ITANA Conference Call
January 10, 2008
 
 **Attendees**

Jim Phelps, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Ann West, Internet2/EDUCAUSE
Chris Phillips, University of Maryland-Baltimore
Sue Sharpton, University of Alaska
Keith Rajecki, Sun Microsystems
Dean Woodbeck, Internet2 (scribe)

**Agenda**

 (0) Roll Call. Agenda Bash.

   1. Accept minutes of last call
   2. Upcoming Meetings at Presentations on EA:
         1. EDUCAUSE MWRC (March - in Chicago)
         2. Internet2 Spring Member Meeting (April - Arlington, VA)
         3. EDUCAUSE Annual Meeting (October - Orlando, FL)
   3. Next Face2Face - Possibly June 18, 2008. Location TBD.
   4. On-going Items (All)
         1. Architecture Principles - see the Architecture Principles page
         2. Case Studies - see the Case Studies page
         3. Gathering example roadmap documents - see the Roadmaps page
         4. Survey and White Paper
         5. Enterprise Information Management Survey - see the Enterprise Information Management Survey page
   5. New Call time, Thursday, 2PM Eastern Time starting December 13th, 2007.
   6. Items on the shelf review

Items on the shelf:

   1. Future Call - Scott Converse on modified 6Sigma for Higher Ed, UW-Madison, Exec Education Program
   2. Architecture Tool discussion (All)
         1. UC Irvine's open source tool - Protoge
         2. Chicago's I.T. Ecosystem Tool (Tom B)
   3. Paul's piece on Standards for Arch Documents -  standards for architectural documentation (Paul H)
   4. UC-Berkeley Roadmap document (Hebert)
   5. Mellon ESB Assessment - goal? is there date on this? (Mark P)
   6. Mellon New Initiative: Framework for scholarly studies tools (Keith H)
   7. Web CMS RFPs (Jim P)

(99) Next steps, next call

** Presentation at conferences**

One goal for ITANA is to develop case studies to use in presentations - as well as place on the wiki - on enterprise architecture. There are a number of opportunities on the horizon for such presentations, including the EDUCAUSE Midwest Regional Conference in March, the Internet2 Spring Member Meeting in April and the EDUCAUSE annual meeting in October.

Jim mentioned he would like to have a group of people who could talk about these presentations, as well as be presenters and promoters of the concept of enterprise architecture. Specifically, he would like to have a couple of people volunteer to do case studies and participate in a track session at the Internet2 meeting in April. He needs to find out when the deadline is for Internet2; the deadline for the August EDUCAUSE meeting is February 11.

The next ITANA face-to-face is planned for June 18. The location is yet to be determined, but it would be tied in with an advanced CAMP.

If ITANA members know of other meetings where a presentation would be useful/helpful, please post those to the list.

Sue Sharpton mentioned an upcoming EA conference in Florida and Jim said he is going to one in  San Francisco sponsored by the Open Group. There is an Insight conference in April, which is geared mostly toward industry and government entities. Sue has the details and will send a note to the list.

**EA Proposals**

Sue Sharpton mentioned that she is preparing a proposal for adopting EA at the University of Alaska. She has been working with the business council at the university, but still needs to go to the faculty and IT councils. She said she may be calling on ITANA members for information on how others have done this, particularly if she can gather some success stories to share with those at Alaska.

Chris Phillips at Maryland said he is interested in adopting at least part of what St. Louis has done.

Keith Rajecki led a general discussion about what Sun is considering - adapting an SOA to support EA in academe. Such as system has been used in health care for a number of years. Over the last several years, Sun has consolidated data centers through advances in processors and has also decreased the size of data centers overall. They are also moving all of the e-businesses systems to Oracle. Sun has also consolidated the numbers of applications and servers in data centers, which has led to significant savings.

In terms of higher education, there was general agreement that EA saves money for universities, but that, many times, those benefiting from the cost savings are not central IT units, but the departments and schools. One example is centralizing email servers. Wisconsin has seen a decrease in the number of email servers on campus and those savings benefit the colleges or departments.

**Next Call - Thursday, January 24, 2008 - 2:00 p.m. EST

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