Enterprise Architecture Success Stories

Foster's Group

"Foster's Group Ltd is a global drinks business with strong fundamentals. From our vineyards, wineries, maltings, breweries and distilleries, to our people, brands and businesses, we have the ingredients of a great business" (Source: D. Crawford, Foster's Business Review 2008). With a portfolio of more than 200 premium brands, operations on five continents and a history stretching back over 160 years, Foster's truly is Australia's premier drinks business.  

In June 2007, the Foster's Group initiated a review of its Enterprise Architecture in order to establish a 3-5 year global strategic architecture transformation program across the architecture aspects of Business, Information, Information Systems and Technology Infrastructure.  A component of this initiative was to purchase and implement an Enterprise Architecture toolset & repository that was required to meet several needs including:

• Facilitating the design of Foster's Strategic Enterprise Architecture (EA) and Solution Architecture (SA)
• Facilitating Business Process Management & Analysis (BPM/BPA)
• Re-establishing the discipline of Data Modelling

After assessing a short-list of products & vendors, the Foster's Group selected the MEGA Modelling Suite because of its ability to meet the company's critical requirements (EA, BPM & Data Modelling) and feature requirements (repository based, metamodel capability, user adoption, etc). 

After implementation and configuration of the tool in late 2007/early 2008, the Foster's Group developed their Business Process Modelling methodology using the MEGA Modelling Suite, and by June 2008 had a proven methodology, with trained Process Analysts in MEGA.  In the second half of 2008 and into 2009, the Foster's Group has continued to utilise the MEGA Modelling Suite by focusing on the definition and implementation of Foster's Group Enterprise Architecture Framework (FGEAF), current & target state architecture, architecture reference models and service-oriented architecture capabilities. 

"The MEGA Modelling Suite has provided benefit to the Foster's Group through enabling business process assessment and improvement and enterprise asset/repository management", says Leyton Brownlie, Foster's Group's Enterprise Modelling Architect. "The MEGA Modelling Suite has enabled consistent, logical representation of Foster's Group Enterprise Architecture, its current & target state architecture, service catalogues and solution architectures and has enabled impact analysis across our architecture".

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Department of Justice (Vic)

To assist in the implementation of a new Information and Communications Technology strategy, the Victorian Department of Justice required the development of an Enterprise Architecture. The purpose of the Enterprise Architecture (EA) was to enable the department to gain an in-depth understanding of their technology and application assets, and how these were best integrated with departmental processes.

After the Department of Justice established their requirements for a repository and EA modelling tool, the MEGA Modeling Suite was selected as the most suitable product to meet the needs of the department, and was implemented in mid-2008.

"Both the business and our technology are seeing the benefits of an enterprise view of the organisation's assets", says Peter Mason, Manager for Enterprise Architecture & Standards at the Department of Justice. "[This understanding is beneficial] for the purposes of planning and managing the operational business".

The Department of Justice is one of ten departments within the Victorian public sector. The main purpose of the department is to assist the government achieve its vision of a 'safe and just Victoria'.

To visit the Department of Justice's website, please click on the following link:

http://www.justice.vic.gov.au/