For business leaders to see IT as driving strategic business advantage, your enterprise architecture must show the big picture and how the strategic intent of the enterprise is supported by the application, information, and infrastructure strategies and plans.
Help your business see IT as a strategic differentiator by building a well-defined, well-aligned Enterprise Architecture and get measurable benefits:
- Improved business value of information through leveraging knowledge more effectively
- IT initiatives aligned to business imperatives and strategies
- Targeted future state vision to guide IT decision-making
- Cost savings and efficiencies from infrastructure consolidation
- Reduced risk through reduced complexity and improved security audit compliance
- Improved IT planning, project management and software development processes
We address the full scope of your business and technology needs using our
Enterprise Architecture Framework:
- Business Context
- Documents the business strategies and their impacts so that the Architecture Viewpoints are driven by an aligned set of requirements that is owned and understood jointly by the business and IT.
- Technology Architecture
- Assesses and develops infrastructure and enterprise application patterns, components, logical models, rules, life-cycles, and roadmaps for the effective implementation of technologies linked to business strategy.
- Solution Architecture
- Combines elements of other viewpoints to provide a complete roadmap for an investment including program deliverables and roadmaps.
- Business Architecture
- Established the processes, governance, organization structure, communication, change management, metrics and implementation plans needed to successfully direct and manage IT.
- Information Architecture
- Aligns your business intelligence, data, content, documents, information principles, models, and workflow to the IT Strategy and Enterprise Architecture.
Rollover graphic for more detail Our proven analytical tools based on renowned Gartner benchmark data, unparalleled vendor intelligence and an Enterprise Information Management Framework based on Gartner Research, can help you:
- Plan and implement Services Oriented Architecture (SOA)
- - Strategy, readiness assessment, implementation plans and governance
- - Address business architecture and process issues to ensure SOA delivers the desired results
- Develop ERP strategies
- - Business case justification, software/system integrator selection and deployment/support strategies
- Plan, Optimize, and Consolidate infrastructure
- - Strategies for networks, data centers and servers
- - IT Service Delivery Optimization
- - Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Plans
- Define business intelligence
- - Content management and application development strategies/assessments
- - Enterprise information management and governance
- Identify and evaluate emerging technologies and manage innovation
Qualifications
Launching a New Product
A Fortune 50 financial services firm draws on Gartner expertise to assess the external commercial viability of an internally developed application.
A New IT Roadmap Delivers Operational Consistency
A leading financial services information company calls on Gartner to migrate its siloed IT environment to an enterprise model to improve operational consistency and productivity.
Government Healthcare Organization Generates Savings With
New Identity Solution
When a large government healthcare organization needed to comply with a federal initiative for a new identity solution, management called on Gartner for help. Gartner supported both the business case and deployment plan.
Setting Realistic Expectations for a New Electronic Medical Records
Strategy (EMR)
A State Office for Mental Health needed a new EMR strategy. But expectations of what would be required were not realistic. A Gartner Consulting engagement shed light on the real scope of the initiative.
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