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Building the bridge between business and IT: a practical case

At the annual BA & Beyond conference, Lien Deboosere, together with Philip De Bie, VP of IT at Picanol Group, presented how they established enterprise architecture within Picanol and enabled both top-down and bottom-up analysis by using and combining different modeling languages.

Knowledge Sharing

The BA & Beyond Conference is an annual event focused on business analysis (BA) and related fields. It brings together professionals to share knowledge, network, and gain new insights – including business analysts, product owners, process analysts, and other professionals involved in the analysis and optimization of business processes.

How Do You Pragmatically Bridge the Gap Between Business and IT?

Lien and Philip were guest speakers in the Architecture track with their case study "Building the Bridge Between Business and IT", perfectly illustrating how business architecture has become a crucial discipline to bridge the gap between strategy and execution. They explained how they pragmatically connected business and IT by using various modeling languages within the SparxSystems Enterprise Architect tool (Archimate, BPMN, UML), and highlighted the role of Evolynx in the process.