Enterprise Architecture

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IT Architecture Management

Harmonize and standardize your IT landscape

Organizations use our solution to harmonize and standardize the application landscape as well as a company’s technology stack. This is done while transforming a system-oriented IT landscape into a service-oriented IT landscape.

To drive these initiatives, IT architects define, compose and establish reference architectures, architectural patterns and principles as well as re-usable architectural building blocks. At the same time, they use analytics as well as control mechanisms and governance processes to:

Create an application and technology inventory of the existing IT landscape
Describe application systems by uniform profiles, represent cross links and find contact persons
Eliminate inconsistencies and reduce redundancies
Manage application and technology lifecycles powered by appropriate governance processes
Specify, document and propagate IT architectures and enterprise-wide IT standards
Leverage efficient controlling and management of IT standards
Establish a long-term IT architecture management concept to realize the company’s IT strategy and deliver the associated cost and flexibility benefits
Integrate process management into strategic deployment planning and define an IT roadmap
Improve the estimation of risks regarding application changes based on documented system contexts

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Application harmonization

Harmonize applications across regions, products and processes by defining recommended solution architectures and managing their life cycles. This approach integrates business, technology and information architectures while leveraging integrated application portfolio management.

Benefits include:

Reduced risk of negative impact on business operations
Better decision-making on applications fates
Better communication of the application roadmap to stakeholders and solution owners

Develop solutions

Design solutions based on architectural requirements. You can detail solution requirements as a part of the system development life cycle to create functional and technical project specifications aligned with your organization’s reference architectures and standards. Strategic, architectural, projects requirements are based on integrated enterprise architecture repository. You’ll use a market-leading modeling capability to capture requirements graphically and then store reference and project-specific architectures in a single repository.

Benefits include:

Faster time-to-market
Better functional coverage by developed solutions
Improved compliance with enterprise standards

Gain transparency into your IT portfolio with management-friendly metrics monitoring to save time and improve decision-making. You also can consolidate an IT infrastructure that’s driven by business requirements. This will results in better communication of the value of IT changes to the business and better assessment of technology-related risks on business applications.

Learn more in our free white paper: Bringing Strategy & IT Together.

Standardize technology

Standardize and communicate your company’s technology stack by defining and publishing architectural principles, standards, building blocks and reference architectures. This approach integrates the application architecture and information architecture to address corporate data security and leverages integrated technology portfolio management.

Benefits include: