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Enterprise Architecture Creates Cost Savings and Drives Strategic Planning at $100B Financial Services Company

Enterprise Architecture Creates Cost Savings and Drives Strategic Planning at $100B Financial Services Company

Challenges

  • Gain better insight into the interdependencies of applications and technologies.
  • Identify unutilized, redundant, or non-compliant applications
  • Develop strategies for the modernization of the systems
  • Meet the demands of a growing company with a more significant focus on digital transformation

Results

  • Created a complete view of the organization's EA by rationalizing data and applications
  • Created consistency and structured work projects
  • Moved from an EA "push” mode to a business "pull mode"
  • Enabled faster and more streamlined planning

Modernization of systems to support digital transformation and business growth

The impetus for this $100B Financial Services Company's enterprise architecture journey was similar to that of many financial institutions: a need for increased governance. The Company used enterprise architecture to enforce policies, standards, and procedures to ensure compliance and reduce risk.

 
Customer Story Financial Service Company
Industry Banking and Financial Services

Product

Bizzdesign Hopex

Solution

Enterprise Architecture Management

$1.4T Global Bank Saves $5M Using a Single Enterprise Architecture Repository To Manage Applications, Risk, and Compliance

$1.4T Global Bank Saves $5M Using a Single Enterprise Architecture Repository To Manage Applications, Risk, and Compliance

Challenges

  • Create an IT repository and assess the health of IT assets
  • Map IT assets to business capabilities as a basis to perform current state and future state transformation planning
  • Provide senior leadership with a comprehensive inventory assessment and an enterprise view of applications, risk, and compliance

Results

  • A clear, comprehensive view of the company's IT portfolio
  • A review of 3rd party vendors helped to identify $5M in savings by eliminating redundant applications
  • Ability to identify and prioritize projects

Transforming banking platforms into digital businesses while managing risk

The financial crisis of 2018 was a clarion call to the banking industry that the assessment and measurement of risk had failed to keep pace with the increasing complexity of financial products.

 
Customer Story Global Bank
Industry Banking and Financial Services

Product

Bizzdesign Hopex

Solution

Enterprise Architecture Management

ARIA - Regione Lombardia: Successfully Drive the Digital Transformation of Public Services

ARIA - Regione Lombardia: Successfully Drive the Digital Transformation of Public Services

Challenges

  • Successfully drive the digital transformation of the Lombardia Regional Government
  • Creation of a services catalog and an EA Competence Center
  • Ability to solve problems and analyze incidents 

Results

  • Mapping of Business processes linked to applications and infrastructure thanks to a solid EA model based on TOGAF®
  • Implementation of a single platform, decentralizing the entry of information concerning the application landscape
  • Knowledge sharing with all stakeholders via the intranet portal: maps, reports, etc.

Successfully drive the digital transformation of public services

Established in 1981, ARIA (www.ariaspa.it) is an IT service organization managed and coordinated by the Lombardy Regional Government, which has for many years been committed to a plan to digitize all activities and services provided. ARIA deals with projects such as:

 
Customer Story Aria

Customer
ARIA

 

Country Italy
Industry IT and Services
Employees 501 - 1000

Product

Bizzdesign Hopex

Solution

Enterprise Architecture Management

Large Global Health Insurer Implements Enterprise Architecture in Agile Safe Environment

Large Global Health Insurer Implements Enterprise Architecture in Agile Safe Environment

Challenges

  • Create a new consumer-centric health plan
  • Utilize an Agile approach allowing for best-of-breed business capabilities to be interwoven.
  • Use Enterprise Architecture to focus on enabling transformation vs. information consistency and technology governance

Results

  • Increase reputation for turning vision into action and become a trusted business advisor.
  • Evolution from information and application architecture to solution and integration architecture
  • Reduction of design defects by 50%, doubling delivery speed, and eliminating 90% of architecture risks

Achieve digital transformation and consumer-centric business processes using enterprise architecture.

A $69B managed healthcare company decided to create a new consumer-centric health plan. A recent Consumer Business unit would own the new business platform, provide new products to the market, base itself on a different engagement model, and apply digital-first principles and new business processes across the board.

 
Customer Story Large Global Insurer
Industry Insurance

Product

Bizzdesign Hopex

Solution

Enterprise Architecture Management

Large Global Insurer Improves IT Health and Drives Business Modernization Using Bizzdesign Hopex

Large Global Insurer Improves IT Health and Drives Business Modernization Using Bizzdesign Hopex

Challenges

  • Update legacy processes and outdated technology
  • Reduce the negative impacts of a siloed organization and old technologies
  • Change the focus of IT infrastructure to innovation rather than maintenance

Results

  • They have achieved more substantial business and IT alignment by clearly understanding IT assets and their respective business value.
  • Established a centralized repository for technology standards and processes
  • Improved value of IT as a strategic asset by optimizing the application portfolio

Undergoing business transformation while dealing with technology discontinuity

This Fortune 50 Insurance Company launched a business transformation initiative to ensure all its efforts were unified and directed toward achieving corporate growth goals and improved performance. The transformation initiative focused first on the IT infrastructure and resources since IT would be the driving force behind implementing change throughout the Company.

