Solution Architecture

Is your architecture becoming obsolete faster than you can re-plan it, because of business and technology changes? As organisations continue to enhance their applications infrastructure, they are increasingly seeking to improve how their systems, people, and business partners interact with each other.

To remain competitive, information assets need to be constructed within an overall architecture that is designed from the outset to accommodate a high rate of both business and technological change.

At Intelligent Pathways, we plan your IT systems around your business; not your business around IT systems.

What we do

We'll define a scalable, high-performing and flexible architecture for your desired business direction and develop the blueprint that fits your own specific needs by:

• assessing your existing architectures
  
  
• qualifying architecture investments
  
  
• designing an effective architecture around your business
  
  
• evaluating technology alternatives (including intelligent and flexible middleware and web services)
  
  
• identifying measures of success.
  
  

Then, by using a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) approach, we can address the entire solution lifecycle - through development, deployment, management and optimisation. Implementing a solution architecture based upon service-orientation will help you plan for change, rather than responding reactively.

How you'll benefit

The benefits of taking this approach include:

• measurable improvements in structures and systems to support your solution, including tools, models, methods, frameworks and skills
  
  
• compartmentalising services and data as needed into different business domains and processes, drastically reducing time to solution
  
  
• providing a consistent, unified view of your underlying business systems, applications, and services - no matter what platforms, languages, data models, storage architectures, network protocols, or other technologies those underlying parts use.
  
  

SOA is about business need and less about "doing" SOA. The solution is not to remove systems and applications, but rather to find a way to leverage existing IT investments so that your overall business goals are effectively supported. And while it naturally has its challenges, it will certainly pay dividends. Intelligent Pathways can help you get ready to make the change for the better.