Hello,

I need some assistance applying my proposed solution below into the Zachman framework based on the assignment below:

• Identify the components of the Zachman framework that are going to be included in your proposed solution.
• Explain your rationale for including these other components from the Zachman framework.
• Evaluate the challenges you expect these additional components to add to your proposed solution.

Proposed Solution:

M&T is on a journey of a lifetime to better align Business and Information Technology(IT) to becoming an innovative, collaborative and transparent entity that creates customer value with innovation never seen in our history. Now during this age of changing the look and feel of how and what IT works on that aligns with the business objectives and strategies is the time to realign the former processes related to forms throughout the entire M&T Bank footprint. The opportunity that M&T has to standardize their forms and the related processes far outweighs any attempts of maintaining the existing forms and related painstaking processes. The forms themselves already exist and they demand new technology. The proposal for this opportunity is called Forms Centralized which includes the five facets that perfectly aligns to M&Ts imperatives and vision statement.

The first is an Adaptable Form which means one form version that will be utilized bank wide. The forms would be adaptable to all applications and allow a form to be individually adaptable from a legal aspect for different state text requirements.

The second facet is Central Form Repository which means housing ALL form documentation in one repository as the name implies. All form documentation would be maintained, including the particulars of each applications fields that are prefilled to the form. The repository would also include a branch that houses every form bank wide to allow easy access to specific bank employees.

Next, we move onto a prominent One Form Owner direction that enables a form owner the ability to make form modifications without technology and introduce it to the bank applications(s) in real time. The need to wait until all applications can implement is eliminated.

Then we step into The Universal Rates and Fees , which is crucially important to technology and promotes the tools necessary to maintain all of the banks rates and fees in a central database to be utilized on all bank forms and applications. Risk is reduced by housing all of the rates and fees on one table that all applications access.

The last facet is not the least important, but has significant weight towards the decision of this proposal of Flexible Customer Options. By creating forms with electronic capabilities and without printer limitations, we create customer choices. Choices that allow the customer to be in the driver seat in the decision of how they would like to receive their forms. It doesnt dismiss the customer that still wants hard copies of their forms, but it also moves into the next generation of customers whose preferred delivery method is typically electronic. (12 Shocking statistics about printing cost(and how to save money), 2019)