Architecture Services

• IT Vision Development - Work with CIO and senior management to document the vision and build a target architecture to meet that vision

• IT Portfolio Analysis (Current State) - Collect all the information of the current systems and document using a standard modeling language

• Gap Analysis And Roadmap - Build a roadmap to move the architecture from current state to the target state. Document the transition states and changes required to reach that state.

• Migration Planning - Help managers plan the delivery of EA capabilities

• Business Case / Trade-Off Analysis - Help find the right option for each change

• Pre-Sales Vendor Selection - Support stakeholders through the procurement process

• Market Analysis White Paper (Opportunities) - Document the impact of any technology on the IT systems and build a business case if required by the stakeholders

• Implementation Governance Support - Support the stakeholders in guiding the project teams

• Portfolio Optimisation - Identify and eliminate redundancies in the IT landscape

• Architecture Advisory - Support project teams with best practices, patterns etc...

• Digital Transformation Advisory - Support stakeholders to make an informed choice during their digital journey

• Cloud Migration - Support the stakeholders during their cloud migration journey

• Architecture modelling (Archimate) - Document various high-level architecture views

• Document Review - Monitor the projects and guide the team as required

• Discuss various target scenarios with the stakeholders

• Visualise the target systems to automate business activities required for each scenario

• Agree on a Target(Business+IT) with stakeholders

• Build IT principles, standards, guidelines to move the current systems towards the Target

• Govern the various change programs and projects using the agreed principles

• Update the current and target architecture at the every stage

• PACE layering method to analyse the IT portfolio to optimise the assets in the landscape

• Categorising systems in this way helps stakeholders to prioritise the systems that are important to them. This then can be used to reduce the overall complexity.

API Layering can helps organisations manage change to their systems in a more structured manner. Layering helps in decoupling the Systems Of Records and the front-office Systems Of Innovation. This layering is based on Gartner's PACE layering approach.

IT Principles defined based on these could drive individual projects towards the desired target state.

An eCommerce system consists of a set of systems to capture, process and fulfil orders. It may contain subsystems to manage products, marketing, inventory, prices, tax, discounts, payments, ship & track, returns.

Few considerations when selecting a good Digital Marketing solution:

• Dynamic Segmentation - Identification of users into various segments while using your website. Profiling users could become a key input to your campaign design.

• Campaign design - Providing self-service capability to the marketeers is critical to avoid IT intervention for every minor change to campaigns.

• Analytics - A good analytics function will enable better segmentation and tuning of the campaigns.

With an increasing focus on cost reduction, Banks are preparing to digitise much of their systems.

Banks needs to consider few things when embarking on this digital journey:

• Physical Branches - Digitisation of the systems can help bring most of the process online, making it easier to transact using the mobile phones. As less people go to the branches, banks can consolidate them based on their usage.

• 3rd Party Branches - Process standardisation can help in leveraging 3rd party branches in locations where it is not feasible to keep a branch open.

• App Developers - Enabling Open Banking will help app developers in bringing innovative apps to the customers.

• Automation - Internal processes could be automated with AI/RPA kind of technology to remove any redundant activity that don't require human intervention.