The UK-based global retail group, Tesco Stores, with its head office in Hertfordshire, has been implementing a standardised enterprise architecture practice.
To that end, IDS consultants have assisted Tesco in selecting the ARIS tools to enhance its architecture planning activities. Using these tools, Tesco is laying the foundation for roadmaps and strategy plans that underpin its enterprise architecture.
IDS Scheer, the leading international provider for business process management (BPM) solutions, is assisting the UK-based retail group Tesco in setting up its group-wide IT architecture models.
Thanks to ARIS IT Architect, Tesco standard architecture models for applications, as well as data and process models can be created. At the same time, the Tesco Group is laying the foundation to generate tool-supported roadmaps, strategy plans, dependency models, and effectiveness analyses.
The objective is to improve the interaction between business processes and the supported IT systems. This is to support the architecture and design of Tesco's operating model, a repeatable set of business processes and applications that Tesco is implementing worldwide.
"We opted for IDS Scheer because the ARIS platform is highly flexible and intuitive, and is becoming closely integrated with the Oracle Suite currently in use at Tesco," explains Jonathan Summerfield, Lead Enterprise Architect at the UK's largest retailer, Tesco Stores.
IDS Scheer maintains partnerships with major technology providers like Oracle in order to design operational BPM that is compatible with the intended technical implementation.
"Our integration-oriented approach has caught on with our customers. Open BPM ensures business process strategies are able to integrate, regardless of the system developer, and it creates the prerequisites for long-term architecture management," explains Dr Wolfram Jost, member of the executive board and head of the products division at IDS Scheer AG.
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