Sustain Investments!

The Operation Facet of EA-In-A-Box™ sustains the Realization Facet by ensuring organizations make appropriate, ongoing investments in the architecture assets produced by solution delivery projects.

APG helps organizations apply best practices for architecture governance and asset management from The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF™) and the Reusable Asset Specification (RAS) from the Object Management Group (OMG).

APG offers a comprehensive set of services to help organizations realize their long-term investment strategies with effective architecture management:

• Establish architecture board
• Define governance processes
• Harvest existing assets
• Manage architecture repository
• Support reuse ecosystem

Standard Offering (7 days) [#07-0207-01]

Leveraging strategic partnerships with world-class tool providers like IBM® Rational®, APG provides organizations clear guidance on how to effectively use asset management and reporting tools such as IBM Rational Asset Manager (RAM) and IBM Rational Insight.

Using the TOGAF Architecture Repository as a conceptual model, APG provides a pre-configured RAM architecture repository incorporating existing architecture standards and reference models from The Open Group, OMG, ISO, IEEE, W3C, OASIS, and domain-specific industry groups.

• IBM Rational Asset Manager Fundamentals training (2 days) [#01-0623]
• IBM Rational Asset Manager licenses [#04-0206]
• ATPL+ IBM Rational Asset Manager (ATPL+RAM) licenses [#02-0104-09]
• RAM Deployment workshop (5 days) [#00-0405]

Additional Services

• RAM Asset Governance workshop (5 days) [#00-0406]