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Enterprise Architecture has become one of the pillars of the federal IT world to help make operations run smoothly, seamlessly and maneuver easily. No matter what technology is touted, or how service oriented and agile the applications are — especially cloud-based or SAAS environments — technology systems must be designed and implemented to support the business or mission and enable processes. If integrated IT systems don’t work or fail, the business or mission may be in jeopardy. The only insurance any enterprise or organization has is a fully articulated and robust EA program.

EA is about understanding the business, the mission and how to maintain, improve, fix or transform it, often involving IT as a transformational mechanism. It helps an agency understand inter-relationships between investments, minimize duplication, improve interoperability and compatibility between systems, and is essential to any agency’s modernization. Every agency has an EA now, but it is not something that can be deployed and forgotten. EA must be kept current and every agency must regularly evaluate how it is working, in order to avoid damaging the enterprise or jeopardizing secure network systems.

Learn how to keep your EA plans relevant and effective for today’s challenges at the 18th annual Enterprise Architecture Conference & Expo.

For more than 20 years, the Washington Business Journal has honored the top deliveries, leases, acquisitions, financing deals and sales in Greater Washington. Our Best Real Estate Deals of 2018 cover the best in the business, from leases bringing in major companies — hello, Amazon! — to new sports arenas, stadiums, shopping and more.

On April 25, the WBJ will honor the 25 best real estate deals in the D.C. metro area, as determined by the editorial staff. Of those 25 honorees, eight will be honored with special superlative awards — including Deal of the Year — at our awards event at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center.