We're passionate about one thing... Your success

For us, true IT success begins with genuine alignment to business imperatives. Our senior consultants are equally at ease with business stakeholders and IT teams — bridging both worlds fluently and steering projects toward successful outcomes.

We help organizations succeed by:

Maintaining the right balance between speed and rigour. We know that analysis paralysis is a real threat, and that endless iterations on the same deliverables — often masked as agile — are equally damaging. We have developed a proven approach that keeps momentum without sacrificing clarity on business requirements and architecture.

Facilitating and modeling in real-time. We accelerate the definition of architecture and business requirements while optimizing the involvement of business users — reducing elapsed time and improving buy-in.

Driving innovation that matters. Our track record includes denormalized snowflake design, real-time LakeHouse, OLAP on Hadoop, the CEDM-generated business ontology, the AI Speed Layer, and Proactive Business-Driven Data Governance — innovations that have delivered measurable competitive advantage.

Staying deeply specialized. We maintain the highest level of expertise across our core disciplines: Enterprise Architecture, BI, Data & Analytics, Event-Driven Architecture, and modern data platforms.

Staying broadly current. Beyond our specialties, we continuously track developments across adjacent domains to ensure our recommendations reflect the full landscape.

Meet the Management Team

We are firm believers in Agile — both as a philosophy and as a methodology we actively practice. We also believe that Agile alone is not enough. When combined with Enterprise Architecture, it becomes significantly more powerful, delivering better outcomes with greater predictability.

We have applied this combined approach extensively to Big Data & Analytics initiatives, and have developed effective ways to make it work within bi-modal organizations — maintaining the right governance without sacrificing the speed and adaptability that Agile promises.

And we have taken this one step further: we now deliver 100% of implementation directly from architecture and specifications, leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs) to close the gap between design and execution entirely.

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Richard Langlois, president

Richard has delivered speaking engagements and has been featured in interviews and press releases by organizations including Tableau, AtScale, Wayne Eckerson, Yahoo Finance, and others. Speaking Engagements & Press Coverage

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Richard led the teams that won a Data Impact Award at Strata & Hadoop World NYC (Fall 2016) and an Octas Award (2015) while at Yellow Pages.

Recommended Reading

Richard's perspective has been shaped by a carefully curated set of books at the intersection of technology, strategy, and innovation:

  • The Lean Startup — Eric Ries
  • Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing Our Digital Future — McAfee & Brynjolfsson
  • Architects of Intelligence — Martin Ford
  • The Book of Why — Judea Pearl
  • This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends — Nicole Perlroth
  • Smart Brevity — Axios founders
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Eugenie Artus, Enterprise Architect

Interesting books to read:

  • Preventing Litigation - An Early Warning System to Get Big Value out of Big Data
  • Breakout Strategy
  • Introduction to Business Architecture by Christophe Reynolds
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Our Story

IT Architecture & Strategy was founded to address a persistent gap observed across organizations: Enterprise Architecture (EA) was not delivering on its promise. Roadmaps were narrow in scope, covering only application aspects while largely ignoring data, business processes, services, AI, BI, integration, security, and infrastructure.

We also observed that organizations invested significant effort maintaining EA artifacts yet struggled to produce tangible, timely results for the business.

To learn more about our EA framework and philosophy, please visit ITA&S-F.

Our technical roots run deep. In 2006, we were designing Very Large Databases (VLDB) before the term "Big Data" was coined, and implementing Massively Parallel Processing (MPP) before Hadoop existed. In 2011, we immersed ourselves in Digital Analytics and Big Data with Hadoop. We were architecting real-time LakeHouse solutions three years before Databricks formally introduced the term. This trajectory naturally led us to build the GUM-RTDP Platform — enabling enterprises to move at the speed of their customers.

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