EA covers the domains of Business, Process, Applications, Information and Technical Infrastructure as well as how these all interact to deliver results.

It aids in understanding current status, quick interventions that can deliver short term benefits, lowering risk, transformation of the organisation to meet challenges and realise long term goals as well as providing a platform for good governance.

In addition, cross cutting concerns of risk, cost and quality of delivery are often addressed to ensure that these receive attention across the board. Enterprise architects, particularly those certified in TOGAF, are in great demand worldwide and frequently command salaries close to those of the CIO.

About the Open Group
The Open Group is a worldwide collaborative of end user organisations and I.T. product and service providers that promotes standards to facilitate achieving benefits and ease of interoperability within and between organisations. Following early work funded by the US Government, a series of standards was evolved, with significant input from many industry contributors ultimately resulting in TOGAF – now at release 9.

TOGAF
TOGAF is the most widely adopted EA framework and methodology today: in government, private industry and non-profits. It draws on rich contributions from the Open Group's many members over more than a decade. It provides guidance in the establishment of an EA capability in an organisation, scoping EA activities, performing EA related projects and managing the outcomes into the delivery stage.

The Open Group administers a certification programme whereby successful attendees on accredited courses can become certified and registered TOGAF Architects. This is an international qualification which is highly sought after. Research into positions advertised shows that TOGAF certification is increasingly required and can add as much as US$10 000 or EUR 7 000 per year to an architect's remuneration package.

TOGAF comprises a number of components, including:

• a comprehensive Architecture Development Method (ADM);
• A Standards Information Base;
• a number of Reference Models and the concept of
  managing the Enterprise Continuum – a repository of useful architectural building blocks and solutions.

About TOGAF 9
TOGAF Version 9 Enterprise Edition represents an industry consensus framework and method for Enterprise Architecture that is available for use internally by any organization around the world, both members and non-members of The Open Group alike but subject to license conditions. For more information about TOGAF 9, please visit The Open Group.

Version 9 represents a major extension for TOGAF, addressing not only what architecture should comprise, but how to make it work in the enterprise. TOGAF 9 offers the means for uniting different methodologies in business planning, IT architecture and project management under one common framework. TOGAF 9 delivers detail on how organisations can incorporate the framework within their internal processes to achieve better alignment IT with business needs. In addition, TOGAF 9 Architecture Development Method (ADM) shows how this framework can be applied to specific situations such as service oriented architecture (SOA) and security architecture. The new Architecture Content Framework includes a detailed content meta model that formalises the definition of an Enterprise Architecture and establishes clear links between business and IT objects.

White Papers from The Open Group for more information on this issue :-
1. TOGAF 9: Introduction
2. TOGAF 9: Migration Overview

Key Learning Points
Attending this Course will enable you to :-
1. understand new concepts introduced in TOGAF9
2. understand the rationale behind employing Enterprise Architecture and using TOGAF9
3. have a detailed understanding of the development cycle and the techniques for architecture development.

TOGAF 9 has extended the coverage of TOGAF into the business space, added a meta model, introduced a Content Framework and better defined deliverables and skill requirements.

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About the Course
The course covers the body of knowledge required for TOGAF 9 certification. Successful candidates, after examination, will be registered via the Open Group as certified TOGAF 9 Architects, becoming part of a select international community.

• Training that goes beyond the typical TOGAF certification course which just covers the body of knowledge from the TOGAF manual;
• Instructors are EA experts who have delivered results by working on real client projects.
• The course covers all facets of Architecture Development Method and Framework and as such all types of Architects will benefit.

Philosophy of the Course
TOGAF is a good method and provides generic guidance to most aspects of EA. Unfortunately, because it is so general, it is sometimes abstract and difficult for project staff to get to grips with.

We set out to create a course which would bring the philosophy, principles and value of TOGAF to students in a practical way, so they could immediately grasp the significance in their own role and workplace.

We drew upon our industry and training experience to design a course that shows how TOGAF is applied and used down the life cycle. We have also used our experience of designing comprehensive integrated meta models to ensure that all elements integrate well.