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27.06.2023

Product IT - Far-reaching consequences for companies, IT and enterprise architecture

Product IT is a hot potato. How do you define it, what capabilities are needed, and what interactions do product IT and commercial IT have? How is "the new kid on the block" integrated into the overall enterprise and what do stakeholders need to consider?

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26.06.2023

Practical problems? - How do I professionally transfer machine learning models into the productive phase?

"It took me three weeks to develop the machine learning model. In the meantime, a year has passed and it is still not in production." These or similar statements occur again and again in projects. The complaint of an anonymous AI developer describes the dilemma faced by many companies pursuing ML projects that actually want to reap the benefits of artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI / ML) on a larger scale.

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27.06.2022

Multilateral data sharing in industry

The CBA Lab is co-author of this publication of the Plattform Industrie 4.0.

Multilateral data sharing in industry – Concept using “Collaborative Condition Monitoring” as a basis for new business models: Collaborative Condition Monitoring (CCM) describes an innovative approach to multilateral data sharing. This is examined here in the context of a "three-way fractal" consisting of component supplier, machine supplier and factory operator, with the aim of generating economic added value for all participants. This publication aims to make the "CCM tri-fractal" tangible. Necessary legal, technical and economic framework conditions are highlighted and discussed on the basis of various scenarios.

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31.05.2022

How Beiersdorf and Dr. Oetker use EAM

New awareness for EA: A newly understood enterprise architecture integrates business and IT strategies even more closely. Two prominent examples show how this can work. (Article only available in German.)

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26.04.2021

An architectural approach for digital schools_pdf

The Corona pandemic has shown that Germany's schools are lagging far behind in digitalisation. The solution could be a central "digital education architecture". 

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20.04.2021

How EAM helps with digital transformation

Enterprise Architecture Management (EAM) can be an important pillar for companies when it comes to implementing the digital transformation. Cross-Business-Architecture Lab (CBA Lab) has developed six tips on how IT, enterprise architecture management and business departments can work together. With the following advice, CBA Lab wants to help companies make better use of the opportunities offered by professional architecture management to drive digital transformation.

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05.03.2021

Let different management systems communicate with each other

Management systems are actually a blessing. But if they are purely silo-oriented and do not exchange data with each other, they can definitely slow down overarching process and business models. Cross-Business-Architecture Lab had the idea of integrating the different management systems on the basis of the Enterprise Architecture Repository. The first step was to investigate where data synchronisation is worthwhile and how it can be realised across silos.

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15.02.2021

Enterprise Architecture Repository as a basis for cross-silo management systems

Different management systems working side by side make enterprise-wide architecture work difficult. However, better data exchange between the previous silos can also bring advantages for the individual business and IT domains. For example, in the areas of security and software asset management. Cross-Business Architecture Lab has investigated where data synchronisation is most likely to pay off and how to realise it across silos.

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14.08.2020

EAM enables better planning and management of multi-cloud solutions

The right cloud service for every use scenario, no vendor lock-ins, a high degree of reliably at the best possible level of performance – companies undergoing the digital transformation are increasingly recognizing the benefits of heterogeneous cloud environments. A white paper produced by the Cross-Business-Architecture Lab (CBA Lab) explains how EAM can help with the effective planning and management of such environments.

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22.06.2020

EAM enables better planning and management of multi-cloud solutions

The right cloud service for every use scenario, no vendor lock-ins, a high degree of reliably at the best possible level of performance – companies undergoing the digital transformation are increasingly recognizing the benefits of heterogeneous cloud environments. A white paper produced by the Cross-Business-Architecture Lab (CBA Lab) explains how EAM can help with the effective planning and management of such environments.

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13.02.2020

EAM enables better planning and management of multi-cloud solutions

The right cloud service for every use scenario, no vendor lock-ins, a high degree of reliably at the best possible level of performance – companies undergoing the digital transformation are increasingly recognizing the benefits of heterogeneous cloud environments. A white paper produced by the Cross-Business-Architecture Lab (CBA Lab) explains how EAM can help with the effective planning and management of such environments.

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22.11.2019

Solid as a rock in the digital transformation

Olaf Reimann is responsible for Enterprise Architecture Management (EAM) in the Corporate IT department at the Benteler Group. In an interview, the EAM expert explains how he and his team used EAM methods to create a consistent model that is “solid as a rock” in the midst of the turbulence of the digital transformation.

