Technical architecture is designed and managed at three levels:
| - Applications: The programs that help run the business. To the extent
IT creates value for a company, it's by providing applications.
- Information: Information falls into two broad categories - structured,
such as what's stored in a relational database, and unstructured -
primarily documents but also digitized images and other multimedia
files.
- Platforms: Computing hardware, operating systems, database
management systems, networks, and the rest of the physical and software
infrastructure on which computing takes place.
IT Catalysts knows how to look for the seven warning signs of bad architecture:
- Manual re-keying.
- Collections of point solutions.
- Redundant applications.
- Redundant data.
- Too many interfaces (the well-known "spiderweb").
- Kludges and workarounds.
- Obsolete technology.
And we can help you fix them the only way architectural deficiencies ever can be fixed ... one project at a time, building sound architecture into every implementation.
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IT Catalysts can show you how to
institute a results-focused architecture management practice. One that's built into every application project,
helping your IT organization groom all three layers of its technology
portfolio - applications, information, and platforms.
The result: Future application support efforts are as efficient as possible, spending more time creating valuable functionality and less managing interfaces and other time-and-effort wasters.