Enterprise Architecture

"We understand this challenge and we have assisted numerous CIO's and other IT executives in the development and realization of plans that offer significant business benefits. We understand the natural resistance to change and the realities driven by business-unit CIO's reporting to business-unit presidents. We've worked with the top echelons of some of the largest companies in the world and we've moved them forward."

ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE

The Future is Now

The transition period to cloud computing and service-oriented architecture is adding tremendous complexity to enterprise IT architectures. A survey by the IBM Institute for Business Value (IBV) of more than 1,500 chief executive officers from 60 countries and 33 industries revealed a business environment that’s volatile, uncertain, and increasingly complex. Eight out of 10 CEOs expect their environments to grow significantly more complex but only 49 percent believe their organizations are equipped to deal with it successfully—the largest leadership challenge identified in eight years of research. CIO’s will be forced to straddle partially implemented new architectures while nursing old ones. At the same time, a wave of business user and customer demand is pushing innovations like consumerization of IT and big data that must be built on these in process architectures.

We offer a portfolio of planning services designed to link with your company's operating strategy, cost cutting initiatives, and desired competitive position. And we are not afraid to advise you that the economics or intangibles of an alternative make it imprudent. In other words, we are committed to what’s best for you in the long run.

Cloud Computing – the analysis of alternatives and development of transition plans to standardize infrastructure, platforms, and software (requirements) to enable broad utilization of “as a service” offerings whether public or private. Our analysis takes into account best practices, risk management, security, service providers and financial implications.
Business Architecture - the development of time-phased application and architecture deployment plans to achieve the operating strategy of a business unit within economic and strategic time constraints
Business Case - the development of economic models to allow the comparison of solutions to business challenges
Enterprise Architecture and Application Rationalization - the development of time-phased application and architecture deployment plans to optimize the technology portfolios of an enterprise to meet specific cost or competitive objectives
Software Selection - the analysis of various technical solutions and associated software components and vendors in order to select the optimal solution to meet the business objectives
Solution Requirements Analysis - the analysis and documentation of the requirements of a technical solution in terms that are quantifiable, verifiable and understandable
Architecture Requirements Analysis - utilizing a mature framework of services, requirements are evaluated and weighed. The process looks at the in-scope organization and application projects and takes a brief look at potential future or out-of-scope needs to improve the software selection and design.
Architecture Software Selection - a process of comparing requirements against software features and functions. Experts assist in the evaluation and understanding of vendor claims. Implementation experience is utilized when available.
Architecture Design - the design of technical solutions to meet requirements in a manner in which sponsors can verify designs before construction are recommended. Also, QA can validate solutions after build process.
Architecture Development - the configuration and/or construction and testing of architecture components to specification is used.