Will IT be able to keep pace with your business initiatives? Do you have roadmaps to keep them aligned?

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'Not using an EA can result in organizational operations and supporting technology infrastructures and systems that are duplicative, poorly integrated, unnecessarily costly to maintain and interface, and unable to respond quickly to shifting environmental factors.'  —US Government Accountability Office.

Keeping pace means having an architecture that is both efficient and effective. Effective, so that when business units require:

  • Strategic guidance on business direction and renewal
  • Plans and roadmaps
  • Advice on the IT side of a merger & acquisition
  • Software and product recommendations
  • Investment decisions on existing applications
  • Support for the application portfolio budgeting process
  • ...

IT is ready with an answer. This means the EA group has maintained the proper EA artifacts — roughly 15 well-chosen artifacts, compared to the 50+ diagrams & matrices TOGAF prescribes, is typically sufficient. If too much time is spent maintaining all these artifacts, no time remains to serve business units — and EA's value to the business becomes impossible to demonstrate.

Given that many artifacts must still be maintained, it has to be done efficiently using proper EA tools and methodology.

 

Enterprise Architecture Consulting

We have decades of experience in Enterprise Architecture using various EA frameworks and accelerators. We connect Business Strategy directly to Architecture — ensuring IT investments are purposeful, aligned, and measurable.

Well-architected and business-aligned applications cost less, deliver higher satisfaction to the business community, are easier to maintain, and can be delivered faster than poorly architected ones. Our EA consulting services cover:

  • Definition of various roadmaps aligned with business strategy
  • Vision and Strategy Planning
  • Standardization and automation of business processes using BPM suites, Business Capabilities Map, Operating Models, and AI
  • Usage of an enterprise data models (CEDM and DEDM)
  • Definition of an enterprise-wide business events based on the CEDM
  • Establishment of an integration framework
  • Active management of application portfolios (EPPM/APM)
  • Capture and maintenance of EA artifacts in appropriate tools
  • Guidance of solution architects and agile development squads
  • Assessments & Recommendations
  • Governance
  • High-Level Architecture for Business Processes, Data, Applications, Services, Integration, and Technology
  • Product / Software Evaluations and Recommendations
  • Project QA (Requirements and Architecture phases)
  • Corporate Architecture Group assessment

In addition, we offer the following services:

  • Fractional Chief Architect — to initiate or reinitiate the function, replace a departure, or train a new person in this role
  • Lead Solution Architect — on large programs such as CRM, MDM, O2O, value chains, and more
  • EA Training — Pragmatic Enterprise Architecture to Deliver Business Value

Frameworks, Methodologies & Tools

Over the years we have used multiple architecture frameworks and methodologies — ITA&S-F, IAF, TOGAF, Frameworx, FEA, Information Engineering, UML, P+, SOMA, Scrum — and tools including Casewise, AllFusion/Erwin, PowerDesigner, Rational, Visual Paradigm, and Coolgen/IEF, across both Operational/Business Systems and Business Intelligence environments.

Industries

We have developed deep understanding across the following industries:

  • Transportation (Public, Airlines and Railways)
  • Banking, Investments and Wealth Management
  • National Clearing and Settlements
  • Financial Collections
  • Telecommunications
  • Software
  • Media & Advertising
  • Government
  • Insurance
  • Retail and Distribution
  • Industrial and Manufacturing
  • Location Risk Intelligence and crisis assistance
  • Live Entertainment

RFI / RFP Services

We are actively involved in RFI/RFP processes to select software, hardware, resources, or SaaS solutions — and have very often led the negotiation directly on behalf of our customers. Our RFP involvement covers:

  • Identification of requirements
  • Creation of accompanying documents describing the RFP process, rules, and calendar
  • Identification of targeted suppliers
  • Definition of evaluation criteria and weights
  • Response evaluation
  • Proof of Concepts and/or product demonstrations
  • Pricing strategies to identify the best model for our customers, with Opex/Capex simulations over a 3-year horizon
  • Negotiations
  • Contract verification from a coverage, capability limitations, exit strategy, and price protection standpoint (not from a legal standpoint)

We have also been involved in contract optimization covering:

  • Renewals (with capacity planning considerations)
  • Consolidating smaller contracts into a single enterprise-wide agreement
  • Adjustments for growth or reduction of needs

Since 2024, we have been engaged as subject matter experts in Business Architecture and Enterprise Architecture to support auditors in assessing both functions within a large organization — providing the deep domain expertise that certified auditors rely on to conduct their evaluation.