Middle East Office

The Business Challenge

UBL needed an Architecture Repository supporting global standards to document their growing number of applications demanded by the natural growth in business strategies and products. A collaborative environment that required a low learning curve and was familiar to the Business as well as the Architects was identified as an essential. Orbus Software’s iServer Enterprise Architect with a TOGAF® 9 ‘out-of-the-box’ accelerator was identified as the best solution after evaluating and researching multiple EA tools and scoring them based on UBL’s own criteria.

UBL was not going to jump on the EA ‘bandwagon’ just because they wanted to implement EA. The need for implementing EA at UBL evolved from a sequence of events that have been occurring in the past few years:

• Support requirement for the introduction and implementation of IT Governance at UBL IT and for the chosen EA framework; TOGAF® 9.
• Need to plan and communicate transformation of legacy systems and implementation of new platforms and technologies.
• Migration of Core Banking System.
• Documenting blueprint for the natural growth of applications supported by multiple business units as a result of the growth in business strategies and products.
• Increasing customer demands for quality services and products especially on-line products.
• Need to generate a complete Architectural landscape for Business and Enterprise Architects to play their role efficiently, effectively and collaboratively to meet the organizational goals.