Helsinki, Finland, 2015-07-15 13:45 CEST (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- QPR Software, the leading provider of enterprise architecture software and services, has contributed to the business architecture book of the year - ‘Business and Dynamic Change: The Arrival of Business Architecture’, published by Workflow Management Coalition (WfMC) and Future Strategies, Inc. This collaborative work from industry thought leaders unanimously illustrates the transformation of Enterprise Architecture from IT to a business imperative necessary for rapid response to change. The book was launched at the BPM and Case Management Global Summit in Washington DC on June 22-24, 2015.
QPR’s contribution - Applying Architecture to business transformation and decision making - portrays how Aalto University used Enterprise Architecture to simplify the inherited complexity, which was a result from merging together 3 independent universities in Finland. With an objective to harmonize operational activities of the previously autonomous organizations, a solution powered by QPR was put in place to increase Aalto’s operational efficiency and effectiveness by optimizing the university’s use of resources and IT assets in daily operations. The solution enabled informed decision making, which in turn led to IT budget cost savings worth €4,5 million within the first year of implementation, which represents a 12 percent cost saving from the annual IT budget.
”It’s an honour to be part of such extensive work that collects Enterprise Architecture best practices under one cover. QPR’s approach to EA is strategy driven where organizations can drive transformation in a structured way. Understanding the current state of operations gives the means to make intelligent changes, ultimately boosting the performance. And this was also the stance of Aalto University making it great to work with such a visionary organization and help them in becoming agile and efficient in their operations”, says QPR CEO Jari Jaakkola.
“The project with QPR was groundbreaking and we are excited to share the results with a wider audience”, comments Patrik Maltusch from Aalto University. “If you are not able to keep up with the pace of time and change, you will not survive. Enterprise architecture is our way to manage change. And the agility it delivers will allow us to reach our 2020 vision being an institution internationally recognized for impact of its science, art and design and education”, Maltusch continues.
About the authors:
Virpi Nieminen is the Business Development Manager at QPR Software in charge of growing QPR’s global network of local reselling partners. She has extensive consulting experience in operational excellence through the different roles she has held in the past in project management, internal control compliance and enterprise architecture as business analyst. Past projects have involved EU level initiatives at the European Commission, as well as projects in both private and public sectors. Virpi is certified in TOGAF, PRINCE2 and ITIL, and in her consulting days, she frequently participated in the workshops organized by the European Committee for Standardization (CEN). Virpi holds a Master’s degree in Management Science from Solvay Business School.
Patrik Maltusch is the head of the EA architecture team at Aalto University. He is also an acting member of the Finnish national enterprise architecture special interest group and one of the lead educators who has coached administrative staff in the nation wide Higher Education EA schooling program. Past experience includes working as a customer service instructor for nearly ten years and a further fifteen years as network architect and business owner for internal infrastructure design in a global Telco company. Patrik is also a distinguished and accredited security professional, risk manager, system auditor and a certified Higher Education Enterprise Architect. For Patrik, interoperability is the key to success in an ever growing and more complex ecosystem landscape. Something that can be achieved using EA methodology in a more visualized way.
Supporting resources:
- Link to the official press release by Future Strategies: http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20150527006236/en/Important-Business-Architecture-Book-2015-Launched-Leading#.VZJvWvmqqkq
- Book summary and order link:
http://bpm-books.com/products/business-and-dynamic-change-digital-edition?variant=2604602244
About QPR:
QPR Software provides insight to business operations for successful strategy execution and operations improvement. QPR offers a comprehensive software suite and consulting services for modeling, analyzing, designing and measuring operations, supporting agile business transformation. We are a global thought leader in business driven enterprise architecture and in process intelligence. QPR Software Plc was founded in 1991 and has its headquarters in Helsinki, Finland. As a publicly listed company, our shares are quoted on the NASDAQ OMX Helsinki Ltd.
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