USDA Forest Service
"The USDA Forest Service (FS) has the good fortune,
to be guided by the Adaptive “philosophy” of Enterprise
Architecture (EA). The agency used Adaptive’s 11-domain, high-level
meta-model to organize its EA approach. This high-level diagram allowed
us to much more easily describe EA’s benefits in business focused
terms to skeptical senior executives. It's hard to sell EA outside
of IT without a credible ‘business story.'
"Adaptive’s advantage for the FS did not
stop at the high-level EA model but rather continued through meta-models
which elaborated each of the eleven domains. Being able to associate
meta-concepts and analytical techniques, including things as diverse
as SWOT analysis, IDEF0 modeling, and Entity-Relationship diagrams,
with domains whose linkages are already planned and modeled, is a
very powerful tool indeed.
"In 2004 the FS looks forward to harvesting the
fruits of these efforts using Adaptive’s repository, a tool
consciously designed to serve up our EA information in all the perspectives
that arise from the inter-relationships designed between the eleven
domains.
"The agency looks forward to many years of continued
productive collaboration with Adaptive Corporation, a true strategic
partner!"
John J. King
Chief Enterprise Architect, USDA Forest Service
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