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Rational Enterprise Architecture

IBM Rational enterprise architecture management

Enterprise architecture integrates business goals with IT strategies

Enterprise architecture enables business transformation, strategic alignment, and effective IT investment decisions. By creating views of your company's future state architecture that reflect the capabilities you need to meet tomorrow's challenges, you can successfully chart a course that will result in more effective decision making and greater agility across the enterprise.

Enterprise Architecture Course Series

The Enterprise Architecture course series, originally developed by Scott A. Bernard, PhD (link resides outside of ibm.com), and IBM, will give you the knowledge and skills you need to successfully implement an Enterprise Architecture initiative in the public or private sector. You will learn Enterprise Architecture concepts and best practices, from IBM certified instructors. The series consists of three courses or attend an accelerated 10-day boot camp. Enroll today.

Enterprise Architecture benefits

  • Learn how organizations can become more agile and competitive
  • Better align strategic goals, business activities, and supporting technologies
  • Understand how EA provides context for best practices with SOA, ITIL, COBIT,OO, and Cloud Computing
  • Assess the management of a business and technology portfolio
  • Better manage at the enterprise and systems levels
  • Develop a framework for business/technology planning and decision-making
  • Identify and develop new and enhanced capabilities to gain competitive advantage
  • Refine the design and implementation of workflow, systems, and infrastructure
  • Create reusable architectural building blocks that promote business transformation
  • Attain improved compliance and more predictable project outcomes
  • Improve the lifecycle of systems development, risk management, and security

Enterprise Architecture student benefits

  • Attain 'Certified Enterprise Architect (CEA)' and receive the designation and certificate from the International Enterprise Architecture Institute (iEAi)
  • Access courses worldwide through IBM
  • Familiarization with IBM enterprise architecture modeling tools
  • Case studies with discussion of real-world problems
  • IBM enterprise architecture instructors have significant real world experience

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Enterprise Architecture Course Series

  • Enterprise Architecture Basic Concepts (QB151) – 4 days
  • Enterprise Architecture Applied Concepts (QB156) – 4 days
  • Enterprise Architecture Advanced Concepts (QB161) – 4 days

Accelerated 10-day Boot Camp!

  • IBM Enterprise Architecture Boot Camp (QBB01) – 10 days

Private classes available

Need to train a team of people affordably? We can deliver these classroom courses in a private format - at your facility or ours. This saves you money by eliminating travel and hotel expenses.

In the US, click here to submit your requirements and request.

In Canada, click here to submit your requirements and request.

For other countries, please visit our Training by Country page, to locate services within your region of interest.

This course series will help you gain the skills needed to ensure your organization's business goals align with IT strategies.

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Learn more

  • IBM Rational Enterprise Architecture Data Sheet (631 KB)
  • Enterprise Architecture
  • Certified Enterprise Architect Training Path
  • Executive Brief: Plan, control, streamline -- and innovate. Using enterprise architecture to manage change. (407 KB)