[September 22, 2014]

MEGA Experts Illustrate How to Improve Strategic Planning and Performance

Two business and IT strategy experts from MEGA will speak at the 12^th annual Enterprise Architecture Conference, October 7-8 in Washington, DC.

More than 550 CIOs, CTOs, project managers and enterprise architects with government agencies will attend to hear about using enterprise architecture (EA) to foster business transformation.

Kevin Costa and Philippe Vandeginste will discuss trending topics, showing how EA is used by government agencies to meet growing pressure to achieve digital transformation, increase organizational agility, and improve customer service.

"With mounting demands for organizations to navigate the new digital landscape better, many agencies still struggle to get data faster, keep it up-to-date and guarantee its accuracy," noted Costa. "A solid plan for IT strategy delivery helps organizations create, build and evolve the IT landscape to meet these business transformation needs."

"Government agencies and the citizens they serve benefit greatly when there is an IT strategy delivery plan that contains the capability to track and trace data, alon with a powerful communication platform for multiple projects across agencies," added Vandeginste.

"Today, EA is about making informed decisions faster. Organizations need a new EA approach to facilitate business agility and transformation. By using the fourth generation of EA (EA4G), agencies can improve the availability, quality and sharing of information government-wide and deliver better, more cost-effective services," said Dr. Steve Else, founder and CEO of EA Principals, Inc. and keynote speaker at the conference. Else will outline EA4G as a means to accelerate EA maturity and deliver more value.

Costa will speak about 'Leveraging EA to Integrate Emerging Technologies in the IT Landscape'. He will show how EA eases the transition to technologies like cloud computing or big data.

Vandeginste will discuss 'Using EA to Meet e-Government Directives.' He will explain how EA helps agencies improve services to citizens while leveraging EA to improve digital performance.

MEGA has worked with agencies and enterprises worldwide for more than 20 years, providing software solutions and expertise in digital transformation, enterprise governance, IT strategy delivery and IT asset management.

The company's integrated solutions, based on its innovative HOPEX platform, help organizations align IT assets with IT strategy by providing advanced means to map, evaluate and transform applications, technologies and infrastructure. The solutions offer multi-dimensional decision criteria, user-based assessments, dynamic impact analysis and integration with architecture to enable more-informed decision-making.

MEGA helps agencies:

• promote collaboration with a common, standardized language, within and across agencies
• improve consistency across all agency landscapes through a centralized repository
• facilitate integration of multiple systems and technologies and become more transparent

The company also offers software solutions specifically to manage the alignment of technology resources with frameworks such as the Federal Enterprise Architecture Framework (FEAF), the Department of Defense Architecture Framework (DoDAF 2.0) and the NATO Architecture Framework (NAF 3.1).

The company has been cited in numerous analyst reports on EA and governance, risk and compliance (GRC) solutions. Gartner (News - Alert), Inc. has named MEGA as a leader in its EA Magic Quadrant reports for five consecutive years. MEGA's CEO, Lucio de Risi, was just named a trailblazer in GRC by The National Law Journal.

Additional citations include The Forrester (News - Alert) Wave: EA Management Suites, Q2 2013; The Forrester Wave: Governance, Risk, and Compliance Platforms, Q1 2014; Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Governance, Risk and Compliance Platforms (September 2013); Continuity Insurance & Risk Magazine's Risk Assessment Software Report.

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