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23.09.2019

The new role for enterprise architects

Enterprise architects are in great demand at companies. However, the requirements associated with their role have changed significantly over the last few years. These days, enterprise architects serve as advisors and sparring partners for a company’s IT department and business organization, whereby this is a role that requires substantial knowledge.

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23.07.2019

EAM offers guidance in the digital transformation

Enterprise architecture management (EAM) is playing a key role in the digital transformation. This became very clear at CBA Lab’s EAM Conference in Berlin, where enterprise architects from various business sectors presented their work.

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07.03.2019

Checklist for an IoT reference architecture

The Cross-Business-Architecture Lab has developed a reference architecture (RA) for IoT solutions. Unlike most RAs in the commercial IoT environment, the reference architecture created by the companies that participated in the CBA Lab working group on IoT Patterns and Architecture was designed from the beginning to be product-neutral, and its individual elements were designed to be reusable.

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04.03.2019

Enterprise architecture at Schaeffler

Joachim Schmider is Vice President Enterprise IT Architecture at the CBA Lab member company Schaeffler AG. In an interview with CIO-Magazin, Schmider explains the tasks performed by enterprise architecture (EA) experts at the automotive and industrial supplier company, as well as how they view their role when they approach their work.

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14.03.2019

How the Zeiss Group is addressing digitalization challenges

Jürgen Klein, Chief Digital Portfolio Manager at Zeiss AG, explains how his company is addressing digitalization, and the role IT architecture plays here.

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30.01.2019

Using EAM as an effective response to the digital pressure to change

At the conference “EAM – Pointing the Way Forward for the Digital Transformation,” enterprise architects and CIOs from companies in various business sectors presented their strategies and plans for the future. The common topics they are all focusing on are data analysis, the cloud, agile work processes, and rapid response to change. Read the article at cio.de (in German only):

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04.10.2018

Enterprise architects are our guides in the digital transformation

What role is enterprise architecture management playing within the framework of the digital transformation? CIO-Magazin spoke with the Chairman of the Board of the Cross-Business-Architecture Lab, Johannes Helbig.

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15.02.2019

A total of 70 percent of our work today consists of making change possible

We talked to Dr. Thomas Greutmann, Head of Enterprise Architecture at Otto and one of the main speakers at our EAM Conference on September 26–27, about the changed range of tasks architecture specialists need to perform and how he and his team manage to enable rapid changes to be be made at Otto today, while still maintaining a networked and well functioning IT landscape.

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08.09.2018

No AI without data, and no data without EAM

Self-driving transport vehicles, self-organizing logistics chains and warehouses, automated translation in realtime, personalized advertising, computer-aided online dating services: The important thing to keep in mind about all of these is that they already exist today. Nevertheless, we are only at the beginning, and not at the end, of the developments that made them possible. More than anything else, these developments are based on a breakthrough in the field of artificial intelligence (AI). AI in turn requires the availability of virtually unlimited amounts of data, which can and must be provided by well organized enterprise architecture systems: In other words, no AI without data, and no data without EAM.

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15.02.2019

How to ensure IT security in agile projects as well

A good level of security can also be achieved with agile work processes and methods – and without having to sacrifice the benefits that agility offers. Cooperative security governance and transparency, the provision of support for security objectives by the entire organization, and measures to increase security awareness among agile teams can all be of help here. The Security workstream at Cross-Business-Architecture Lab e. V. (CBA Lab) offers advice on these matters.

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15.02.2019

IT architecture and agility – the future of enterprise architecture

The role of enterprise architects needs to be expanded if they are to be able to keep up with new developments at a company. Although stability and sustainability remain important, new requirements are arising – one of which is speed. Only if enterprise architecture can meet these requirements will it become an enabler of further development, rather than an obstacle to it.

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15.02.2019

What enterprise architects need to be able to do

Enterprise architecture is changing fundamentally under the pressure of digitalization. It is developing a new understanding of itself and expanding its scope of activities. This development is also changing the requirements software architects need to meet, as a survey of major corporations such as Daimler, Deutsche Bahn, and SBB (Switzerland) has revealed.

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21.12.2017

Digitalization is transforming CEOs into Chief Architects

The digital transformation is making architecture a central focus of strategic IT and business planning. Those who truly understand EAM can use it to support the design and management of digital business processes and cross-business value creation networks. This is why the Cross-Business-Architecture Lab (CBA Lab) addresses all question relating to architecture and focuses on the building blocks for digital transformation.

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25.04.2017

Big Data Guide

“How companies can begin using big data and analytics in a structured manner”: Article in the online edition of the magazine Computerwoche, 4/24/2017

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