The Enterprise Architecture program (EA) supports the mission of the UW in the following ways:
Consulting & Design
Our team is available to consult on IT architecture needs, including business process design, application rationalization, and solution design.
Application Portfolio Management
Application Portfolio Management (APM) at the UW supports the following goals:
- Enable project and programs, including transformation programs by providing a current state landscape of systems.
- Rationalization: Analyzing apps based on business value (importance to operations) vs. technical quality (health/risk) to decide which to keep, replace, or retire.
- Cost Optimization: Reducing expenses by eliminating redundant functionality and managing software licenses.
- Risk Management: Identifying unsupported or legacy software to mitigate security vulnerabilities.
- Strategic Alignment: Ensuring that IT investments support current business objectives.
The initial scope of tracked applications includes UW Academy and excludes UW Medicine applications.
The EA team is currently prototyping a tool for managing the application portfolio at the University.
If you manage University applications, please send a message to Contact Help to request access to this tool
Architecture Practice Coordination
EA mentors architects and provides guidance to drive a consistent level of quality and business alignment to IT solutions.
Reference Architecture Management
Reference Architectures guide the design of strategies business processes, and IT solutions. They provide templates that speed the delivery and quality of those solutions.