A strong Enterprise Architecture process should help to answer basic questions like:

• Is the current architecture supporting and adding value to the organization?
• How might architecture be modified so that it adds more value to the organization?
• Based on what we know about what the organization wants to accomplish in the future, will the current architecture support or hinder that?

Our consultants analyze the organization’s strategy and structure, the architecture process then flows down into the discrete information technology components such as:

• Organization charts, activities, and process flows of how the IT Organization operates
• Organization cycles, periods and timing
• Suppliers of technology hardware, software, and services
• Applications and software inventories and diagrams
• Interfaces between applications – that is: events, messages and data flows
• Intranet, Extranet, Internet, eCommerce, EDI links with parties within and outside of the organization
• Databases and supporting data models
• Hardware, platforms, and hosting: Servers and where they are kept
• Local and Wide Area Networks, Internet connectivity diagrams