Enterprise Architecture

This Community supports Enterprise Architects by providing key information on SAP products and strategy. It’s designed for business or IT professionals in decision-making roles, tackling challenges like integrating mode 1 and mode 2, adopting technologies like Machine Learning and Blockchain, anticipating future needs with innovative, design-led systems and exploring cloud migration strategies.

About Enterprise Architecture

Enterprise Architecture can be defined in many ways. The organising logic for business processes and IT infrastructure reflects the integration and standardisation requirements of the firm’s operating model. [Source: MIT Center for Information Systems Research] A conceptual blueprint that defines the structure and operation of an organisation. The intent of an enterprise architecture is to determine how an organisation can most effectively achieve its current and future objectives. [Source: SearchCIO.com] Whichever definition you prefer, and there are more; the role of an Enterprise Architect is to try and pull the essential details from many different technical and business domains, make sense of it and communicate it as one overall story or roadmap.

The Enterprise Architecture Roundtable was incredibly valuable. Apart from networking with users in SAP group, it was particularly useful and insightful to have interactions and discussions with experts from SAP who provided us insights on how to tackle common challenges faced by most customers. Furthermore, we were able to get focussed inputs and direction on the strategies and resources to leverage to help resolve common problems. That for me sums up the real value that UKISUG offers.

Avinash Rajan

ASDA

Community Objectives

This Community seeks to support Enterprise Architects by providing them with key information about SAP products and strategy. It is designed for professionals in enterprise architecture and decision-making roles in business or IT, addressing various challenges such as making mode 1 and mode 2 work in real-world scenarios, integrating new transformational technologies like Machine Learning and Blockchain into business processes, anticipating future business needs with innovative systems through a design-led approach and prototypes, and exploring the reasons and methods behind moving to the cloud.

The Enterprise Architecture Focus Group has been introduced into the UKISUG calendar specifically for members that meet the below requirements:

Essential Technology Experience:

Appreciation of architecting SAP solutions including ERP, BW, SCP, S/4HANA, BI, SAP Business Networks
Experience in architecting multiple SAP systems and integrating them into the existing environment
Implementation experience of business processes across the SAP landscape including systems such as .. Warehouse Management, Finance, Logistics, Production Planning and Sales and Distribution
Experience of developing blueprints and roadmaps for future operating models
Experience in workflow and business process orchestration

Essential Architecture Experience:

Definition of baseline and target architectures, across multiple domains, in support of strategic initiatives
Assess and communicate the impacts, trade-offs, risks, costs, benefits and opportunities of proposed options
Contribute to the knowledge base of the Group’s Enterprise Architecture, including models and architectural views of supporting business, application and technology domains
Provide consultancy support in strategic decision making through the use of architectural models
Solid understanding of Reference Models
Provide input to the Technology Departments Strategy

The event excludes roles such as: