CIO asks for decision making

CIOs are poised with innovating at a bleeding edge technology as they drive the digital transformation, modernization and cloudization agenda for their enterprise. They need to operate on both strategic and tactical plans, which requires real-time data and insights to support decision-making. Making decisions without data is like getting into a river with a tiny shallow islands found in the river to get down and stand for support.

Here are the most pressing questions by CIO looking out for answers from Enterprise Architecture Platforms.

Business & Strategy

• How does the platform help to highlight inefficiencies and risks in the IT eco systems?
• How is the strategic road map and implementation projects correlated?
• How are the strategic objectives and the business capabilities mapped?
• How are the business capabilities of the organization of levels L0, L1, L2 and L3 related with its supporting applications?
• Does the platform have the capability to graphically draw/show the steps of the business process?
• Is it track the application costs by various categories, and it displays graphically for several years?
• Does it have organization hierarchy management?

Application

• How are the interfaces are captured and application dependency network is portrayed?
• Does the platform supports listing applications for portfolio rationalization?
• Does the platform shows the SSOT (Single Source Of Truth) of data by applications?

Information & Data

• Can it capture logical data and conceptual data, its relationships?
• Does it support data repository / data quality assessment?
• Can the data flow be pictorially represented?
• Does it depict Information Reference Model?
• Does it show the relationships between business process and data?

Technology & Security

• Does the platform shows where an application is hosted and where it is accessed from ?
• Does the platform provide OOB Application Inventory, Server Inventory, Technology Components and its relationships, etc.?
• Can it manage supplier licenses?
• Does it support security assessments?
• How does it support technology reference model?
• How does the technology aligned to strategy?
• Suggest reference architecture to ensure strategic alignment
• Does it have a view to show any two applications comparing the scope?

Enterprise Architecture

• Will it host the EA Principles and the Application adherence assessment scores?
• Architecture Principle compliance available pictorially?
• Is there a capability to assess applications against business fit?
• Is there a capability to assess applications against technical fit?
• Does the platform support impact analysis on changes?
• Over all dashboard shows Business, Application and Technology capabilities