Overview
Disparate technology and a lack of IT standardization and governance can significantly affect business efficiency and drive up costs.
Enterprise Architecture and Technology services can help you define the vision, implementation and governance of an enterprise architecture that aligns IT with business goals, drives technology strategy and ensures application of efficient and consistent IT principles.
These objectives are accomplished through the use of proven architectural assets, standardized architecture development disciplines, repeatable processes and rapid adoption of emerging technologies
Business challenges
Achieve stronger alignment between IT strategy and business goals
Align the variety of platforms and technologies that have resulted in excessive complexity and cost
Implement IT standards and governance that enable greater technology efficiencies
Improve performance, availability, scalability and management of existing architectures and applications
Support new business processes with new technologies
Adopt reusable assets to drive greater efficiencies and faster time to market
Enterprise architecture and technology capabilities that we offer
Complex Solution Architecture and Delivery Services – A broad range of technology and industry knowledge, experience and assets are applied to successfully design and deliver complex business solutions.
Quality Assurance Services – A variety of architecture, design and code reviews can be used to proactively identify problems, reduce project risk and avoid costly rework.
Emerging Technology Services – Consulting services focused on the adoption of emerging technologies and concepts such as Event Processing and Event Driven Architecture, Cloud Computing, Software as a Service and Model Driven System Development.
Skills Enablement Services – Development and delivery of education for the IT architect and lead developer community.
Enterprise Architecture Services – Our Adaptive Blueprint for Enterprise Architecture defines a flexible, efficient and cost effective enterprise architecture that supports the needs of your business. The blueprint includes a set of artifacts that define the roadmap that provides context for architectural decisions and a management framework for ensuring compliance and vitality of the architecture over time.
SOA Services – A range of services to help you realize the benefits of service-oriented architecture and Web services including strategy, assessment, implementation planning, design, development and integration.
Why IBM
IBM’s industry expertise and global investment in application skills help provide a foundation for leadership in application design, development, implementation and management. Our in-depth understanding of business processes and information technology uniquely qualifies us to work with clients who wish to leverage industry best practices in application lifecycle management while focusing on strategic, core business competencies.
As one of the largest providers of consulting, systems integration and application services, IBM has unrivaled experience optimizing application investments and aligning them to business requirements. Our team of more than 90,000 Application Services consultants located around the world can assemble the industry and technology expertise through proven methodology, research innovation, and solution assets and accelerators that help you achieve greater productivity and business agility.
