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

For us, having IT aligned with the business imperatives is essential and our senior consultants end-up interacting extremely well with the business stakeholders and equally well with IT stakeholders. We help steer projects toward success by:

  • Working hard
  • Being very clear on both business requirements and architecture. We know that folks suffer from paralysis analysis too often and we know that too many iterations on same deliverables due to lack of understanding of both requirements and architecture (agile) is also damaging. We think that we found the right balance!
  • We also facilitate and model in real-time to speed-up the architecture and business requirements definition while optimizing business users involvement
  • Being innovative (denormalized snowflake, real-time lakehouse, OLAP on Hadoop, CEDM to generate the business ontology, etc.)
  • Keeping ourselves as knowledgeable as possible in our specialties (EA, BI, Data & Analytics, Innovation and modern D&A platforms)
  • While keeping ourselves up to date in various other specialties

Meet the Management Team

We believe that Agile is great and we are practitioners of the philosophy and methodology. We also believe that Agile should be combined with EA to get better results. We use both to tackle Big Data & Analytics initiatives and found ways to do it with proper governance even in bi-modal organizations!

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Richard Langlois, president

Interesting books to read:

  • The Lean Startup
  • Machine, Platform, Crowd - Harnessing Our Digital Future
  • Architects of Intelligence
  • The book of Why
  • This is how they tell me the world ends
  • Smart Brevity

Last speaking appearance (Fall 2022):
Big Data & Analytics Summit Canada

http://www.linkedin.com/in/langloisr

Richard led the teams who won a Data Impact Award -Strata & Hadoop World NYC in fall 2016 and an Octas in 2015 when he was at Yellow Pages.

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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 weaknesses observed in organizations in Enterprise Architecture (EA). The roadmaps were scarce and covered only a subset of the application aspects. There was not much in terms of roadmaps covering the other aspects; data, business processes, services, AI, BI, integration, security and infrastructure.

We also noticed that organizations were striving to maintain many EA artifacts but failed to produce tangible results for the organization in a timely manner.

To find out more about our EA framework and philosophy please click on following link ITA&S-F.

In 2006 we were designing VLDB (Very Large Database) before the term Big Data was coined, we were also doing MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) before Hadoop. In 2011, we got deeply involved in the world of Digital Analytics and Big Data & Analytics with Hadoop. And for the last 5 years we have been designing and implementing other technologies both on premise and in the cloud for all Data and Analytics need including real-time analytics. We love this space for providing one of the key elements to enable enterprise wide business transformations!

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