Envision is certified TOGAF 8

Two choices:

• IT urbanization based on the Christophe Longépé approach : "The IT urbanization project"

• Standard IT mapping, totally user defined including : applications, data, flows, systems, networks...

Years of exploitation, radical business changes, recurring technology upgrades and/or reorganizations have created a "substantial disorder" in the information system. More serious is the important divergences which now appeared with today's company's real business needs. Taking back the control of such monster becomes an imperative and a major challenge. The enterprise vital performances in the medium term are in plays.

Standard case study: Distributed sites, heterogeneous and often distant teams, a diversity of more or less obsolete machines, tens or hundreds of applications with different versions including hundreds or thousands functions, some of which are redundant or not any more in used or incompatible…

The essence of the problem is the analysis and the management of a large quantity of complex information in fast evolution. To successfully reorganize the information system requires a determination, adapted methods and tools and… nerves of steel.

Two uses are usually led:

• Local, at IT level. The reorganization passes by a mapping of the current situation: Applications, systems, actors. It allows the necessarily understanding of the system and provides assistance in taking urgent actions.
   
•  General, at the enterprise level. The most complete, it follows upon the business processes modeling. In addition to the local vision, it allows the adequacy with the real and updated company's business needs. It specifies and justifies more the necessary and immediate changes and long terms actions. It gives relevant information compared to the strategic objectives, which facilitate the decision-making process and ensures total coherence.

 New   Includes risks management over business IT application, systems and networks

 Envision Risks IT

Risks Management allows:

• Identification of hazards sources from IT applications, systems and networks

• Generation of scenarios in order to find the origin (genesis) of new hazards

• Definition and characterization of risks criticity (gravity/frequency or probability)

• Definition of operational and technical barriers in order to reduce to an acceptable level the consequences of un wanted events and help to master the residual risks

• Management of incidents to continuously monitor new risks and the performance of the barriers impact

• Implementation of actions plan

• Control protection cost and actions efficiency

More on IT modeling and urbanization technique

• The urbanization model

• IT sub views

Solution key points

• IT urbanization is coherent with the business processes model
  The elements of the Functional Architecture (FA) are directly derived from the process model data. UML packages, components and concept classes automatically become zones, districts or blocks. Process model and FA are coherent.
   

• Complete
  Beyond urbanization, the tool allows logical and physical cartography of networks and systems, their components, the nature and structure of data bases.
   

• Follow-up of systems and applications evolution of the versions
  Allows backup, history tracking and creation of unlimited versions.
   
• Information leveraging and traceability
  Centralize and shares information in real time between actors (multi users), projects and organization. Thus all members share the same definition of the project
   
• Evolutionarily and flexibility
  At any moment you can completely reconfigure the tool to add new views or new diagrams…
   
• Reliability
  All data and reference documents are recorded in a protected, relational data base. Information is reliable, up to date, available and no redundant.