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Ian Koenig July 2011

Asset Governance and Architecture Debt. Ian Koenig July 2011. Context and Problem. Reed Elsevier is the parent of LexisNexis LexisNexis is a leading global provider of content-enabled workflow solutions designed for professionals in the legal market employing 10,300 staff in 50 countries

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Ian Koenig July 2011

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  1. Asset Governance and Architecture Debt Ian Koenig July 2011

  2. Context and Problem • Reed Elsevier is the parent of LexisNexis • LexisNexis is a leading global provider of content-enabled workflow solutions designed for professionals in the legal market employing 10,300 staff in 50 countries • Reed Elsevier revenue in 2010 = £6.1b • LexisNexis Legal and Professional contributed 28% = £1.7b • 55% of the revenue comes from the U.S.

  3. What happens if you are not careful Gartner estimates current IT Debt in the U.S at $500B and rising. Investment Investment Investment Investment Investment Investment Investment Maintenance (M&R) Investment Cost Operational Expense (OpEx) Architecture Debt Time

  4. Architecture Debt – An Analogy

  5. Highway Policies / Golden Rules

  6. IT Debt (Maintenance Debt)

  7. Architecture Debt – An Analogy

  8. Architecture Debt – An Analogy

  9. Architecture Debt – An Analogy

  10. Architecture Debt – An Analogy Architecture Debt

  11. Architecture Debt – An Analogy Deviation Expense

  12. Cost & Payback of Infrastructure Debt / Deviation for a system 24% Optimal Cost: ~2.7M + 800K/year (OpEx + M&R) = $7.5M Additional cost of deviation: 2.2M + 275K/year = $3.6M

  13. Golden Rules for Technology • Masters of Data • Modular • Simple • Standards-based • Compliant Secure Scalable Manageable Reliable Global   Maintainable

  14. Compliance to Golden Rules are measured through a scorecard The scorecard contains the detailed tests defining compliance to the Golden Rules

  15. Debt Dashboard – Strategic

  16. Debt Dashboard – Legacy Systems

  17. Architecture Debt – Application 2

  18. Corporate Impact Operating Income Investors’ Value Time to Market Market Share RISK Architecture Debt Customer Care Cost Brand

  19. APPENDIX

  20. SOA Requires Governance Asset Governanceis a (1) Process with checks & balances and (2) People with defined decision rights, measuring compliance with a set of (3) Policies, producing (4) Metrics so that good business decisions can be made involving technology and full adherence may be achieved in the fullness of time You arehere Destination Don’t overshoot START Death by Governance SOA by its nature enables a federated development process with individual groups producing individual services relatively independently. This enables scale (supporting agility) , but requires trust. Only via a well defined set of interface guidelines, policies and a Governance process can you keep complexity under control.

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