ENTERPRISE APPLICATIONS & ARCHITECTURE

NEXUS OF EA &
CLOUD
By:
Swati Brahmappa
Vishnuvardhan Ramachandran
Vishwas N Prasad

AGENDA
Introduction
Cloud Functionalities
The Nexus
Impact of Cloud on EA
Benefits
Limitations
Risk Assessment
Recommendation
Success Story

INTRODUCTION
Anenterprise architecture(EA) is

The intent of an EAis to determine

a conceptual blueprint that defines

how an organization can most

the structure and operation of an

effectively achieve its current and

organization.

future objectives.

(SearchCIO, 2015)

The practice of using a network of remote servers hosted on the Internet to

store, manage, and process data, rather than a local server or a personal
computer is called as Cloud Computing.
(Google.com.au, 2015)

CLOUD FUNCTIONALITIES

(Cloud Computing Functionalities, 2015)

TYPES OF CLOUD
SERVICES
Software as a Service
(SaaS)
Platform as a Service
DEPLOYMENT
(PaaS)
APPROACHES
Infrastructure as a Service
Private
(IaaS)
Public
Commmunity

THE NEXUS

Cloud Computing addresses the need for

single point of reference for state-of-the-art
Enterprise Architectures

IMPACT OF CLOUD ACCORDING TO ZACHMAN

DATA

PEOPLE

(What?)

(Who?)

FUNCTION

TIME

(How?)

(When?)

NETWORK

MOTIVE

(Where?)

(Why?)
(Upload.wikimedia.org,2015)

BENEFITS OF CLOUD IN EA STRENGTHS

ON
EFFICIENCY

DEMAND
INNOVATIO
N

ACCESSIBIL

PAY AS YOU

ITY

GO

FLEXIBILITY

SCALABILIT
Y

LIMITATIONS OF CLOUD IN EA WEAKNESSES

COST

SECURITY

CONTROL

GOVERNAN

CUSTOM

CE

NEEDS

RISK ASSESSMENT

RISK

PROBABILIT
Y

IMPACT

Security

High

High

Cost

Medium

Medium

Governance

Medium

High

Custom
Needs

Medium

Medium

Control

Low

Medium

RECOMMENDATION

SERVICE LEVEL
AGREEMENT

LONG TERM
BUDGETING

SECURITY
PROTOCOLS

SUPPORTIVE
EA

SUCCESS STORY Commerce Connect (CRM), Department of

Commerce, USA

CASE:

ring all its programs under one roof.

One-Stop-Shop for businesses.

Technical assistance
Capital
IP Protection
Grants
Business Information

ERVICE PROVIDER: Acumen Solutions

SOLUTION: Sales Cloud CRM

FEATURES
Capture of public inquiries directly into
the backend CRM.
Track of customer cases and referrals.
Real time metrics and dashboards.
Convert business addresses to County
and Congressional District.
Implementation

of

best

practice

approaches for cloud based call centres.

Develop and deliver case manager and
call centre training.
Building of collaboration tools.

(Acumensolutions.com, 201

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