Consulting Services

Organizations today have to deal with a rapidly changing business environment and IT landscape.

This evolving reality means that IT Organizations have to continually answer questions such as:

• Which of the company’s products and services are affected if an application is outsourced?
• Which processes are affected if a system platform fails?
• Which components of the enterprise will be affected by the introduction of a new product or business process?
• How can we enable service-oriented architecture (SOA) in the organization?
• How can we fulfill regulation requirements by cleaning up existing information systems?
• How can we enable strategic business goals via better operational excellence, more customer intimacy, greater product leadership, or more strategic agility?

All these questions can be answered by implementing an enterprise architecture program. While most companies have an enterprise architecture framework, they are not able to create actionable, extended enterprise architectures that address today’s rapidly evolving, complex, and collaborative environment.

Features and Benefits

i2 Enterprise Architecture Consulting services are designed to help customers develop a clear strategy to align IT applications architecture with key business objectives. The collaborative process leverages i2 supply chain management planning, process, and systems expertise.

Through this service, companies can establish a framework for implementing an infrastructure architecture that supports emerging capabilities of SOA and can optimize their use of existing technologies and tools.

i2’s enterprise architects apply their extensive experience to evaluate the enterprise architecture framework of an organization in a four- to eight-week engagement.

i2’s enterprise architects evaluate a company’s:

• Business architecture (goal systems, markets, products)
• Process architecture (processes and organizational structure)
• Integration architecture (business view of information system structures)
• Software architecture (software components and data structures)
• Infrastructure architecture (technologies and platforms used)

The scope of the work includes areas that encompass enterprise technologies and govern a company’s supply chain applications, as well as enterprise resource planning, legacy, and overall systems.

Methodology

Evaluation levels of the assessment maturity/capability matrix

Benefits

• Reduced software and data redundancy
• Enhanced enterprise information sharing
• Reduced information systems complexity
• Improved alignment of business strategy and system development
• Reduced IT costs by consolidating, standardizing, and integrating corporate information systems
• Increased IT responsiveness by reusing mature components
• Improved ability to assess scalability and align with future business needs
  

KPIs/metrics used for assessment:

• Agility
• Standardization
• Number of artifacts
• Number of links