1. The Ecosystem
Concepts and Overview

2. What is an Ecosystem
• A system of interdependent
processes, entities, and their
environment

3. What is an Ecosystem
• A system of interdependent
processes, entities, and their
environment

4. What is an Ecosystem
• A system of interdependent
processes, entities, and their
environment

5. What is an Ecosystem
• A system of interdependent
processes, entities, and their
environment

6. What is an Ecosystem
• A system of interdependent
processes, entities, and their
environment

7. The Laboratory Ecosystem
• The key to success with laboratory informatics
is to envision it as an ecosystem
• Individual systems may do their specific tasks,
but the real benefit comes from their
interactions.

8. The Laboratory Ecosystem

9. The Laboratory Ecosystem

10. The Laboratory Ecosystem

11. The Laboratory Ecosystem

12. The Laboratory Ecosystem

13. The Laboratory Ecosystem

14. Interactions

15. Interactions

16. Interactions

17. That’s Too Complicated
• Yes, it is
• Ultimately, the goal should be to deconvolute
the ecosystem by employing some form of
Enterprise Architecture (EA) methodology

18. Example EcoSystem using
Archimate®
• Archimate is an open modeling language for
describing Enterprise Architecture

19. Developing an Architecture
• Why?
• A great application implemented on a poor business
process makes for a poor automated business process
• A poor application implemented on a great business
process makes for a poor automated business process
• Significant functional overlap between Enterprise
Systems capabilities
• Overlap in function means denormalized data as well