Project1 (70 Points) Overview: Your team is supposed to vitalize a specific region by using ICT. Specifically, each team will develop an ICT Hub (also known as a Digital Services Center - DSC) that provides a set of integrated high impact services in health, education, public safety, public welfare or any other vital sector. A hub is basically a center of activity that may focus on one particular high impact topic and may take one of the following forms: • An Agricultural Hub to help the farmers in any part of the world • A B2B Marketplace for buying and selling on the Internet (such as eBay or Ali Baba) • A Business/Strategic Intelligence Center for a small country/island to promote economic development • A Customer Support Center (or Specialized Division) of a large organization • A Digital Community Center for rural areas that offers adult education, health and agriculture services to remote populations (e.g., small islands, small villages and communities) • A "Smart Town Center" that supports a smart town (population between 5,000 to 20,000) located anywhere in the world. The main objective is to provide smart services in health, education, public safety, public welfare, and utilities for the town population. A Disaster Management Hub in a developing country and a rural area • An eCommerce Center (e.g., a small retail store) to support cottage industries in rural areas • An Education Center for students with special needs • An Entrepreneurship Center to help young entrepreneurs by connecting them to VCs and other resources • A Financial Services Hub for banking, insurances and other financial services • A G2G (Government to Government) Center that exchanges information between agencies (e.g., PA County Commission to serve counties in Pennylvania) • A Tele-Health (Tele-Medicine) Center that provides medical services to remotely located populations • An HIE (Health Information Exchange) for exchange of information between different healthcare enterprises (e.g., hospitals, insurance companies, physicians, and government agencies) • A Tourism Hub for small islands • Any other centers that you can envision (please suggest some). You can possibly extend your ISEM500 project (however, you must focus on extension) Important: Your team has to select a hub for a specific location from the following list: • Antigua, Aruba, Bahamas, Brazil, Liberia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Tanzania, Jamaica, Nauru, Samoa, Solomon Island, USA You should use the website of the chosen location to determine the needed services. You must also use the Open Big Data (OBD) sources such as the World Bank Open Data Institute, UN Department of Statistics, World Economic Forum, OECD (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development) data, and the like. Project Details Your team must propose an overall vision of the selected enterprise (e.g., a hub), identify and describe the main services of your enterprise and an enterprise architecture of the Center. You need to become an expert of EA as a result of this project. Your overall task is to: • Develop an EA of the proposed Center • Analyze EA literature and choose some major EA frameworks that could be of value to this project. • Each member of the team should learn about and become a champion of an existing EA framework. Each member should also choose a particular aspect (view) as his/her area(s) of specialization (e.g., project management, governance, system integration, whatever). • The team should suggest and use a conceptual framework to analyze and compare/contrast the different EA frameworks. • Focus on business architecture (BA), workflow and application architecture (AA) Figure 1: Conceptual View of Vertical and Horizontal Sectors in a Center, City, Island or Company (small circles indicate services within a sector) Deliverable A: Overall Vision (20 Points) (5-8 slides sketch that shows the following) • Overview and some basic statistics of the selected region (e.g., population to be served, main possible sectors/services that could really benefit from ICT) – 1 slide • What is the main goal of the proposed center and what is the business strategy (i.e., how will it help the users, what issues/problems will it address, what benefits will it provide to the consumers and/or the suppliers, why should anyone care about the center). --- 1 slide • A list of 8 services of potentially high value to the Center. These services may be in any sector (health, education, public safety, public welfare, agriculture, transportation, etc). You can use the below as an example: • Short (one para) per service to give an overview of the service and what type of business activities (business processes) will be needed to support this service. • A simple sketch of the workflow in the center showing 4-10 business services/processes (e.g., customer entry, customer processing, customer exit). You can assume that each business service consists of one business process. • An overall EA sketch of how everything will fit together for this Center (you may use a formal framework such as TOGAF or invent your own conceptual view). The focus of this deliverable is on Business Architecture. Deliverable B: Detailed Design –(40 Points) This part will heavily rely on hands-on experiments and is subdivided into the following tasks: Refinement of Project1A Vision into a Portal (15 Points): Develop a more detailed solution that refines and enriches the Proj1A output. Specifically, you should design a portal (e.g., portal for tourism, a portal for disaster management, etc) that will support the vision of your Center. This is an extension of the business architecture in Project1A and should add the application and technical architecture of the portal. You need to add 3-4 slides to the Project1A slide deck that shows translation of the vision into a Portal. Enterprise Architectures by Using EA Frameworks: (15 Points): Your deliverable is 8-10 slides that answers the following questions with some justification. • Is your Center a virtual center (i.e. a portal), a physical center (just people, no portal) or a mixture? One sentence. • Each member of the team should adopt an EA Framework (e.g. TOGAF, Zachman, Gartner, FEAF, DODAF), become its champion and then present your Center/Portal in your favorite view. • TOGAF is very popular but the US Government has introduced FEAF (Federal EA Framework) and DODAF (Dept of Defense Architecture Framework). It is being claimed that the TOGAF, FEAF and DODAF are not restricted to US Govt and can be used anywhere (including small counties, villages, etc). Please analyze and answer the following question: Can TOGAF, FEAF and DODAF be used by small enterprises such as villages and islands . Yes or No and why • which EA Framework will you adopt and why? Will you use a mixture or a high level Framework independent view. Why or why not.