Tom Schecker - Manager of Information Architecture at  White & Case LLP - gives his insight on the value of enterprise architecture. As a EA practitioner for more than 15 years, Tom has an overall perspective of the outputs one organization can get from enterprise architecture: simplicity, visibility, and comprehensiveness. All of this resulting in business optimization.

While enterprise architects have long been aware of the broad business value of EA, not all potential stakeholders have a clear grasp on how it can improve different aspects of their operations.

Philippe Eymond - Enterprise Architecture Manager at Banque Accord – explains how MEGA helps Banque Accord face its challenges by first reviewing the methods of their application design and, more globally, by reviewing and renewing all the company processes. He also points out how the MEGA Suite, which enabled the modelling and consolidation of the information about business processes, enterprise architecture, and IT application mapping in a unique and shared repository, was key for the project.

Gerry Rankin - Global Enterprise Architect for Data & Information at British American Tobacco – has to document, develop, and implement the corporate data standard for the enterprise architecture at British American Tobacco. He explains how MEGA’s software and consulting services helps him achieve his goals, particularly in establishing an accurate picture of the British American Tobacco business architecture in order to deliver solutions that work for the business.

Hugh Klipp - Business Process Manager at GeoEye – talks about how GeoEye, in the time of the Sarbanes-Oxley compliance deadlines, needed to find the means to document the company processes and produce the records necessary to meet the government directive. He also explains how GeoEye turned to MEGA for its business process analysis and enterprise architecture expertise to help executives discover, understand, and control information at the enterprise level.

Michael Fulton - Enterprise Architecture Capability Manager at Procter & Gamble – explains how MEGA contributes to the success of the P&G enterprise architecture program. As part of this program, covering people, processes, and tools, P&G used the MEGA Suite to document, understand, and change the way the company operates, establishing a business and enterprise architecture.

MEGA customers talk about their challenges to deliver business performance improvement in a difficult worldwide financial economy (Laser Cofinoga) and in the competitive worldwide auto industry (Renault Nissan), to foster business processes optimization and IT systems design at a critical time for the French healthcare industry (AP-HP), and how to effectively manage risks for a credit insurer company (Atradius).  Laser Cofinoga, AP-HP, Atradius, and Renault Nissan also talk about how MEGA, through its software, methodology, and consulting services, and also its strong and close relationships with  customers, helps them successfully face these challenges.