Sunday, December 20, 2009

How the Alberta Environment Ministry got its Groove Back with MAKE's Legacy Modernization Assessment and Roadmap

MAKE's contempo Strategic Modernization Roadmap (SMR) helped Alberta Ministry of Environment to analyze goals, certificate their accepted bequest appliance portfolio, and facilitate chat amid the IT and business abandon of the organization.

Vancouver, BC -- MAKE's recently-completed Strategic Modernization Roadmap (SMR) assurance with Alberta Ministry of Environment (Alberta Environment) is allowance to accord and activate both Information Technology (IT) and authoritative transformation.

Public area IT departments apperceive they charge to improve their bequest arrangement portfolios to bigger abutment the business operations of government. They are abounding with software applications accounting decades ago that are fragile, difficult and cher to adapt or enhance in adjustment to abutment rapidly alteration needs and aldermanic changes. And the challenges are not absolutely abstruse -- in abounding cases the adamant attributes of the bequest applications have, over abounding years, been reflected in the animal attitudes and relationships amid the business and IT domains aural government.

The Ministry has continued accustomed the charge for both IT and Business transformation. The claiming has been accepting both abandon to allege the aforementioned language We apparent that by traveling through MAKE's SMR process, which begins with an account annular with the key stakeholders, we were able to chronicle to anniversary added in new and able means that would accept been difficult after an absolute third-party arch the conversations. Although it may assume somewhat accessible or atomic on aboriginal blush In his case, Alberta Environment CIO Roger Burns has begin that not alone did the SMR advice to analyze the way advanced for IT transformation, but it has become a agitator in allowance the business and IT parties get abaft a accepted accomplishment that is important to the approaching capability of Ministry operations.

"The Ministry has continued accustomed the charge for both IT and Business transformation. The claiming has been accepting both abandon to allege the aforementioned language," Roger Burns explained. "We apparent that by traveling through MAKE's SMR process, which begins with an account annular with the key stakeholders, we were able to chronicle to anniversary added in new and able means that would accept been difficult after an absolute third-party arch the conversations."

"Although it may assume somewhat accessible or atomic on aboriginal blush," Burns continues, "getting anybody on the aforementioned page, strategically and tactically, was key. And I'm abiding abounding CIOs would accede that this is not simple to do. As we formed through the goals, affairs and realities of our alignment together, accompanying with the abysmal abstruse appraisal of our absolute IT applications and basement that the MAKE aggregation provided, we were able to appear up with a cardinal and astute roadmap that is accurate by the key stakeholders, including the Executive team. Furthermore, the educational basic that MAKE has alloyed throughout their SMR action fabricated it all appear added easily."

Alberta Environment is now on clue to affair Request for Proposals (RFPs) to improve their bequest systems and move advanced in their affairs for Business transformation enabled by IT transformation.

About MAKE
MAKE Technologies Inc. is an industry baton in bequest to SOA addition and is revolutionizing the way organizations improve and accommodate their applications for deployment in an added Web-oriented, user-centric world. Launched in 1999, MAKE has led the way in bequest addition technology for Java EE and added arch platforms such as .NET. MAKE is headquartered in Vancouver, BC, Canada.

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