The Company's specific IT challenges included:

 
Customer Story Large Global Insurer
Industry Insurance

Product

Bizzdesign Hopex

Solution

Enterprise Architecture Management

North American Railroad Realizes Cost Savings and Identifies New Revenue Stream With Enterprise Architecture

North American Railroad Realizes Cost Savings and Identifies New Revenue Stream With Enterprise Architecture

Challenges

  • Modernize technologies and align business strategies to IT
  • Identify a tool that could support technology decision-making and enhance enterprise architecture frameworks
  • Integrate with ServiceNow and other technologies

Results

  • Standardized data and a clear understanding of IT inventory
  • Knowledge of where/how to prioritize and modernize systems
  • Ability to tap into the potential revenue stream of proprietary technology

Modernize and align IT to business strategies to realize transformation.

A $2.5B transportation holding company and one of the top 10 largest railroads in the US and Mexico had the vision to become the fastest-growing, best-performing, most customer-focused transportation provider in North America. To realize this, the Company needed to enhance coordination, simplify integration, build a consistent infrastructure, and create greater efficiencies in developing technology solutions that align with the business strategies with IT.

 
Customer Story North American Railroad

Headquarters
North America

 

 

Industry Transportation and Travel Services

Product

Bizzdesign Hopex

Solution

Enterprise Architecture Management

Mining Company Instills an Integrated Modern Architecture With Confidence

Mining Company Instills an Integrated Modern Architecture With Confidence

Challenges

  • Determine how legacy applications would coexist with an emerging modern ecosystem.
  • Develop a metamodel that would provide flexibility and structure
  • Select a tool that enables strong governance and focuses on business outcomes

Results

  • Developed a strong metamodel that allowed the team to perform at an accelerated pace
  • Timely reporting and analysis helped deepen EA IQ and strengthen relationships.
  • Success has set the groundwork for a more formal enterprise architecture program.

Determine how to take advantage of emerging technologies with an existing footprint

A precious minerals and mining company headquartered in Canada works with diversified natural resources and is engaged in mining and mineral development, including steelmaking coal, copper, zinc, and energy.

 
Customer Story Mining Company

Headquarters
Canada

 

 

Country Canada
Industry Energy and Environment

Product

Bizzdesign Hopex

Solution

Enterprise Architecture Management

A Connected Repository Enables Mid-Market Company To Design Transformation

A Connected Repository Enables Mid-Market Company To Design Transformation

Challenges

  • A small team consisting of domain architects with no single source of truth
  • Needed to determine how legacy applications would coexist with emerging technologies
  • Unsure how to execute a modernization initiative to provide customers with greater value

Results

  • Created a connected repository that became the company's North star
  • Decompartmentalized a "spaghetti diagram" into useable diagrams
  • Established a documented workflow of how money moves across the business

Disparate sources, data, and information were holding back Transformation

A mid-market financial services lender ("Company") with revenues of $115M decided to take on a modernization initiative that involved providing customers with a "one-stop shop" online portal for services and payment options. The Company was just beginning its enterprise architecture initiatives looking to evolve from Microsoft Office and Visio static artifacts to a more centralized dynamic repository that could help manage and store their information and data.

 
Customer Story Mid Market Bank
Industry Banking and Financial Services

Product

Bizzdesign Hopex

Solution

Enterprise Architecture Management

Eurocontrol and the SESAR Project - Architecture of Complex Systems

Eurocontrol and the SESAR Project - Architecture of Complex Systems

Challenges

  • Determine and map system requirements
  • Ensure consistency between the various systems and subsystems
  • Make sure the various components of the system work together without interfering
  • Use a central repository of system architecture models

Results

  • The entire repository of system architecture models is available
  • Quicker resolution of problems thanks to a collaborative working environment
  • Intranet site to access the architecture repository

The Single European Sky ATM Research Project (SESAR) is the technology pillar of the EU's Single European Sky initiative to standardize air traffic management (ATM) across the region. SESAR aims to develop advanced technology to boost operational efficiency, lower costs, and reduce the environmental impact per flight.

 
Customer Story Eurocontrols

Headquarters
Brussel, Belgium

 

 

Country Belgium
Industry Aerospace and Defense
Employees 1001 - 5000

Product

Bizzdesign Hopex

Solution

Enterprise Architecture Management

Bordeaux Métropole - Successful Transformation of Integrated Information Systems With EA

Bordeaux Métropole - Successful Transformation of Integrated Information Systems With EA

Challenges

  • Share knowledge and pool information with the entire IT department
  • Rationalize the computer park and anticipate its evolution trajectories
  • Create a common IS culture

Results

  • Better IS knowledge: Applications, Technologies, Stakeholders, Suppliers
  • Implementation of a single platform decentralizing the entry of information concerning the application landscape
  • Knowledge sharing with all stakeholders via the intranet portal: maps, reports, etc.

 

Capitalize on knowledge of Information Systems to drive business transformation.

Bordeaux Métropole (formerly the Urban Community of Bordeaux) is a Public Establishment for Intermunicipal Cooperation (EPCI), which brings together 28 municipalities spread over both banks of the Garonne, covering nearly 750,000 constituents. The 2014 law governing the creation of metropolitan areas in France aimed to pool shared services (Finance, HR, IS, etc.) under the responsibility of local authorities.

 
Customer Story Bordeaux Métropole

Customer
Bordeaux Métropole

Headquarter
Bordeaux, France

Country France
Industry Public
Employees 10,001+

Product

Bizzdesign Hopex

Solution

Enterprise Architecture Management