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ITANA at EDUCAUSE 2009 in Denver

Jim Phelps — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:10:06 +0000

Hi All

Here is the link to the ITANA session at EDUCAUSE in Denver.

http://www.educause.edu/E09+Hybrid/EDUCAUSE2009FacetoFaceConferen/ITArchitects/175734

Day: Thursday, Nov 5th
Time: 12:45PM – 2:15PM
Location: Meeting Room 608

Agenda (open to change):

ITANA intro (who we are, why we are, how to join)

Outline ITANA goals and point people at wiki

Define Enterprise Architecture, I.T. Architecture, Infrastructure Architecture

Provide specific information about what ITANA is doing/has done (data admin, workflow, enterprise architecture, and so forth)

Current “Future Topics” list

Report out on workflow

Gather information about what ITANA plans for the future

Open discussion with participants re: what they are working on, in terms of architecture

Hope to see you there.

Jim

ITANA Face2Face has been cancelled

Jim Phelps — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 19:15:53 +0000

Hi All,

The ITANA Spring 2009 Face2Face has been canceled, because we did not meet our minimum registration mark. I have heard from many members that they are under travel restrictions or complete travel bans and know that this is a financially difficult time for our institutions. I also know that these restrictions have impacted registration for many other national meetings as well.

If you registered for the meeting, you will receive an email with information about refunds.

I’m working with Internet2 and EDUCAUSE to find a way to still bring these discussions to the constituency. There is great interest in the program we developed for this meeting and in finding ways to gather and collaborate on the topics. To this end, a series of joint web-based presentations with conference call sessions are in the works. There are also local meet-ups being planned. Stay tuned.

I hope that the economic situation turns around soon so that large group meetings become viable once again. Until then, I hope you will join with me in finding creative ways to continue our work together.

Best Regards,

Jim Phelps
Chair

Data Management – Focus Area for ITANA

Jim Phelps — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 14:50:43 +0000

Data Management
With collaborative research taking place everywhere how do we classify the research data, protect it while the research is going on and then enable everyone to see after the research is published? How do we collaborate with the libraries on this one? How do we arrive at data management policies that cut across the whole institution? What are some of the examples of institutions doing it successfully today?

To try to better understand the current state of data management among higher ed institutions, a survey will be conducted to assess the level of maturity in areas that are critical to a data management strategy. The survey will ask institutions to self-rate themselves on a scale of 1 to 10 in areas such as data governance, data quality management, metadata management, and data architecture practices. The survey will also offer the opportunity to present context to specific areas, and to indicate which areas are most critical to their success.

The results of the survey should lead to interesting discussion and hopefully provide institutions with data that can help them in their chosen data management direction. The data will provide the opportunity for an institution to see how it compares to its peers in terms of their individual data management maturity. It might also shed light on areas where institutions are experiencing common challenges in implementing or managing data management initiatives.

Longer term, the results could be used to highlight best practices that institutions have found to be successful, and offer opportunities for sharing of ideas and approaches among peers.

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ITANA Face 2 Face Registration is Full

Jim Phelps — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 21:42:09 +0000

We have hit the maximum for the ITANA Face 2 Face 2008 meeting. Registration is full at this time. You can still register but you will be wait listed. See you in Minneapolis next week.

Face 2 Face Registration almost full

Jim Phelps — Tue, 06 May 2008 21:06:13 +0000

ITANA Face 2 Face 2008 Registration now open.

NOTE: The hotel block closes May 18, 2008.

Please use the Registration Form to sign up. You should receive a confirmation email within 24 hours. Space is limited so sign up early.

Join us in Minneapolis, Minnesota for the ITANA Face 2 Face 2008 meeting. Join with your peers in an intimate day-long meeting and discuss a rich agenda of current topics. See you in Minneapolis – Jim Phelps, Chair.

Date: June 18, 2008

Time: 9AM to 5PM

Location: Hilton Minneapolis

Hotel registration information will be sent upon receipt of your registration request.

