Green Enterprise Architecture Framework of the MIT Club of Germany | Opportunity to support

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Deutsche Telekom is operating several big data centers and due to an increasing number of Cloud applications, including AI the DC capacity they manage will continue to grow. They are concerned about there sustainability performance, including CO2 footprint, not only from energy consumption, but also from embedded CO2 footprint of the hardware they use. They want to partner with the MIT Club of Germany to create at least one reference model for a to-be-defined sustainability use case, implement it and also share it with the public as part of our open-source Green Enterprise Architecture Framework.

The subject matter expert at Deutsche Telekom is defined, but he lack archiecture modelling skills, so we are looking in the MIT alumni network and the MIT Club of Germany partner network, for an architect to support on a voluneering basis. The plan is to start the use case model with the UN SDGs, or a similar sustainability framework, and model the use case via the business layer all the way down to the infrastructure. While the model components that relate to technology should be mainly vendor-neutral, at a certain point a like to the Telekom infrastructure needs to happen. Part of the exercise is also to identify existing reference model and integrate those into the GreenEA framework, while using it for the use-case reference model.

The MIT Club of Germany plans to do this exercise this year with 2-3 organizations from different industries, to flesh out the framework that was create last year triggered by a request of Plattform Industrie 4.0 and conceptionally based on their RAMI 4.0 reference architecture.

As modeling notation we look at Archimate, UML and BPMN. The modelling tool is currently in discussion.

If you are interested, please contact me at peter.klement@alum.mit.edu