Enterprise Architecture is the organizing logic for business processes and IT infrastructure reflecting the integration and standardization requirements of the firm’s operating model.
The architecture process typically covers the following four categories:
1. Business (strategies, goals, corporate policies, operating model, business processes, functional decompositions (e.g. IDEF0, SADT), organization cycles, IT suppliers, etc..)
2. Applications (application SW inventories and diagrams, interfaces, etc..)
3. Information (metadata, data models, data standards, data quality, etc..)
4. Technology (HW, platforms, servers, networks, operating systém, infrastructure SW, DBMS, programming languages, etc..)
Adastra as an information-centric solution provider has proven its competency mainly in first three categories. Architecture competency is vital to MDM team initiative as it helps:
- Find the technical platform for metadata solution. Help define (technical) metadata to be documented.
- Structure MDM hub solution to contain required system qualities (availability, response time, maintainability, time-to-market, etc.).
- Work with business analysts and MDM consultants to redesign data-related processes to enable Data Governance program. Identify supporting technologies (i.e. DG tools, ODS, integration, DQ tools).
- Assess how the data quality is supported by existing systems and how this can be improved by application changes (improvements).
- System integration and consolidation as an enabler of data reuse.
- Standardize the systems for better ROI and easier integration (data standards, data management standards, platforms standardization, etc.).
Adastra offers following EA related solutions:
- Enterprise architecture as a part of a MDM solution (placing the solution within company’s EA, amendments to EA related to the solution delivery, etc.).
- Enterprise architecture consultancy (architecture review, EA frameworks, SOA consultancy, etc.).