Our long-term vision for the EA project is that a clear articulation of the relationships between business processes, data, information systems and technology will enable us to maximise the effective deployment of IT to support operations and management and to achieve our strategic objectives. Integral to this, and related to the Oracle/ SOA focus within the project, we would hope to achieve greater flexibility through the incremental deployment of a service layer enhancing integration between systems and facilitating the swifter deployment of new or replacement components.
We also intend, through development of ‘as is’ and ‘to be’ architectures within the scope of the pilot, to conduct gap analysis and planning, and implementation and change management activities within the selected business area.