COSOL - Collaborative Solution Providers International

Enterprise Architecture (EA) is:

• A snapshot model of the business, that captures the alignment between business drivers and the underlying systems.
• The key tool for identifying the current state of the business and opportunities for improvement.
• Used to analyse the business to identify areas suitable for improvement and define a roadmap for new initiatives that will be enabled by the production systems.

COSOL provides the tools (including ARIS) and approach for:

• Information accountability and assessment.
• Business and systems support.
• Software selection and design.
• ERP implementation and support.

COSOL's approach is based on delivering:

• Accountability for processes, people, data and technology.
• Sustainability of processes and systems through new initiatives or new personnel.
• A framework for justification to implement, change or upgrade systems.
• Extensions to the life-cycle to preserve capital and intellectual property investment.
• A shared Best Practice forming a foundation for continuous improvement.

Business Process Management

• Business Process Management (BPM) enables dynamic management, control and tunability of an organisation's entire production and systems infrastructure.
• Used in combination with an Enterprise Architecture approach, BPM provides transparency, offers flexibility to change and enables improved governance.