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Minimize Risk and Cost Through Architectural Modeling
Learn how to fully automate the architectural modeling of your business-critical applications.

Enterprise Architect Summit, May 2006

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Guy Hoffman, President and CEO, Metallect

Many of a company's business-critical applications are highly interdependent, where functionality or data in one application relies on the functionality or data in another application or database. This growing web of application interdependencies constitutes an increasingly complex software sprawl and creates a new set of risks to the enterprise. Additionally, endless changes in the business require continuous modification, enhancement, and extension of these business-critical applications.

Traditional approaches to solving issues of redundancy and versioning are no longer effective. Existing solutions for architectural modeling, dependency-mapping, impact analysis, and change capture are too small in scale to meet the challenges of application, database, and middleware enterprise environments that span new and existing resources.

But you can address this multidimensional problem through advanced architectural modeling. Advanced architectural modeling is capable of generating and maintaining a current-state, metamodel based on emerging standards. These standards—semantics, RDF, and USDL—provide visibility, dependency-mapping, impact analysis, and capture as-built changes within and between applications, and across technologies. With this fully automated, architectural modeling of the logic that comprises the business-critical applications, enterprise architects can minimize the risk and expense of disruptions caused by changes to business-critical applications and databases. They can also minimize costs and accelerate agility to meet the needs of the business.

About the Speaker
Guy Hoffman is a successful emerging market strategist with more than 20 years of executive and venture capital experience. Prior to joining Metallect as its president and CEO, Hoffman served as a venture partner for TL Ventures, a leading venture capital firm with $1.4 billion under management. At TL Ventures, Hoffman sourced and managed investments in information technology and communications, and served as a board member of several software companies. He also assumed interim CEO positions in multiple portfolio companies. He holds a B.A. from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.