Practitioner-Led Enterprise Architecture — Certifications, Consulting & Workshops

We were able to take the concepts and apply them at all levels of the organization using EACOE’s EA methodology in order to define and align the company strategy for the next 5 years. I can honestly say that because of my initial attendance in Sam Holcman’s EA training class and one-on-one work with him, my career and my capabilities to positively impact the company I work for have both been enhanced greatly.”

Ed Rybicki

Former Director, Process Integration, Information Technology Process and Organization

Volkswagen

“The Enterprise Architecture process presented is both theoretically sound and actual-practice refined. Nothing is wasted – no “architecture for architectures” sake, just architecture for helping the business run better. “

Tony Scott

Former Corporate VP and CIO

Microsoft Corporation

“I have personally utilized Sam’s approach to EA during my career as a practicing EA professional. Sam’s process provides practitioners with a clear and actionable planning process utilizing the Enterprise Framework. At several large organizations I’ve been a part of, this methodology allowed us to clearly define the as-is and three year to-be architecture that was driven by business strategy.”

Mike Boeselager

Lead Enterprise Architect

Briggs and Stratton

“The Enterprise Framework represents a shift in thinking. To me it was one of those “light bulb” moments where you realize this is the way to do it. The Enterprise Framework isn’t difficult to understand, it is not difficult to practice and it is cheap!”

Jon Myklebust

MIS Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing Competency

Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.

“Thank you for the great training. We are already putting our heads together with our other team members (who took your training earlier) and determining how to move forward. Thank you for your dedication to EA and development of the Quick Start Toolkit. This is the only method that we have all agreed to as the right way to proceed.”

Dusk Kurtz

“Thank you so much for such insightful and informative sessions last week. It’s incredible how the total concept of EA has changed for me to be SO much more than just DoDAF/TOGAF.”

Nida Khan

“I wanted to let you know that right after the Workshop you taught, I applied the Goals Ontology immediately to the work I was doing. This really helped to assess the gaps/overlaps which, in the list format we were using, were challenging to see and even more challenging to communicate with our customers.”

Karen Newcomb

“Thank you for your effort, enthusiasm, and passion. I found the materials and course information to be invaluable, and I will be carrying the EA flag forward in our organization and in our domain.”

Kevin Rocheleau

“Thank you for all your help during the workshop last week. It was a great experience. Your expertise and storytelling from client projects and approaches were invaluable. I thoroughly enjoyed it. I learned a lot about Enterprise Architecture. I wish I had attended this workshop early in my career. The Ontology and Salad bar analogy will stick with me, and I will start applying this with the EA framework in client engagement. Thank you.”

Ram Kodi

“Sam Holcman said that his intent in the Workshop is preparing us to do Enterprise Architecture “…on Monday morning” – providing the necessary methodology, tools, templates, framework, project management work breakdown structure, and support materials. Not only was I prepared, but we launched a Quick Start Enterprise Architecture effort, as we were taught in the Workshop. I can now, after a few months of effort, say that our organization produced, and is now enabling the Enterprise Architecture we developed. The true testimonial to this Workshops effectiveness.”

Frank Thomas

“You kept talking about putting it into practice on “Monday morning”, which at the time seemed somewhat unreasonable. However, I actually was able to do just that. I was amazed. I find myself thinking in Enterprise Architecture terms now more so than ever, breaking things into definitions and specific parts and mapping it back to each cell on the framework. In fact, I was able to develop a governance model for the ministry in a manner that defined roles, responsibilities, and decision-making based on functions and sub-functions. They LOVED it!!! Understood it right away and want to extend my contract.”

Karen-Ann Moore

“The class was great, and I have already kicked off two projects, with backing from the CIO, leveraging your teachings.”

Daniel Lasher

"The coverage of the EACOE methodology for business understanding, technology planning, and change is excellent – a much-needed component in the toolkit of today’s EA professional."

Brian H. Cameron, Ph.D.

Executive Director, Center for Enterprise Architecture

Penn State University

“I found you interjections of real business situations into the delivered material a great help in understanding the concepts. I have already started to use some of the new Enterprise Architecture knowledge and strategies in my day-to-day work.”

Ron Walker

“It was really very productive. I learned and clarified a lot in my mind on architecture frameworks for an enterprise. It is terrific to hear about actual enterprise efforts with Enterprise Architecture, and bringing direct pay-offs so well.”

Jay Ramaswamy

“I really like using the EACOE tool to consolidate all my analysis with my customers. It is a quick and simple way to organize and show how their entire organization is / isn’t related. Plus, I use it to show what systems will be impacted if we have new processes and potential new tools.”

Ferdinand Schulz

“I learned so many things on the “real science” behind EA and IT in general. I look forward to learning more from you and contributing my EA experiences to the EA community.”

Josef Vargas