Achievable results
The result of IT architecture services is:
- Acceleration of business processes, cost reduction due to their automation, digitization of some processes.
- Reduction of IT infrastructure support and modernization costs, including application support. Increase in the speed of implementation of business requirements by IT.
- Transition to comprehensive use of data in business processes, from operational management to strategic analysis. Increasing the value of available data for the business.
What we do
IT architecture services may include architecture design for both individual applications, services, digital products, and enterprise-wide architecture. In the first case, services include:
- Gathering and analyzing business requirements for enterprise IT systems. Analysis of the current state of automation (digitalization) of business processes.
- Study of existing integration flows. Projection of integration flows and functional scope of applications onto business processes, areas of responsibility of organizational units.
- Assessment of the current technological level of automation. Identification and analysis of problems related to insufficient automation of business processes, software compatibility or level of integration, blurring of organizational responsibility, etc.
- Assess the main risks specific to the current IT architecture.
- Formation of the IT Architecture Development Concept, which establishes the ultimate goals of the transformation, its main stages, timelines and results of each stage, necessary resources, requirements for relevant organizational changes or support.
- Designing the target state of the IT architecture, including functional and technical requirements for business applications, integration flows, data structure, composition and data governance. Emphasis is placed on designing integration solution architecture, including implementation of data exchange flows using an ESB integration bus, master data governance using an MDM system, formation of data showcases and analytical views. Designing solutions for application scaling (clustering) and the use of virtualization systems.
- Audit and control of contractors' performance of work to fulfill designed requirements. Implementation of modern development and implementation management practices.
- Participation in acceptance tests and pilot operation of implemented solutions.
- Documenting the final state of the enterprise IT architecture. Updating the IT Architecture Development Concept in accordance with the achieved results.
Architecture design services for specific applications, services, digital products include:
- Gather and analyze business requirements for specific applications or digital products.
- Creation of Functional and Technical Requirements (FTR), Terms of Reference for application development. Assessment of the required technical level of the application, recommendations on the use of technologies. Assessment of development prospects, modernization of the application in the course of its operation, formulation of requirements for flexibility and manageability of the application.
- Working out application scaling issues. Consulting on the use of Kubernetes.
- Assist in the selection of an implementer (if necessary). Monitor progress of application implementation, participate in testing, trials and piloting, documentation and commissioning.
- Managing development using Agile methodologies.
- Implementation of DevOps practices in development.
- Planning for further development of the application.
