Information system flexibility, cross-functionality, real time features and accessibility

Architecture Challenges

• The past twenty years have given birth to IT initiatives that are closely related to management practices and process optimisation projects

	Each new brick came as a standalone component with its own databases, repositories, development tools, security management, etc. Now that companies want to capitalise on these investments, extend their reach and continuously improve on them, they are limited by this highly restrictive framework.

Today, to cope with high maintenance costs and low maintainability, companies need to rationalise their information system and opt for more sustainable development efforts. Re-urbanisation of information systems into processes and services, following a business vision and based on the technical vision that service oriented modern architectures (SOA, SaaS, etc.) represent, is thus a must.

 

Applications will then no longer be isolated silos, but groups of services that are exposed to users or other applications.

 

The Business & Decision offering

Business & Decision’s business architects will support you, using the methodologies that are best suited to your particular context and will help you identify the business rules that should be outsourced from the code as well as the repository data to be centralised.

 

Business & Decision’s functional architects, NICT project experts, will advise you on the level of desired flexibility and help you determine the optimum combination of needs satisfaction and development costs (since the required flexibility will increase costs), thus defining the correct level of service to be provided.

 

Business & Decision’s technical architects will identify the technical solutions best suited to your environment and that can be easily modified, allowing flexibility in business process handling.

 

The Architecture Practice implements the Right Delivery® solution through, namely the creation of dedicated service centres (technological and/or business), but also know-how in terms of management and standardisation of projects that involve several thousands of man-days.