Continuously accurate enterprise architecture repository at DuPont Pioneer
Agility through transparency: continuous visibility of dependencies in a fast changing environment
Gene Shoykhet enterprise architect, DuPont Pioneer
„We waited too long to start on a concerted effort to create an enterprise model of our systems and dependencies. Playing catchup takes extra effort and discipline. Having this tool earlier on would have saved us plenty in just the time it takes to property scope the impact of any architectural change to a particular system.”
Gene Shoykhet, enterprise architect from DuPont Pioneer R&D from a speech about he gave on how they increased IT’s agility to deliver business demands, including the integration of the merging companies. Given at the Building Business Capability conference in Orlando, Thursday, November 9, 2017.
The Challenge
Due to the fast developments in applied industrial technology, IT and biotechnology, DuPont Pioneer, the world’s leading developer and supplier of advanced plant genetics and seeds, found itself with a need to manage data and rapid changes in a large and complex environment.
IT’s agility to respond to business demands were at stake.
The Solution
Plans to improve areas such as SOA, hovewer, repositories and data warehouse were missing a map of the how to get there. An end-to-end model of systems and data flows was created and associated to business processes and technologies. The ingestion process involved interviews with field architects, application owners and data architects.
In order to maintain visibility and transparency in such a rapidly changing environment, the usage of this information in the solution development and change management processes were given an emphasis. High-level solution designing and impact analysis happen now in the shared EA tool.
This may make all the difference as the ability to execute organizational transformation becomes a competitive advantage over time.
Smooth implementation in 3 weeks
Three weeks onsite allowed for visibility of the architecture, identification of new requirements and selling the shared modelling capabilities in the tool to the users.
Ease of use
SAMU’s ease-of-use has enabled teams at DuPont Pioneer to start quickly and begin gaining insights from the tool immediately.
Create Source of Truth
Before SAMU every team treated data individually leading to duplication and naming conflicts but now they benefit from documentation and understanding interdependency.
Support M&A
SAMU serves as the architecture integration planning and governance platform for the DowDuPont merger.
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Why us?
We offer a Free SAMU Trial and/or a Free Proof of Concept (We set up the trial using customer data)
SAMU is extremely flexible, the meta-model is fully flexible, custom reports can be created, sophisticated user permission rights
Our Best Practice Model based on 20+ years of experience in delivering successful EA projects
SAMU has been developed using a bottom-up approach. Product development is based on real-life customer needs.
Customer satisfaction and our approach. Each customer is unique. We strive to bring real value and to have a successful EA practice.
Powerful visualizations: Our visualizations are all data-driven generated from the live repository with multiple lifecycle views available.
Integration capabilities: Sophisticated API to automate data upload and maintain quality in the repository.
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