EA SERVICES

EA Werks’ service options are designed to assist our clients leverage the power of Enterprise Architecture as an essential executive management and decision-making tool in both the public and private sectors.

With its unique tools, processes and techniques for data collection and presentation EA can highlight the crucial inter-relationships between key components such as strategy, data, processes, applications, technology infrastructure, organization and workforce, etc. These are expressed in both detailed and abstract formats such as models, graphs, charts, reports, etc., that are organized into specialized architectural frameworks. EA takes this information and develops it into various “snapshots in time" beginning with an organization’s “As-is” state followed by different future, or “To-be” architectural scenarios. All of this work is typically done in the medium of specialized software products available on the market. When it is augmented through the capture of key metrics in areas such as cost, performance and reliability EA becomes a powerful tool for quantitative and comparative analysis. This supports informed decision making in transition planning and modernization initiatives (e.g., M&A, major systems acquisition and insertion, custom systems design and development, legacy remediation and consolidation, process improvement, workforce transition planning, etc) and creates opportunities for more cost effective and efficient operations.

As a comprehensive approach to business optimization EA is a best practice methodology of equal importance to both business management and IT. An important distinction about EA is that it does not add significant layers of management or technology to an organization. A “light footprint” and major impact on cost savings and cost avoidance allow most EA programs to have very high ROIs. An EA PMO functions as a corporate “Center of Excellence” by having a multi-disciplinary staff which works to optimize and create synergies between business and IT by leveraging many relevant best practice methodologies and lifecycle processes already in use by them including project management, governance, strategic and capital planning as well Enterprise Engineering (e.g., SDLC, etc.) and other architecture domains (e.g., Data, Information, Applications, Systems, Security, etc.). Perhaps one of EA’s most important contributions is the comprehensive repository or database of essential EA artifacts that it develops in cooperation with these groups and with management and key business stakeholders. By maintaining this repository as a system-of-record and making it available to corporate decision-makers, EA functions as a virtual clearinghouse of vital corporate information. In this way EA supplies the much needed glue between enterprise business and IT functions.

With a properly functioning and well-tuned EA, organizations are better able to set and execute strategy and policies and achieve regulatory compliance. It also enables improved alignment and reallocation of enterprise resources, more informed decisions on acquisitions, and helps create organizational efficiencies, improved performance, cost savings and increased profitability.

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