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CIOREVIEW.COMJULY 20 - 2015ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE SPECIAL

T h e N a v i g a t o r f o r E n t e r p r i s e S o l u t i o n s

Company:Real IRM Solutions [Pty] Ltd

Description: Real IRM is an enterprise architecture specialist, offering a comprehensive portfolio of products and services adding value to business operations

Key Person:Stuart Macgregor, CEO

Website:www.realirm.com

Real IRM Solutions (Pty) Ltd

recognized by magazine as

Pradeep Shankar

An annual listing of 20 companies that are in the forefront of providing Enterprise Architecture Solutions and impacting the marketplace

Editor-in-Chief

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20 Most Promising Enterprise Architecture Solution Providers 2015

The effective enterprise management and information exploitation through IT are the key factors to business success today. Enterprise

Architecture (EA) meets the need of this progressive business environment through optimizing enterprise operations into an integrated platform which is change-friendly towards the preferred business vision. A faster, structured and flexible business growth leads a company to an operational success that balances IT efficiency and industry innovation. Being a manageble platform to design and model operation structures across multifarious sectors, EA mutually improves financial efficiency and enterprise effectiveness.

Today, IT experts want instant recommendations for their project and policy adjustments to remove obstacles on their way of reaching business target. EA helps companies to innovatively line up their processes, information, applications and infrastructure with a competitive advantage.

To help organizations find the right EA solution that suits their business needs, in this issue of CIO Review, we present the 20 Most Promising Enterprise Architecture Solution Providers, featuring the best vendors offering EA technologies and service that helps businesses streamline their processes. The firms compiled in this issue have exhibited vast knowledge and in-depth expertise in delivering Enterprise Architechture related solutions.

A distinguished panel comprising of CEOs, CIOs, analysts, and the CIO Review editorial board have selected the top players from the competitive field of the Enterprise Architecture solutions. The listing provides a look into how these solutions work in the real world, so that you can gain a comprehensive understanding of what technologies are available, which are right for you, and how they shape up against the competition.

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In an exclusive interview with CIO Review, Stuart Macgregor, the CEO of Real IRM discusses the way

Real IRM is furthering the Enterprise Architecture profession:

Even the most competent of organizations tend to face market competition. What are Real IRM’s key differentiating factors?At Real IRM, we aim to provide the best EA service offering in the market.We believe that EA is a vital business discipline that acts as the ‘lynchpin’ between corporate governance and IT governance. In this context, EA should:

• Support stakeholders in their quest to drive organizational transformation -to maximize value, minimize risk and optimize resource allocation.• Help business leaders to visualize and create a shared understanding of how the organization’s various elements interrelate.• Become a strategic business capability to manage complexity and change.• Transform yesterday’s enterprise applications and processes (often fragmented, legacy systems) into an optimized environment that fosters agile and innovative delivery of business strategy.

To achieve these goals with our clients, we strongly emphasize that the EA practice needs to be run as if it were a business in its own right–so that it is positioned to evolve in scope and relevance, and add increasing value to the enterprise.

Like any business, it must have a clearly-defined solution offering and a very good understanding of

the ‘customer’ (the key business and IT stakeholders throughout the organization).

This principle–which runs like a golden thread through the entire ambit of people, tools, process, content, products and services–is fundamental to successful EA.

Can you give us a detailed view on Real IRM’s flagship products/services, which facilitate organization’s transition to an integrated environment with optimized processes?On the education side of our business, we work with organizations needing to develop internal EA competency and with individuals wanting to become practicing enterprise architects.

Our courses cover every aspect of EA–including frameworks, techniques, tools and people. In addition, we are an Open Group accredited training provider and offer certifications in TOGAF®, ArchiMate® and Open FAIR®.

Our professional services and EA Practice divisions assess the state of enterprise architecture in the client environment, and work collaboratively to initiate, standardize, stabilize, optimize or reignite the client’s EA function.

We take a long-term/partnership approach, and remain closely involved throughout every phase of planning, building, running an EA practice, and ensuring the necessary change leadership is embedded within the organization. In this way, we act in a permanent advisory capacity, helping the client grow their EA capability, tackle new problems that come along, and ultimately achieve the transformative results that EA promises.

Talking about the company’s roadmap, where do you see Real IRM few years down the line? Our intent is to continue driving the professionalization of EA, and to retain our market leadership position–particularly in the African region.

We are becoming increasingly involved in redefining the architectures for central banks in the Southern African Development Community (SADC). In this regard, we’re contributing to the up-skilling of individuals, improving efficiencies and service delivery for governments, and the financial sector.

As its local representative, Real IRM is also promoting and evangelizing The Open Group in Africa; so we’re focused on exposing EA best-practice in collaborative environment–allowing for

the boundaryless flow of information to solve business challenges and social challenges. Within The Open Group we have established the EMMM Forum which deals with

transformation in the mining and minerals sector.

Real IRM

Integrating Resources through Enterprise Architecture

Stuart Macgregor

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