Enterprise Architecture and Planning Consultancy
The other complementary capability of eWorthy is in the area of Enterprise Architecture. We have provided comprehensive software engineering services to various US Government and commercial entities, including the US Patent and Trademark Office, and Merrill Lynch and the Bank of America. We provide support for the Federal Enterprise Architecture Model which encompasses the Business Reference Model, Data Reference Model, System Reference Model, and Performance System Model.
Our service offering in this area provide a structured way to relate and coordinate business processes and IT processes. We are well versed in various Enterprise Architecture Methodologies including The Open Group Framework (TOGAF). Some of the services we have provided in this area include:
- Understanding and interpreting Enterprise requirements: eWorthy architects participate in the discovery and documentation of the customer's business scenarios that are driving the solution
- Create a useful model: Take the requirements and develop well-formulated models of the components of the solution, augmenting the models as necessary to fit all of the circumstances. The eWorthy architect represents the organization view of the architecture by understanding all the necessary business components.
- Validate, refine, and expand the model: Verify assumptions, bring in subject matter experts, in order to improve the model and to further define it, adding as necessary new ideas to make the result more flexible and more tightly linked to current and expected requirements. Assess the value of solution-enhancing developments emanating from field work and incorporate these into the architecture models as appropriate.
- Manage the architecture: Continuously monitor the models and update them as necessary to show changes, additions, and alterations. Represent architecture and issues during development and decision points of the program. The architect is an "agent of change", representing that need for the implementation of the architecture. Through this development cycle, the architect continuously fosters the sharing of customer, architecture, and technical information between organizations.
eWorthy helps customers align their business strategy to the appropriate enterprise architecture by identifying key business drivers and translating them to a technology blueprint. This strategic plan can be expanded to include data and application architectures as well. After defining requirements, CGI maps them to various technical paths and organizational models to develop a strategic vision for enterprise computing. Typically, the strategy identifies the current and likely future requirements for the enterprise architecture, technical and organizational issues that must be addressed to optimize performance, and the approach for enhancements to support business needs.
Tools developed to assist the provision of these types of services:
DART: Developed to track the Discovery, Analysis, Requirements, and Transition phases of an HR Line of Business (LOB) Migration effort and capturing all relevant data to allow a best value comparison of various Shared Service Center offerings.
Active Artifacts: Developed to track various Enterprise Architecture artifacts defining the Business Reference Model, System Reference Model, and Data Reference Model. This tool also documented segment architecture and governance procedures, as well as identifying GAPS in current organization structures in comparison to the FEA model.
TOPS – a comprehensive Business Reference Model tool to track the nodes in a business process and define inputs and outflows from those nodes. Each node in turn is defined by its actions, rules that govern it, associated technical documentation and Subject Matter Experts (SMEs).
