Enterprise Architecture: Company Overview

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VEA: Premier Partner and Global Service Provider
COLLABORATIVE
PROCESS ANALYSIS
PORTFOLIO
MANAGEMENT
PROCESS AUTOMATION
AND INTEGRATION
INTELLIGENT BUSINESS
OPERATIONS AND BIG DATA
ALFABET
IT Planning and
Portfolio Management
ALFABET
Enterprise
Architecture
Management
Alfabet Cloud
WEBMETHODS
Integration
WEBMETHODS
Business Process
Management
AgileApps Live
Integration Live*
APAMA
Intelligent Business
Operations
TERRACOTTA
In-Memory Data
Management
ARIS
Business Process
Analysis
ARIS
Governance, Risk
and Compliance
Management
ARIS Cloud

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VEA: Business Value Drivers (Four Key Pillars)
Increase Transparency for Strategic IT Investments to
Solve Business Challenges
Align IT with Business Objectives and Processes to Ensure
Business Transformation is Effective
Focus Resources on Business-Critical Improvements and
Planning Optimization
Improve Transparency, Reduce Cost and Remove the
Complexity from IT Systems
Ensure Governance for the Collection, Validation and
Management of the IT Portfolio

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Strategic Integration – Critical Decisions
 What are the Key Strategic Enterprise Perspectives?
 How Mature is your EA Discipline?
 How Does Your Organization Manage the Business and IT Portfolios?
 Which Assets will be Managed by which Technologies?
 What is the Volume and Expected Rate of Change for the Key Assets in the
Short and Long-Term?
 What Level of Alignment will be Required?
 What Additional Use Cases drive Specific Business versus IT Requirements?

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Strategic Integration – IT Portfolios
• Identify Key IT Portfolio Objectives
• Align IT with Enterprise Strategic
Framework, Domains and Asset
Inventories
• Validate and Identify Level of ARIS /
Alfabet Integration for Business
Processes (Levels)
• Re-classify and Segment
Technology Portfolio (Applications
and Components)

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Strategic Integration – Key Assets
Business Capability Applications Technology Projects

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Domain View by Business Perspective
ARIS Domain View
Alfabet Domain View

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Business Process Portfolio
ARIS Business Process View
Alfabet Business Process View

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Technology Portfolios - Applications
ARIS Application Portfolio View
Alfabet Application Domain View

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Capabilities by Technology Domain
ARIS Domain View
Alfabet Domain View

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Component Portfolio Relationships
ARIS Component View
Alfabet Component View

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Information Architecture and Business Data Portfolio
ARIS Data View
Alfabet Data View

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Strategic Integration – Technical View
Alfabet
Rest API
ARIS
Rest API
Request for
Data
Response with
Data
Request to Load
Data
Response with
Create/Update Data
VEA Transformation Engine

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Strategic Integration – Demonstration
 Three Key Assets – Processes, Applications and Components
 ARIS to Alfabet – Process Portfolio View
 Alfabet to ARIS – Application Integration

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VEA 2015 – Contact Information
Zach Bennett, CEO & Chief Architect
zbennett@visualeabpm.com
Aniruddha Paranjape, VP of Technology
aparanjape@visualeabpm.com
www.visualeabpm.com