I want you to act as a professtional enterprise architech. Simulate this case study "Algonquin College Case Study
To improve learner experience and improve college rankings, Algonquin College analyzed
its current situation and the result of the assessment shows that IT and business are not aligned
which is another reason to update the current enterprise architecture. The assessment also shows
that there are some important services that are not being provided to students, staff, and faculty.
As a result, they decided to improve the services provided to students, faculty, and employees, and
upgrade the existing technology. They decided to use enterprise architecture methodology and
framework as development tools to develop these changes.
The college provides the following services: The HR department saves employee/ faculty
information to Hire or give job promotions and provides Health and Dental Insurance while the
financial department uses this information to Pay their salaries and provides financial Aid support.
The academic department helps faculty prepare courses’ contents, Enter and update students’
grades, prepare exams and assignments as well as send notifications to students about exams and
assignment deadlines. It helps students to Submit assignments and conduct exams, view their
grades, and submit a Complaint form. The student-center department provides students with the
following services: Register in the college, register for or withdraw from courses, Pay Tuition, and
Financial Aid, and Finally, it provides International applications so students will be able to submit
and view their applications for both in-person and online programs. However, there are some
services that need to be provided such as study Abroad services to help international students in
their traveling process, ITS Help service which is a knowledge base containing answers to many
questions about Algonquin College IT systems and computers in general and, AskUs services are
provided to contact the Office of the Registrar directly when any student or colleague inquiries are
initiated, copied or forwarded through askus@email, they will be answered by the AskUs RO. A
question about an ID number or other academic information.
Algonquin College IT System:
Now, the information system of Algonquin College provides the following services to
employees, faculty, and students through the following systems:
The workDay system, Save employee/ faculty information, Paid their salaries, and Hire or gave
job promotions, and Health Insurance support 2) bright-space system which provides faculty
with the ability to prepare courses’ contents, Enter/update grades, Prepare exams and
assignments. It also, helps students to Submit assignments and conduct exams.3) The student-
center system provides students with the following services: Register in the college, Register for
or withdraw from courses, and Pay tuition." Answer this question completely in a nice format. To align the college business and IT, Use Enterprise Architecture Plane (EAP) method and
Zachman framework or TOGAF framework to implement the target Enterprise Architecture.
You need to:
1. Initiate the Plan by: (Marks 5)
• Identify the methodology and framework you want to use.
• Identify the potential stakeholders (a person or group of persons-- department,
teachers,..).
• Identify their roles (What can they do to help you with the following activities?)
Select one or more roles/responsibilities from the following roles and assign them to
each stakeholder:
o Use the system, and asking questions,
o Providing information and participating in developing the EA.
o Providing their commitment to support the EA project.
2. (Marks 10) Assess the current state (Where you are today). (The existing IT systems
and their provided services)
3. Assess the future state (Where you want to be) using the college business needs. Your
assumption for the future systems where the business needs to be aligned with IT
systems. (List of the candidate systems including all the services that should be provided
(both currently provided services by IT and the missed IT services according to the
business needs of the college)
4. (Marks 10) Identify gaps: the IT systems that need to be developed to align college
Business with its IT.
5. (Marks 10) Develop a Roadmap Plan or Migration plan to help Algonquin College
implement the target architecture: Please order and classify all planning applications to be
built into stages according to the time, their relationships, and according to needs. For
example, we need to finish the view grade service before the Complaint Form service as
students need to view their grades before filling out the complaint form. Also, the Dental
Insurance service needs to be developed before the Financial Aid service. All the local
services for employees, faculty, and students should be employed before abroad services
and applications. Also, help and ask questions services about the system or the college
must be the latest services to develop. Do your best as you are the architect and there are
no stakeholders to consult in this case. Otherwise, architects should take this decision
with the related stakeholders.