| Goal |
Objective |
| Cloud Solution Architecture |
Lead decisions on Cloud selection and Applications to deploy in the Cloud.
Compare Cloud offerings and perform cost comparisons for Clouds.
Provide technical suitability advise on cloud platforms for business applications.
Select a Cloud, and provide guidance on AWS, Azure, Softlayer, vCloud Air, Rackspace or Hybrid Cloud options.
|
| Enterprise Architecture |
Framework and Strategy for
your business.
Create a roadmap and vision for IT in your business.
Align IT initiatives with your business plan.
Governance and processes need to be part of decision making. Use
Technology Architecture Standards to simplify your IT landscape and
reduce costs.
|
Infrastructure
Architecture/
Technical Architecture |
Do you have the right
Technology fit for your business and does it interoperate seamlessly.
Create a lifecycle for your IT investment to monitor and manage
Technology until it is retired. |
| Solution Architecture |
Know how your
applications link together to provide data to your business.
Ensure layers of IT resources provide a Service Oriented Architecture
approach with reusable services. |
| Project Management |
Deploy a project
methodology to suit your business size. Manage the IT deployment to
deliver what is expected without cost blowouts. |
| Business Case Development | Concept to Business Case
developed for defined business outcomes.
Connect business drivers and requirements into an investment and benefits statement.
Ensure business case demon straights connection of tactical steps towards strategic direction.
Investment models to reflect venture capital and ongoing annual costs, including transition costs between current and new environments. |
| Governance and Structure | Establish a review and gating process
for your architecture and project deliverables.
Determine roles and identify key people to improve the quality of the artifact.
Publish a RACI matrix and link it to a review process that is formally agreed within your organisation.
Ensure risks, issues, constraints, assumptions and decisions are recorded and published to avoid rework of contributions. |
| Process Establishment | Document a repeatable chain of events to achieve an outcome.
Instantiate information flows and data processing for management and staff to improve workplace knowledge and identify operational boundaries.
Enable work flow improvement and possible automation through documented processes.
Introduce agreed time periods for processes and create SLA and OLA measures.
Provide management reporting on activities that have an SLA/OLA or volume metric. |