Agenda:

Time	Activity	Session Leader
9:00AM	Convene
9:00 to 9:15 AM	Welcome, logistics et al	Jim Phelps
9:15 to 10:15 AM	Session 1 – Tools of the trade	Tom Barton
	We’ll showcase some of the tools, methodologies, artifacts, techniques, or tactics that we use to engender increased architectural coherence across the infrastructures and business & operational processes we’re connected with. The session will help us to think about the range of ways in which we might influence others by use of the tools with which we engage them.
10:15 to 10:30 AM	break
10:30 to Noon	Session 2 – Case Studies: Architecture on Your Campus	Jim Hooper
	This session will focus on Case Studies from several institutions including: Descriptions of ongoing Enterprise Architecture programs in your university. How, Who, What, and any impacts the program has had/is having on your IT environment. Descriptions of specific projects that have been significantly impacted (positively) by the Enterprise Architecture program.
Noon to 1:00PM	Lunch
1:00 to 2:30 PM	Hot Topics – Data Management	Klara Jelinkova
	There is a rich set of metadata and middleware needed to support the data classification we are starting to put in place for at least business applications. And the need will become even greater once we develop the same classifications for all of our institutional data including research data. Institutions seem to have a pretty good handle at least theoretically on business data. But once we start to cross over to other assets such as data associated with research, teaching and learning most IT organizations seem to give up. That type of data is viewed by most IT organizations in our institutions as someone else’s problem. However it is an important IT and security problem. With collaborative research taking place everywhere how do we classify the research data, protect it while the research is going on and then enable everyone to see after the research is published? How do we collaborate with the libraries on this one? How do we arrive at data management policies that cut across the whole institution? What are some of the examples of institutions doing it successfully today?
2:30 to 2:45	break
2:45 to 3:45	Hot Topics – Security Architecture	Steve Kellog
	I will present on Penn State’s current and future strategies for Identity and Access Management along with our efforts to affect better security of the endpoints. I am looking for other presentations on topics related to enterprise security architecture. Suggested topics might be other’s take on identity and access management, network security measures, multi-tiered service provisioning, social engineering, computer forensics, or any number of other topics that make up what we think of as components of a security architecture.
3:45 to 4:00	break
4:00 to 4:45	Hot Topics – Your items here	Jim Phelps
4:45 to 5:00	Closing Remarks	Jim Phelps

NOTE: This conference is jointly sponsored by EDUCAUSE and Internet2. Thank you sponsors.

EDUCAUSE CG Meeting Notes

Jim Phelps — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 16:19:24 +0000

ITANA’s Constituent Group meeting was on Thursday at 4:55PM. We had approximately 40 people attend. Many of the attendees were from newly formed architecture groups.

Jim Phelps started out the meeting with a short presentation on ITANA, how it is supported and how you can participate. He reviewed some of the findings from the CIO Survey on EA (Enterprise Architecture).

There was active discussion around the role of Architecture in Business Process Improvement. Most CIOs stated that Business Process Improvement was where EA had the least impact on the enterprise. The reasons that were put forth included:

EA is often seen as a “technology group” with no real input or understanding of the business side
EA is often on the technology side and the changes actually need to come from the business side and be made by the business side.
The business owners often want to re-implement the processes that they are currently doing not adopt new processes. We often make the technology match the current business process rather than change the business process.

There was discussion about the role of EA in business process change. This mostly focused on the fact that EA cannot implement the change but they can highlight the issue, document the current process and the improvements and work to lead the discussion around the change.

We also discussed the way that EA engages in the enterprise. Some institutions use EA as a gate function. Projects don’t get the go-ahead without EA’s approval or they are allowed to continue with contingencies. Other institutions use EA to guide projects and illuminate issues. Where does EA plug-in to the organization and the project / funding processes?

The Next Six Months:

Jim closed by asking what can/should ITANA work on over the next six months. The following were suggested:

Best Practices for EA in academia – what are the balancing points?
Definitions of the various roles
Principles that institutions have adopted and the process used to get them in place
Case Studies on EA in higher education
Use Cases involving EA
Matrix of tools – the value of each tool and when to apply
Analysis of various models for EA (the Federal model, TOGAF, et al). How do they relate to each other? Which bits are interesting or applicable to higher ed?
Frameworks

There was discussion of another full-day face to face meeting in 6 months – possibly at the Internet2 meeting in Arlington, VA.