September 20, 2013

• Parliament wins global ICT award

  On 19 September 2013, Parliament of South Africa was
  announced as the winner, at the iCMG Enterprise
  Architecture Excellence Awards 2013 in Bangalore,
  India, in the category “Enterprise (Business and IT ):
  Transformation and Planning”

  iCMG represents a community of over 70,000 enterprise architects and operates in 32 countries. The award is a global validation by peers and industry leaders, on an international platform, for enterprise architecture excellence achieved. The award is the highest recognition that can be received in the field of enterprise architecture.

  Enterprise Architecture ensures alignment between Parliament’s Business and ICT strategies, Parliament’s operating model, ICT design principles, and the software development projects and service delivery. By taking an enterprise-wide, perspective across all the Parliament’s business services, business processes, information, applications and technology, Enterprise Architecture ensures the enterprise goals and objectives are addressed in a holistic way across all ICT projects and their deployment in the following manner:
  - A collective and unified understanding of Parliaments Business and ICT requirements
  - An alignment of ICT expenditure with the strategic objectives in Parliaments Strategy
  - Tangible measurement of business benefits
  - Monitored and managed ICT risks

  ICT is an important, pervasive, enabler to realise the mission, of Parliament, which is to represent and act as the voice of the people, in fulfilling its constitutional functions of passing laws and overseeing executive action. The Parliament of South Africa’s nomination was a finalist in three categories: 1) Enterprise Architecture 2) Best Enterprise & IT architecture in Govt/Defence/Public Sector, and 3) Transformation and Planning. Parliament won the category “Planning and Transformation” for applying enterprise architecture principles and methodologies to improve effectiveness and efficiency through information and communication technology.

  The nomination was based on how enterprise architecture was applied during the development of the 2009-2014 ICT strategy of Parliament. The approach was used to identify and consolidate business requirements and to translate business requirements into strategic initiatives for implementation.

  The award is not just recognition of a past accomplishment but it is also a promise of the continued capability in Parliament to leverage value from ICT.

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